The San Francisco call., 1898-05-25
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM-T. M. S.. Santa Rosa, Cal. According to the Al manac h de Gotha, Kink Leopold or Del gium is Catnollc'
 yAIKYRIE-yIGILAN w. B.. c,i+v This department is unable to lind any record of the Vigilant having been defeated by the Valkyrie in British wat CTS.
 A MINERS INCH-B. S. S., Liver more, Cal. A miners inch IS the amount of water that will pass in twen- fvfo1lr hours through an opening one inch square, under a pressure or SIX inches.
 QUOTATION WANTED - c. E. S., Fresno. Cal. This correspondent wants to know where is to be found 3an M My n Fea5Tt art readers of this department inform the correspondent!
 POLL TAXA. V. J., Point Arena, Cal. The question asked about poll tax was ! answered in The Call or Saturday, May 1 14 1898 in reply to a similar question propounded by another correspondent.
 SERVANTS WAGES ID. M. City. Whether a servant working for a private | family discharged without cause before
 the end of the month, is entitled to full | months pay, is a matter of contract at l the time the servant accepted the posi- | tion.
 THE MONITOR-E. H. w, City. The
 little ironclad Monitor which defeated
 the Confederate ironclad Merrimac in
 Hampton Roads, March g. 1862, was built | by John Ericsson, engineer and invent
 or, a native of Langbanshyttan, Sweden,
 born July 31, 1903, died March s, 1889.
 KRAG-JORGENsEN RIFLE-E. F. T.
 F., City. A recent test with a Krag-
 Jorgensen rife demonstrated that the penetrating power of the rife was 1 through sixty inches of seasoned pine, while that of the old army rifle was but | twelve inches.
 WEDDING PRESENTS-H. G., City. | Wedding presents have engraved on them the initials of the newly welded wife | They are intended as gifts to the wife and not to the maiden. therefore, 1t would
 not be proper to place the initials of her
 maiden name upon them.
 TROOPS FOR THE PHILIPPINES ] Petricio, City. The reason that cavalry
 is not being sent from the National Guard of California to the Philippine Islands is | because such branch of the service was
 not included for California in the arrang- l ing of the quota for .the several States | under the Presidents call for volunteers. | WASHING IONS. A. M, City. When | George Washington died the family | homestead at Mount Vernon went to a
 nephew, Bushrod Washington, who lived 1 from 1762 to 1929, and was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 179S to 1929. At his death the homestead went to John A. Washington, nephew, who disposed of it to the Ladies Mount Vernon Association.
 WHITEHEAD TORPEDO-O. W. City. The Whitehead torpedo is driven by a propeller moved by compressed air. It has a speed of 32 to 33 knots an hour for 432 yards, and 30 knots an hour for a run of S75 yards The torpedo can be pro- jected from launching tube or started by hand. It is capable of regulating or preserving its depth and direction within narrow limits in still water; but cross currents or seaweed may obstruct and in- troduce large variations. It can be set to explode on contact or after a definite time and to either sink or rise to the sur face after finishing its course.
 PRINTING AND WRITING-O. O. '. S.. City, The difference between spy who comes to the United States to obtain information of the Notifications in order to transmit in writing the same to the Government that sent him, and the writ CT for a yellow journal who gives infor- nation through such a paper of the con- dition of the Notifications, is that the spy Is always an intelligent man, well versed in the particular line which he IS sent to obtain information about, while a writer for a yellow journal is one who knows nothing about the matter he writes about and, therefore, what he furnishes is so unreliable that a hostile nation would not be misled by it. hostile na- tion wants better information than what can be found in yellow journals.