The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-21
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY


Some of the moons mountains are
$4,000 feet high.
Electric heating devices are success.
fully employed for branding cigar
boxes.
1t is estimated that there are 1000
900 horsepower in unused water powers
In the State Of Wisconsin.
It is figured that a successful physi-
clan must have a clientele of 100 fam.
lilies, or about $50 persons.
By a vote Of 81 to p the Oregon
Legislature has refused to abolish the
whipping post for wife-beaters.
More than ~one-quarter of the to-
bacco consumed by the Spanish nation
comes from the United States.
German women are taking up boxing
and there are a number of schools
where the art of self-defense is taught.
Eighteen men were tied to the whip-
ping post in one day recently at Will
mington, DEL, and given a total Of 255
la ashes. This beats all previous records.
Belgium has beer offering reduced
rates under certain conditions for tray.
ell on its passenger trains and the
creased business and
In fifteen months Alice Roosevelt at.
tended 4OS dinners, 271 receptions, III
balls, $50 teas and shook hands with
$1,000 people. After this strenuous
season she vas compelled to 60 to bed
Ill.
The steerage business of the Atlantic
steamship lines Is one Of their prime
sources Of profit. They have been hard
hit by the lull in the immigration tide
during the last year. The decrease in
the number Of immigrants carried in
1908 was $4,000, compared with 1907.
The average cos of a third-class pas
sage being $50, this made a shortage
In the revenues Of the steamship con-.
panies ~aggregating the enormous sum
Of $17,49O,OO 0
Siberia has the coolest weather
known anywhere in the world. At
Verkhoyaonsk, Siberia, 9O.4 degrees be-
low zero was observed In January,
1888, which goes below anything ever
known in the world before or since.
At that, point the average temperature
for January Is nearly Ga degrees below
zero. This town Is $50 feet above the
level Of the sea, and during the entire
vyirto~ tho u,oofhop Is Oo1n, orl o1nn~
London Globe.
One Of the most polished and pains
taking of English authors regarded cor.
rect spelling as a totally unnecessary
accomplishment. In his Introduction
to r. L. Stevenson's letters, Sidney Col
vim writes: Il have. not held myself
bound to reproduce all the authors
minor eccentricities of spelling and the
like. As all his friends are aware,
to spell in a quite accurate and grown
up manner was a thing which this mas
ter Of English letters was never able to
learn"
1t Is one Of the many marvels of
wireless telegraphy that the ether
waves which carry its messages, unlike
light waves, suffer no absorption IL
mist or fog. Quite the opposite, In
fact, is the case, for the effect on them
of clear sunlight Is so marked that they
can be sent with equal initial power
only less than half the distance by
day as by night. For this reason press
dispatches and long-distance messages
sent by wireless telegraphy are, wher.
ever possible, committed to the ether
waves after sunset.-Dundee Advertis-
er.
Miss Winifred Gibbs of the Asso.
citation for Improving the Condition of
the Poor of New York reports that
she has had unusual success in intro
ducing the freless cooker among the
women Of the East Side. Miss Gibbs
makes a fireless cooker at a cost of
only a few cents. Her materials con.
sist Of a butter tub, a bag of sawdust,
a tin pail with a closely fitting top
and two yards Of denim. She is said
to have more than a dozen going full
blast among the tenement families that
she teaches.
The students of Queen Margaret's
College, Glasgow, Scotland, have estab-
lished the first college paper to be de.
voted to the cause Of equal suffrage. It
is called JUS Suffragi Alumnm and is
said by its admirers to be full of wit
and fire, while those on the other side
Of the fence speak of its contents az
showing youthful ferocity. 1t is edit.
ed entirely by the girls Of Queen Mar.
garet's, but there are whispers that
at least two Of the leading articles
in the first issue were contributed by
| older heads.
Mrs. Edith Morley has just obtained
her third contract for card indexinp
from the State Of Massachusetts. It
concerns the birth, marriage and death
departments Of the State statistics and
she will have from eight to ten women
assistants. She Is said to be the first
woman to receive such a contract from
| Ma SS8 chuSeftS. Her Snocia1tv hac hoo.