The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-24
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW


Inc atmosphere is free of microbes
at an elevation of 1900 feet.
AS far as is known at present there
are forty eight kinds of housefies
Great Britain has the longest coast
| 'lne OF any of the countries of Eurone
There is said to be no record of the
existence of the camel in a wild state.
The capacity of the Atlantic cables
is 3OO.OOO,OOO words annually. ONLY
25,OOO,OOO are sent.
AT the prevailing increase in popu-
iatlon New York City will be the home
OF 100000 persons in 1882.
The State of Guanajuato, Mexico.
has produced silver worth S51O.OOO.-
OOO Mexican, during the last $50 years.
An Indian stream, the River Kist-
nah, 600 feet wide, has the longest
span OF telegraph wire in the world.
Perhaps the most curious of polish
Ing wheels is that made of corn husks
tor finishing shell or bone combs.
When New York city gets it's water
from the Catskills, the longest flow
will be from point 100 miles from the
City Hall.
The yellowest gold comes from
Alaskan placers. the reddest from the
Ural. California gold is yellow in hue,
that from Australia reddish.
Although glass bottles were made by
the Romans as far back as the year
70 A. D., their manufacture was not
begun in England until 1853.
Just 100000 cords of wood were
used in the United States in the manu-
facture of paper pulp last year, twice
as much as was used in $780,
While the tonnage of the fleet of the
Great Lakes is increasing, the number
of craft is decreasing, owing to the
greater capacity of the newer boats.
Great Britain imports about $14O,.
100000 worth Of timber, wood and
manufactures thereof yearly, of which
the United States supplies about $780,
'UU,OOU worm.
A Harlemite fond of figures has been
keeping tab, and says that New York
women in a line to buy tickets or post
age stamps consume two and one
fourth as much time as men.
Systematic investigation Of the Phil
fppine islands reveals the fact that the
group consists Of 1900 islands, while
before the American occupation the
lumber was estimated at 1000.
On the largest tobacco farm in the
world, 25,OOO-acre affair, near Am
sterdam, Ga, is grown about a third
Of all the Sumatra tobacco used for
cigar wrappers in the United States.
A quadrangular screen, which opens
or closes as a door to which it is at
tached at the top is opened or closed,
invented by a Kansan, is said to pre-
vent flies and other insects from enter
ing house.
There are said to be 1000 Esperanto
societies and schools throughout the
world now, and periodicals for propa-
eating the language now number fifty
five, eleven more than there were last
December. Esperanto is gaining Off
cial recognition and privileges in Eu-
rope and Asia.-Boston Herald.
There are 1880 newspapers pub
lished in the United States; about L.
600 of them are published daily and
100 are managed, edited and published
by negroes. In Asia there are 5000
periodical publications, of which the
greater part appear in British India
and Japan; the latter country pub
fishes 1.5OO newspapers. Africa has
only 200 newspapers, of which thirty
are published in Egypt and the rest
appear in the European colonies.-Chl-
cago Journal.
An interesting feature of the dis
tribution of prizes at st. Olave's Gram
mar school, Bermondsey, was the pay
ment of the "rent" of freehold field,
which was leased in 1866 to trustees
for the benefit of the poor Of the par
ish. The lease was ''fOr term of 500
years, at the yearly rent of red rose,
PAYABLE at midsummer if lawfully de-
handed" The representatives of the
trustees paid the rent with a bouquet
of red roses, which was handed 90 the
warden of the schOOl.-London Daily
Mail.
While the grading of Main street,
Manassas, Va, was in progress recent
ly the workmen discovered that their
picks went to a depth that indicated
subterran<ln cavity. Upon investiga-
ton it was discovered that trench to
the depth Of three feet had been dug
and a number of barrels of flour put
therein and concealed from the enemy
ON the evacuation Of Manassas by the
Confederate troops. A large quantity
of barrel slaves and a white SUBJ
stance resembling decayed flour were
exhumed.
remarkable collection Of nearly
90 packs of playing cards of all ages