The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Chinese schools and students have
grown rapidly in the last decade.
Babylon's inhabitants frequented IL
braries seventeen centuries before
Christ.
Under the new law for buildings in
New York city the number of dark
rooms In tenements have been reduced
from 100000 to 1O1,117. Let there be
light" is the motto of the board Of
inspection.
OF the 1,467 foreigners at the col
leges Of the United States, AGO hail
from North America, 458 from Asia.
313 from Europe, only 154 from South
America, 81 from Australia and Is
from Africa.
The United States has more (22.244.-
446) dairy cows than any other. coun-
try In the world; more horses. $4,000
532; more mules, 4,O56,399: more
swine, 57.976,361. and Except British
India) more cattle. 73.246.573.
In Belfast breach of promise case
the man, farmer, won. He agreed to
marry spinster If she could raise
$500. She was able to get together
only $500, so the farmer called 1t OF,
despite the fact that he had ordered
the clergyman to be on hand to marry
them. The judge said that the promise
to marry was conditional, and the con-
dition had not been fulfilled.
Robert Wynne, the former United
States consul-general in London, in
tends to resume newspaper work in
the British capital Before Mr. Wynne
became postmaster-general of the Unit
ed States he had long and brilliant
journalistic career, being also presi-
dent of the Gridiron Club at Washing
ton. He is intimately acquainted at
first hand with London and its celebri-
ties.
There. is an old superstition that If
a spider settles on ones clothes 1t is
a sign that he will shortly receive
money when a spider is found upon
our Clothes" says an old writer, I'VE
used to say, some money is coming
toward us. The moral is this: Such
who initiate the industry of that con-
temptible creature may, by Gods bless
ing, weave themselves into wealth and
procure plentiful estate"
To get rock for the Morena dam in
southern California, one of the biggest
blasting operations on record has just
been successfully carried out. Describ-
ing the feat, the Engineering Record
says that a tunnel 125 feet long was
first driven into the face of the gran
lite. In this chamber was placed $3.50
pounds of powder and dynamite. This
was exploded by electric fuses and dis
lodged 100000 cubic yards of rock.
Blue books have reputation for
typographical accuracy almost equal
| to that of the famous Clarendon Press.
which is said to offer guinea reward
for the detection of a single printers
error in the editions of the Holy Scrip
lures. A cancel" note just received
from the kings printers shows the re-
markable anxiety to insure correctness.
It informs us that in chart attached
to the Army Medical Report of 1907
there is misplaced dot. Can this ex-
ample of minute corrfgenda be beaten?
London Chronicle.
In Belgium a prisoner has turned
the old trick and escaped through the
prison window hospital. The prince Of
rogues weighed 800 pounds and found
himself too large to pass through his
cell window. so he played sick and
"soldiered" around until they put him
into the prison hospital He ate moth
ing to speak of for fifty days, and be-
came so thin that he easily squeezed
through a window of the Chronic"
ward, having at odd times sawn
through the bars. Once through the
window friends below helped him to
the ground and took him in an auto.
The cutting blowpipe, of which 80
many surprising things have been re-
ported, has recently been improved in
France in way to render 1t more gen.
orally useful. Two infammable gases
must be employed. One is required to
keep the metal at a high temperature.
The other is oxygen to concentrate ac-
ton by oxidation along the line Of
the cut. For heating. either coal gas.
acetylene or hydrogen is employed. but
as there is sometimes difficulty In pro-
curing supply Of those gases the new
blowpipe is arranged to use instead
the ordinary gasoline employed by mo-
florists.
The charge that bees are destructive
to the fruit on the tree is not borne
out by the facts. Their tongues are
formed exclusively for the extraction
Of sweet juices, and their mandibles
are unable to pierce the skin Of fruit.
Grapes have been taken intact from
the interior of hive In which they
had been allowed to remain four days.
crane which had been smeared with