The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-08
THINGS you NAY NOT KNOW


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year. ;.
Inc Iur trade Of the world makes usa
yearly OF more than one million cat
skins.
IN nfty-four cases out of every hun
dred the left leg is stronger than the
right.
Major Alfred Dreyfus now spends
MS leisure hours in the study of the
social problems.
IN the Swedish province of Smaland
there is hill $50 feet high. which
consists entirely of iron ore. The
area Is figured to be $4,000 square
feet.
In Ceylon the largest pearls are
sold for never more than $500. but
when they reach the great markets of
the world they are worth more than
three times this price.
The freight tunnels of Chicago will
be used for a great telephone COM
pany to enter the field in competition
with the present companies. The new
company will start with 10000 instru.
ments.
DR.. Lepage, the eminent Brussels
surgeon. has sent In his bill for $2O,.
900. his fee for the operation per.
formed on King Leopold few days
before the kings death. The opera
ton is said to have lasted only ten
minutes.
Discoveries Of great archaeological
Importance are being made near Santa
Victoria (Cagliari) in Sardinia, with
er many experts are now bound. The
ruins of an entire town have been ex-
cavated and numbers of artistic OBJ
5ects have been recovered, all of which
suggest that the remains are those of
town of the bronze age. King Vic
tor has subscribed 100000 lire toward
the excavation funds.
An interesting discovery has been
made in boring the tunnel of Rion, on
the Puy-Langogne line. M. Efter, one
OF the firm of contractors carrying out
the clay at a distance of thirty metres
the fossil of an animal believed to be-
long to the stag family, which Is be-
lieved to have lived in the Pliocene
period. The remains have been placed
in the museum at Puy.
"Oh, yes" said the waiter, people
do sometimes order queer combina-
lions. Any man." the waiter said,
with some emphasis on the ANY" as
he handed over the check, ANY man
is liable to do that sometimes" And
then this man who had been seeking
information about odd things reflected
that he had himself just taken for
luncheon sausages, wheat cakes and a
milk shake-New York Sun.
Before the customer paid his bill
the hotel stenographer tore several
pages out of her note book and hand
ed them to him. only the notes OF
his. letters" she said to the next Gus
toner. HE is one OF the cautious
kind. There are not many like him.
About once in six months somebody
comes along who keeps such watch
full eye on his correspondence that he
won't even let stenographer keep his
notes. OF course it is nothing to us.
and we always give them up when
asked to. / don't know what the eau
tious folk do with them. Destroy
them, maybe. Anyhow, there is no rec
ord of foolish utterances left in the
stenographer's books" - New York
Sun.
M. Auguste Bodin, the famous
French sculptor, who is said to have
invented a new kind of dance" which
is performed by various extraordinary
motions of the hands, did not show
any signs of artistic ability in child
hood. He was the son OF poor par
ents. and first earned his living by
modelling in plaster for an architect.
He was % before his first statue.
THE Man with the Broken Nose" was
executed. He used stable as studio
and was so poor that he had the great
est difficulty in providing material for
his work. The first statue was SO
realistically done, however, that the
Judges at the Paris salon accused him
of having cast it from living model.
-Tid-Bits.
A New York woman just back from
Europe tells this story: "At Bad-Nau-
helm a physician told her that ne nao
recently had an American from the
far west under treatment, who grew
better under his care and was finally
told that nothing more could be done
for him. The family was about to de-
part, when the young daughter became
ill and the same physician was called
in. After a weeks treatment he told
the parents that the childs a1lment
was nervousness and nostalgia. Take
her home and she will be all right"
IF she has nostalgia" said the moth
err. "giye me the name of some Euro
pean expert and we will have her
cured. l have no faith in our home
physicians"
Norway is a country of vast minerai
wealth. The richest iron mines are
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