Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-12

ls,ea recently dug up statue, for which
the British government has paid $32, 900.
The tariff war between Germany and
Russia will force the former country to
buy enormous quantities of grain in this
country.
Russia is said to be about to acquire a
naval station in East Africa at which to
repair and coal the vessels OF her Pacific
squadron.
The phylloxera has at last touched
every wine-growing district in France,
the Champagne vines being the last to
be harmed.
Christine Nilsson has her dining room
papered with hotel bills which she has
paid during her professional tours. The
sum total is enormous.
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
the London Central News says that an
imperial ukase will shortly be issued
abolishing the practice of knouting by
the police.
The recent army maneuvers of the
Austro- Hungarian troops were not salts
factory. Emperor William was not very
favorably impressed with the work Of
the Generals.
In Switzerland all the telegraph lines
are controlled by the government. There
are |, All offices and II, 1856 telegraph op-
orators. The annual profit derived above
ali expenses is $250,000.
The quantity OF fruit in South Lincoln
shire, England, this season exceeds all
previous years. Owing to the markets
being glutted, growers have difficulty
in disposing OF the crop.
There has been so great an increase
recently in the growth and expectation
of Jatia oranges that that town now
stands next to Beyrout in Importance
among the ports on the Syrian coast.
Mr.. Gladstone has offended against
tradition in appointing Sir Henry Nor
man Governor-General OF India to sue
ceed Lord Lansdowne. The rule has
been to appoint nobody but a peer to
that post.
The Duke OF Edinburgh, although he
has eXpatriated himself and has become
German princeling, does not propose
to relinquish his right to the annuity OF
f25 900 which he draws from the Impe.
rial Treasury of Great Britain.
In order to stay the cholera it is stated
that two Jewish women, merchants
wives, are going from house to house in
Gallicia with pair OF scissors cutting
the women's hair, which many have al.
lowed to grow in unorthodox fashion.
A letter from Prof. Garner, dated from
his steel cage, which he has named Fort
Gorilla, has been received in England
from Fernandez Vaz, Africa. The pro-
fessor claims to have made great progress
in his study of the monkey language.
Mr.. Burne-Jones, the English artist,
is engaged upon the interesting task OF
painting portrait of Mr.. Gladstone's
Youngest granddaughter, Dorothy Drew.
This little blue-eyed maiden OF wears
Is said to resemble the grandfather start
lingly.
DR.. Buchwald of Leipsic discovered
among some forgotten manuscripts in
the University of Jena Martin Luther's
political essay against the theological
faculty OF the University of Louvain.
Belgium, which manuscript was sup.
posed to have been lost.
The tailors have met in London "to
prepare for the abolition OF the sweating
system and long hours and for the com.
ing battle OF the tailors of the world ~
The 95,000 members of the organization
are threatened by the master tailors
with a destruction OF their union.
The present year OF 1898 promises 10
be great year for the French vintage
Chateau LATTE, which produced so hogs.
heads last year, has this year Welded
1000, and the increase is general. There
is such demand for casks that certain
ordinary sizes, usually bringing francs,
now cost - francs.
Many of the houses in Holland have a
special door, which is never opened save
on two occasions, when there is A mar.
riage or death in the family. The bride
and groom enter by this door; il is then
nailed or barred up until q death occnrs
when il is opened and the BODY is rs.
moved by this exit.
The Chinese government in reply 10
the ioint protest OF foreign Ministers
against the alleged barbarous treatment
OF foreigners in China, especially in Hin.
nan and Huiehe, OF which Chang Tim,
IS Niceroy, promised that Chang TunS
should be degraded in rank in the event
OF further outrases happening in his
province.