The San Francisco call., 1898-05-17

 ry Elliott Johnston, formerly Harriet Lane niece of the late James Buchanan. President of the United States, is living in Baltimore, Md.
 WIVES OF PRESIDENTS-Brode Street, City Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler, second wife of President Tyler, died in Richmond, Va, July 10: 1SS9 Mrs Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James K. Polk, President of the United States, died Au- gust 16, 1891, at Nashville, Tenn
 A COLONIAL BILL-M. T. l., City. The description of the colonial bill asked about is too indefinite to admit of an answer, You possibly will A be Ia able sfort 10 ing the bill to c. P Wilcomb, the curator of the museum in Golden Gate Park.
 INCOME TAX-S., Livermore, Cal. This department does not furnish ideas for de- baters for the reason that those who wish to debate question should furnlsh their own ideas II this departnehhI hl TUT. the debater they are the ideas of Answers to Correspondents and not those ot the de- batter Cyclopedias will furnish all the data required upon which to base an ar gument.
 THE INFANTA-J. M. C., Albina, Or It was Princess Eulalie, infanta of Spain. sister of Alphonso XII. father of the present boy King. who visited the Colum- bian exposition, held in Chicago in 1885,
 She came to this country as the repre- sentative of the Queen Regent of Spain.
 landing in the United States May IS Of 1 that year.
 MAHER'S DEFEATS-G. B., City. Prior to the close of 1897 Peter Maher, the l pugflist was defeated March 2, 1892, at | New Orleans by Bob Fitzsimmons in two
 rounds; December 8. 1892, by Joe Goddard l in three rounds before the Coney Island | Club October ,, 1894, in fight with Peter Courtney at Philadelphia. He q gul{ {ooe ia the ne
 was defeated in one round III MeXlco py l Bob FitZsimmons.
 l A MATTER OF CHOICE-L M J.. City, This correspondent asks: Has an alien who is not a citizen of the United States, the right to claim his son, born | in the United States and who is of age. as a foreign subject?" The answer to that question is that after the age of majority has been attained by a boy, and 21 is the age of majority in the United States, the father loses parental control over his son. In the case cited the boy is a native of the United States and a citizen thereof by virtue of his nativity. but on attaining his majority. he could elect whether he would be citizen of the United States or a citizen of the country to which the father owes allegiance. After the boy had attained his majority the father could not claim him as a cit izen of a foreign country, as the choice of citizenship is purely personal priv ilege
 THE PLOUGHMAN-A. S., City. The following is given as some of the trans
 "The Ploughman Homeward Plods His l Weary Way:
 The weary pIoughman plods his homeward The weary ploughman homeward plods his | way
 The pioughman. weary. plods his homeward The ploughman. weary. homeward plods his
 Weary, the ploughman plods his homeward
 Weary, the ploughman homeward plods his
 Homeward. the ploughman plods his weary
 Homeward the ploughman. weary. plods his way.
 Homeward the weary ploughman plods his
 Homeward plods the weary ploughman his
 Tho homeward ploughman. weary, plods his | way.
 The homeward p1oughman plods his weary way.
 l THERMOMETERS T. B. J., City. i The Fahrenheit thermometer is com | monly used in the United States and in | Great Britain; the Reaumur in Germany
 and the Celsius or Centigrade in France.
 The last named is almost exclusively
 used bv scientific men of all nations. The
 relations of the scales of these three in-
 struments is shown by the following fig l ures:
 sss5:ss;s s:ss;ssss. s:s$=s: - E $ a5s 555
 In the Fahrenheit scale the freezing point is 32 degrees and the boiling point | PIP degrees so that the space between l these is divided into 212-32. or 1SO equal
 parts or degrees. In the others the | freezing point is zero, but the pollng
 spectively It is easy to reduce from
 one of these scales to another, s II thus; us 1 grees Fahrenheit? The numbers in the
 Fahrenheit. scale are all all too o great deg by S2
 Stands for the freezing point: subtract
 this f1hS sS from v and there is 45. Hence the | required number of centigrade degrees l mnst bear the same ratio to the 100 from 1 freezing to boiling in that scale that the l 45 bear to the 1S6 degrees between the | same limits in Fahrenheit: similar pro- cess as to the Reaumur scale.
 Cal. giace fruit soc per fb at Townsend's.s