The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24

Inc nre which destroyed the Bancroft
building on Market street occurred on the
Afternoon of April 80. 1856.
sHARKEY- FITzsIMMoNs d. B..
City. The first meeting between Tom
Sharkey and Robert Fitzsimmons was at
! Coney Island, August "a. 1900.
muscle. F. c.. Martinez, Cal. Any
of the first-class music stores in San
Francisco can furnish you a writer of
music who will arrange musical compost
tons for the piano or other instrument.
PURSE-Niss r. E., City. The safest
way to restore gray leather purse is TO
turn 1T over to professional cleaner, who
VIII do the work at small cost. An anna
teur would undoubtedly destroy the same
In the attempt to clean it.
STAMPS-Ignorance Santa Rosa, Cal.
The so-called language of stamps is the
arrangement of stamps on envelopes as
agreed upon by two or more persons who
may wish to use such a method to ex-
press their ideas instead of writing the
same on paper.
ROYAL ARCANUM-S. W. B., Benicia.
Cal. The supreme secretary of the Royal
Arcanum is w. o. Robson, Boston. Mass:
the grand secretary for California is d.
W. Maloon Los Angeles and the secre-
tary of Argonaut Council, San Francisco,
is George w. Dixon.
PRECIOUS STONES-A. I. F.. Cozzens,
Cal There are number of firms in San
Francisco that deal in precious stones in
the rough, but this department cannot
advertise such. If you send a self-ad-
dressed and stamped envelope this depart
ment will mail you several addresses.
RAILROADS.&C. Subscriber City. The
statistical abstract of the United States
for 1903, a Government publication. gives
the following figures concerning Iocomo-
ives, passenger and freight cars in the
United States: Locomotives, 1929: pas
senger cars, 27144; mail cars, $751; freight
cars, ,409472.
NANES-A s., City. Two uncommon
names beginning with S for girls are:
Saliva, which means safe" and Salome,
which means peaceful" Two names
commencing with u that are uncommon
and would 20 for boys are Urian, which
means "a husbandman," and Uriel which
means light of God"
CALLING-R. E. B., City. If a lady
send out "at home cards those who re-
ceive them should call or send an excuse
II subsequently the lady sends out cards
that she will be at home on four success
sive Mondays the persons receiving them
are governed by their own will as to
whether or not they should accept the in
vitation to call.
INDIAN ON LAND-F. NJ. Orleans
CAL If you have reason to believe that
an Indian is unlawfully occupying min
eral land in your vicinity you should lay
the matter before the United States Land
Office at Eureka, Humboldt County The
question asked calls for legal opinion
one of the class that this department. does
not answer.
HISTORICAL CANE-F. T. NJ, Bur
lingame, Cal. There is no market value
for a cane made of a piece of the cut
water of the old frigate Constitution. Such
a relic is worth just what value the pos
SCISSOR thereof places on it, or what some
one anxious to be possessed of it would
be willing to give. You should if you de-
sire to part with it, advertise it in The
Call.
.DIAMONDs-A Subscriber, City. The
diamond one of the most valuable of
precious stones. is carbon, a simple or
elementary substance, crystallized and in
its greatest purity. Diamond will burn
before the heat of the blowpipe in air or
oxygen gas, combining with oxygen to
form carbonic acid. Imitation diamonds
are plentiful, but diamonds have never
been artificially made.
NEMO-A Constant Reader, Occidental
Cal. 1t is probable that the man Sharp
who recently committed suicide in New
York City and sought to conceal his iden-
tity, assumed the name of Memo because
his condition was similar to that of Memo
a character in Dickens BLEAK House
Memo was the name by which Captain
Hawdon was known at Krook's He had
once won the love of the future Lady of
Dedlock, by whom he had child Esther
Summerson, but he was compelled to
copy law writings for his daily bread
and died a miserable death from an over
dose of opium.
FRATERNAL ASsOCIATIoN-A. S.,
Helmet, Cal. When an individual Joins a
fraternal beneficiary association he takes
an obligation to abide by the laws of the
supreme grand and subordinate bodies
and he is bound to obey such laws There
is no law that will induce the association
to pay back the amount paid in as assess
ments for protection, for that is the same
as premium paid for insurance in any as
ISOLATION. During the time for which the
premium is paid the association agrees to
pay in case of loss and when the pre-
MUM has lapsed then the obligation of
the association ceases.
UNCLE SAM-A s, City. The term
Uncle Sam" as applied to America.
arose at the time of the last war between
England and America. At Troy on the
Hudson, Ebert Anderson, a contractor
for the American army had a storeyard
At that place there was an inspector
named Samuel Wilson, who was usually
called Uncle SAM" whose duty it was to
superintend the examination of the pro-
visions and when such were passed each
cask or package was marked Z. A-U. s.
the initials of the contractor and the
United States. The man whose duty it
was to mark the casks and packages was
a facetious fellow and when asked what
the letters meant renlied that they stood