Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-23
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per cent greater thak that Of last
year.
During the last fiscal year over 1900
Chinese entered Canada, paying $746,-
600 in poll tax.
Japan makes 10000 to $4,000 bicy.
cles yearly and also imports 10000,
besides separate parts enough to make
10000. The country now has $4,000
in use, mostly for business purposes.
The demand for tires is 200 pairs
daily, two-thirds of which are i'm
ported.
Census returns in India show some
remarkably candid statements. In AL
lahabad thirty-five citizens described
themselves as "men who rob with
threats of violence" There were twen-
ty-five hereditary thieves" There
were nine professional false wit
nesses."
New York ice skaters are to enjoy
their sports 800 feet in the air when
the latest rink is completed on the roof
of an Office building on the corner Of
Broadway and Twenty-third street As
the building will not be completed until
May l, the skaters will have to wait
until next winter.
Canadians are accumulating money
at much faster rate than the banks
and business men can proftably invest
1t there. The Ottawa October bank
statement showed a decrease of SO4.-
100000 in home loans in one year and
an Increase of 100000 in the loans
made abroad, says consular report.
Regents of the University Of Mime
sofa have ordained that all contracts
with members of the faculty shall ex-
pire when teachers reach their sixty
fifth birthday. Next June, 1t is said,
half dozen old gentlemen will call
the class roll for the last time unless
they have before followed the example
Of their president, DR.. Northrop, and
sent in their designations.
Booker T. Washington, in an ad-
dress to negroes at Montgomery, Ala,
recently, said: "Since the emancipa-
ton proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
there has been no benefit conferred
upon the negroes of the South equal to
that conferred by the closing up Of
the barrooms throughout these South
ern States, and we should show our
gratitude by seeing to it in every way
possible that we help the officials en-
force the temperance law and that we
do not patronize the blind tigers and
other institutions which are likely to
spring up In defiance Of law"
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is the
only woman who has ever been asked
to address the University Debating
Society at Oxford. At the request of
the students she took woman suffrage
as her subject. At the end of her
speech resolution IN favor Of woman
suffrage was put and lost by q ma
Jority Of sixteen. There is a rumor
that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will In
the near future receive similar in
vitation from Harvard. Those who
pretend to be informed assert that
Harvards majority against woman
suffrage would be many times greater
than Oxford's.
Prof. Kirsopp Lake, who holds the
chair Of New Testament exegesis in
the University of Leyden, has complet-
ed the work Of photographing the
"Codex Sinaiticus,' one Of the three
oldest New Testament manuscripts.
The manuscript, which is written on
vellum in capital letters, four columns
of writing to the page, was discovered
by Tischendorf in monastery on
Mount Athos some sixty years ago
and Is surpassed in age only by the
Vatican manuscript. The third of
these vellum manuscripts of the New
Testament is the "Codex Alexandrinus"
In the British Museum.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
mayor Of Eldeburgh, England, gave
dinner recently to forty councillors and
other guests. She was the only woman
present, and she wore a black dress
with widows cap and diamonds. Re-
plying to the toast, "Aldeburgh's Pros.
perity," she said that during her yeas
of office she would try her best to
prove good, motherly housekeeper to
the town. She declared that nothing
could be done by talking, but great
deal by the councillors agreeing to take
action and work together for the good
of the town. She hoped to better the
roads and to make the town more at
tractive to visitors.
To Columbia University belongs the
credit Of Offering the first course de- |
signed to give students a practical |
knowledge Of the conduct of political
affairs. That institution has asked the |