The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
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Ind,a's cotton crop this season Is ~
nor cent greater than that W io''
year.
1anan makes 10000 to 5O0Oo Dlcy
cles yearly and also imports 4o'o0o'
besides separate parts enough TO man.
$4,000. The country now has ooo'ooo
in use, mostly for business purposes.
The demand for tires is 2OO pairs
dailv. two-thirds Of which are I'LL
ported.
Census returns in India show solno
remarkably candid statements. LII
lahabad thirty-five citizens descrioeo
| themselves as "men who rob Will
threats of violence" There were twen-
ty-five hereditary thieves. 1heio
were nine professional false VIII
nesses."
New York ice skaters are to ENJOY
their sports 800 feet in the air "neh
the latest rink is completed on the TOOL
of an office building on the corner VI
Broadway and Twenty-third street. AS
the building will not be completed until
May 1, the skaters will have to walt
until next winter.
Canadians are accommodating money
at much faster rate than the banks
and business men can profitably invest
it there. The Ottawa October bank
statement showed decrease or $O4,-
100000 in home loans in one year ana
an increase of 100000 in the loans
made abroad, says consular report
Regents of the University Of Mime
sofa have ordained that all contracts
with members of the faculty shall eX-
pire when teachers reach their sixty
fifth birthday. Next June, it is said,
half a dozen old gentlemen will call
the class roll for the last time unless
they have before followed the example
Of their president. DR.. Northrop, and
sent in their designations.
Booker T. Washington, in an ad-
dress to negroes at Montgomery, Ala,
recently, said: "Since the emancipa-
ton proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
there has been no benefit conferred
upon the negroes of the South equal to
that conferred by the closing up Of
the barrooms throughout these South
ern States, and we should show our
gratitude by seeing to it in every way
possible that we help the officials en-
force the temperance law and that we
do not patronize the blind tigers and
other institutions which are likely to
spring up in defiance Of law"
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is the
only woman who has ever been asked
to address the University Debating
Society at Oxford. At the request Of
the students she took woman suffrage
as her subject. At the end of her
speech a resolution in favor of woman
suffrage was put and lost by a ma
jority of sixteen. There is a rumor
that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will in
the near future receive a similar IN
vitation from Harvard. Those who
pretend to be Informed assert that
Harvards majority against woman
suffrage would be many times greater
than Oxford's.
Prof. kirsopp Lake, who holds the
chair Of New Testament exegesis in
the University Of Leyden, has complet-
ed the work Of photographing the
'Codex Sinaiticus,' one of the three
oldest New Testament manuscripts.
The manuscript, which is written on
vellum in capital letters, four columns
Of writing to the page, was discovered
by Tischendorf in a monastery on
Mount Athos some sixty years ago
and Is surpassed in age only by the
Vatican manuscript. The third of
these vel!um manuscripts of the New
Testament is the "Codex Alexandrinus'
In the British Museum.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
mayor of Eldeburgh, England, gave a
dinner recently to forty councillors and
other guests. She was the only woman
present, and she wore black dress.
plying to the toast, "Aldeburghs Pros
perity,' she said that during her year
of office she would try her best to
prove a good, motherly. housekeeper to
the town. She declared that nothing
could be done by talking, but a great
deal by the councillors agreeing to take
action and work together for the good
OF the town. She hoped to better the
roads and to make the town more at
tractive to visitors.
The Bishop Of Durham, England. Ia
ments the fact that Every formidable
degree of English Christian life in the
neglect and isolation of the Lords dav
has set in, and blames 1.-THE pernicions
custom of the weekend" 'The very
day." he says, when the charities Of
home should be in their strength. when
the family should meet with sneciol
devotion for home worship, and should
also meet, family amidst other fami-
lies, In the church which is the centar
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