Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-11-06
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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,tel is being built at Berlin which

Manhattan ID the most denSely popI-
lated island in the world, 99,150 persons
to the square mile.
In Massachusetts, alone there is more
neglected water power going to waste
than Is available at Niagara Falls.
Nearly one-third of the immigrants
who arrive in the port Of New York
never 60 beyond the city for home.
There is a lot of poverty on Manhat-
tan Island, but the assessment rolls give
$1,000 in taxable property to each in
habitant.
Courts are a great expense to New
York City. The jurors alone last year
cost $415, 16S The year before the cost
was 1921, ,293.
In China there are match factories at
which only hand labor is employed. One
of them, at Hsieh Chang, has 600 work
ers, 400 of whom are women.
When New York City's Catsl1ill aque>
duct is completed the city will have wa
ter enough for population Of 100000,
without any cause for anxiety.
Hot weather has brought marked
Increase in the number of children who
are taken to the New York hospitals for
treatment, and the diagnosis shows that
80 per cent Of the trouble arises from
improper feeding.
hna I0 fpnr In
the number of emigrants from the port
Of New York during the last year, but
the net result is that the city Is growing
at the rate of about $4,000 a month
through immigration.
An electric railway is being built on
the Zugspitze, the highest peak in the
Alps Oh Bavarian territory. Its height
is about 10000 feet. The railway will
run to the summit, while a hotel will
be built at the 7,000-foot level.
There are some large profits made on
goods sold in New York City, but the
greatest percentage goes to the retailers
of jewelry that has imitation precious
stones in its composition. The profit Is
often one thousand times as much as
the goods cost. To get $40 for what
cost 40 cents is quite usual.
THE Swamp Angel was the name
given by the Federal soldiers to an
eight-inch Parrot gun which was
mounted on a battery built on piles
driven into swamp outside Of Charles
ton, s. c., and used during the siege of
that city. 1t burst Aug 90, 1868. After
the war it was bought with some con-
demned metal and sent to Trenton to
be melted, but having been identified,
was set up on granite base on the
corner of Perry and Clinton streets In
that city.
Two odd-looking craft are to be seer
at work on the st. Lawrence ship
canal. They are used for removal of
powders which are too large for
dredge to lift or to clear the bottom
before the dredge is placed to work at
any locality. The litter consists Of a
wooden-hulled boat with a middle well,
through which the large siXty-ton ca
pacity tongs or grips can descend to
the river bottom there to pick up bowl
ders, which can be hauled to the deck
by the hoisting engine situated aft.
The new Chinese Board of Education
proposes to establish a Shih-fan
Hsueh-tang, or civil normal college, in
Peking, for training teachers for SER
vice in the various civil schools and
colleges throughout the empire In ad-
dition to Chinese classics, says Har-
pers Weekly, English, French, German,
Russian and japanese will be taught in
the proposed college, under the instruc-
ton of experienced teachers. The col
lege will be established in the Chinese
city in the course Of the present year,
and the annual expenditure Is esti-
mated to be about 100000 taels (about
s70,OOO).
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
was 7S years old on Aug. 13, but he
is still an ardent hunter Having SET
tied down at Ischl for his summer hol-
iday, the Emperor lost no time in be-
girning his favorite sport of deer shoot
Ing. In the first formal court shoot the
Emperor and his party drove in car
riages as far into the mountains as DOS
sible and then took to horses. But
after riding for quarter Of an hour
his Majesty was forced to walk the rest
OF the way up the Steinberg, 5000 feet
high. An hours climb brought the
party to the hunting ground, and the
Emperor shot four stays.
The readiness of Japan and China
IN adapting themselves to Western
methods of electrification, says the
hallway News, is to-day amply evil
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