Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-10-23
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Der 63 per cent is estimated to be fur
uished by South America.
Successful experiments have been
made at Potiers, France. with a wheel
ed stretcher, drawn by dog, for ambu.
lance work
The number of books exported from
Germany by German publishers last
year exceeded 42,OOOOOO weighed a.
100000 pounds and were valued at S15.-
100000.
Japan has thirty-two timepiece fac.
tories, which turn out annually goods
valued at nearly SS0O,0CO; the latest tig-
ures being 209,792 standing clocks, 441,-
100 hanging clocks and 2j,36U watches.
Belgium has Sunday postage stamp
issued for those who do not wish to
have their mail delivered on Sunday.
All mail bearing the Sunday stamp is
held over by the carriers for delivery =.
Monday.
The tantalum lamp is very desirable
from the fact that it is of high eAicien-
cy, but it is not adapted for many Of
the fixtures at present in use, for the
reason that it must hang vertically,
whereas more often than not, the lamps
In the existing fixtures hang at an an
gle. An adapter has been recently
invented by which this discrepancy is
overcome.
Kipling is town which has Just
Dlossomed out in Canada, where there
Is only one town of Shakespeare. There
is Shakespeare in Kosciusko County,
Indiana. However, the great English
dramatist was never popular among the
new-town namers In North America. al
though there are in the United States
thirty Millions, three Godsmiths, four
Dickenses, thirty-odd SCOTS, twenty
Byrons, two Tennysons and one Thacll-
cray. But there is no Browning on the
American map.
Every precocious boy does not he.
come n brilliant man, but some brilliant
men have been precocious in childhood.
John Ruskin, the great English essayist
and critic on art, was such child At
the age of he wrote verses in rhyme
and kept a journal or diary. This jour
nal was really record of trips through
England that he took with his father.
His interest in the old cathedrals and
in the bits of scenery that he saw dur
ing these journeys betrayed the tastes
that in later years decided his career.
I'VE Two" send the following to the
London Express 1--WE are young cou-
pie and Mt the present rate of salaries
for bank clerks it will be eight, or even
ten years before we can marry. AS this
is too far ahead to think of, and we
have E2OO (Sl lOO0) between us, we are
determined to strike out for ourselves,
and ut the thousands of breakfast ta-
bles all over England where the Ex-
press Is daily read we would. with your
kind permission, appeal for ideas as to
the best way of making Il good start"
With the recent return of the yacht
Galilee, mt San Francisco, the ocean
magnetic survey work is closed for the
present, until the construction of YES
sci specially adapted for the work has
been completed. Plans for the new YES
sci are now being prepared by Henry J.
GielOw, naval architect and engineer.
The Galilee was chartered by the Car
negie Institution, of Washington, and
under the command Of w. J. Peters. she
was away nearly three years. The to-
tai length of the cruises traversed in
the Pacific ocean during this period is
about G5,OOO miles.
In the northern part of India sheep
are put to a use unthOught of in Euro
| pean or American countries. They are
made to serve as beasts of burden, be.
cause they are more sure-footed than
larger beasts, and the smountain paths
among the foothills of the Himalayas
are steep and difficult. The load for
each sheep Is from sixteen to twenty
pounds. The sheep are driven from vii.
lage to village, with the wool still grow
ing, and in each town the farmer shears
as much wool as he can sell there and
loads the sheep with the grain which he
receives in exchange. After his flock
has been sheared he turns 1t hOmeward,
each sheep having on its back small
bag containing the purchased grain
Several anchors have recently been
made at the navy-yard at Charlestown,
Ma S., which are the largest ever made
for any purpose. Four anchors are used
on battleships generally, and the new
anchors are being shipped in sets to the
Pacific coast. One pair of this set Of
four weigh 1900 pounds each. The
largest anchors ever forged prior to
those now being used weighed 16,5OO
pounds each and cost $1,000 each. They
we're also made at the Charlestown