The San Francisco call., 1898-05-04

SICARD-A. 0. S., City. Rear Admiral sicard was born in New York September SO 1S36. He graduated from the naval academy In 1855, and his first service etter leaving the academy was the fr1gate Potomac of the home squadron
 HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATES S-s.. City. The law of this State says that holders of city and city and county cer- | tifcates are eligible to teach in the cities Tn which such certificates were issued. side of the city in which such certificate l was granted the holder of the certificate | board.
 UNITED STATES AND GERMANY l A. M., City. Not including the recent purchases, the United States has 95 ves-
 sels in her navy, with 1915 guns, 18,5Sa men on the active list and 4G00 naval re- serve. Germany has 254 vessels, 1406 guns, 21 ,513 men on the active list and g 900 naval forces rank: Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain, Turkey, United States.
 THE CLEVEREST-H. T. C., City. ''Who was the cleverest pugtlist that ever entered the ring?" is one of those ques- tions that cannot be answered. There will be found any number of people who will say that it was Corbett, others will say Fttzsimmons, and there will be still others who will say. Jack Dempsey, Ike Weir. Jack McAuliffe, Walcott and pos sibly Griffo, while there are still others who will claim that distinction for John c. Heenan, "The Benicia Boy" It's all matter of individual taste.
 MOUNT vERNoN-M K T.. City Mount Vernon. Falrlax County. in north- east Virginia, on the Potomac River, f1f- teen miles below Washington, D. G. on the line of ,-.e Washington, exandria and Mount Vernon Railroad, contains the Washington homestead and tomb of Washington and wife. This historic prop erty was purchased In 1858 from John A. Washington for $200,000 by the Ladies' ganiZation 1t has been preserved with great care, and it is visited annually by thousands Of tourists.
 RIVER FLOWING BOTH wAYS-w. D., Potrero, Cal. The first river met up the left bank of the Amazon is the ono called Fl Rio Negro. It rises in the Sierra Tinuhy, an isolated mountain group in the lanos of Glinutra, and enters the Amazon at Manaos, a thousand miles from the sea- The upper part, down to the parallel of 1 degree north, has very rapid current: at San Gabriel are the first rapids in ascending; between San Gabriel and Barcelios the velocity Is not more than two or three miles an hour; between BarcelIos and Manaos it Is a deep but sluggish river and in the an- nual rise of the Amazon it's waters are stagnant for several hundred mileS-or actually flow back
 FISH LADDERS-J. E. C., Sonora, Cal A fish ladder, also called fishway, is an arrangement for enabling fish to ascend a fall or a dam. In the pool fishways the water falls through small vertical heights, the velocity being retarded by means of rocks and boulders or by falling into pools, whence it is allowed to fall again through a slight vertical distance to be again retarded, and so on to the bottom. In the dehected current fShwayS the cur rent is retarded by being made to travel through a distance equal to many times the perpendicular descent, being frequent course as to cause a change in it's direc- tion. In the counter current fishways the water is delivered down the incline with out acceleration of velocity. This is &C., complished by compelling the water to travel in constrained path.