The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-11
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
City. All gifts received at a wedding
should be acknowledged.
THE ALTENHEIM- P. s., City. The
Altenheim at Fruitvale receives old peo-
pie of both sexes of German descent. who
are not i'll.
ASTRONOMY-A. S., City. AS you are
a resident of this CITY, suggest that you
visit the Free Public Library. where you
will find all kinds of works on astronomy.
STANDARD COMM, City. Standard
coin is the term to designate coin that is
strictly up to the conditions of fneness
and weight required by the law of the
country in which coined.
MADNESS AND MUSIC-Subscriber
City. 1t was Burton in his Anatomy of
Melancholy" 1924, who wrote that per
sons bitten by the tarantula and made
mad were cured by music"
ON EQUAL FOOTING-H., City. All
applicants for homestead lands in the
United States stand upon equal footing,
with equal rights and privileges to enter
| the public lands. First come, first
served"
THE MOONS. M. c., City. When the
moon is obscured by a mist not of the
species called cirrus there is formed ring
around it few degrees in diameter.
There is a popular superstition that such
ring portends rain, but like many SUI
perstitions about the moon it is not al
ways correct.
HER MAIDEN NAME-scholar, City
The maiden name of Mother Goose"
who composed the Mother Goose melo-
dies, was Elizabeth Foster. She was born
in 1865, and in 1893 married Isaac Goose.
She was a member of the Old South
Church of Boston. Mass, and died in 1857
at the age of 80 years.
REPRESENTATIONS Subscriber.
City. For Representative to Congress the
present apportionment, or ratio is one
Representative for every 173.9O1 BY act
of Congress, approved January, 1901, the
number Of Representatives is fixed at 1856,
to take effect March 4, 1903. When new
States are admitted their Representatives
are to be added to this number.
THE DIMES OF 1S9EE. ]. F., Los An
geles, Cal. There were but twenty-four
dimes coined in San Francisco during the
year 1894. Each of these bears the sign
of the San Francisco Mint-the letter s.
The amount of premium such will com
mand depends on how much the individual
having one wants on one hand and the
amount the one who wants to become pos
SCISSOR of it would be willing to give.
MOON AND MAHOMET-A. Y. r.
City. The story of the moon and Maho-
met is that Mahomet had the moon per-
form seven circuits around Caaba, or the
holy shrine of Mecca, then enter the right
sleeve of his mantle and go out at the
left. At its exit it split in two pieces,
which reunited in the center Of the firma-
ment This miracle was performed for
the conversion of Hahab the Wise.
LIVAN-MITCHELL-J NJ, Jack
son, Cal. On March 10, 1885, John L. SuIli-
van defeated Charlie Mitchell In thirty
nine rounds at Chantilly, France. The |
fight was for $250O q side, was fought ac-
cording to the rules of the London prize |
ring, with bare knuckles, lasted three
hours ten minutes fifty-fve seconds. |
Referee, j. B. Angle; seconds-Jack Ash |
ton, George Mcdonald; umpire, Jack Bar
nett. Sullivan won knock down and Nit
chell drew first blood in the eighth round. |
LANGUAGES-A. R., City. There ara
more than 100000 words in the English |
language. Bepler's Handy Manual of |
knowledge, edition of 1890, gives the fol- |
lowing number of words in other. Ian
guages: German $1,000, Italian $4,000
French $4,000, Spanish 100000 No one has
yet taken the time to count the number
of words in the most complete dictionary
of each language, and until such is done
there will be no accurate list of the mum. !
Der Of words in each language It is estf- |
mated that the Chinese language is COM |
posed of $4,000 words.
PHILOPENA-Sittle City. The origin |
and the photography of Philopena. a !
somewhat simple game of forfeit, is I'M
settled. A person in party who finds a
two-kerneled almond or other nut pre-
sented one Of the kernels to another per- I
son, keeping the other for self Which |
ever one of the two parties either receives
from the others hand any object offered /
or answers by yes or no a question put |
by the other, or at the next meeting of 4
the two is not the first to say philopena
or fails on any other test agreed upon. |
must pay forfeit to the other The word |
is also written filopena, filipeen and phiIf- |
lipine.
CLAQUEURS = Theater-goer. civ !
Claqueurs, or persons hired to applaud in
theaters, were first introduced in tha
theaters of Paris by Mons. Sauton in 1S2O
He furnished to managers who wished to
insure the success of dramatic niece cor
tain claquers, sometimes as many as five
hundred, who were divided into classes
namely: "Commissaires," those who
committed the piece to memory and were
noisy in pointing out its merits: ssrieurr .
those who laughed at the puns and Jokes.
"pleurers,' chiefly women, who held their
pocket handkerchiefs to their eyes at tho
sympatneuc parts; chatouilleurs,"
whose duty it was to keep the audience in
good humor. and 'bisseurs,'' whose duty
If was TO cry (biS) encore