The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-09
THINGS YOU NAY NOT Know


The first submarine boat was tried
ID Plymouth harbor, England, In 1774.
II is likely that monorail system
will be experimental with in the upper
part Of New York City.
The next international congress for
the discussion Of appliances for refrig-
Grating will be held in Vienna In 1910.
Professor Huebner, of Berlin, strong
~ recommends buttermilk as diet for
infants, especially In cases Of intestinal
disturbance.
A beautiful triple rainbow has been
seen at Smolensk, Russia, the air at
the time being filed with very fine and
powdery snow.
The number Of telephones in the
whole world is estimated at 100000,
Of which 100000 are said to be in use
In America, and 100000 in Europe.
Europeans are beginning to realize
the hygienic value of high buildings,
with elevators which lift people into
the dust-free, sunlit, higher regions.
It has been shown In Switzerland,
where 1000 persons annually die Of
cancer, that the tendency to that dis
case is less in regions free from goitre.
| Stated in brief, railroad gross earn
ings in the calendar year 1908 fell.
roughly, $780,, 1000 900 below the total Of
the gross earnings for the calendar
year 1907.-Financial Chronicle.
Large shipments Of cherries are sent
from Europe to this country, simply
preserved in brine, to escape the high
duty on fruits preserved in sugar. They
are then made into "Maraschino" cher
ries.
A paint Is soon to be placed on the
market to indicate excessive heat In
machine parts. Red when cool, it be-
comes black when heated Mercuric
iodide and cupic oxide are two of the
Ingredients.
A scientific periodical calls attention
to the fact that not only water color
but oil paintings Of the last half CEN
tury seem doomed to fade, entirely,
and that typewriter documents will ul-
timately be blank paper.
Asbestos is found in the island Of
Cyprus, and a company organized In
1905, obtaining a concession in the ISL
and, began to open q mine early in
1907. Up to the end Of that year 1000
tons Of asbestos were mined.
The fire loss In the United States
and Canada for the month Of January
amounted to So, 735 600. This was
seven millions below the January loss
III 1908 and two millions under the
January loss in 1907; but it was ex-
ceeded only three times in the monthly
| fire losses of last year.
Thece was a time when Ohio was
noted for It's forest products; last year
it yielded only $4,000 feet Of the 49,
256, 154, 900 feet Of lumber cut in the
country. Pennsylvania, which used to
lead in this industry, now ranks as
eighth among the States; Washington
coming first and Louisiana second.
The New York city department of
finance has made public a statement Of
the funded Indebtedness Of the munici-
pality down to November 80, 1908. At
that time there was funded debt out
standing Of 1874, LOG, 1S9 and a tempo
rary debt of $92.378,2 200, making q
combined gross Indebtedness Of $780,.
4S4, 3S9.
w. A. Graham Clerk, special agent
of the Bureau of Manufactures, and an
expert in textiles, has been assigned to
investigate market conditions in Latin
American countries. He will first visit
New York, Providence, Pawtucket.
Boston and other points in New En-
gland, and confer with manufacturers
of cotton goods and others interested.
The Royal Photographic Society, Of
fusal of the National Portrait Gallery
to exhibit photographs and has decid-
ed to establish a national gallery OF
Photographic portraiture. The scheme
has met with enthusiastic support from
all those interested in the Photographic
art. A large number of photographs
has been received and the gallery will
be thrown open to the public at Ger.
tain periods in the near future.
Cutting the finger nails appears to
have been the most indispensable SER
vice the ancient Roman barber render
ed to his patrons. Martial, chatting q
fop who had tried to dodge the barber
by using plasters to remove his beard.
asks triumphantly: "How are you go
ing to manage about your nails?" And
the miser in Plautus collects the par.
ings Of his nails from the barber to
make something out of them, appar-
emily never dreaming that he could
save money by cutting them himself.
A dramatic critic and his wife have
aisle seats at the opening of a certain
Broadway theater. The mascot OF tho