The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-14
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

A DAY IN JANUARY-O., Oakland,
Cal. The 18th of January, 1878. fell on
Tuesday.
CITY HALL-v. c., Sacramento. The
cost of the City Hall, San Francisco, was
IS, 10000
BLOCKADE-S., City. The blockade of
the north coast of Cuba between Cardenas
and Bahia Honda and Of the south coast,
port of Cienfuegos, was ordered by Presi-
dent Mckinley April p, 1895.
PRIVATE sCHOOLS-A. o. C., City. In
the classified portion of the city directory,
in the back part of the book under the
head Of schools. you will find the ad-
dresses of private schools in this city.
This department cannot advertise such.
LATIN Subscriber. City.
"Quod male fers assuesce; feres bene," is
Latin from Seneca. and means: 'Accus-
tom yourself to do that which you bear
i'll, and you will bear it welI'; that is,
patience and resignation will tighten every
difficulty.
PLANETS Reader, City. The
planets that are visible at this time are
Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus in the
west, Mars is visible at about o'clock
and Neptune is seen in the constellation
of Taurus. No one living at this time will
ever again see so many planets at one
time.
MINT PARS-Enq., City. Mint pars are
practically fixed under all circumstances
between countries using the same stand
ard metal When one country has a solid
metallic standard and the other weak
metallic standard or a deprecated paper
currency, the depreciation must be al
lowed for, to get at the real exchange on
a specie basis between the two countries.
HOW TO PRONOUNCE GRAU-W. B.
of this city writing to this department
gives the following as way to pronounce
the name Grau:
AS his little frau
Could not say the name Grau
Thus spake her calamity bowler:
Take one letter from grout
Or take two from ground
Or three when you call me growler-
STOCK COMPANY LIMITED-Enq.,
City. In a limited stock company the liza
bility of each shareholder is limited by the
number of shares he has taken. that he
cannot be called upon to contribute be-
yond the amount of his shares. In Great
Britain company formed for profit must
if the liability of it's stockholders is limit
ed have the word limited" as the last
word of it's name
BREAKING OF THE ROPE-sub-
scriber, City. In several of the European
countries, notably France, England, Italy,
several of the German states and Spain,
there are laws that man condemned to
be hanged, should the rope break after
he is launched from the seaffold. is free.
The theory of such laws recognized the
interposition of Divine Providence for the
rescue of an innocent man, and when
the rope broke the legal authorities as
sumed that the Almighty declared the in
nocence of the condemned.
A LOST NOTIFICATIONS. Oakland. Cal.
In the case of lost note the owner may
recover on rendering to the maker a suf-
ficient indemnity in some form against
any future claim upon the lost instrument
or he must bring himself within some of
the excepted cases where indemnity is not
required. Thus if a note is not payable
to bearer and has not been indorsed. or
has been Endorsed specially, or where it is
clearly shown to have been destroyed or
when 1t has been traced to the makers
custody, recovery may usually be had
without rendering indemnity
PRESIDENTS SALARY = Subscriber
City. By the act of Congress of Septem
Der "a, 1913, and again on Februarv 1S
1893, the salary of the President of the
United States was fixed at 81, 900 and that
of the Vice President at 5000. That of the
President continued the same until March
3, 1873, when it was raised to $4,000. at
which time U. S. Grant was President
The salary of the Vice President was
raised to $4,000 in 1853, to $4,000 March 2
1873, and January 20, 1874, it was again
reduced to $1,000. The constitution of the
United States says: THE President shall
at stated times, receive for his services a
compensation which shall neither be in
creased nor diminished during the period
for which he shall have been elected %