The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-02-19
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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| Soldiers of Berlin built pontoor
bridge across the river Spree in forty
minutes recently.
The most approved design of storm
door construction represents an invest.
ment of no less than $2,4OO.
The famous Lachine rapids Of the
st. Lawrence are to be spanned by q
bridge and the channel widened.
A $4,000 wireless telegraph plant is
being erected at Newport, which will
| have working radius of 1850 miles.
An attempt to establish a municipal
brewery in Berlin resulted in a dismal
failure. 1t did plenty of business, but
lost money.
AS proof of the lasting qualities OF
cypress, coffin recently was excavated
at New Orleans which had been buried
since 1903, yet the wood was as sound
as when new.
A new ice cream freezer, by using q
glass can, claims to do away with the
arduous labor of turning a crank and
freezes its contents by packing in
crushed ice and salt.
By placing small cylinders contain
ing compressed carbon diOxide, with
fuse plugs, melting at 200 degrees. in
coal bunkers, spontaneous combustion
1t is said, will be prevented.
Tn onoo 70 Zoo d;ctr;o% Tn
dia, the cultivation of rubber has driv.
en- the production of the former to Sec
ond place, nearly 1900 acres being
devoted to rubber plantations
One of the greatest leather belts in
the world recently was completed at
Philadelphia factory. Three-ply, it
was $50 feet long by five wide, and
required 300 hides in it's manufacture.
The foundation for the recently COM
pleted harbor of refuge lighthouse,
Delaware bay, is a solid block of con-
crete, Is feet deep, 40 feet in diane
ter at the base and SO feet at the top.
The unofficial and authorized jury
of outsiders has decided that the award
for personal pulchritude among the
eleven governors and next governors
is to be divided evenly between Draper,
of Massachusetts, and Prouty, of Yer
mont.-Boston Record
w. B. Haggins, better known as Pea
nut Bill, has bought a lot in the Ponca
city cemetery and had erected thereon
a handsome marble monument to him.
self. The only inscription on the monu-
ment is this simple statement: BILL
Haggins is gone."-Ponca City (Okla.)
Courier.
After an active service of more than
has resigned the presidency of the
Methodist Episcopal Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension. assign
ing as the reason his ill health of the
last year. Bishop Luther B. Wilson
has been chosen to succeed him.
One hundred and fifty different Ian
guages are spoken in India, most of
them unwritten, and this fact frequent
ly leads to trouble in the courts of that
Oriental country. Strangely enough,
Indians frequently drift into that cap
ital who can find no one able to under
stand some of the litigants and wit.
court nor the court interpreters under
stand some of the litigants and wit
nesses involved in some OF the lawsuits.
One of the best of Arab characteris-
tics is that of filial piety. Sons and
daughters of deceased parents take
upon themselves all sorts of irksome
tasks accounted as eXpiatOry of the
minor faults committed by the departed
ones during their lifetime, and dis
charging faithfully every payment or
obligation left unfulfilled by dead pa
rents, for has not the prophet said
that martyrdom even will not atone for
an unpaid debt.
There are several species of fish, rep
tiles and insects that never sleep, dur
ing the whole of their existence
Among fish it is positively known that
pike. salmon and goldfish at no time
sleep; also that there are other mem
bers of the fish family that sleep only
| few minutes during the course of q
| month. There are various species OF
| flies that never indulge in slumber
and five species of serpents also that
do not sleep.
Parliament House. Melbourne. which
has been rushed by "the unemployed
of the commonwealth capital. is thu
costliest legislative palace in Greater
Britain. A million has been expended
ON it. and it is not yet completed. L
belongs to the Parliament of Victoria
but since federation it has been thu
meeting place of the Parliament of thu
commonwealth, its owners moving t
wing of the exhibition building clos'
by.-London Chronicle.
At the recent meeting of the nat1ona
suffrage convention in Buffalo let
ter was received from the Socialis
Woman's Society of New York urgini