The San Francisco call., 1899-08-19

/ COLFAX WEATHER-A. NJ. G., City.
The average temperature in Colfax, Cal,
| during the month of August, 1896, was
! 591; in 1887, 57.7, and in 1898, 57.9.
THE McDOWELL-L. S. B., Oakland,
! Cal Permits to sail on the Government
tug Mcdowell are to be obtained at Army
Headquarters in the Phelan building, fan
| Francisco.
PARK MUSEUM-Egypt. City Ac-
cording to the compass the museum build
| ing in the park of San Francisco faces a
line that runs from northwest to south
east.
LETTERS IN THE BIBLES. L. A,
! City. 1t is asserted that in the Bible
| there are 1856 $50 letters; that is, the King
! James Bible. II you have any doubt as 10
| the correctness of this answer you are at
liberty to count for yourself.
SEWING MACHINES R, Willats,
! Cal. AS this department is not an ad-
Yertising department it cannot advertise
! the firm that manufactures the particu-
| lar sewing machine you ask about.
| PEDRO-L, Merced. The question as to
certain points in the game of pedro is not
sufficiently clear to admit of an answer
! The details of the game up to the time
! the point was raised should be given.
A CHARLOTTE COMM. c., City. A
! fve-dollar piece coined in 1S47 and hav-
|
| coined in the mint at Charlotte, n; c. It
| does lot command a premium. The SELL
ing price is from 81 so to IS so.
THE CoTILLON-w. D.. City. In
dancing the cotillon the dancers should
assume the most graceful positions
| Those who stoop do so as a matter of af-
| fectation and believe that it is pretty,
! but there are many who do not think
! it is.
RELATIvES-A. F., City. A relative
who is entitled to visit the soldiers who
| shall be in the nave of the ferry building
| on the occasion that the breakfast is to
| be given to them should apply for a badge
| from the committee at the First Regiment
Armory. at the corner of Page and Cough
streets.
PAYMASTER-Sub Oakland. Cal Pay
masters in the United States army are ap-
pointed from the officers in the army.
| The pay of paymaster is according to
the rank, he holds in the army. In the
case of the calling of volunteers into the
| service the President appoints pay
masters, selecting such from the regular
| army.
GIRL STUDENTS HOME-C. c. p,
San Jose, Cal There is a girl students
home at No. Rue de Chevreause. also
the la Fayette Home on Rue de la Pomp
! in Paris, France, which was founded by
] DR.. Evans, the famous dentist These are
places where girl students can, if they
own, find the comforts of home.
FOURTEENTH INFANTRY-A s..
Berkeley, Cal There is no such company
as Company X. Fourteenth Infantry
! California If you mean by your ques-
| tion Company K. First California now
returning from the Philippines. the an
| sWer is that you can obtain a copy of the
roster of that company by addressing a
| communication to the office of the adju-
tant general, N. G. c., at Sacramento.
ARMs-H E. x. City; It has been dis
covered by measurements made in Lon
don, also by tests, that 500 per cent of
men have the right arm stronger than the
left; 164 per cent have both of equal
strength, and 32.7 per cent have the left
! arm stronger than the right. OF women
46.9 per cent have the right arm stronger
! than the left, 25.4 the left stronger than
| the right, and 2S.6 per cent have both arms
! of equal strength.
A CAsUAL-G. B. c., City. II a soldier
was a member of Company % Of the cas-
uals at the Presidio and was sent to Man.
! liza on the Indiana to be assigned to a
regiment there and you wish to write to
| him but do not know how to address
him." call at army headquarters, Phelan
| building. San Francisco and there you
! will be Informed to whom the casual was
| ordered to report. Then you can address
| the letter to the party, in care of that
| officer.
| MEDALS-J. B. X. and f. J. NJ, City
The medals that are to be distributed by
| the Native Sons committee are intended
! for those who as volunteers entered the
! service of the United States from Cali
! fornia during the Spanish-American war.
! It is not intended to give a medal and
certificate to "one who volunteered but
| was rejected by army and navy. Medals
will be given to those who volunteered
! and were accepted, no matter what
branch of the service, land or sea, or
what duty assigned to.
TANNING HORsES-E.. City It has
| been asserted that the Sioux Indians tame
! the widest horses in ten minutes. And
| this is how ii is said that they do It:
! ''They select from a wild herd the horse
] they think best calculated for service, tie
! his four legs together. throw him violent
| ly to the ground. breathe into his nostrils
! and ears and then cut the thongs. settlng
! him at liberty. The horse rises to his rect,
and stands trembling perfectly tanned 1t
! is stated that the horse If turned again
! into the herd from which ne was laken
would quit the herd and return TO those
who conquered him.
NUMERATION-H NJ. City. Why
there should be a difference in different
| countries as to the manner of expressing
in figures a billion is something that has
puzzled a great many, but as u IS the
! custom of each country using IL, the man
! ner of enumeration will remain as 1t is
| until all countries snail ADOPT the SIM
| nIeet method The French and other Com
! tfnental arithmeticS express the first fig
ure as units. then tens, then hundreds.
! following the same nomenclature with
the next three 'dguTfes SO so there is units
| dreds Of thousands: the seventh figure
! expresses units of millions. the eighth
tens of millions and the ninth hundreds
! Of millions the fourth group of figures
! is denominated billions. and so on by
! threes In Great Britain the method
/ there is change, for instead of using
| billions after hundreds of millions, comes
! thousands of millions, ten thousands Of
millions and hundred thousands of mil
lions, and tn then M hiiilons. i,st This system
| Gated than the other.
! Cal. glace fruit soc per 10 at Townsends.