Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-07-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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Louisiana has seven million acres of
swamp land, which are at present total.
~ useless.
The irrigated districts of Egypt COM
prise 5,34O,OO0 acres and support TO-.
100000 persons.
1t Is computed that the dew falling
In England is equal to five inches Of
rain each year.
Government experts are investigat.
ing seaweed with the object Of deter
mining Its economic value.
The Chinese have undertaken to
nurse their forests, and the officials Of
the Celestial government have engaged
japanese expert from Toxic to act
as head master for the proposed school
of forests at Mukden for term of four
years, with two Chinese as his assist
ants
Prof ID. G. Jackson Of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, has been
retained by the Massachusetts highway
commission to make report regarding
the telephone situation with special
reference to the practicability of re-
duction In rates and higher efficiency
Of service.
"Neatness is essential on the links
said III. ]. Whigham, the golfer, at
dinner In Chicago. "At Shinnecock
Hills one day played behind two
young and pretty girls. Overtaking
them, heard the younger say: How
many holes on this course, Alleen?'
Nineteen, dear said Aileen, including
the one in your stocking"
simultaneously with the organization
Of pigeon postal service in the French
Kongo, where the climate makes both
ordinary and wireless telegraphy i'm
possible, 1t Is announced that the Brit
lsh government has replaced the pigeon
post by wireless teegraphy In both the
naval and the colonial service, and that
| this years budget contains no appro-
priatlon for pigeons.
O'Connel had got man Off at one
time for highway robbery and at an
other for burglary but on the third
occasion, for stealing a coasting brig.
the task Of hoodwinking the jury SEEM
ed too great for even his powers of
cajolery. However, he made out that
me crime was committed on the high
seas and obtained an acquittal. Tho
prisoner lifted up his hand and eyes to
heaven and exclaimed: "May the
Lord long spare you, Mr.. O'COnnell--
to mel"
The reason why the stomach and in
testines do not digest themselves was
once thought by Weinland, German
experimenter, to be that they defend
| themselves by anti-enzymes, or anti
ferments. Dr. Nandor Klug Of Buda-
Pesth now reports these ahti-ferments
not to be found, but that the mucin
present in the inner half of the gastric
| mucous membrane resists the digestive
action Of the trysin and the gastric
juice. The digestive organs, therefore,
protect themselves by the mucin they
| secrete.
The population Of Japan to-day Is
| Just about 5000O,0O0. The exact fig
ures for 1907 are not yet available, but
the estimates just published are based
on the average growth Of the last thirty
years and may be taken as fairly ac-
| curate. In each Of the five-year periods
for which figures are shown, over the
past twenty-five years, the population
has increased, roughly speaking, by
| 100000. To-day the estimate is
that there are 49,267,744 native-born
japanese in the territory ruled over by
the Mikado.-Pall Mall Gazette.
When the members of the British In
stitution of Electrical Engineers paid a
visit Of inspection to northern Italy
lately, they were interested in device
used to protect the overhead transmits
sion lines of an electric traction sys-
TEN from lightning discharges. The
device consists Of jets Of water, which
form a permanent earth at the Mon
begno generating station on the Valtel-
lima line. The electric resistance of the
jets was said to be sufficient to pre-
vent serious loss of current, while not
too great to enable them to serve foy
protection against lightning.
1t Is said that "moon blindness in n
horse is caused by 'wolf teeth'-two
small surplus teeth just in front of the
first upper pre-molars, one on each side
Of the upper jaw. An authority says:
"The wolf teeth do not cause eye dis
ease or any other harm, and usually
are not discovered until the eye disease
appears. The eye trouble Is periodic
cphthalmia' (moon bllndness) which Is
hereditary and incurable. Thousands
upon thousands Of horses suffer from