The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-01
THINGS YOU NAY NOT KNOW
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proximately million dollars day.
Since the earthquake and fire ut San
Francisco $500 buildings have been
erected and 1000 others remodeled. The
disaster destroyed $4,000 buildings.
1t takes four years to train a lion
for exhibition work, and only one aui-
NAL in four is fit for training. A we'll
trained lion is worth five times the
price of one unframed.
London's greatest rush hours are
from 8 to 8 in the morning and at
about 6 80 in the evening. Between 8
and 9 $4,000 persons enter the city.
between 6 and 175,OOO leave.
As result Of a drought it is now
generally acknowledged in sugar circles
that the Cuban sugar production this
season will not exceed 100000 tons, a
deficit Of about 10000 tons from the
previous crop.
Within two years since the great
earthquake which undid San Francisco,
that heroic city has put $1OO,OOO,OOO
into building operations, of which, &C
cording to trustworthy statement, all
but 100000 came from local sources.
Since the United States government
began to patronize expositions, down to
the jamestown fair, Congress has ap-
propriated a total Of 2S,752,251 for
worlds fairs, Of which only $485,OOO
has been spent west of the Rocky noun
tains, at the Lewis and Clark exposi-
ton.
The new electric Fastnet light, of
Cape Clear, Ireland, is of 10000 can
de-power. The cost was $42O, 900. The
focal plane Of the fash is $50 feet
above high water, and theoretically it
is visible sixteen miles. The founda-
lions Of the lighthouse are twenty feet
thick.
In Brazil the federal government
owns and operates 1887 miles of rail-
road lines. 1t also owns four lines of
1874 miles all told, and leases them to
private companies. State governments
own ITO miles. Under private owner
ship and operation are something like
5000 miles.
According to the official figures Of the
Russian customs, the importation of
motor cars into that country is increas-
ing very rapidly. The following totals
are given: In 1902, 80 cars. in 1903, 60;
in 1904, 1870; in 1905, Ill, and in 1906,
242. For the first six months of 1907
the total was PSI.
An Egyptian paper says that the ma.
tive families pay an average tax of
$4.65 an acre, or 28.5 per cent of the
crop. Foreigners and land companies
hold $1,000 acres. Through their in
solvency and liquidation, and the redis-
tribution of the estates formed since
1902, 1t is probable that large amounts
Of gold may be unhoarded.
Census statistics show that as a peo-
pie we are increasing in violence. From
1902 to 1906 there was an increase In
the percentage Of persons who came to
their end by violence. In 1902 only 81
per cent were thus taken off out of ev-
cry hundred In 1906 it was rs per
cent, while the average for 1901 to
1905 was &C per cent.
Since 1860 the Republican party has
carried every presidential election ex-
cept two, the two exceptions being in
1884 and 1892, when Cleveland was
elected. The largest number Of cleo
toral votes ever polled for presiden-
tial candidate was in 1904, when Roose-
welt received 1856 votes. Since 1872 New
York has been carried three times by
the Democratic party and six times by
the Republican party.
By the patent act, which recently
passed the British Parliament and has
already gone into effect, it becomes nee
essary for foreign holders Of patents
under British authority to erect and
operate works in Great Britain for the
production Of articles thus patented.
Foreign patentees under the old act
were protected against competition by
their patent rights, but did not have to
produce In the country which protected
their patents.
No process has yet been discovered
by which the highly arsenical ore found
in Cobalt properties can be smelted.
This problem has been the subject OF
research by many chemists, particular
ly those Of Germany, and there Is a
fortune awaiting the discoverer. Many
OF the smaller properties in the Cana
dian silver district have large quanti-
ties Of ore which Is practically useless
at the moment on account of the per-
centage Of arsenic which it contains
Wall Street Journal.
There is trust corporation, Of Inn
memorial antiquity, at Cairo, known as
the Wakfs. 1t holds landed property
which has been conveyed to it for pious
uses. But this was frequently a device
to secure to the family of the donor or
testator large share Of the annual
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