The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-06-13
SOMETHING FOE EvuYBoDY

Andrew Carnegie's library gifts
amount almost to $5O.O0O,O00.
The total number Of persons In re-
ceipt Of State relief in India exceeds
1,25O,OO0.
Louisiana has seven million acres OF
swamp land, which are at present total.
~ useless.
The irrigated districts Of Egypt COM
prise $4,000 acres and support TO-
100000 persons.
It IL computed that the dew falling
IN England IL equal to Eve inches Of
rain each year.
Government experts are Investigate
ing seaweed with the object Of deter
mining its economic value.
The cost Of repairs on wooden rail-
road car Is about 500 a year, much
more than that of a steel car. and the
wooden car Is out Of service by reason
OF repairs six to one as compared with
the metal ones
Cape Colony, South Africa, has
deficit Of $9,5O0,OOO, accumulated dur
ing the last four years, and which, says
Mr.. Merrfman, the premier, will likely
be $12,OOO,OOO by, the end Of 1908. The
unpaid Government railway debt brings
the present true deficit up to about
100000.
The Chinese have undertaken to
nurse their forests, and the officials of
the Celestial government have engaged
a Japanese expert from Toxic to act
as head master for the proposed school
OF forests at Mukden for term Of four
years, with two Chinese as his assist
ants
Prof. D. G. Jackson Of the Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology, has been
retained by the Massachusetts highway
commission to make report regarding
the telephone situation with special
reference to the practicability Of re-
duction in rates and higher efficiency
Of service.
"Neatness is essential on the links,
said H. J. Whigham, the golfer, at
dinner in Chicago. "At Shinnecock
Hills one day I played behind two
young and pretty girls. Overtaking
them. I heard the younger say: How
many holes on this course, AileenY
Nineteen, dear said Aileen, including
the one in your stocking"
simultaneously with the organization
of pigeon postal service in the French
Kongo, where the climate makes both
ordinary and wireless telegraphy i'm
possible, it is announced that the Brit
ish government has replaced the pigeon
post by wireless telegraphy in both the
naval and the colonial service, and that
this years budget contains no appro-
spriation for pigeons.
O'COnnell had got man of at one
time for highway robbery and at an
other for burglary; but on the third
occasion, for stealing coasting brig,
the task Of hoodwinking the jury SEEM
ed too great for even his powers Of
cajolery. However, he made out that
the crime was committed on the high
seas and obtained an acquittal The
prisoner lifted up his hand and eyes to
heaven and exclaimed: MAY the
Lord long spare you, Mr.. O'Connell--
to mel"
The reason why the stomach and, In
testines do not digest themselves was
once thought by Weinland, German
experimenter, to be that they defend
themselves by anti-enzymes, or anti
ferments. DR.. Nandor Klug Of Buda-
Pesth now reports these anti-ferments
not to be found, but that the mucin
present in the inner half Of the gastric
mucous membrane resists the digestive
action of the trysin and the gastric
juice. The digestive organs, therefore,
protect themselves by the mucin they
secrete.
The population of Japan to-day Is
just about 5O,OOO,OOO. The exact fig
ures for 1907 are not yet available, but
the estimates just published are based
on the average growth of the last thirty
years and may be taken as fairly ac-
curate In each Of the five-year periods
for which figures are shown, over the
past twenty-five years, the population
has increased, roughly speaking, by
2,OOO,OOO To-day the estimate is
that there are 49,287,744 native-bon
japanese in the territory ruled over by
the Mikad0.-PaH Mall Gazette.
When the members Of the British In
stftution Of Electrical Engineers paid a
visit Of inspection to northern Italy
lately. they were Interested In q device
used to protect the overhead transmits
sion lines Of an electric traction sys-
tenn from lightning discharges. Tho
device consists Of jets Of water. which
form permanent earth at the Nom
begno generating station on the Valtel-
lima line. The electric resistance Of the
lets was said to be sufficient to pre-
vent serious loss Of current, while not
too great to enable them to serve for
protection against lightning.
It il said that 'moon blindness" ii 4