The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-03-18
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The ships of the world are insured
for a total of 1850, 100000.
1t Is claimed that Costa Rica has
greater variety Of animals than any
other country. OF birds alone there
are about 500 kinds.
A rainbow trout weighing more than
nine pounds has been caught In Eng
land. A record catch last year was a
sixteen-pound river trout caught in the
Test at Romsey.
One of the latest industries devel-
oped in Vienna and Berlin is the clean
ing of playing cards. They are sub
jected to various processes and emerge
looking like new cards.
Strenuous efforts are being made in
Paris to simplify the orthography Of
the French language, but some Of the
authorities, notably Francois Coppee.
are bitterly opposed to all changes
suggested.
A German periodical, the Garten-
laube, offers three prizes for the best
answers to the question, which Is
becoming more and more serious to
mothers: How can I marry of my
daughters"
Nearly one-half Of the 2.011 clubs in
England are golf clubs. OF the 25O So
cial clubs in London, twenty-six are
for women alone and six others adj
NIT women. The largest women's
club has 3,7OO members.
The eight ambassadors of the Ger
man empire in Madrid, Rome, Wash
ington, Constantinople, Paris, London,
st. Petersburg and Vienna are all
members Of the nobility. Their emol-
uments are SIS, 900 in the first three
cities named, $4,000 in the next three,
$37, 500 in the last two.
A Welsh magistrate has decided that
in liquor transaction, or any other
purchase and sale, sale takes place
when the money is paid for the article.
So one may pay for his drinks during
lawful hours and legally call and take
them in the hours during which liquor
must not be sold.
Several years ago a company was
formed in London which offered to all
women who for q certain time bought
half a pound Of tea at their stores q
pension OF 10 shillings a week If they
lost their husbands The list Of widows
gradually reached 10000, and the COM
pany had to suspend payment.
One of the most remarkable in
stances Of heredity office among So
licitors il that of the acting under
sheriff for the city of London. Mr..
Tufnell Burchell sits in his sherifs
court In Red Lion square on the bench
that his father, grandfather and great
grandfather successfully occupied
st. James Gazette.
The thickness Of armor on modern
warships Ii truly astonishing. The
side armor Of a frst-class battleship
usually varies from sixteen and one
half inches thick at the top of the belt
to nine and one-han inches at the bot
tom. The gun turrets are often pro-
tected by armor from fifteen inches to
seventeen inches thick.
1t has been seriously asserted by
many people that we are naturally
lighter after a meal, and they have
even gone the length Of explaining this
by the amount Of gas that Is developed
from the food. Average observations,
however. show that we lose three
pounds six ounces between night and
morning; that we gain one pound
twelve ounces by breakfast; that we
again lose about fourteen ounces be
fore lunch; that lunch puts on an av-
efage Of one pound; that we again lose
during the afternoon IN average Of
ten ounces, but that an ordinary din
ner to healthy persons adds two
nounda two ounces to their Wei1ht