The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-09-03
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Inc linen industry In ireland eM'
ploys 10000 persons.
Copper and wire sheets are now
produced direct from crude metal by
one process.
Asbestos of reported good quality
exists in large quantity in Rajputana
and in Afghanistan, and native com
pany has been formed to work the de-
posits and manufacture the product.
About six hundred patents are
granted each year to British women
upon inventions, ranging from articles
distinctively feminine in nature to
motors, railroad cars, flying machines
and wireless telegraphy.
Brazil is offering an alluring field
to the American makers of patent
medicines, as against the standard
proprietary medicines there exists no
prejudice on the part of Brazilian
doctors or their patients.
The proportion of felonies relating
to property to the population in the
| police area of London has risen stead
lily of recent years. In 1907 it was
1853 to each thousand of the popula
ton, higher figure than in any year
since 1895.
The population of the state of Vera
Cruz may be approximately put down
at 100000. Every settlement, vii
lage, town and city is provided with
private and public educational insti
tutions for the elementary education
of the people.
Professor Beniamina Rinaldi pub
fishes in the Corriere dele Maestro OF
Milan an interesting statistical study
of elementary education in Italy
| School teachers are the worst paid
| public servants in Italy. Their pay
| averages from 81 to 46 cents day.
Every metal is believed by Gruttin,
a German chemist, to have its pecu.
| liar odor, which he regards as a case.
| GUS transformation product. He has
! made some of the odors perceptible
| for few moments at intervals by
heating the metals to 1872 degrees
Fahrenheit.
/ Sturgeon are much scarcer now in
| the lower Amur River than formerly,
owing to the fact that they are caught
contrary to law, with dragnets and
during the spawning season. Stur-
geon weighing from 100 to 100 pounds
were once caught in quantities, but
are uncommon now, the average
weight being between thirty-six and
forty pounds.
A skirt steak is not exactly a piece
de resistance, or fiirtatious piece, as
some thoughtless Stiles may think,
but is quite another piece, the cheap
est piece of a steer. 1t Is a piece of
the diaphragm, or midriff, between
lungs and bowels, and makes good
steak, stew or sausage, having the
great advantage of being absolutely
fresh, being too cheap to be kept in
storage.
1t is reported that syndicate pros
pecting $50 miles south of Suez, on
the Red Sea coast, has struck oil, the
gusher giving increasing quantities
daily, and indicating large reserves.
The well has been properly capped
pending storage arrangements. The
possibility of cheap supply of fuel is
a discovery of the greatest import
ance to Egypt, and its geographical
position should render the discovery
va liable to the British navy.
Three principal gauges of line are
used on the various railways in the
commonwealth of Australia The most
common gauge, 31a feet, is used on
about 1000 miles of line, scattered
over five of the states. The feet and
3 inch gauge is second in Importance
and the feet 81 inch gauge, used,
only in New South Wales, third, with
3,472 miles of line. There are also
80 miles of 21a feet gauge, and three
miles of 2 feet gauge. Standardiza-
tion has been proposed, but no action
has been taken.
Cleanliness was not a fad in the
middle ages. King Edward ". of En-
gland was supplied with a barber to
shave him once a week, and eff some
| Il.
One medieval laundress was given so
little to wash that the washing bill
of a ducal establishment came to 40
shilling ($9.60) year. Four shirts
was considered a large allowance of
linen for Lord Howard, and a point
is made of the fact that Master How
ard was actually given shirt to go
to college with.
Separate schools for tubercular chill
dren may be established in Philadel-
phia in the near future. The new
school code specifically prescribes that
children suffering from tuberculosis
can not be admitted into the public
schools, and at the same time pro-
vides for the compulsory attendance
of all children between the ages of
and 16 years. It is the opinion of
the educational officials that the only
solution Of the problem is to set aside
special schools for the use of the
tubercular pupils.-The Medical Jour-