The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

JIe fNl1pplne lSlanQS. Inc Pacl0C Mail
steamship Company carries the mail to
Hongkong and from there it is carried by
another line of steamers to Manila.
A POEM-A. S., Santa Rosa, Cal. Mil
lions of poems and so-called poems have
been published, and as only the best are
published in books of reference and these
indexed only by the first line and not by
Daisy Faith" If the correspondent can
furnish the first line an effort will be
made to find the name of the author.
PIANIsTS-P. D. X, City. List. Ru-
binstein, Paderewski, Josef Hoffman and
Rosenthal are all classed as great plan
lists. Which is the greatest artist is a
matter that but few agree upon. Each
player is marked by an Individuality and
therefore it is impossible to say which of
these can be classed the superior of one
over the other. Then, again, opinions as
to the merits of the players are individual
ones.
SLANTING EYES A. S., Placerville.
Cal. This correspondent asks: ''Why do
the eyes of Cinnamon slant upward?" The
slanting position of the Mongolian eyes,
of which the inner corner often lies deep
er than the outer, is in connection with
the low position of the nose. AS the
cheekbones project broadly, the bones of
the nose lie deep; the skin of the upper
eyelid is drawn downward to the nose,
thus covering the inner angle of the eyes.
MESSAGE TO A FRIEND-A. A, City.
If you meet a friend and on parting de-
sire that friend to convey a message of
remembrance to mutual friend or ac-
qualntance 1t is proper to use either of
the following; Kindly remember me to
-. Present my compliments to -"
my regards to -" There is no rule
that prescrbes the particular form to be
used.
CRIMEAN WAR-C. NJ D., Mountain
View, Cal. The Duke of Wellington did
not participate in the battles of the Cr-
mean war, for the reason that that war
was fought between March 2S, 1854, and
April. 1856, and the Duke died in Walner
Castle. England. September A. 1852. In
that war the British troops were under
command OF Lord Raglan; the French of
Marshal Saint-Armand and the Russians
of Prince Meutchikof.
THE LEGISLATURE-C. W. N, City.
The only power that the Governor of the
State of California has to adjourn the
Legislature is that which is given him by
section of article V of the constitution
as follows: I'm case of disagreement
between the two houses with respect to
the time of adjournment the Governor
shall have power to adjourn the Legisla-
ture to such time as he may think proper
provided 1T be not beyond the time fixed
Tor the meeting of the next Legislature"
THE ATLANTIC CABLE-Anambulus
French Camp, Cal. In the laying of the
Atlantic cable the Great Eastern was ac-
companied by the Terrible, the Midway
and the Albany. The William Cory, on
the ireland end of the line, carried the
shore end of the cable to be laid out
thirty miles from the Irish coast The
Midway carried several hundred miles of
the cable used the previous year. The
Great Eastern carried 2400 miles of wire
74S miles being Of the cable of the pre-
vious years.
NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Subscribers, City. A child is a native of
the country in which born; on arriving at
majority the child may adopt the citizen
ship OF any country. That is the differ
ence between nationality and citizenship.
| If a child is born in a foreign country
while the father is in the service of the
United States. that child is a native of the
country in which born, but is a citizen
of the United States. If born say for
instance. in Peking. China, while the faith
er was there on a foreign mission, repre-
senting the United States. that child
would be Chinese, but an American citi-
zen.
CASGNO-Subscriber, City. In playing
the game of casino, when no special
agreement exists. the points go out in
casino. little casino, aces and sweeps. If
the aces have to decide it spade ace
goes out first, then clubs, hearts and dia-
monds. If the sweeps have to decide it
only the difference counts. If a has five
points TO so and b but three, A makes
cards. spades and two aces, and B makes
big casino. little casino and two aces. A
would win, as he would count first
by reason of his having cards, and
his points would give him more than he
/ needed to win out. If had six points to
go and B five points, the same rule ap-
plies and A would in that case win.