The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-03-25
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superior 10 those from farm birds.
The cranking Of an automobile may
now be done from the chauffeur's seat.
The maximum wage Of brakemen
on English railways has just been
fixed at $7.78 q week.
Peanut cake seems to be supplant-
Ing cotton seed cake as the preferred
food for Swedish cattle.
Vacuum suction combs are now In
use In stables to curry horses. An
electrically driven fan produces the
necessary vacuum.
In Liberia coffee trees attain .
height Of more than twenty feet. The
price OF the product Is and cents
. pound at the plantation.
The wireless apparatus on the Gu
nard liner Caronia Is the most power
full of any in steamship service. hav.
ing a radius Of 1900 miles.
A new windmill apparatus for gen.
Grating electricity for farm use has
been perfected in England. A storage
battery supplies the current when the
wind is not blowing.
At one Of the most important gro
ceries in Hamburg they think they
are doing well to dispose of thirty
to forty pounds a month of sweet DO
tatoes to resident Americans.
That people will eat elephant meat
with a relish has been proved by
butcher In Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main, to
his own profit and without the knowl-
edge OF his customers. This enter.
prising tradesman learned that . VI.
cious elephant was to be killed and
made bargain for the carcass. With
in few days that elephant was trans
formed into $500 pounds of sausage
meat and every pound was disposed Of
at good price.
1t was year ago that the London
post Office directory contained for the
first time among the list of trades
"aeroplane manufacturers" There was
only one then, but now six are emu
merated under that heading. Subsid-
larry trades are springing up. Two
firms announce themselves as aero
plane engine manufacturers, two are
aerOplane fabric makers and there is
one propeller maker, as we'll as
provider of "aeroplane timber and
bends"
Whitefield, one of the founders of
Methodism, who died in ITO, was a
To-
gram was forty hours solid speaking
each week, and this to congregations
measured in thousands, but he often
spoke sixty hours a week. This was
not all. For latter his labors, instead
Of taking rest, he was engaged In Of
fering up prayers and intercessions or
in singing hymns, as his manner was.
in every house to which he was In
vited."
Is a woman ever justified In poi
soning her husband? The question is
suggested by a recent incident in
Servia. Sara Chumitch seems to have
had an undesirable husband, for he
was notorious and implacable usurer.
At the moment when he was about to
ruin several families who were in
debt his wife interviewed and poisoned
him. Next day she received a letter
of gratitude, signed by hundreds Of
citizens. She was acquitted by the
jury and left the court amid cheering
crowds.
Says the Pekin and Tien-Tsin Times:l
"A novel sort of crime was discov-
cred by the Tien-Tsin police when q
portly native was arrested and asked
to explain his embonpoint. He had a
thieves bag around his waist, filed
with dead cats to the number Of seven,
One of them, very fine specimen of
the tortoise shell, was still quite warm.
In a smaller bag was found the lure;
It consisted of bits of dried fish treated
with some deadly poison. The man
was sent up to the yamen, where he
received thirty blows and one months
Ernesto Nathan, Mayor Of Rome,
who declined on several occasions to
accept decoration from King Victor
was finally forced by a
clever ruse on the part of the king
to take the grand cross of the crown
Of italy. Nathan was making call
at the Quirinal, and when about to
depart was asked to take from the
queen little parcel to his wife. Tho
box contained the decoration, which
the mayor was compelled to accept,
and by virtue of which he became q
member of the small fraternity Of
which his sovereign is the head.
Although the use of telephones in
mines is not of recent origin, the ad.
vantages are, perhaps, hardly really
appreciated until they have once been
tried. Probably at no time In the his
tory of mining has there been a great
sr demonstration Of the great need Of
telephones in mines than at the Cher
~ coal mine disaster. How many more
lives could have been saved had the
mine been fully equipped with tele-
phones is entirely problematical, but
It Is certain that the number would
nave been greater had opportunity
been afforded for communication be-