Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-06-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Noou opportunities Tor electrical un.
dertakings In Spain are reported.
The Federated Malay States produc.
90 per cent Of the worlds production
of tin.
There Is a hacienda, or ranch. in
the Mexican State of Durango, COM
prising 100000 acres.
Kite day Is a Chinese national holi-
day. An expert Chinese kite flyer will
easily keep six or even eight kites 60
Ing on one string.
In 1904 Japan exported little over
Sl,OOO worth Of human hair; the total
export was valued at 100000 In 1905.
Large quantities are made into wigs
In Paris.
very credltable exhibition Of ORR
entail paintings, both modern and an
Client examples, was held at the India
government school Of art in Calcutta
recently.
Five generations of the family Of
Mr.. Petit, boot dealer of Marlborough,
England, are living, his own child be-
Ing the youngest member. The great.
great-grandmother is ninety and the
child is eleven months old.
Consul Gracy at Tslngtau warns
young men against going to China in
the hope Of finding profitable jobs.
Any young man who Is willing to work
will, he says, find better opportunities
every day in the large American cities.
A new process has been discovered
In China by which ramie fiber becomes
soft fllasse in a few minutes. A
company has been formed to prepare
the filasse for general use, and the
first shipment will soon be made to
Europe.
The Municipal Chamber of Para,
Brazil, has recently authorized re-
duction In the tax levied on travelling
statesmen. The reduction will be eff
fective until Jan. l, 1909. The new
tax amounts to about $780, with addi-
honal fees Of about $1S. The penalty
and heavy fine.
The Orleans Railway Company of
France recently inaugurated new
train de luxe, consisting of six new
cars each seventy feet long, or six
feet longer than any cars now in use
on the French lines, and mounted on
trucks with triple axletrees, giving
great smoothness in running. There
are two smoking cars furnished with
writing tables and newspapers and pe-
riodicals.
The highest authorities place the to
tai number Of years elapsed since, In
the light Of the best geological evil
dence, men first appeared upon earth
at 288,00O. OF this, $4,000 belong to
the preglacial epoch, 100000 years to
the glacial epoch and the protohistoric
and neolithic, 10000 years to the last
named epochs, and 5000 years to the
time elapsed since the beginning of the
historic period in Egypt.
A recently published statistical re-
port gives the number of diploma
physicians" in the world as 22S,234.
or these Europe has 162,334. The ta-
bic credits Germany with 25,51S,
which" says the Frankfurter lei
tung, Shows the table to be Incorrect,
for the Medeclnischer Yahrbuch gives
Germany 31,415 physicians, of whom
one-fifth are specialists. In all the
large cities Of Germany there are two
to three physicians to every thousand
Inhabitants, while in Berlin there are
about five for every four thousand"
An extraordinary addition has been
made to the exhibition Of inventions
In Berlin. A shoemaker named Veg
ner, living In Strasburg, has sent In
a clock Of the grandfather shape, near
ly six feet high, made entirely of straw.
The wheels, pointers, case and every
detail are exclusively Of straw. Weg-
ner has taken fifteen years to construct
this strange piece of mechanism 1t
keeps perfect time, but under the most
iufoiupiC CduUOt IdBL
longer than two years.-London Globe.
The most curious railway in the
world Is built on Ice 1t Is laid between
Cronstadt and Orenienbaum, and is in
use only during the winter. Its sue
cess has suggested the construction Of
A similar winter railway between the
two important commercial centers,
K EN- en- tchug and Ekatarinoslav,
which are united in summer by the
steamboat traffic along the Dneiper
river. This means Of communication
Is closed In winter by the Ice. A cost
y, roundabout journey has to be made
the two towns, though they
DO not lie far apart.
Under the new Korean forest laws
he forests will no alocaifiad In fnur