The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-06-10
THINGS YoU NAY NOT KNOW
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Iin the international hunting exhibition
to be held this year in Vienna.
Electricity has supplanted gas for
car lighting in nearly all the state
railways OF Italy. Switzerland and
Denmark.
Since 1873 there have been 1921
cremations in Germany. In the United
States in the last year alone there
were $4,000.
A Roman tomb Of the second CEN
tury before Christ, containing marble
sarcophagus of exquisite workmanship
five feet long and admirably preserv-
cd, has been discovered at Grosseto.
Professor Herdman, lecturing at the
British Royal institution. and describ-
Ing how to tell the age of fish, said
the lines on the scales of the herring
are lines Of annual growth. The num-
Der of lines on the bones are another
Indication
When widow in Oklahoma needs
the wages her son of school age might
earn the state pays the mother the
amount and the boy continues in
school. The women OF Oklahoma are
now trying to have the same law pass
ed for daughters.
Cape Cod figures that she produced
last year about 100000 barrels of cram
berries out of the $4,000 produced in
the whole country. Let Cape Cod fur
nish the cranberries to the people and
she cares not who provides the turkeys
to go with them Boston Globe.
A st. Louis woman is advertising
for pure buttermilk The advertiser
recdtes that no dairyman need apply.
She says she has tried all the diaries
In st. Louis and has been half around
the world in vain search for butter
milk of the good old-fashioned kind
churned in the good old-fashioned way,
with little pieces of butter floating
around in it..
The Bulletin of the Geographical So
ciety of Italy announces another arc
tic expedition. The leader will be
Baldwin, the leader of the arctic expe-
dition of 1901-1902. He proposes an
exploration of the polar regions and to
reach the pole. He proposes to follow
the route taken by hansen in the
Fran. 1t is proposed to spend four
years altogether in the search.
DR.. Sophie Herzog of Brazoria, Tex,
is said to be the only woman railroad
surgeon in the world. She is a native
of Austria, came to this country in
1886, studied medicine and surgery
and for nine years after graduation
practiced medicine in New York. Soon
after moving to Texas her work as a
surgeon attracted the attention of the
st. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican rail-
road, and she was appointed surgeon
for the road.
Professor Arloing, director OF the
Veterinary school at Lyons, France.
maintains he has perfected method
of successfully protecting cattle
against tuberculosis. He employs vac
cines obtained by special cultural pro-
cesses from certain kinds of bovine
bacilli. These vaccines are introduced
into the cattle either by the mouth,
by intravenous injection or by sub
cutaneous injection. Intravenous in
jections appear to be the most effective.
At meeting Of the French Academy
Of Sciences, Professor Chauveau con-
firmed Professor Arloing's claims
Australia is looming as wheat
producing and collaborating country.
The 19O9-191O season, it is estimated.
will eclipse all former records. In
Victoria the output of wheat is esti-
mated at 25,O0O,000 bushels, while
South Australia will produce 20.OOo,-
600 bushels, and New South Wales &c.
100000. Including miscellaneous
sources of supply on the Australian
continent, the total harvest is expected
to yield 100000 bushels, of which
100000 bushels will be available for
export. Prices of cereals being high,
in addition to record crop as to
weight, the growers will receive a
larger profit than usual.
Much human hair is sent from
Prague to America. 1t is collected by
hair merchants, regularly licensed.
who make trips through the country,
going from house to house to induce
peasant women and girls to part with
their tresses. The price paid depends
upon the length Of the hair and the
color, principally the latter. The entire