The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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/ WAS mace III IdlIo
NJ the 3 locomotives in Rounlani"'
427 use petroleum for fuel. !.
Electrically heated plates opera'.a
by levers, are the principal feature
q new clothes pressing device.
In q new electric device for Crying
the hair with an air blast a resls'''.s
can be switched in for heating the an''
A French engineer has invented d ~
+srv rudder nv which he says Il 'es-
sci Of any size may be turned III 80
own length.
An Italian physician has discovery
that carrots act as an intestinal UNI
septic. and will cure many forms u
digestive disorders.
A species of ant in Australia oullos
its nests along a north n south iine
so accurately that a traveller may III
rect his course by their AID.
In connection with the extermiha-
ton of rats from Honolulu, an ohciai
of the Marine Hospital Service IS pre-
pairing to develop a breed or cats VI
high rat-catching ability.
Hamburg is the only one Of the three
leading seaports on the northern coast
of Europe which shows an increase IN
business during the first eight months
of this year as compared with 1901.
A young professor of mathematics
immense at mathematics and games
dangerous at chess, capable OF Haydn
on the violin, once said to me, aIter
listening to some chat on books: yes;
| must take up literature" as though
saying: II was rather forgetting lit
erature. However, I've polished OF all
these other things. III have a shy at
literature now."-T. P.is Weekly.
WI Kyuin Wellington Koo, a Chinese,
has been chosen to edit the Daily Spec
tator at Columbia University. 1t Is
said to be the first time that a Chi
nese student has been placed at the
head of an American college paper.
Editor Koo, who is only twenty-five
SCdAS Oius 40 q Nv SAdP uAU ~
known throughout the university as a
master of pure English. He speaks with
out accent, knows more about Amer1-
car politics than the average American.
is a debater Of wonderful ability, and
one Of the most popular men in the uni
versity.
Sam Shubert used to tell this: "A
rustic came to Buffalo and bought q
ticket for the theater. Through blum
dering about the doors he found him.
self in the adjoining billiard saloon.
!, Seeing a novel performance going on,
with a big crowd witnessing the same,
he settled himself in a chair and pa
tiently watched the play for an hour
or two. Having satiated his appetite
he left the room, and going out in the
street was asked If the show was over.
Over? Oh, no. he replied; it's a-goin'
on yet. They are knockin' away like all
the world in thar"
A French medical man advises peo
pie to drink buttermilk for long life.
He says that the Tactic acid attacks
and dissOlves every sort of earthly de-
posit in the blood vessels, keeping the
veins and arteries so supple and free
running that there can be no clogging
UP: and hence there is no deposit or
chalky matter around the joints, or Of
poisonous waste in the muscles. 1t is
the stiffening and hardening Of the
blood vessels which bring on old age.
Buttermflk Is likely to postpone it ten
or twenty years If freely drunk. A
quart a day should be the minimum,
the maximum according to taste and
opportunity.
Out in Burmah and the far East,
where sandalwOod is worth it's weight
In silver, the ~pestiferous ant is a va!u-
able assistant to the loggers of the pre-
cious timber. The hard and fragrant
heartwoOd alone has value, but as the
tree grows this valuable heart is over
laid by a soft and worthless layer.
forming two-thirds of the trunk. When
a tree Is felled and cut into lengths the
loggers let the timber lie. At once the
ants begin work upon the soft wood,
which is sappy and sweet enough to
attract them. In q few weeks-less
than a month in the case Of the largest
butts-the ants deliver the heartwood
free Of all worthless sap wood
Washington Post.
An English scientist gives some inter-
esting figures regarding the occurrence
and distribution of radium in the
earth. The total amount of radium in
the ocean is reckoned to be 10000 tons.
Regarding the sediments accommodating
In the sea, it is found that those must
slowly formed exhibit the greatest ia
dio-activity. If all the deposits in the
sea were as rich in radium as the g;o.
bigerina ooOze the total amount of this
element in them would be 100000
tons. With regard to the rate OF
change of uranium, by which radium
Is produced, it is calculated that the
amount present in the earth 1OO.OOO,OOO