The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-20
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

| ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
NO SUCH PAPER-E. S., Seattle, Wash.
There is no paper published in California
devoted exclusively to the blacksmith
| trade.
LIFE OF A PATENT. D. H, City.
A United States patent runs for seven
teen years from the date of issue. Exten-
sions can be obtained only by special acts
or Congress.
BITUMEN ON MARKET STREET-H.
! s., City. The reason that bitumen has
not been laid in front of the property
OF Mayor Phelan on Market street, be-
tween Grant avenue and Stockton streets
is because the Mayor has been given per-
mission to place a newly invented wood
en- pavement in front of his premises.
| POINTS FOR DEBATERS-A. A.. CITY.
This department has on a number of &C.
casions announced that 1t does not fur
nish points or ideas for debaters who
may wish to take the affirmative or the
| negative side of a question. The purpose
Of debate is to bring out the individual
IDEAS t6 Of the debater, and if he uses those
furnished by another they lose their value
so far as he is concerned.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., City General
| delivery is a term that Is affixed upon
a letter when the writer does not know
the address of the party addressed or
desires that the party for whom it is
intended shall calf for it at the general
delivery department of the. postoff1ce.
the words quoted, but there are French
words which are understood the world
over, and these are ''poste restante."
CLIMATE OF SAMOA-Mrs. N, City.
The climate of Samoa is tropical, it is
fairly good and ranges from so to SO de-
grees Fahrenheit. but that is greatly
who wish to live in that country should
! exercise the same care that they would
follow the rules that are I laid down w by
the local physicians. there will not be
much fear that the climate will be hard
on them.
INCIPIENT BALDNEss-C.. Camp
Merriam, City. There are any number of
'infallible' remedies to be used in case
of incipient badness and to prevent the
! hair from falling out. The commonest
and simplest is mixture of equal parts
of tincture of cantharides and olive or
almond oil simply agitated together, ana
shaken before use. Another liquid is
rum for the oil and adding from e one s'f to
each es s ounce Of the Mixture. fhis prepara
| gloss to the hair and is genial in its ac-
ton on the scalp. These are given for
what they are worth, but this department
does not know anything OF their worth.
THE FOURTH FINGER-Mae, Ala
media, Cal. Many years ago, in fact, many
centuries, there was belief among the
Egyptians that there was in the fourth
finger of the left hand small artery that
proceeded directly to the heart and that
for that reason 1t was the proper finger on
which to place the wedding ring. In the
regard to that fineer "The motion t~ Of this 4,
artery may be felt by touching this finger
to the pulse, it being an index in case of
overlabored, always Informing when the
heart is overburdened or offended. =
This finger rarely hath govt on account of
the sympathy and neighborhood it hath
with the heart. 1t is the first finger that
new born babe is able to move, and the
last of which dying man loseth control.
vital heat is abating in one that is passing
over"
MEAN LEVEL OF OCEANS-C. M. NJ,
Veterans Home, Cal. There is no differ
ence in the mean level of the Atlantic
and the Pacific oceans. The idea that the
one was higher than the other has no
doubt arisen from a statement that was
published in the papers some years ago
to the effect that the ocean level was
higher at Colon on the Atlantic side of
the proposed Panama canal than it was
at Panama on the Pacific side That
| statement was not correct, and must have
been the result of insufficient observa-
tons; or perhaps the party who made the
/
was misunderstood by the writer, and
| the one who made the statement re-
ferred to the levels of high or low water
There is very little range of tioo at Colon
not more than eighteen or twenty
inches. At Panama the range of spring
tide Is from eighteen to twenty-five feet
ana or neap tide from six to ten feet
SAN FRANCISCO POLICE-Subscrib-
er, City. To be appointed on the police
force of San Francisco the applicant must
| cju
holders and qualified voters of the civ
and county. He must come within the
following standard adopted by the Board
of Police Commissioners: Age, not under
% nor over IS years; neignt, not less than
5. feet inches Gin stocKlngs): that his
chest exceeds 81 inches that he has the
free use of all his limbs that his hear
ing, vision and speech are perfect; that
| ne mas no tumors or liberated or excess
| sfvely cicatriZed legs or rupture or cnta
| neous affection; he must state If he has
NAG atad smallpox and If he has been vacci-
or wound of the head that would Impair
ms faculties; that he is not a drunkard.
shat ne is not subject to fits or convul-
der that would unfit him for the duties
OF a soldier in the United States army:
sess ne fa sra r., Wfl5e good hand and pos
| ming physician must report in respect to
the appncant's condition as to heart and
iiqt agw II ne has any predispostion, hered
ItaIy or acquired, to any constitutional
malady, as phthiss, scrofula. rheuma-
tism, or other disease that might unit
MIN Tor the position of policeman.
THE BUSH STREET THEATER-w.
X. M, Los Angeles, Cal. what was the
last performance at the Bush Street
Theater, San Francisco, Calf" is a uues-
ton that cannot be satisfactorily an
swered without precise knowledge of
under what management the questioner
would like to know The last perform
ance in THE Bush Street Theater' this
department, however. will announce was
on the. night of January g. 1889. with
Leavitt's Grand European Novelties. On
the 18th of that month it reopened as
the New Bush Street Theater' with
as such September 5, 1881, with 1.-THE
Burglar. 1t was then continued as .'The
bush street Theater" for time. and