The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-09
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Australia mines employ 10000 men.
The simple cost Of setting up in type
new edition Of the Bible amounts to
5000.
The machine exports to japan have
increased in quantity five times in one
year.
Some Of the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers In
thirty hours.
A man can hire a horse in Japan,
keep two servants and live on the fat
of the land, all for a little over $40 a
month.
CALIFORNIA; output Of gold in 1907
fell off $2,OO4,524 as compared with
1905, while she produced $66, 1872 worth
of silver less.
The business Of a well-known firm of
New York opticians consists largely OF
the manufacture of spectacles for
horses to make them step higher.
There is an evident lack of harmony
In the interests Of landlord and tenant
in New York City, for there is daily
average Of 1877 cases in the courts grow
ing out Of the relation.
Consignments Of new grape, "Dita
della Donna" or lady's fingers, have
reached Covent Garden, London. The
grapes are long and tapering and rath-
er sweeter than the ordinary variety.
Next to mining the greatest industry
Of South Africa Is sugar growing. The
amount of money invested in this is
$7,3OO,OOO. The production of the pres
ent year is estimated at 10000 tons,
with valuation Of about $63 ton.
Miss Mabel Sturtevant has just been
admitted to practice at the bar at JEFF
ferson City, Mo. Her record as stu
dent Is remarkable. She was gradu-
ated as valedictorian from the high
school. Later she won scholarships in
Baker university and in Kansas City
university and the curator's scholarship
in the University Of Missouri. Since
enrolling in 1905 she has taken both
the law and the academic course and
will receive her degree next June.
A buccaneer was originally one Of
the French settlers in Hispaniola Or
Haiti and TOrtugas, whose occupation
was to hunt wild cattle and hogs, and
cure their flesh also pirate, freeboot
er; especially one Of the piratical adj
venturers chiefly French and British,
who combined to make depredations on
the Spaniards in America in the sec
ond half of the seventeenth century !;
so-called because the first of the class
were Frenchmen driven from their bust
ness of buccaneering by the Spanish
authorities of Hispaniola.
The promoters of the Institution for
the Blind in Vienna seem much pleas
ed with the result of the first eight
months of it's existence. All the work
ers are blind, and they are engaged in
the manufacture of brushes and bas-
kets. Up to the present about $4,000
kronen worth of orders have been ex-
ecuted, say something like $1,000, and
fair profit has been realized. The so
ciety has now under consideration the
proposal to enlarge the workshops. The
wares are put upon the market in fair
competition with the product Of other
kindred factories.-London Globe.
Domestic servants are hard to get in
Buenos Ayres. A correspondent in that
city writes that the question is 1.-THE one
grave preoccupation of the women Of
the federal capital, and the staple of
conversation at the midday reunions"
In describing the servant Of Buenos
! Ayres, the writer says: "Cook, house
maid, waitress, chambermaid or nurse,
individually and collectively, they are
the speck on the ripe fruit of domestic
felicity, the fly in the ointment, any
thing and everything you please that is
bad and slovenly and Enthusiastically,
! everything save good servants"
Down in West Virginia it appears to
| be expensive to sell a man more whisky
than he can carry internally and then
turn him adrift. The case of Dinah j.
| Pennington, suing for her children,
against G. D. Gillespie, saloonkeeper
| near Hendricks, w. Va, was decided
| recently by the jury awarding the plain
tiff $500. At previous term Of court
Mrs. Pennington sued and obtained
verdict for $500 for the loss of her hus-
band. Pennington was killed near the
saloon, and Gillespie was sued as the
man who sold the whisky on which
Pennington became intoxicated.
| There are five types of native Amer
lean apples; all Of them crabs. John
Smith wrote from Virginia that he had
found "some new crabapples, but they
| were small and bitter" New England
ers made the same report. The Soulard
has the reputation Of being the largest
| and best of these natives. Sports Of
| this variety, like the Matthews, are
improved in size and quality. Selec-
lions might probably be made from