The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-12-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

lne diseases 10 WHICH, tue Sl1kWOTm
is liable number 100.
Living in London is 40 per cent
cheaper than in the large cities Of the
United States.
Out of every million letters that
pass through the post Office it is cal
culated that only one goes astray.
The cow tree of Venezuela is a nat
ural dairy. Its sap is very similar to
milk and is used as such by the ma
tives.
The transient hotel population of
New York is figured at 100000 people
day. The hotel properties are valued
at over $SO,OOO,OOO.
There is a great demand in China for
lead. 1t is used in several Chinese
manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea
chests for export.
Caleb Watts, Of Lily Pad, Pa, who
raises frogs for the market, gets the
best results by feeding them on liver,
corn meal and flies.
Great Britain imports over $35, 0OO,-
600 worth of eggs a year from Russia.
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada
| and the United States.
Mrs. A. B. Enright, of East Concord.
VT, is county supervisor of schools and
said to be one Of the busiest women in
the State. Besides her school work she
performs all the duties that fall to the
lot of the wife of Methodist pastor
of two large parishes.
Professor Jowett's comments on the
young men of Balliol, Oxford, often
took the form of crushing sarcasms.
'"The college, Mr.. X, thinks highly of
you," he once said: perhaps too high
ly;. but not half so highly, am sure,
as you think of yourself"
China is buying lumber from British
Columbia. 1t is largely needed for
railway construction. American lumber
Is shipped to Shanghai. On one day Of
his recent visit four full cargoes Of
Oregon pine arrived there, says the
Canadian trade commissioner at Yoko-
hama.
Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides being
| the most popular writer in Sweden, has
just received an honorary degree from
the University Of Upsala. She is the
first woman in Sweden to receive this
distinction, and it is said to be only a
| matter of time when she will get the
| Nobel prize.
Mrs. Emma Barry, of San Francisco,
has just returned from a trip to the
Arctic Circle, during which, it is assert
ed, she went farther north than any
| other white woman. She accompanied
her husband prospecting for gold. and
after she lays in certain supplies she
| will rejoin him in Alaska.
Mrs. G. Meyer is responsible for the
monument that has just been erected
| at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the
memory of the horses that died during
the BOer war. 1t cost upward Of $4,000,
and is in the shape Of stone water
ing trough, on the top Of which is the
figure of bronze cavalryman giving
drink to his horse.
The State of North Carolina is one
| of the most notable in the Union for
the production of gems, particularly
| diamonds, emeralds, rnbies, aquamar-
ines, beryls, hiddenite, rhodolite, ameth-
ysts and remarkable rock crystals
These gems have been found mainly
in the course of mining operations, al
though a few systematic searches for
them have been made and two COM
panies are now engaged exclusively in
such work.
A British lieutenant in the Second
Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who
was lately called LEO Quintus Tolle-
mache-T ollemache de Orellana Planta-
genet e-Tollemache," gave no
tice a short time ago by means Of adj
vertisement that he has renowned the
names Of Quintus Toliemache-Tolle-
mache Plantagenet Tollemache, and in.
tends henceforth upon all occasions and
at all times to sign and use and be
called and known by the name of Leo
de Orellana Tollemache only.
Count Won Zeppelin, the aeronaut
was born in 1888, and devoted what
are for most men the best years of life
to military service. Retiring in 1880
with the rank Of general, he turned
with boyish enthusiasm to the pur-
suit of his hobby, aerial navigation.
| To the solution of the problem which
had baffied the investigators of two cen.
turtles he sacrificed his fortune, with
little apparent progress toward the
goal. Poverty spurred him to greater
exertion. In 1892 he made success.
full balloon journey from Berne to Lu.
cerne, but his work was lightly esteem.
ed until 1900, when the surprising sue.
cess Of the first dirigible caused a gen.
| uine sensation. Since that time his
| progress has been easier.
As long ago as 1895 Leipsic hous~
published a German novel illustrated
| by something closely resembling a
Roentgen picture. The story tells OF
the Countess Abillinia, who gave her