The San Francisco call., 1899-05-04

with the people of San Leandro.
SEA SHELLS-A. s., Alameda County,
Cal. This department cannot give the
name of "some reliable firm in this city
or Oakland that deals in sea shells, etc. -
because 1t does not advertise any firm.
ff:r7s rersons asking for information, the an
sWer to which AMOUNTS to an advertise
ment, should in letters of inquiry inclose
self-addressed and stamped envelope.
NO SUCH FIGURES-A. f. L., Brent
wood, Cal. There are no figures in a tab.
ulated form that will give the amount
expended in California during the fiscal
year 1898 for beer, malt, hops, liquors,
wines, taxes on breweries dstilleries and
retail dealers in the articles named and
in tobacco. 1t would take a research of
the records of every county in the State
and then only an approximate sum could
be obtained.
PRINCE OF WALES-Old Reader.
City. The Prince of Wales landed at St.
John July "a, 1860, for his American tour.
He remained on Canadian soil for sew
eral weeks. While in the United States
ne visited Chicago, St Louis, New York
Boston and several other prominent cities
de was met at Washington by President
Buchanan and visited the several de-
partments of the Government He also
VISITED the tomb of Washington al Mount
Vernon.
A POINT IN CASINO-H. K, City. In
playing casino a player may throw a card
on one on the table, say a four upon a
five, and call it nine; the next player
can place an ace on that build and cal1
it ten; but at the time he does so he must
nave ten to take It with in case the
frst player has not a ten with which he
can take IT. Should The second player
not have a ten he would be charged with
having made a false pulld and he would
forfeit the game.
OLIVES-J. H., City. DR.. Remondino
at one time member of the State Board
of Health, said of the olive: IF preven-
ton is better than cure, Americans should
cultivate the taste, habit and use of the
ollVe; It is eminently and essentially ma
| ture s food for the variable and either ex-
| treme weather of the middle regions
where animal fats would be injurious dur
ing the nearly tropical heat of the sum-
mer. statistics have shown that among
the French troops serving in Africa those
coming from the southern and largely
! olive consuming provinces are not as
| subject to hepatic or liver diseases as
their more animal-dieted fellow soldiers
coming from the Rhine or Belgian bor-
DER
MEDICAL STUDENT-H. L. NJ, CITY.
Students who desire to matriculate in the
medical department of the University of
California must undergo examinations for
admission unless:
Applicants who present certificates of having
successfully passed the examination for adj
mission 10 the College of Letters or the Col
leges of Science of the University of California
or of some other recognized university or col
lege present diplomas certificates of gradu-
alton from the University of California or of
some other university or college, present di-
plomas or certificates of graduation from recog-
| niZed high schools and academies: nresent y
diploma or certificate of graduation from a State
Normal School of California, or of any other
! State or Territory.
| credentials named above will be required to
pass satisfactory examination in the sub
! jects embraced in thorough English educa-
ton, including elementary physics and ele
mentary Latin.
| WAGON TIRES-J S., Smiths River
| Del Norte County, Cal. The following is
the law of California in relation to wagon
tires passed by the Legislature of 1897
The width of tires for wheels upon wagons or
other vehicles to be used upon the public high
ways of the State of California shall be for the
! following styles of wagons as follows:
! Two and three-quarter inch steel or thimble
! skein axle, 15s inch tubular steel or iron axle
not less than 3-inch tire; liz inch steel or iron
axle, 2h inch tubular or iron axle. not less than
inch steel or iron, 22s tubular steel or iron axle
not less than 4-inch tire; 3A inch steel or thin
Bile skein, Ia or rs steel or iron, 29s tubular
steel or iron axle, not less than 4l2-nch tire;
S1s inch steel or thimble skein, 2-inch steel or
Iron 27s inch tubular steel or iron axle not less
than 5-inch tire; 3A inch steel or thimble sketn
"a inch steel or iron, 21s inch tubular steel
or iron axle not less than 5iz-inch tire; inch
and larger steel or thimble skein 21b inch and
larger steel or iron, 3A-inch and larger tubular
steel or iron axle, not less than 6-inch tire
| Other styles of axles shall have tires of
the same width as those of equal Carving
capacity above enumerated. All interme-
date axles shall have tires of the same
width as the next larger size above speci-
fed
THE TELEPHONE-Sub City.
The principle of the telephone-that is
to say, that sounds could be conveyed to
a distance by means of distended wire
|
but no practical application of the prin-
ciple was made of the discovery until 1921,
when Professor WheatStone exhibited his
enchanted Tyre, by which the sounds of
a music-boX were conveyed from a cellar
to upper rooms. The first true discoverer
of the speaking telephone is said to have
been Johann Philip Refs, a German scien-
Frederichshof. On the 25th of April, 1861,
he exhibited at Frankfort his telephone,
which contained all the essential features
| of the modern telephone. He failed TO
arouse an interest in his discovery, and
died in 1874 without having reaped any
! advantage from it. In the meantime the
| idea was being worked into more practical
shape by Professor Elisha Gray and Pro-
| fessor Alexander Bell. and later by Thom-
| as Edison Gray's successful experiments
antedate those of Bell, but the latter was
| ary Il, 1877, Bells articulating telephone
| was tested in Boston, Mass, and sounds
were distinctly heard at Salem, eighteen
| miles away. The Examiner OF Patents at
| Washington, D. c., on July Il, 1883, de-
| cded that Professor Bell was the first
| inventor because he was the first to
complete his invention and secure full