The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-07-02
over S125,O00 realized from the safe
STALL go to the bank.

| 1t Is now proposed tuot AnSee
yaccinating persons bitten. as IN the
Pasteur method, dogs should be inocu-
lated with the virus Of rabies, IN the
hope that they may thereby De naue
proof against the usual e1ects OF tue
bite Of mad dog-just as human suo-
jects are vaccinated to make tnein
proof against the ravages OF sinaii-
nox. The result Of researches on this
matter undertaken by an eminent
Frenchman will be awaited with In
| terest.
When the Siberian Railway is com
pleted the journey round the world VIII
occupy not more than forty days and
the cost Of transportation will not ex-
coed $500. A traveller leaving LONDON
reaches ST. Petersburg in forty-nve
hours. Thence by rail the time will be
eleven days to Port Arthur and seven
more by steamer to San FRANCISCO.
The tourist might lose several days by
delay and still reach London again
within the forty days
A New York man has received a
patent for a magnetizing box for hair
| pins. He does not clearly state the OBJ
| ject Of his invention in magnetizing
| the pins, but 1t is presumed that the
charged pins are less liable to come out
| of the hair and be lost, as they are all
| attracted toward each other when IN
| position. To remove one Of them 1t
must be done against the magnetic
force which tends to keep it in place by
attracting it to the remaining pins.
! In all the civilized countries of the
| world thirteen Is referred to as being
| somebody's dozen" In America, Aus
tralia, Great Britain (present day., and
several other lands that number is
| said to be bakers Dozen" In Italy
| it is referred to as the "cobblers
| Dozen" there being a tradition that
there was formerly law which COM
| PEELED cobblers to put twelve tacks or
nails round the edge Of boot heel.
| Finally, when nails became cheap, a
| center nail was driven for ''luck."
About seventeen years ago an old
| man named William Davidson died in
| L
relatives had the body taken up, in
| tending to remove it to another place
of interment When the coffin was
reached it was found to be so heavy
| that it required four strong men to lift
| it to the surface. Upon examination
the body was found to be petrified. One
arm was entirely gone, but the remain
| ing portion of what was once human
body is now a light grayish colored
stone, a perfect man in form, size and
shape
A practical young man In Brooklyn,
by the name of Lombars, had chance
to take a good business position, only
he could not fulfill the one require
ment which demanded a married man
for the place. Not entirely discOur-
aged by this, he thought he would adj
vertise for wife and see what would
come Of it. He received letters from
women Of all sorts and conditions, until
he had total Of $40 replies. In fact,
many Of these came in long after ne
had made his selection, and now he is
married to nice girl and has secured
the job in addition.
The Yuma Indians are an ungallant
lot. When a boy is born the papa is
very happy, but If the babe Is of the
female persuasion the papa is sad and
congratulations are not in order. Babes
are not named until they begin to talk.
| Then If the infant says something
| rf1 fy rrir hot -,,t
terance as a name. The Yumas are
very cruel to their aged relatives. 1t
Is not uncommon for children to drive
away their feeble and aged parents and
let the old people starve, simply be-
cause the young ones do not want to
be bothered with them.
This country, to people who have not
looked into the matter, does not figure
as large owner of floating property
outside Of war vessels and those at
tached to the revenue and lighthouse
service, but a recent careful estimate
shows that on one part Of the Missis-
sippi River the nation owns over 1000
craft Of different kinds. This is the
stretch between New Orlean and Cairo.
and the value of the vessels and their
outfit for riprap revetment and levee
work does not fall much below $4,000
600. When work is rushing there are
at times 10000 men employed on the
vessels and in connection with the
tasks assigned them.
A door bell for deaf mutes Is the in
ventiOn Of a deafmute The ear Of a
deaf-mute, 1t Is said, is not sensitive to
the little vibrations of air that in the
normal ear is recognized as sound, but
1t instantly perceives anything like a
jar, or such a thing as the rumbling of
train. When any one goes to the
house Of a deaf-mute fitted with the
new apparatus and pulls the knob, a
heavy metal ball falls off it's support to
the floor. 1t make vibration and a
Earring in the floor that is at once per-
ceived by the sensitive nerves Of the
deaf-mute housewife, and answers all
the purposes Of the bell.
Professor Dewar in a lecture before
the Royal Society in discussing the
possibilities Of snythetical chemistry
which have been disclosed by the cleo
trio furnace, stated that from the car
bides prepared In the electric furnace
we can get benzine, and, therefore, all
the aniline dyes, and even crude petro-
lum. Acetylene gas, another product
of the electric furnace. combines direct
ly with nitrogen in the presence of an
electric discharge, and gives prussic
acid, and from this we can readily get
cyanides. In fact, there is no end to
the sphere of usefulness Of the electric