The San Francisco call., 1899-07-25

TO NEGROS ISLAND-A. s., City. The
distance by sea from Manila to Negros
Island. in the Philippines; is $50 miles. and
a transport makes the distance in about
d day and half.
NOT INDEXED-A. S, City. AS the
several articles asked for have not been
indexed in The Call the only way to as
certain the date of the publication is to
search the files.
ELSIE TYSON-F. r. F, City. Miss
Elsie Tyson, who a short time since fell
heir to a very large estate. went from
her home in the interior TO San Francis
co, and from there to Australia, where
she now is.
SEQUENCE-C. s., Santa Barbara, Cal.
In the following play in cribbage there
are two runs: a plays four, B a tray,
a deuce and c makes a run of three: A
plays a six and a five and he makes Il
run of five. as there was no card to in
terVene to break the sequence order.
COMMON CARRIERS-E. G.. N, Ryde,
Cal If transportation company prom
ised to perform a certain act in the mat
ter of carrying freight failed to do so
and you were at a loss by reason of such
neglect, your remedy is to make a de-
mand for damage sustained, and II there
is no response sue the company.
NAMES OF WEDDING ANNIvERsA-
RIES-J. L., City. Wedding anniversaries
are known by the following names: First,
iron: fifth, wooden; tenth, tin; fifteenth,
crystal; twentieth china; twenty-fifth,
silver; thirtieth, cotton; thirty-f1fth, linen;
fortieth wooden; forty-fifth, silk; fiftieth,
gold and seventy-fifth, diamond. These
and none others.
STARS ON FLAG AND COMA. B.,
City. When the first United States flag
was designed the stars in the blue field
were five pointed and as the flag was
adopted with the stars with that number
of points five points have been followed
ever since. In 1894 when designs for
United States coins We're presented for
acceptance the stars thereon were six
pointed and six points have been pre-
not been able to find any given reason
why the flag has five-pointed and the
coins siX-pointed stars.
RETURN LETTERS-M C. j., Bakers
field Cal. The following from the United
States Postal Guide, which is based on
the postal laws, makes it appear that all
mail matter having upon 1t request to
cred must be returned, and not sent to
the dead letter office: See that every let
ter or package bears the full name and
postoffice address of the writer, to secure
the return of the letter If the person to
whom it is directed cannot be found A
much larger portion of the undeliVered
letters could be returned if the names and
addresses of SenderS were always FULLY
and plainly written or printed inside or on
the envelopes. PERSONS WHO nave ldI6C
correspondence find it most convenient to
use special request envelopes, but those
who only mail an occasional letter can
avoid much trouble by writing a request
to return if not delivered ETC., on the
envelope
THE CENSUS OF 19OO-Several corre-
spondents, city and elsewhere. The taxi
ing of the census of 1900 will commence on
the 1st of June The enumerators will
commence their work on that day, but q
certain amount of preliminary work, in
structions, etc, will precede that date.
Enumerators are paid by the piece, .
cents per name, and at scheduled rates for
other items-deathS, factories, farms, etc.
A bright, active man ought to be able to
earn from 50 to $6 a day. The work will
last two weeks in cities and four in the
country. There are six census districts i'll
Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa
counties; another, the balance of Con-
greSsman Loud's district, with San Benito
County and the counties north of Santa
Barbara and west of the Coast Range
Mountains. Congressman Waters dis
trict is another, less the territory named.
The balance of Congressman Metcalf's
district goes in with the Santa Rosa Con
gressional district, and the other two cor
respond pretty closely with the Congress
sional districts north and east central.
EnumeratorS are nominated by the Cen
sus Supervisors. Some test of fitness will
be required, and there will be some exam
inations as to qualifications. Examina-
tions for positions in the Census Office,
Washington, D. c., will be held in San
Francisco and some other cities in Sep
tember or October next, but neither the
places nor the time have been definitely
fixed