Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-05
House of Lords Denounced by
Walter Owen Church.
NERVOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE
PhOtographing the Depth of the Sea
is AccOmplished-0ld Manu-
scripts Discovered.

Inc IdElllldlO lS llO lO11SCl q AOSoA HA44
ishment in Egypt.
A weekly paper for the blind is pub
lished in England.
France proposes to have grand inter-
national exposition in 1900.
OF 1900 pilgrims who went to Mecca
in May over half died from cholera.
Egypt's cotton crop this year will be
80 100000 pounds larger than in 1892.
Japan has fourteen railways projected,
and will build them as rapidly as possi-
BILE.
Zola's latest ambition is to become a
member OF the French Chamber Of Dep
uties.
An electric light has just been put up
in a flour mill close to the Damascus
gate at Jerusalem.
The white muscat raisin is in great de-
mand in Switzerland and Austria for the
making OF vermouth.
Two new 6,OO0-ton steamers will be
built by the North German Lloyds Com
pany for the American service.
The distress in the mining districts in
England is great and increasing. In
Derbyshire $4,000 men are idle.
A fad for making collections OF kisses
OF celebrated men is rapidly becoming
popular among the ladies OF Germany.
The German Emperor has stringently
forbidden the officers Of his army 10 have
one eye, as denoted by wearing one eye
glass.
The Gar has ordered a Yacht OF 1900
tons, with engines of S00-horse power.
1t is expected to eclipse everything Of
the kind yet built.
The Queen OF Denmark is stone deaf
throat malady being responsible for the
affliction. The Princess OF Wales inher-
its the same trouble.
( Hamburg has had a complete recovery
from the cholera visitation of year ago
and the city is in q more prosperous
state than ever before.
Japan has more miles of railway in
proportion to its territory than any Other
country in Asia. Fourteen new lines
are now being constructed.
! Since the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second TO the
fourth place in point of population
among European countries.
! Aluminium plates are used in Ger.
many to engrave and etch upon, and II
is spoken OF as probable substitute fol
zinc and photographic stones.
Two postage stamps OF Mauritius o
lS47, of which only fourteen specimens
are known to exist, have just been pur.
chased by dealers in London for $3.50.
! The floods in Northern China have
laid waste the country for thirty-tive
miles. Crops were destroyed and homes
swept away. The section is thickly pop
ulated.
Peace prevails in Nicaragua. Genera
Santos Selaya has been formally elected
President of the Republic and General
Anastairo Ortiz Vice President. All DO.
litical prisoners have been released.
The imperial German government has
addressed circular to the maritime
States OF the Empire requesting their
opinions as to the advisability OF insti.
tuting State control of ship building,
II. o. Arnold-Forster, English men,
ber OF Parliament, raises a note OF alarm
about the condition OF affairs at Gibral.
tar, which he declares to be absolutely
useless in its present condition as a naval
base.
According to an election return lust
made to the British Parliament there are
6,229, l2O voters in the United Kingdom.
There were 1852 4S2 in England, 270. .276
in Wales, AZ ,27l in Ireland and 6l9, ,O9l
in Scotland.
Electricity has made rapid progress in
Switzerland on account of the abundance
OF cheap power from waterfalls. The
telegraph and telephone lines of that
country are owned and operated by the
| government.
Walter Owen Church, a member of
Parliament, dec AIRED at meeting OF the
Liberal Federation at London that the
House OF Lords was grievous hindrance
to good government and should be i'm
mediately abolished.
Captain K. Mackenzie, r. F., has COM
pleted detailed reconnaissance for n
railroad from Kurrachee to Kharan. Bel
oochistan, which eventually will be ex-
tended to Seistan or some other point on
the Persian frontier.
DR., Charles Fere, a well-known an.
thorlty on nervous and mental diseases
says that these disorders are increasing
at terrible rate in France, and attrib.
utes the fact to the increase OF beer.
drinking misunderstanding and bars.
Breech-loading rifles were invented in
1911, but did not come into general use
for many years. 1t is estimated that over
l2,OOO, 900 are now in actual service in
the European armies, while 3,0OO, 900 are
reserved in the arsenals for emergencies,
The British Medical Association has
at last admitted women as members. The
principle was approved last year, aud
TINS year at its sixty-first annual con.
gress, held at Newcastle, the bylaw ex-
cluding women was formally expunged.
The famous Greek brigand Marronis
who has just given himself up to the AN.
thoritles at Athens, had for thirteen
years been almost supreme in the dis.
trict around Parnassus. He was n FARMER
and owner Of houses as well as robber
A locomotive is being constructed in
England TO run 100 miles an hour. Itis
1000 horse power, the driving wheels 10
feet IN diameter. The three cvlindarS
are ~, = and Is inches in diameter with
SO-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is
N0pounds. &c
An interesting find is library Of 500
volumes, including seventy manuscrints
OF the tenth and eleventh, and some
with wonderful miniatures OF the tonr.
teenth centuries, which were recentlv
discovered in a Franciscan cloister nss,
Rieti, Italy. ''
A gold medal Of the value OF | 600
Italian lire is offered by the Royal Acad.
envy OF Science Of the Institute Of r..
logna to the author OF the best memoir
describing a new and etiicacious systen,