The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Canton has fewer than 500 foreign
residents.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
n time Of war have been tested in the
Russian army. Their speed is four
times as great as that OF carrier pig
eens
II the real estate OF Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
| Its Inhabitants each Individual would
own 5000 worth, according to the as
<essed value.
Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing a
number of prominent scientists at
Vienna ON the subject Of Food and
Nourishment," declared that the reason
50 many men begin to get fat immedi-
ately after they have married is be-
cause their wives give them their favor
lite dishes on every possible OCCASION
london Standard.
Vegetable milk" is used In Japan.
1t Is made from the sofa bean. The
liquid is exactly like cows milk in APP
pearance, and in taste can hardly be
distinguished from 1t. To make 1t the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
In water. Some sugar and phosphate
OF potassium are added, and it is boiled
| down till it has the consistency of con.
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
| by the late Harrison Parkmal, Of EN-
poria. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
| growing In Chile. He brought the seed
| to America, and in the late seventies
| he went to Emporia to live. He sowed
alfalfa in farm which he bought and
| the plant prospered. 1t was slow in
| gaining popularity in Kansas, but is
| now one Of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
| by law to take weekly half-holiday,
| and there must be no Sinking the obli-
cation. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
half-holiday, remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear Of it and the proprie-
tor of the hotel had to appear in court,
where he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals Of the Confederate army. They
are Gen. A. P. Stewart, ranking lieu
te1ant-general of the Confederacy, of
| Biloxi, Miss, and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, Of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
| anniversary on October Z last Cen
eral Buckner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer in 1896. He was
eighty-five on April / last.
The German Emperor has a we'll
| equipped pottery which brings him in
| $4,000 year. The King of Wurtem-
berg owns two large hotels which yield
| him a yearly income Of some $4,000.
The King Of Saxony owns the famous
| porcelain factory at Meissen, and the
Regent Of Lippe Detmoid runs large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs. The King of Servia
Is said to own barber shop a1d an
apothecary shop, In addition to which
heholds an agency for motor cars.
1 once had cat that did a rather
remarkable rafting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the caves Of a low
fat stable roof, and caught one in the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob, how
ever not satisfied with the one grasped
| 1t firmly in his mouth, and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
| in his mouth and the other in his paws,
AID promptly killed them both.-The
| Scotsman.
A strange. story comes from one O..
| the Balkan states, where commercial
morality is still in It's infancy. At a
recent banquet given at the house Of
| the prime minister a distinguished dip
Iomat complained to his host that the
Minister Of Justice, next to whom he
was sitting, had taken his watch. The
prime minister said: "Ah, he shouldn't
Fave done that. 1 win get it back for
you" Sure enough, toward the end Of
the evening the watch was returned to
it's owner. "A1d what did he say p
asked the guest "Sh-h! He does not
know I have got It back" said the
prime minister. Philadelphia Record
.Instances Of desertion from the army
IA Mexico are very rare and for the
best Of reasons" said Senior Jose de
Minaldez, Of Nueva Leon. The reason
| lies In the almost sure capture Of the
fugitive and the certainty that he will
ret not one but numerous fioggings on
hin bare back These lashings are done
| In the presence Of thsscomrades Of the
deserter, and when the men see how
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