Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-11-27
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

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There are nearly fifty clocks on the
giant ocean liner Lusltania, controlled
by a master clock in the charthouse.
The River Polk flows into a cave il
the side of n mountain, and completely
disappears, at Adelsburg, near Trieste.
An airgun of large size, working on
the principle Of the pneumatic hammer,
has been devised for killing animals in
humane manner.
Eau de cologne, invented by Johann
Maria Ferina, over two hundred years
ago, is composed Of oils of neroli, cit.
ron, bergamot, grange and rosemary
An Englishman has invented a bicycle
for the blind. In reality, it is a null
ticycle, carrying twelve riders, led by
a seeing person, who does the steer.
ing.
According to the delegates to the ma
tional opticians convention in Philadel-
phia, women's eyes are weaker than
mems, and more Of the fair sex wear
glasses.
The French Ministry is drafting a
bill to make standard karat for
weighing precious stones, fixed at 200
milligrams, and prohibiting the word
for any other weight.
Miss Ross Becker has been appointed
a claim agent and United States pen
sion attorney in Missouri She has
been known for years as one of the
most successful women in st. Louis,
being notary public and an insur.
ance agent.
Miss Ruby Abrams. who was recently
graduated at the head of the art class
in Cooper Institute is deaf, and until
a few years ago was also dumb. She
has been an art student ever since she
was graduated at the head of her class
six years ago at the Institute for the
Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes.
She has the record of having won four
prizes during her art course.
1t is not hundred years ago since
stays for women were composed not of
whalebone or hardened leather, but of
bars of iron and steel from three inches
to four inches broad and eighteen inches
long. Again, during the reign of George
III. the top of the steel stay had long
stocking needle attached to it to pre-
vent girls from spelling their shape by
STOPPING too much over their work.
Consul General liobert ]. Wynn.
makes the report that the returns of
shipping and tonnage of the Suez canal
for 1907 show that the net tonnage
exhibits an all round increase, t1e fig
ures for the last year showing an in
crease of 1,2S2, $3.50 tons, as compared
with that Of 1906, and an increase of
1854, ,329 over 1905. Receipts during
1907 showed an increase of $1,557 600,
as compared with 1906.
The boring Of an artesian we'll is nol
an easy task. The well of Grenelle
(France) required from Dec. "a, 1888,
to Feb. 2G, 1S41. for completion. The
one at Passay of the same depth took
only two years to make. Our engineers
now count upon one year in which to
complete the well of Maisons- Laffitte.
This well is already at a depth of AGO
meters. 1t Will go to depth of 500
meters.-De Dion-Bouton Journal.
Mrs Phoebe Rideout, of California,
is the latest recruit to the ranks of the
women bank presidents. Mrs. Rideout
has just been elected to succeed her
late husband rs the president of the
bank at Oroville, Cal, and also as pres.
ident of the b;pks at Marysville and
Gridley. The aggregate capital of the
three institutions is said to be more
than S3,000,000. Mrs. William Lang
don, wife of the city attorney of Sar
Francisco, has been elected president OF
the Union Savings Bank at Modesto
The production of American gems
more tnan doubled last year, according
to the government reports, the tota
value lol ioOi belHS pr low, Wulle IL
the preceding year the total was $2OS,
600. The total production Of sapphires
in the United States last year was val
ued at $229,S00. Tourmaline is secont
in Importance and is placed at $S4, 100
Among other important gems produced
We're chrysoprase, to the value of $40,
600; california;, $4,000; turquoise
$23,S40; spodumene gems (kunzite ant
hiddenite), $14,500; varicite, utahlitr
and amttrice, $500; rose quartz, beryl
aQuamarine and garnet, each over So,
900.
Old-time barristers in England die
not openly receive fees for their serv
ices. An early method of collecting
fees was the pocket which in medieva
times a barrister used to have PLACED