Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-07-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



Manchuria already receives 1000 Ca
BILE messages day from Japan. The
doubling of the cables is probable
John Burns Is said to have the best
working library of any member Of the
English House of Parliament
Belgium is now importing yearly
about $1,5OO,OOO worth of automobiles,
motorcycles and bicycles. The i'm
ports have quadrupled in four years.
In the last eight years the three
great iron countries have produced
31O,300,OO0 tons Of pig iron, of which
over half has come out Of the United
States.
| In the Slavonc section OF the New
York public library there are S,527
volumes and very large proportion Of
the Russian readers select books of
social and governmental subjects
There are now not far from 10000
miles Of railroad under block signal op-
Grafton, nearly 10000 miles Of which
have been added within a year and n
half. All Of this mileage Is distributed
among eighty-four different systems.
Emigration to Canada from the Uni.
ted States in January and February in.
creased 81 per cent, while foreign emf.
grants arriving at Canadian ports de.
creased SO per cent. Over 1000 Ameri.
can settlers reached Saskatchewan on
March 10.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has been
nominated as an honorary steward of
the anniversary dinner of the Royal
Literary Fund in London. Lord Tenny.
son is the president of the society. Rud.
yard Kipling, who will preside at the
dinner, has asked Mrs. Wiggin to re.
spond to toast
An Eskimo will devour greedily
twenty pounds of meat day. A Rus.
sian Tartar will eat in twenty-four
hours forty pounds. Captain Cochranp
mentions a Tartar who consumed In
that time the hind quarters of large
OK, twenty pounds of fat and a pro-
portlonate quantity of melted butter
for drink. Three of his tribe-the va
kuti-think nothing of polishing off
reindeer at a meal.-New York Press
President Fouse, of the Fidelity Mu.
tual Life Insurance Company, calls at
tention In his annual address to the
vast extent Of the life insurance busl-
ness In this country, by comparing 1t
with the banking business. The 6,544
national and 1852 State, private and
savings banks and trust companies
have an aggregate capital and surplus
Of S3,OO0,OOO,0O0, and deposits of $13,-
0O0,00O,OOO. Ninety-three insurance
companies have admitted assets OF over
$3,0OO,O0O,O0O and insurance In force
amounting to $14,OO0,0OO,OOO.
There is possibility that the Eplsco
pal church will soon have three broth
ers as members of the bishopric.
The Right Reverend DR.. William
Paret, bishop of Maryland be-
cause Of advancing years and failing
strength, has asked his diocese to elect
a coadjutor and has called special
convention to choose the priest to be
elevated to the episcopate Several
clergymen have been mentioned for the
honor, among them being the Rev. DR..
Arthur b. Klnsolving, rector of st.
Paul's church, Baltimore, who Is said
to stand good chance of election One
OF Dr. Kinsolving's brothers Is bishop
Of Texas and another Is the head Of
the diocese Of Southern Brazil.
In recent trial San Francisco
judge made arithmetic a test of mental
soundness. But II this test had been
applied to certain great men they
would been declared imbeciles. Dean
Stanley, for one, would have been set
down as hopeless had he been judged
by his incapacity to do sum in simple
addition or multiplication. Had Keble,
writer Of famous hymns depended up
on his arithmetic Oxford would not
long have-known him. When bursar he
found, to his horror, that certain ac-
counts came out nearly $4,000 to the
bad. In vain did the learned and pious
men Of the college go over the figures
with him. Not until an expert was
summoned was 1t discovered that. Ke-
BILE, in casting up column, had add
ed the date Of the year to the colleges
debts.
81 know where $3OOOOOO in cash lies
concealed" said New York lawyer.
This vast sum lies concealed in the in
side vest pocket Of the 10000 automo-
bilists Of New York State. Each man
carries 500 Of 1t In one crisp note,
ready to be paid out in fine, If he
should be arrested for speeding. Fines,
though don't appear to stop speeding"