Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-11-30

IN .-sIs, DeriIu anu vienna there are
butchers who sell horsehesh.
There is tunnel 80 800 feet long on
one OF the Mexican railroads.
Three thousand locomotives are owned
by the Pennsylvania railroad.
The first cotton mill in this country is
said to have been at Beverly, Mass.
There are 1900 900, 600 of English cap
ital Invested in American railroads.
Boston has built II ,920 new buildings
IN the past decade at a cost of SIG, ,6O3,-
$50.
On an average locomotive engineo
travels 10000 miles in the course o. d,
year
The mint of Philadelphia has a collec-
ton OF over 5000 coins Of different na-
tions
The cost OF an ironclad is about s4OO n
ton. This includes guns and all equip
ments.
The net private Indebtedness of the
American people amounts TO $40, 700
100000.
The first rocking chair was made on
the Brewster farm, Kingston Mass, by
farm hand in 1880.
Figures show that the total railway
mileage OF the country on June 80, 1893,
was III ,563.52 miles.
The biggest quill toothpick mill is in
Paris. Norway leads in the manufact-
ure OF wooden toothpicks.
Nickel Of the best quality is now sell.
ing Mt 30 cents and fine silver at about
Sll per avoirdupos pound.
The prospect now il that more than
l,O0O,O0O tons Of sugar will be made in
Cuba during the season Of 1894.
Londoners drink 0,SOO,O 600 gallons Of
milk yearly, or little more than two gal
Ions Tor each man, woman and child.
The making OF lncifer matches is n
state monopoly in France, Spain, Portu-
gal, Italy, Greece, Roumania and Servia.
In the matter of well.kept country
roads il il stated that New Jersey leads
and that Southern New England follows.
Last year New York city paid for its
school bill $4,000, 600, for its amusement
bill $1,000, coo and for its drink bill 500.
100000.
A check for CO, ,333, $50 on the Bank OF
England in payment for the Kimberly
diamond mines is said TO be the largest
ever drawn.
In every mile of railroad there are
seven feet and four inches not covered
by the rails-the space left between them
for expansion.
On the Mexican pension roll there are
names OF l52lb survivors and 7. $50 wid-
ows, and something over 900 cases were
pending at latest reports.
Pennsylvania furnished 90, ,OOO. 900 OF
the l7O,O0O, 600 tons of coal mined in |
this country this year. Illinois was seq
ond, with $4,000, 900 tons.
In Brazil it is not customary for SER
wants to reside in their employers house.
They come to work early in the morning
and return home in the evening.
Mrs, Levi 7. Morton has leased the
house formerly occupied by Senator
tones OF Nevada in order TO supervise
.he complete education OF her daughters.
Everett Chauncey Bumpus of Quincy,
'lass., a member OF the present freshman
lass OF Harvard, is completely blind,
lnt intends TO take the full course for
he degree OF bachelor OF arts.
Now that Marshal McMahon is dead,
rance has only one living citizen who
ias been President and that is Carnot,
he present occupant OF that high office.
'hlers died in 1877 and Grevy two years
40.
Russian women and Japanese men are
,,rononnccd by those competent to Judge
ne pest OF the worlds workers with the
'sedle: Ms shown in the embroidery ex-
ibits in Chicago,