Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-02-12
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The city of Haroun al Raschid, Bag
dad, has a foreign trade of nearly
$25,OO0,0OO a year.
British Honduras is short of labor
for its increasing fruit growing and is
trying to get coolies from India.
Central Park in New York city is
assessed at the valuation of $215,OOO,-
Geo, not for the purpose of taxation,
but so as to show the amount of real
estate value that is exempt from
taxes.
There IS an agreement among the
keepers of first-class restaurants in
New York city that the business would
not pay, on the scale now followed, if
it were not for the sale of alcoholic
beverages.
Palestine's ancient wells, famous in
histor! for centuries are Siving way
to pumping by modern engines and out
fits, particularly for watering gardens
and orchards. There Is large de-
mand for and import of pumps.
The new docks at Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil, are to be further enlarged at a
cost of 65,000,000 milreis ($19,50O-
COO), in addition to the extensive dock
work now going ON. The docks are
owned by the Brazilian Federal gov
ernment.
Chinese are discarding the old oiled
paper umbrellas, in use for centuries,
in favor of the kind of umbrellas used
in Europe and America. Germany and
Japan are fighting for the trade. Last
year China imported 1,102.333 umbrel-
las and the year before 1,3SO,111.
Introduction of motor boats into the
fishing industry is held to be RESPONSE
BILE for the steady increase in that in
dustry in Norway. These boats make
it possible for the fishermen to make
IA much larger catch and also furnish
better protection in rough weather and
are safer than the old boats driven by
sails.
Women employed as ordinary day la
borers in the construction of buildings,
mixing the mortar, sitting sand and
carrying bricks and for unloading coal,
are the unusual conditions described
rs existing in Prague and elsewhere in
Bohemia. The women are paid from
80 to 40 cents day. The working day
for these women is from a. m. to
p. m., with an hour for dinner.
Japan's second largest steamship
company, the Alaska Shosen Kaisha,
is starting semi-monthly service to
the United States with six vessels,
using Tacoma and Seattle as starting
points and IIongkong as the terminus.
An agreement to this effect has beer
made with the Chicago, Milwaukee ana
ST. Paul Railway Company. to begin
in August, 1909 The six vessels are
now being built at Kobe and Naga-
saki.
Here Is a possible explanation of the
strong prediction J. pierpont Morgan
has for cigars. According to the Unit
ed States Tobacco Journal, the Chester
School, of Waterbury, which the finan-
cier once attended, has sued man in
Hamden, Conn, for years board and
| tuition for his son. The defendant
makes the answer for his refusal to
pay that the school officials and teach
ers used tobacco in the presence of the
pupils, thereby encouraging them to
contract the habit.
Charles Francis Barker, of Boston,
has held the title Of American cham
pion at checkers for about thirty
years, and has just shown that his
grip on 1t is firm by defeating Joseph
Drouillard, Of Kansas City, In match
of fifty games. Barker won ten games
in the match, while Drouilard cap
tured only two, the rema lining games
resulting in draws. Incidentally, 1t
cost DrOuillard and his friends $1,000
to test Barker's mettle. The match
was played in Kansas City.
After the performance of the "Goet-
terdaemmerung" in Paris recently ac-
cording to Figaro, complaint was en-
tered by Wagner enthusiasts because
| the opera had not been performed in
| It's entirety. The directors Massager
and Broussau, made reply in an open
letter to the effect that to render the
complete work several times in one
week would overtaX the performers,
and "inasmuch as we give four hours
and twenty minutes of music, we
should not be blamed for emitting
parts which could be rendered in sew
enteen minutes"
On the IIedjaz railway in Arabia
| there is to be operated a carriage fitted
up as mosque, where pilgrims will
| be able to perform their devotions dur
| ing the journey to the sacred cities.