The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-17
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
WIDTH OF sTREETs-A. o. s.. City
The width of Mason and Taylor streets
is sixty-eight feet nine inches.
COOK BOOK-R. S., City. If you will
go to first-class bookstore you will OBJ
tain such a cookbook as you desire.
HALF DOLLAR OF 1S7-A s., City.
There is no premium offered for half
dollar of 1887 Such a coin of that date
sells for IS cents.
A WIDOWS PENSIoN-A o. s.. City.
The pension of the widow of a captain in
the United States army, dying in the SER
vice, is $50 per month
LAST DAYS OF POMPEII-H w. A.
Piedmont, Cal. 1.-The Last Days of POM
peii," written by Bulwer Lytton in 1884,
was dramatized by Blackstone in 1885.
Mali. FOR MANILA-A s.. City. Mail
for Manila leaves by every steamer sail
ing for China Watch the shipping col
umn of The Call for the dates or depart
ure.
THE INDIANA-A Subscriber, City.
The troopship. Indiana that left for Manila
last October should reach Manila In about
| twenty-seven days from the time OF de-
parture
City. The population of California was
estimated in January. 1898, at 1,5oS, 100. and
! that of San Francisco at the same period
was estimated at $4,000
A FIvE-DOLLAR PIECE-M. E. p,
City. Ffve-dollar gold pieces coined at
either Charlotte, N. c., Dahlonega, Ga,
and Philadelphia sell at prices varying
THE JOLLY GIANT-R-, San Luis
| Obispo, Cal. There is no publication in
San Francisco known as The Jolly Giant.
A sheet bearing that name was published
in the latter part of the sixties.
NO REDREss-N. N, City. If eiti-
zen on election day goes to the polls and
| discovers that some one has been there
before him and voted his name he can
not force the Registrar TO permit MIN 10
vote.
BOXES FOR HONOLULU-S., Santa
j Cruz, Cal The ST. Paul will take Christ
mas packages to soldiers stationed at
Honolulu. Such must be delivered at GAS
Mission street not later than o'clock on
Tuesday next s
THE SAND LoT-A. O., City. James
G. Mcguire did not speak on the sand
lot when Denis Kearney was Grating
time of the split in the Workingmen's
party he took sides with the seceders.
UNITED STATES AND HAWAIIAN.
S. H, City. The Hawaiian Islands are
south of the southern latitude of the
United States proper and west of the Pa
cifc Coast line of the States. They are
within the latitude of Mexico and west of
the Pacific coast line thereof. They are
within the longitudinal lines of Alaska,
which is also part of the United States.
OKLAHOMA-W. s. H., City. Okla
homa, which is the Indian for beautiful
land" was formed by the west half of the
he haas of
Texas. 1t borders Kansas to the north
along the thirty-seventh parallel, and is
one-fourth larger than Scotland. 1t was
originally a part of the Louisiana pur-
the act of June 80, 1884, as the final result
of legislation. Certain lands We're sub
formed the district of Oklahoma Part Of
this land was obtained from the Indians
by treaty and purchase shortly after the
Civil War. The district was opened 10
white settlement at noon April ", 1883.
COAL AND ACETYLENE CASE. c.
B., Lockford San Joaquin County Cal.
George Brock, an expert on acetylene gas.
| says that an ordinary gas meter used for
measuring coal gas has to be altered for
measuring acetylene gas; that with cal
cium carbide at cents per pound the cost
of a light of twenty-seven candle-poWer
is $40 of a cent per hour and that, jet for
jet, 1t is cheaper than, coal gas OF SIX
| teen candle-power at 81 25z per. thousand;
! that there are a large number of insure
| ance Companies in the East and in tbs
State that make no discrimination against
| premises in which the new gas is intro
| duced. Coal gas passing through the
meter is measured at atmospheric
pressure. ="
LIGHTHOUSES Tredor, City. The fol-
lowing prominent lighthouses are in the
State of California, which is known as
the Twelfth Lighthouse District: st.
Georges Reef and Crescent City, Del Norte
County; Trinidad Head, Humboldt and
Cape Mendocino, in Humboldt County,
Point Arena, Mendocino County; Point
Reyes and Point Bonita, Marin County
Farallones and Fort Point, San Francis
co; Pigeon Point, San Mateo County;
Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County; Point
P iedT s1-i Blanc a and San Luis obispo,
! San Luis Obispo County; Point Concep-
cion and Santa Barbara, santa Ba droSt
ty; Point Fermin, Los Angeles County;
| La Playa, Point Tomas, Ballast Point
and Diamond Point, San Diego County.
RELIGION IN RUSSIA. B. K. City.
Under certain limitations, liberation of all
religions which do not violate public
morality or good order exists in Russia,
and not to profess the orthodox Greek
! faith the national religion, does not dis
| qualify as regards civil rights. But the
| law does not allow those who already be-
| long to lhe established faith to secede
! parent be member of the Greek church,
| all the children must pc brougnt up VIII,
/ in that communion. In European RUSSIA
| there are orthodox Greek Catholics,
| Russo-Greek dissenters, Protestants. Ro-
man Catholics, Jews and Mohammedans.
! and all have their respective places of
worship The affairs of the Roman Cath
/ olic church are conferred in a collegium,
| and those of the Lutheran church in a
| consistory, both located in ST Petersburg.
Cal. giace fruit soc per lb at Townsend's.'
| Special information supplied daily to
| business houses and public men by the
| Press Clipping Bureau (Allen 81, DO Mont
! gomery street. Telephone Main 1042.
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