The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-28
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

have 100000 telephones.
A left-handed high school girl OUT -
the State of Washington has won III .
contest by throwing a baseball l9@ iee'
6 inches.
A complete silk plant from the WORMS
on the trees to the looms, will be a lea
ture of Japan's exhibit at the AiaSAa-
Yukon.Pacifc exposition at Seattle
Nearly all the vines in Europe were
killed by frost in S91 and S93. One niu
summers day, 1888, in England tnere
| was a frost so severe that it destroyed
fruits.
As the result of a shock sustained
through falling into a copper or poiiins
water. a boy named George HerDert
| Foster, aged H., living at Spalding' VINO
was practically dumb, has partly re-
gained his power of speech.
Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all tne
| Sioux, is the first living man to nave
his portrait on the national currency.
| He made a great speech in Congress l
1889, and as he is a goOd-lOoking speci-
men of his race his picture was engrav-
ed on both the S. and $40 bills.
There is a coach dog belonging to one
of the car barns uptown that takes q
constitutional when they let him out.
He runs ahead of the Broadway car
from the barn to the Battery, returning
vx,ikl, kho oon That caficfinC him In6n
he returns to the barn and loafs dur
ing the rest of the day.-New York
Press.
Capt. Archibald Willingham Butt, the
new military aid at the White House, il
a fine tennis player and has already be-
come a member of President ROosevelt's
tennis cabinet" He played his first
game as partner with his eminent CHIEF,
matched against the French ambassa-
dor. NJ. Jusserand, and Postmaster Cen
eral Meyer.
The swaStika is the oldest known
symbol. having its origin in the cross
and circle. The swastika is now held
in common acceptation to be significant
of good luck. Investigation of the rec
)rds of every known race has revealed
traces Of the swastika. The symbol
was early introduced into India. appar-
emily in connection with worship.
Breaking into houses where funerals
have just taken place and plundering
them is spoken Of by the Berliner Tage-
blatt as the latest trick of the thieves
of that city. While this may be a new
form of c%riminality in Berlin. says the
writer, it is really only an imitation
of an incident described in Dion Cas-
sius as having taken place $500 years
before Christ.
Il have heard a good many stories
illustrating thrift remarked a Bronx
resident, but the janitor of some new
steam-heated flats told me one that beat
them all. On Sundays the tenants have
a great many visitors, and the janitor
discovered that these visitors paid the
tenants 2 cents each for the privilege
of taking a hot bath; 5 cents if they
did not bring their own towels.-New
York Sun.
Emerson was a notable sufferer from
the vagaries Of memory. his biographer
relates that he me- him one day in
Boston, apparently at a loss for some
thing, and asked him where he was
going. TO dine" said Emerson, with
a very old and dear friend. l know
whore che fvoc h,,t 7 honD chic rron,k
ask me her name.' and Their he pro-
ceeded to describe her as 1.-The mother
Of the wife of the young mantle tall
man-who speaks so WELL" and so on,
until his interlocutor guessed to whom
he was referring.
1t is estimated that the total pro-
ductien of sugar thr0ugheutsihe world
is about 100000 tons per annum OF
this quantity nine-tenths are afforded
by the sugar cane, 25.OOO.OO 0 tons Of
which are required to produce the above
quantity Of cane sugar. The average
Of saccharine matter in the ripe West
Indian sugar cane is from Is to 81 per
cent, Of which only 8 per cent is avail
able to commerce. The total value Of
the sugar in the cane, If it could be ex.
tracted, would be about $3.50. 100000,
but one-half is lost in the process of
manufacture.
The Japanese have no use for but.
IONS, buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose of fastening. and
furnishes artistic possibilities seemingly
without end. The japanese have nun
dreds Of knots. Some are as old as
the time when history was recorded by
q series of knots. just as it was in
China and Peru before the invention Of
writing. There are dozens of knots in
common and ceremonial usage. and
these every Japanese child can tie. To
name but a few, there are plum-blos-
SONS, che%rry-blossoms. iris, ~chrysanthe-
mum and pinetree knots. Also there
are Fujiyama knots. turtle and stork
knots, the "old MANS" which is easy
to tie the "old woman's." which is diff
ficult. and many others.