The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-02-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

ESPECIALLY near Lyons.
The area covered by the national
capitol is 1912 square feet.
The last edition Of the New oYrk
telephone book weighed 1000 tons.
Under ordinary circumstances, the
life OF a wooden boat is four times that
Of steel.
another woman has been elected to
the Colorado Legislature. About
dozen women have served there before
her.
In the matter Of drinking" mused
the philosopher with the impressionistic
nose, "be sure you are right and you
won't get head Philadelphla Rec.
ord.
One Of the most destructive as we'll
as one Of the most offensive pests that
af1ict the planters of India is the red
cotton bug. The insect has been report
ed as a cotton pest from every part of
the country. It's presence is detected
by the offensive Odor.
Hitherto the population Of Japanese
towns of the empire as a whole has
been estimated from the official records
| Of births and deaths and other docu.
ments, but it has now been arranged
to make municipal house to house in
vestigation, commencing at Kobe.
Guam, which is one of the most unin-
viting of our possessions, will be
equipped with an experimental station
through the means of which its re-
sources will be Investigated and en-
cOuraged. DR.. w. H. Evans, Of the
Office of experiment stations, has visited
the island and selected a site for the
station at Agana. The station will be
conducted under the immediate super
vision of the office, with H. L. V. Coste-
noble as an agent in charge.
Lord Lyveden is an ardent peerage
reformer and tells this anecdote: A
famous statesman of the nineteenth
century was called upon to visit his son
in prison. He bitterly reproached him,
remarking: Here am 1, having worked
my way up from a middle class home
to great position, and when I die
you will be the greatest blackguard in
the peerage." The son listened quietly,
and then replied, with terrible irony:
"Yes-when you die"
It Is customary in Spain when an
infant first begins to notice things to
h0f ef1 MT, OyA7
silver cross, a book and some fruit.
The object to which the child stretches
his hand indicates, according to accept
| ed belief, his future vocation. The coin
is for commerce, the sword for the
army, the cross and the book respec
lively point to the church and the law
or learning, while the fruit denotes a
farmer or landowner-The English
man.
The Woman Suffrage Association of
New Jersey recently celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary Of Lucy Stone letting
her household goods, including her
baby's cradle, be sold for taxes in Or
ange as protest against taxation with
out representation. The suffra gists say
that this was the first instance in the
world Of a woman refusing to pay taxes
for this reason. Since then there have
been many similar instances. The last
and most notable perhaps was the case
Of Lady Steel, who let her goods be sold
at auction in Edinburg, Scotland.
Lowry is a man with a moderate In
come and one child, whom he is already
sending to a French master, who is ac-
customed to be paid every Monday. Re
Gently Lowry sent Henry to his lesson
without the usual bank note. That
evening the father looked over the boy
exercise, and this is what he found
Henry doing his best to put into Paris
ian French: II have no money. The
week is up. Have you no money? Has
your father no money? need money.
What is the day of the week? The day
OF the week is Monday. Does your IA
Their know the day Of the week?"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is getting
more eloquent as her years increase, her
friends declare. She is now nearly
ninety, and the other day at reception
given her in Boston made what her
friends say was the finest speech
her life She said that when she be-
gan to talk about woman suffrage she
never know when to stop. ut was my
good fortune to get interested in the
suffrage question about the time the
negro men obtained their freedom"
Mrs. Howe said. Then for the first
time I saw the whole Of one sex gov
erned by the whole of the other. This
seemed to me an intolerable tyranny. I
couldn't help but think that after we
had held the door open for the negro
we might at least have been allowed
to 60 in with him."
A scheme is being arranged for the
protection Of the manlike apes In the
German colonies Of equatorial Africa.
It is proposed in the first place that the
shooting Of these creatures should be