Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-10-29
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In France and Austria provision of
rescue work in mines is made COM
pulsory.
The price of gondola ride in
Venice has been increased from a
franc to franc and half
The London Lancet says six hun
dred children Of leprous parents are
being educated by the Mission of
Lepers, and the children show no signs
of leprosy.
For the year ended March 81, 1908,
the municipal gas department OF Bir-
mingham, England, was able to con-
tribute $347754 to the reduction Of
city taxation.
Death from fright in the first stages
of ether and chloroform before con-
sciousness Is lost Is best avoided by
letting the patient hold and inhale the
stuff himself.
| The seaweed known as Irish moss
Is used to some extent as a food by
the peasantry along the coasts, also
as Jelly for invallds, and as a stiffen-
Ing for calico In the printing process.
German manufacturing, exporting
and financial circles are keenly alive
to the growing custom of establishing
In foreign cities department stores to
serve as channels for supplying Ger
man merchandise.
Bermuda producers are beginning to
find 1t more profitable to meet the
wants Of the increasing influx Of Wis
itors than to compete with the Gulf
and South Atlantic truck farmers in
the New York markets.
Dr. Roberts suggestion In 1881 Of
sewing wounds Of the heart was re-
ceived as a joke. DR.. REIN, of Ger
many, in 1897 got the first recovery
from heart wound. Altogether there
have been sixteen such operations,
with seven amazing recoveries.
In answer to the question, What
passages in holy scripture bear upon
cruelty to animals?" one boy said
"Cruel people often cut dogs tails and
ears but the Bible says, Those whom
God hath Joined together let no man
put asunder' Christian Register
DR.. Wurtzen has had great results
in many cases of smallpox, quick cures
and no pitting. He keeps the patient
in total darkness, and finds Finsens
red light treatment uncertain No
white light Is allowed even for a sec
ond, but red light lamps are momen-
tarily used to examine patients
There are 1890 Young Mems Chris
tian Associations in Germany-only
1899 in America; yet where the Ger
man associations have but 117000
, members, the American have 5000.
And German association property
holdings have a value Of s2.40000
contrasted with value Of $4,000, 900
In America.
Although the young oriental under
stood ordinary methods and occur
rences very well in his new California
abiding place, he occasionally found a
puzzle. japanese boy pretty smart
when he can speak American In a
year" he said "but Missouri boy he
speak good after he has been here
only SIX months"
In commenting on and gloating over
the ocean breezes which tear in from
the eastward over Massachusetts Bay
a Boston paper rubs It in by saying:
What an experience 1t Is to read the
Cincinnati Enquirer's vivid account Of
the general suffocation in the Ohio
and Miami valleys, and then call for
an extra blanket and go to sleep!"
Devil fish Weighing up to 200
pounds are sometimes caught in Japan.
These fish are amphibious; they are
often seen wobbllng on their tentacles
like giant spiders in search of patches
Of sweet potatoes. The natives kill
them with clubs. In the water they
are caught in Jars lowered to the bot
tom, which the octopus enters, think
ing them n good retreat from which
to catch It's food
The wooden front corsets OF George
II. time were commonly worn by
dandes, as shown in Hogarth's por-
traits The doughty warriors OF Gus
tavus Adolphus wore corsets to man.
Catherine de Medici loved small waists
and poison She introduced the run
and thlrteen-lnch waist This mon
ster invented a steel corset No wonder
the portraits Of that day look so SOL
emn.-New York Press
This is a story told by commercial
traveller after trip through southern
Canada: Being impatient to get out
OF sleepy little town I hurried to
the station. After while an object
slowly emerged from the distance and
skunk up alongside. I boarded the
solitary coach, and. after tedious