Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-10-08
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There is great shortage of theolog-
ical students In Wurtemberg
The War Department paid $94,41S
for artificial limbs last year.
Six out of seven pictures sent to the
royal academy every year are rejected.
The railroads of this country pay
out s24,OOO,OOO year in freight
claims.
There is still pending in the English
law courts case which was initiated
in 1907.
An owl with nest of young will
gather about forty mice a day for her
offspring.
One-fifth of the country's wealth is
represented in the New York Stock
Exchange.
For use during military maneuvers
the Kaiser has a portable house made
Of asbestos.
There were fifteen executions of
criminals in Prussia in 1907, all but
one of them men.
There are thirty different kinds of
new roses for this year alone In Eng
land, where rose culture abounds.
Nearly all of the fifteen thousand
inhabitants Of Marchneukirchen, Sax.
ony, are engaged in violin making.
An effort made in Russia to form a
gigantic steel corporation, on the lines
of the one existing in this country,
has failed.
The Swiss government spends more
money, in proportion to its population,
for the relief of Its poor, than any
other country.
The volcano of Stromboli has been
known to emit flames persistently and
lava and cinders spasmodically for
over 1000 years.
A Partisan antiquarian has paid
100000 francs for the famous Marfels
collection Of watches made in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries.
At Falun, Sweden, are the headquar-
ters of a mining company with a his
tory so remote that the date of its
origin cannot be definitely fixed.
South American woods were former
ly used exclusively in the making Of
fishing rods, but the material is now
being largely supplied by Queensland.
In 1905 there were LII, 900 textile
workers in Britain. The average pay
each week for men was $6.S3, for wom-
en- 1915, for boys $3.50, and for girls
$2.17.
Frogs may do some harm to fish in a
pond. but German experts have decid-
ed that this is outweighed by the good
they do In destroying injurious in
sects.
New York State has taken a prac-
tical way of encouraging forestry. Dur
Ing the past planting season more
than one million seedlings were dis
tributed at cost throughout the State
for planting.
Solitary confinement still exists as a
punishment In Italy, although humani-
/ tartan observers declare that capital
punishment would be far more hu-
name, besides being more effective as
deterrent.
On the basis Of bushel of corn pro-
ducing 2.5 gallons Of alcohol, 1t has
been figured out that last years corn
crop in the United States was sufficient
to furnish OOO,OOO-horse power for
ten hours day for an entire year.
Wilbur Bowser, living near Pitts
burg, has constructed frame house,
built in sections, which he has moved
In freight car with all his household
goods to Wyoming, where he has ac-
quired section Of 100 acres of land.
The latest suggestion for the treat
ment of asthma comes from Germany.
1t consists simply in breathing exer-
cises conducted in such a way that the
inspiration is rapid, while, the expira-
tion is as slow and as thorough as
possible.
Not to be outdone musically by New
York's police department, Chicago po-
licemen have set out to organize
band. Chief Shippy, who used to
pound the pavement" himself, is en-
Enthusiastically in favor of the scheme
and promises all the aid he can give.
The exports of domestic merchan-
disc from Alaska to the United States
in the calendar year 1908 amounted to
$12,255,255, of which $9,2S2,952 was
| for canned salmon. The salmon out
put Of Alaska equals the combined
catch of British Columbia, the United
States proper, and Japan.
Not the least important feature of
the general agricultural revival which
is in progress in SO many oversee
markets, and particularly in South
Africa and Australia, is the interest
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