Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-20
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

may be traced back for 1000 years.
For short spurts, the salmon is the |
fastest swimmer of the fish tribe.
The best piece of fur in the world is |
in the cloak of the Empress of Rus
sia. 1t Is worth $4,000.
Photographic records Of eminent |
actors are used in the Viennese schools |
In teaching defamation
With accommodations for 500 per-
sons, huge ale store at Burton-on-
Trent, England, is being made into a
skating rink.
Cimarron is the latest town to con-
tract the slogan habit The one chos-
en- is: Simmer on, Cimarron."-
Kansas City Star.
Felled at Amersham, near Harrow,
England, walnut tree measured twen-
ty-four feet round, weighed ten tons
and the trunk realized $245.
The United States annually exports
more wheat, including wheat -four,
than any other country in the world
146,O0O.O0O out of 646OO0,OO0 bushels.
The Mexican government has COM
pleted arrangements with the Krupps
to establish a plant for the manufac.
ture Of Mauser bullets, smokeless pow.
der and gun cotton.
AS laborer the Japanese has ceased
TO figure IN the future Of Mexican IN.
dustry. It's believed the policy of the
Japanese government, announced some
time ago, of forbidding the emigration
OF the laborer of that country to Mex.
leo will be continued for many years
to come and that the administration Of
the policy will be such as to render the
embargo absolutely effective.-Mexican
Herald.
An Atchison man thinks he is enti.
tied to the Carnegie hero medal His
daughter, princess, had company in
the parlor; the young man was her
hearts desire, worked in a bank and
always wore good clothes. But the
father walked boldly into the room
and sat down, and he had on his barn
clothes, too. His daughter gave him
such a look of scorn it stopped his
watch, but he stayed anyway.-Atchi.
son (Kan.) Globe.
The Times enters protest against
the present method Groton takes with
tramps, At present they are given a
loaf of bread and can of salmon or
piece of cheese and directed to the
lookup, where they find the door open
to receive them. They build a fire,
make themselves at home and go
whenever they like. If this continues
Groton will be the tramps' headquar.
ters and the village at their mercy
Groton (Vt.) Times.
The great controversy which now
agitates South Norwalk, Conn.,, over
the question whether lobster swims
forward or backward recalls the ia.
nous definition Of lobster in a Ger.
tain French dictionary-"a red fish
which swims backward" Six words,
containing three gross errors. 1t is to
be hoped that the contestants of South
Norwalk will not refer to that die.
tionary as an authority for settlement
OF their dispute.-New York Tribune
When Andrew Carnegie offered to
build seventy-eight libraries for New
York City on condition that the city
would provide the sites and books, 1t
was estimated that the municipality
would not have to spend more than
$2,OOO,OOO to carry out It's part of the
contract. Controller Metz recently re-
ported that the city has as yet only
secured fifty-five sites and in purchas-
Ing these has overrun the original esti-
mate. He figures that by the time the
city gets the remaining sites the cost
will be s3,3S7535
1t has recently been discovered that
the leaves of the fern plant, which
grows almost anywhere, is an excel.
lent preservative for packing articles
of food, fruit and even meat. 1t is
said that on the Isle of Man fresh her.
rings are packed in ferns and arrive
on the market in as fresh condition
as when they were shipped. A mum.
Der of experiments have demonstrated
that potatoes packed in ferns keep
many months longer than those pack.
ed in straw. In fact potatoes packed
In fern leaves are as fresh in the
springtime as when they were first
dug In the fall.-Eternal Progress.
Famous poets make interesting Wills.
Browning's was written in his own
beautiful hand, with the initials of all
the nouns substantive In capitals,
after the olden use, and the attesting
witnesses were "A. Tennyson" and "F. |
L. Palgrave." Matthew Arnold's. also