The San Francisco call., 1898-08-06

goes to a hot air bath and then 1t is run through lead pipe, and as it is placed in that it is tested for leaks. It is also GOV cred with a solution of gutta percha and Stockholm tar and the sheath is of wire covered with tarred Manila yarn,
 DAWSON CITY-A. R., City The post age to Dawson City Is 2 cents per ounce, prepayment compulsory. A letter direct ed to the individual for whom it is in- tended. Dawson City, Northwest Terri tory, B. C., will reach him if he is there.
 CERVERA-M. R., Pomona, Cal Ac- cording to reports, when Cervera started to leave the harbor of Santiago his flag was sinking he transferred his flag to the Cristobal Colon and was on that yes sel when he surrendered.
 PITTSBURG-A. D. B., Camp Merritt. City. There Is no way of ascertaining the exact population of Pittsburg Pa at this time, as there has not been a cen suS taken since 1890. The figures at that date were 23S,617 The estimate of the Mayor of that city on the 1st of last Jan uary was 290000.
 A PUBLIC RESORT-K., City. There is so much difference of opinion as to whether public resort is "a nice place to go to or not" that it becomes a matter of individual taste. What may be nice to one may not be nice to another The SlIIlploSl way lOI yOu to QeIermln6 the question to your own satisfaction is to visit the place and judge for yourself. The admission fee to the place named in your communication is very small and a sis't |, ore will satisfy you as to whether it Is nice place or not.
 TO THE FRONT-G., Lime Point Cal. It is impossible at this time to say if any of the troops now at Camp Merritt. Camp Merriam or other points within the yicin- ltV of San Eranpi9Cn uiI ha front If peace should be declared. as 1t seems possible that it will be in a short time, then there will not be. so it is thought, any occasion to send additional troops to Manila, but if on the other hand the authorities should decide to send send additional ado troops to General Merritt, then the probabilities are that all troops stationed here will be sent on.
 INFECTED cLoTHING-J. F., City. Since the publication of the answer in re- lation to infected clothing during the Civil War, this department, in making an Investigation in another line. discovered that in the testimony given by T. T. Hyams before the court martial on the 2Sth or May, 1S65, when those who were charged with the assassination of Presi- dent Lincoln were on trial, he declared that there had been conspiracy to bring pestilence into the United States and that one Dr. Blackburn of Toronto Canada. in 1863 made offers to him of a stated sum or money, in consideration of which he was to take to the United States cer- tain clothing infected with yellow fever and smallpox germs, and distribute the same, so that an epidemic would be spread among the people of the North.
 A LONG WALK-A. A. G., City. The distance from Powell and Washington streets, along Powell to California, out that street to Fifth avenue, to McAllister street, across Golden Gate Park to near the Olympic ground, thence along the road to Dewey (BalboO avenue, out the avenue to Ingleside, then along the road to the beach, then along the great high way to the cliff and from there to the ter minus of the Sacramento street line and from there along the track of that line to the point of commencement is 9S.600 feet or a little in excess of eighteen and one-half miles. A young lady who walked that distance in six and quarter hours performed a good feat of pedestrianism in view of the fact that it was about three miles an hour, and the further fact that the average man, when not sprinting walks at the rate of three miles an hour or four feet per second.