Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-12-18
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cludes sixty-two warships and forty
four vessels of the merchant marine.
Gold, silver and lead mines are, it
is said, to be worked extensively in
! the bleak district of Innishowen, coun-
ty of Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the
Atlantic.
Three women were among the eighty
nine applicants who recently took the
examination for postal clerks at Buff
falo. The highest grade, 1910, was
obtained by Miss Mary Pfann. All of
the women applicants were successful,
while only 80 per cent of the men
passed.
Mrs. Louise Waterman Carpenter of
Brookline, Mass, has just passed her
one hundred and second birthday. She
was born at Warwick, r. l., and is a
direct descendent of Roger Williams,
She is in good health and active enough
to get about unassisted and until three
years ago felt no need for glasses.
Girls have gone in for many Chinese
fashions, such as the mandarin jacket,
the kimono sleeve and the chrysanthe-
mum embroidery, but the wearing of
) five buttons on the coat or jacket is a
new idea, unknown to the many The
Chinese wear these five buttons to re-
mind them of the five moral virtues
which were recommended by Confucius.
These are: Humanity, justice, order,
rectitude and prudence.
The Womens Progressive Associa-
ton Of New South Wales has won
what 1t considers great victory. Three
hundred thousand dollars had been
voted to increase the salaries of the
teachers of the public schools. The
men teachers, If reports are true, tried
to gobble it all up, but the association,
whose members are all voters, thought
the women teachers were entitled to a
share. They fought the point and
I won.
See Kans-i-to, a Caddo Indian, at
} tracted considerable attention and Won
, der at the Rock Island depot ON Sat
urday as he went north on the noon
train from Binger to his home town.
9 He beats the old German of New York,
s Wouter Van Twiller, who was 8 feet
6 inches tall and feet inches
e around. This Indian is 8 feet inches
tall and Z feet inches around. He
is 26 years old and weighs 696 pounds
wy
, Large or small gamer" asked tht
+ Englishman invited by New Yorker
II to go hunting ON Land Island. "Yor
l. don't expect to find lions and tigers OF
Long Island, do you?" answered the
New Yorker. Hardly" responded The
y Briton with laugh, but like spice
II of danger in my hunting" IF that's
is the case" answered the other, "Pn
your man, all right The last time
=, went out l shot my brother-in-law IL
the leg"
Sir William Ramsay's declaration al
+ to the probable near achievement o
q, the transmutation Of metals is vivi(
instance Of the way modern science Ii
u re-establishing what only a short tim
< ( ago was dismissed as superstition. II
book only fifty years old write
describes as folly the medical practice
of the middle ages of putting smallpox
patients in a red room draped will
4 red hangings, curtains and red bed
it clothes. Yet the value Of red light II
s. preventing the sufferers being marked
j. by smallpox was scientifically discover
ed anew a few years ago by Finsen
of the violet light rays fame.
lie One of the most successful hoaXes o
lie history was the mechanical chess play
er with which Baron Kempelen o
Hungary. astonished Europe about tn
I'd ure controlled by mechanical devices
~ and which was able, NOTWITHSTANDING
c. the fact that apparently no intelligenc
he was concerned In its movements ant
decisions, generally to beat its humaI
antagonists The cabinet connecte
'r with the autOmaton appeared entirel
4 too small to contain hidden operator
And vet 1t did conceal man who wa
20 an expert chess player. He was
~ Polish patriot who had lost both o
his legs This man, Woropsky b
name, was an expert player. Wit
him in the cabinet the rest was easy
re For 1,4OO years the Faust legend
h the sale of human soul to devil
has existed. The first recorded hint G
IN its vitality is given in the sixth cer
tury story of ''Theophilus." That stor
suited the early Christians in their eI
. forts to stamp out the necromancin
devices of evilly disposed persons prom
to seek power by unholy means. Th
u association of the name Of Faust, how
y ever, with the legend is not more tina
a