The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05
Answers to Queries
Herbert Kaufman. ]

M0UNET- T-SULLY- Subscriber, City. Is Mou-
net7Sully still alive: Give short sketch of him.
Jean Mounet- -Sully, the French TRACE
dian, was born in Bergerac, France
February 81 1871. At the age of p
years he entered the conservatoire,
After beginning his career in the
Odeon he served in the Franco Prussian
war in 1872 He made his debut at the
Theater Francais, where in two years
he became a member of the company
Admirably gifted by nature, he is fam
representations. His successes lnciuoe
many of the roles of the classics, as
Achilles in 'Iphigenia,'' Hypolite In
'Phedre" and characters in more mod
ern works, as Victor Hugo's. Perhaps
his most notable achievement was his
performance of Oedipus, the king, in
the fetes in the old Roman theater of
Orange, q performance repeated in the
Theater Francais, Paris. in 1888. His
Hamlet also counts in his most serious
efforts.
CARDIFF GIANT. H. T.. City. What was
''the Cardiff giant?
Cardiff giant was the name given to
rude statue 101a feet high dug up
October 16, 1869. at Cardiff, Onondaga
county, N. Y, and exhibited for months
a
tention of many scientific men, who
wrote many articles on the wonderful
remains of a prehistoric man. In time
the persons who for months deluded the
public confessed that the giant" had
been cut from block of gypsum. quar-
ried at Fort Dodge. Ia, and sculptured
in Chicago, conveyed to Cardiff and
there buried, where it remained until
accidentally" brought to light.
BALLooNISTS-C. W. A., Sacramento Cal.
What is the highest point balloonists can reach?
Does the degree of cold increase in the ratio of
distance from the earth?
Coxwell and Glaisher, who assembled
from Wolverhampton, Eng, ascended
81 1000 feet or fully seven miles. At
distance of four miles above the earth
the rumb'ing of railroad trains could be
heard, but at six miles there was alb
solute silence. At a distance of five
and half miles one of the men became
insensible and the other nearly so. In
ascending to a height of $4,000 feet an
other balloonist noted that the fall in
temperature was 81 degrees, or one de-
gree in $40 feet.
THE NEW YEAR-Nevada Subscriber. Battle
Mountain. Will January /, 1910. begin at the
stroke of IL midnight. December 81. 1909. and
would it be correct to say at that time January
II.
The year 1909 will not close until
the last stroke of II o'clock midnight,
and the new year will commence the
moment the last stroke has sounded.
Midnight is not IL o'clock a. m. in the
general acceptation of the term it is
midnight. 1t would be proper to say
or write; s12:00:01, January 1, 1910.Y
'12 o'clock and one second
a. m, January 1, 1910.p
LIGHT BRIGADE--G. p, Livermore, Cal.
Was it ever authortatively stated who was re-
sponsible for the 'blunder'' in ordering the
charge Of the light brigade, ''the gallant six
This department has not been able to
discover that the responsibility was laid
on any one particular Individual but it
lay between Lord Raglan and Lord Car
digan, the latter commanding the bri-
gade. 1t was always question as to
Lord Cardigan understood the
order of Lord Raglan.
SPANISH PRISoNERs-s O. r.. Fresno
Cal How many Spanish prisoners were trans
ported to Spain by the United tates at the close
'f the Spanish American war?
The number was 1.163 officers and
20,947 enlisted men from Cuba and
1859 officers and 13,477 enlisted men
from the Philippines. In addition there
were 727 other persons from Cuba and
2,3OS from the islands, making total
of 40,23S.
TWO GRADES Subscriber. City What is the
Elevation of Fourth and Harrison streets in San
francisco and that of Market and Fifty-ffth
street, Oakland?
The elevation above high water mark
at Fourth and Harrison streets is four
feet. at Market and Fifty fifth streets
N Oakland 81 feet above ordinary high
Tide.
BARMEolDEs-R. E. s.. Napa. Cal. Who is
1t was written by Dalton and is en-
titled The Barmecides Feast" II
was published in "Spencer's Comic
speeches..
WEIGHT. w. Oakland, CaL If a man
,ets on the scales and weights just 160 pounds
md Immediately thereafter drinks water e0uaI
o two pounds weight, will it increase his
weight?
The weight of a man increases in ac-
,ordance with the weight of the article
placed in or on him.
WANTS THE ABTHoR-NTrs. d. r.. Virginia
N each souls realm of being there's an ocean
iver unknown to man, yet in motion
ike storms that have their portion
The books of poetry do not make
mention of this poem.