Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-23
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If all the mountains in the world
were leveled, the average height of the
land would rise nearly 25o feet.
Gold, steel, aluminium and lead, when
immersed in tartaric acid, new chem
ical discovered, become pliable and
ductile as putty.
New York's board Of health has taken
action toward the strict enforcement
of the law regarding the sale of pois-
ons. There have been many cases Of
suicide lately by carbollc acid poison
ing, and If this chemical were more
difficult to obtain 1t would doubtless
decrease the number Of cases.
Near Ashcroft in British Columbia
are a number Of small lakes, whose
shores and bottoms are covered with
crust containing borax and soda in
such quantities and proportions that
when cut out it serves as a washing
compound. The crust Is cut into
blocks and handled in the same man.
ner as ice, and 1t is estimated that one
of the lakes contains 10000 tons of this
material.
/ Fruit Is now being shipped from New
! South Wales packed in the bark of the
ii tree and the outer bark of the mela-
/ leuca leucadendron, which is shredded
into q sort of coarse chaff. These
barks seems to have some peculiar
power of preserving oranges during
carriage. This may be owing to the
elasticity of the packing and the fact
that 1t permits of ventilation. Unless
the bark is cut too fine there Is no
sweating possible. The bark costs only
$40 ton.
The heirs of the late Anthony Pollok
of Washington have offered a prize of
100000 francs ($20,000), to be awarded
during the exhibition in Paris next
year to the inventor of the best appar-
atus for saving life in case Of disaster
at sea. The prize is open to universal
competition. The award will be made
by jury sitting in Paris. 1t is pro-
vided that the entire prize may be
awarded to a single individual, or a
portion of it may be awarded to each
of several persons, as the jury may de-
eide.
Work Of the Egyptian exploration
fund for the year has lain in the same
district as before. a short distance
down the Nile from Dendereh. Alto
gether about 1850 graves of prehis-
toric age and about as many historic
graves-mainly about the twelfth dy-
nasty-were opened and recorded. The
society has already received from the
Egyptian government the promise of
a permission to work at Abydos, one Of
the most important sites in Egypt.
Prof. Maspero will return to Egypt to
resume the direction of the depart
ment of antiquities.
On July 10 last the city of Rome un-
dulated with the waves of an earth
quake for nearly half a minute. The
famous monuments Of antiquity scat
cred in and about the city were strong
ly shaken, but fortunately no serious
damage was suffered by them. The
great columns In the Forum rocked
visibly, and large stone crashed
down from the Colosseum. A strange
atmospheric effect, which has before
been observed during great earth
quakes, was very noticeable on this
occasion. People who rushed in alarm
from their houses were drenched with
n torrent of rain that poured from light
gray clouds which almost instantane-
ously gathered in a perfectly clear sky
as soon as the earth began to quake.