The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-08
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Inc house ny becomes full grown
IN about four weeks.
The railroads of the world are val
ued at SPLITS. 100000.
Muscles to the number of 1901 have
been counted in the body Of a moth.
Spiral wire hoops now take the place
OF wooden hoops on barrels and kegs.
Whooping cough kills more children
under 5 years of age than scarlet
fever.
There Is now an international stand
ard unit Of candle power, which will
DC soon in use in every country except
Germany.
OF the 1000, 900 900 gallons of wine
manufactured in the civilized world
every year about 100000 are made
in the United States.
Waterways in Alaska navigable by
steamers approximate 1000 miles, of
which nearly 200 are in the water
shed Of the Yukon river.
The deadly gauge of Nero's drunken
ness was a finely wrought intaglio
ring. When he could not see the fig
ures on it he knew he was drunk.
At the present rate of increase In
travel 1t Is estimated that the rail.
ways OF Manhattan and the Bronx will
carry 1,7o0,OOO,O00 passengers in 1920.
According to statement by the
German colonial secretary, the value
Of the diamondiferous deposits in Ger
man Southwest Africa amounts to
$25O,OOO, 900.
Ancient Egyptians to save their eyes
decorated their eyelids with beautiful
black velvety anthony paint, which
protected from glare and Egyptian
sore eyes. The paint went back near
the ear to end in a symbol.
"The way in which some tailors give
credit" said Judge Rentoul, at the city
Of London court, "is awful. The idea
OF giving a man credit for $3.50 Worth
of clothes. Firms who give such credit
must charge enormous prices"
For many years the observatory of
the vatican has been divided, a por-
ton being on the vatican hill, some
little distance from the square of st.
Peters, but by recent Encouragement
the entire establishment will be moved
to the top of the hill.
The men of 40, the California pio-
neers, are rapidly dwindling. There
are now only seven members of the
Sacramento Society of California Pho
neers. The eighth member recently
died, and the survivors acted as pail
bearers and mourners.
The researches of Professor Flinders
Petrie at Memphis have resulted in the
unearthing of the palace of King
Apries, the Pharaoh Hophra of the
Scriptures and contemporary Of Jere-
miah. Armor and bronze figures of
gods were found in the ruins.
The Austrian Alpine Club has recent
ly come into possession Of fine build
ing, the gift of the city Of Munich.
The new building Is excellently situat-
ed on the banks of the river 1sar.
The club has a great quantity of in
teresting material pertaining to the
Alpine district and 1t Is proposed to
start an Alpine museum in its new
home.
A new use for convicts has been
found in Missouri, where a number
were taken out Of the penitentiary at
Jefferson City and put to work on the
Galloway bottoms helping the farm
ers save their wheat from the ad-
vancing waters of the Missouri river.
The prisoners worked we'll, enjoyed
their outing and would welcome an
other chance to get outside the walls
And now the southern corn "pone"
and Johnny cake" are in danger. A
story comes up from Durham, N. c.,
that there are some serious cases OF
pellagra under treatment In that dis
trict. Pellagra is a disease Of the
skin somewhat resembling leprosy. It's
appearance has caused many families
to give up the use Of cornmeal as food.
1t being held that the disease finds its
causation In maize.
The sign Of the times Is that homi-
eide is going to stop short and stay
stopped here better than In any place
the world has ever known, the Golden
Age of Imperial Rome and England
not excepted Time may yet come
when a child at midnight with bum
die of long green may go through New
York's streets and no thief dare modest.
There are places in the United States
where even stealing chicken Is I'M
known, and no door needs lock or bar.
New York Press.
CASTOR BONNER afirms that the abil-
ity Of bees to fly straight to their hives
from a distance as great as two miles
is not due, as some have believed, to
either sight or smell, but to special
sense of direction possessed by bees.
Monsieur BONNER bases his relief In
the existence Of this strange sense,
which would be extremely useful to
man also, on a series of experiments