The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25

States Infantry has left Santiago de Cuba Nor is there any certainty that that regi. l or to the Presidio of San Francisco. That Is matter that the War Department VIII determine when it comes to distributing | the regulars
 A LONG WALK-May B., City. A | person who walked from Jones and | Chestnut streets, along Jones to Bush | to Fillmore, to Fell, along Fell to Golden l Gate Park, out the Park along the main l drive to the Cliff and back over the
 drive down Fell street to Van Ness ave
 nue, to Broadway, to Hyde to Chestnut, | to the place of starting, walked 7b,SOO
 feet, or within 2sO feet of sixteen miles. | CONTRACT ON A HOLIDAY-H. P, 1 City. The law of California declares that Sunday is legal holiday It has been | held that a contract made on Sunday Is not void unless completed on that day. Therefore, merely signing the paper con- taining the terms does not vitiate the contract. Until the paper is delivered the
 parties hay have @ locus nte pententiae mhs 18th Mo-; Roberts vs. Moore, forth Illinois l and Twentieth American Law Register.
 AMERICAN REGIMENT OR CREW
 Constant Reader, City. To answer the question, Have we regiment of soldiers composed entirely of American born or a battie-ship's crew all American born?'
 would require an examination of the mus ter roll of each company in each regiment of the United States army, regular ana
 volunteer; the same with the nayy's mus ter roll of each battle-ship: and as thls department has neither the time nor the opportunity to make such an examlnatioh' the answer cannot be furnished
 TECHNICAL DESIGN-H. H. M, San Jose, Cal. The California School of Me | chanical Arts in San Francisco has course of technical design, but 1t Is re- tricted at the school for lack of facilities | for executing designs for oil cloths; rap rics, stained glass wall paper, mural te5 uec orations, etc, but this defect IS correcteu | as far as possible by frequent visits 10 | factories and by inquiry among manuIac-
 turers. The school has means for execu.d5 a.d | ing designs in wood, clay, terra cotta ana | iron, so the fundamental law of design IS deduced from the work done in these ma | terialS.
 THE NORTHERN LIGHT-Since the publication on August IS that no inforrna- l ton had been received of the Northern Light since her departure last May TOT | Kotzebue Sound, F. D. MiZe, postmaster | at Cholame, advises this department that on the day of the publication or the an, swer there was received at Cholame q letter from M Latin. announcing the safe arrival of the vessel in the sound
 and adding that all on board were were "Sm, ele also that the vessel was in the Souno, HSe miles off shore waiting for boats 10 De
 made ready to go up the river
 i THE NAVAL ACADEMY-S. S., Mon terey. Cal Those who have a desire to | enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis do | not make application to the academy | direct Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the representative or | the Congressional district in which the | candidate for naval honors resides one anxious to go there should file his appn- | cation with the representative of his dis 1 trict or the Secretary of the Navy, who
 will transmit it to the proper representa- | tive, or 1t may be filed with the President | of the United States, who has the naming | of ten candidates at large
 NATIONS TO SOLDIERS-J. I. B., | City. The following are the daily radons in the United States army:
 Garrison ration with usual proportion of | fresh and salt meats and vegetables: Meat or
 canned seim9h on 10 oz pork or bacon rz 6a.Os 6a Or 2-5 oz, rice in lieu of beans s-5 oz. potatoes
 g S1 onions o SSersr 1S g. M esnes s | soap 1925 OF. salt 1925 OF, pepper (blacl1)
 Field ration-Bacon F OF. hard bread 1 ID. | beans 2 2-25 OF, potatoes 1 ID. roasted coffee 1 7-25 OF, sugar vinegar. candles, soap. salt | Travel ration-Hard bread l lb. corned beef i 12 OF, baked beans 1-3 ID, roasted coffee 7-25 Emergency ration-Hard bread 16 OF. bacon
 10 OF. pea meal oz, coffee {roasted and ground) per .N oz, plug tobacco 11 oz
 THE STANDARD THEATER-W. R.
 M, Los Angeles, Cal. The Standard The ater, as the Standard. closed April 10, 1886, with a farewell performance given
 by Reeds minstrels. It was reopened on the 29th of May of the same year as
 Haverly's Theater, and performances were given until the 18th of June On
 the 30th of August of that year it was re- opened as Emerson's Standard, and re-
 mained open as such until the 18th of November when Woods and Ryan's
 minstrel troupe gave variety show, con- cluding with Mana, or the Blonde Ve-
 nus" It was announced that the "Kobes
 Rouge" were to be given on 5ion1ay, the 18th of November, but the daily papers do not give any notice of the perform of the place after the 18th. After that there were a few performances given In
 the place. but 1t would require a months search through the files of the papers to ascertain what those performances