The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12

tistry of the University of California is
located at the corner of Market and Tay-
lor streets, San Francisco.
PROMINENT HOLLANDERS- c.,
City. This department has been able to
secure a full list of prominent Holland
ers or Holland-Americans in this coun-
try, together with their histories"
WEIGHT OF A MILLION-P. B., City.
One million dollars, United States gold
coin, weigh 1854 pounds avoirdupois. and
one million silver dollars, United States
mintage, weigh 81, ,931 pounds avoirdupois,
or nearly twenty-eight and quarter tons.
BATTERY A-Myrt. City. Battery A,
Third United States Artillery, is at Fort
Michael, Alaska A/ieter directed to the
name of the individual in the battery
should be directed TO St; Michael.
letter from a member of the battery
ought to reach San Francisco within sixty
days after the battery left here, providing
the individual wrote Immediately after
arrival at that place
PAINT FROM GLASS-Janitor, Fresno,
Cal. The following are given as methods
for removing paint from glass: 'Amerf-
can potash, three parts; unslacked lime,
one part. Lay this on with a, stick, let 1t
remain for a while and 1t will remove
paint or tar Use common washing
soda in water. Let it soak a while. Let
II remain say half an hour then wash of.
If the paint is not removed at the first
application, make one more application.
TAX ON MoRTGAGE-G. b. City. Ar
ticle XIII, section 4 of the constitution
of California says: "The value of the
property affected by such mortgage, deed
of trust contract or obligation, less the
value of such security, shall be assessed
and taxed to the owner of the property,
and the value n S11pb shall 20
assessed and taxed to the owner thereof,
in the county, city or district in which
the property affected thereby is situate
CONTRACT MARRIAGES-F. E. A,
City. The law which was passed by the
Legislature affecting contract marriages
is not retroactive and does not affect the
validity of marriages so contracted prior
to the passage of the prohibitOry act One
of the requirements of the contract mar
riages was that the declaration of the
contracting parties should be recorded ac-
cording to the provisions of the Civil
Code.
THE CENSUS OF 1904. B. c., Suisun,
and others. The census of 1900 will be
nominally under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Interior. All appointments
in the Census Bureau will be by the di
rector of the census, whose office will be
in Washington, d. c. The director, as
sistant director and three hundred super
visors are to be named by the President
and confirmed by the Senate. As yet no
announcement has been made as TO the
details Of the census
JAPANESE NAMES-J A T., French
Corral. Cal. There is no combination of
letters of the English language that will
give the sound of japanese words. There
is a very peculiar pronunciation WhicSs
can be acquired by a foreigner only from
the vocal instructions of a native of the
country. For instance, "Chitose" must
letter 20" "Maru" means merchant yes
sci. "ToyO kisen Kaisha' (properly
"Kwaisha'D means Oriental Steamship
Company. This comNny is paid sub
sidy by the Japanese Government accord
ing TO the size and speed of the vessel.
1t is given to encourage commerce.
THE SIGNATURE BILL-N., MADEIRA,
Cal. The following named are the Sena-
tors who voted for the signature bill at
the recent session of the Legislature:
Ashe, Bettman, Boyce, Bulla, Burnett,
Chapman, Curtin, Cutter, Davis, Dwyer,
Flint, Gillette, Hall, Hoey, Leavitt, Luch-
singer, Maggard, Morehouse. Mutt, Simp-
son, Smith Taylor and Trout-23
The Assembymen who voted for the
bill are: Arnerich, Barry, Beecher, Bel
shaw, Bliss. Blood, Brown, Clark, Clough,
Cobb, Cosper, Cowan, Crowley, De Lam
Gle, Devote, Dibble, Dunlap, Feliz, Glenn,
Henry, Huber, Jilson Johnson, Kelsey,
Kenneally. Knights, Knowand, La Baree,
lie Baron Lardner. Lundquist, Mack,
Marvin. Mcdonald of Alameda, McDon-
aid of Tuolumne McKeen, Melick, Merrill.
San Francisco. Pierce, Rickard, Eugene
Sullivan. Valentine, White, Works
and Wright-4S
CITIZENSHIP-Fift street, City. Any
alien under the age of q years who has
resided in the United States three years
next preceding arriving at that age, and
who has continued to reside therein to
the time he may make application to be
admitted a citizen thereof, may, after he
arrives at the age af q years, and after
he has resided five years within the
United States including the three years
of his minority. be admitted a citizen:
but he must make declaration on oath
and prove to the satisfaction of the court
that for two years next preceding it has
been his bona fide intention to become
citizen. The individual who desires
to become a citizen may make ap-
plication before a Circuit or District
Court of the United States or Supreme
Court of the Territories, or a Court of
Record, as in this State Superior Court
of any of the States having a common
law, jurisdiction and seal and clerk.
ANARCHIST AND socialism,
City. An anarchist is one who advocates
anarchy or the absence of government as
a political ideal; one who is an adherent
of the social theory of Prudhon. In the
popular sense, one who by violence seeks
to overthrow all constituted forms of
government and society, all law and or
der and all rights of property, with no
purpose of establishing any other sys-
tenn of order in the place of the one de-
stroye9 Socialism is any theory or sys-
tenn of social organization that has for
its purpose the adjustment entirely or
in greater part of individual effort or
| competition on which modern society
rests and to substitute for it cooperative
action; the more equal distribution of the
product of labor. and to make land and
capital, as the instruments and means of
production, the joint possession of the
community. Apply these principles to
Washington, Patrick Henry. Abraham
Lincoln and William Jennings Bryan and
Were these anarchists or socialists?'