Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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The New York Central employs So
600 men and between 100000 and
S3,500,O0O is paid in monthly wages.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
In time Of war have been tested in the
Russian army. Their speed is four
times as great as that of carrier pig
cons.
If the real estate Of Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
its inhabitants each Individual would
own 5000 worth, according to the as
sessed value.
Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing a
number Of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the subject of Food and
Nourlshment," declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi-
ately after they have married is be-
cause their wives give them their favor
ite dishes on every possible OCCASION
London Standard.
Vegetable milk" is used in Japan.
1t is made from the sofa bean. The
liquid is exactly like cows milk in ap-
pearance, and in taste can hardly be
distinguished from it. To make it the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
in water. Some sugar and phosphate
Of potassium are added, and 1t Is boiled
down till it has the consistency Of con-
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison Parkmaa. of EN-
poria. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing in Chile. He brought the seed
to America, and in the late seventies
he went to EmpOria to live. He sowed
alfalfa in farm which he bought and
the plant prospered. 1t was slow in
gaining popularity in Kansas, but is
now one of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
by law to take weekly half-holiday,
and there must be no shirklng the obli-
CATION. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
half-holiday, remained at work on the
promise Of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear Of it and the proprie-
tor of the hotel had to appear in court,
where he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen d. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals Of the Confederate army. They
are Gen. A. p. Stewart, ranking lieu
tenant-general of the Confederacy, Of
Biloxi, Miss, and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
| anniversary on October 7 last. Gen.
eral Buckner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer In 1896. He was
eighty-five on April l last.
The German Emperor has a well.
equipped pottery which brings him in
SoO,OOO year. The King of Wurtem-
berg owns two large hotels which yield
MIN a yearly income of some $4,000.
The King of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Meissen, and the
Regent Of Lippe Detmold runs large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs The King of Servia
Is SAID to own a barber shop and an
| apothecary shop, In addition to which
heholds an agency for mtotor cars.
l once had a cat that did rather
| remarkable rafting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the caves of low
nat stable roof, and caught one in the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob. how
ever, not satisfied with the one, grasped
1t firmly in his mouth, and then iumped
headlong for the other Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
IN his mouth and the other in his paws
and promptly killed them both.-The
| Scotsman.
A strange story comes from one OF
tthe Balkan states, where commercial
morality Is still in its infancy. At
recent banquet given at the house of
the prime minister a distinguished dip
lomat complained to his host that the
Minister of Justice, next to whom he
was sitting, had taken his watch. The
prime minister said: "Ah, he shouldn't
nave done that. 1 will get it back for
you. Sure enough, toward the end of
the evening the watch was returned to
IT'S owner. "A1d what did he say?"
asked the guest. "Sh-h He does not
know have got it back" said the
prime minister.-Philadelphia Record.
instances Of desertion from the army
IN Mexico are very rare and for the
best Of reasons" said Senor Jose de