Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-09
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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together.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts
100000 diamonds every year.
In China an overtalkative wife may
be divorced on that charge alone.
The boilers of the turbiner Maure-
tania, placed end to end, would meas
ure SAT feet in length.
A meteorite that weighs 6S2 pounds
has just been brought from Cripple
Creek, Colo, and placed in the Amer.
lean Museum of Natural History In
New York City.
Last year more wheat went to Eu.
rope from the port of Montreal than
from New York and all other Atlantic
seaports combined. Yet Montreal is
a comparatively long distance from
the ocean proper and 250 miles from
the nearest salt water.
The little King of Uganda is an in
telligent boy, II years old, now be-
ing educated by an English tutor. The
fact that he is a keen football player
is itself good sign that he has been
trained on right lines.-My visit to
Uganda, by Bishop j. E. Hine.
There are three cathedrals at Men,
go, Uganda, all on neighboring hills.
The Mengo cathedral of ST. Paul,
Church of England, has a congrega-
tion of 5000. The other cathedrals
are Roman Catholic, one English, the
other German, both large buildings.
In Constantinople a few better class
women are feeling their way" in re-
gard to dress, but like all pioneers
they suffer for their cause. If the
customary heavy black veil is thinner,
If the hair has an appearance of be-
ing puffed out beneath its covering, il
the rich silk mantle is cut to show
the slender form or more mature
curves of its wearer, she is immedi-
ately an object of much attention and
remark from Turk and Christian.
No city has a happier name than
1SPoAoA thO iChuCLNOuo. w ntu
visited by the traveller Chardin, in the
early part of the eighteenth century,
1t contained 173 mosques, forty-eight
colleges, 1,S00 caravansaries and 273
public baths. But the Afghans, the
local vandals, who did not care for
bathing, destroyed the aqueducts and
slaughtered the bathers. In the mat
ter of great public squares Ispahan
can easily outrival any European city.
The Meydan, or great square, is
third of a mile in length and about
half that breadth. 1t was once encir-
cled by canal bordered by fine trees,
but these have long since vanished
along with the canal.
The proceedings in a libel action
now being heard in the Berlin courts
are causing sensation in medical cir
cles. The plaintiff, well-known Ber-
lin doctor, alleges that the defendant
accused him and others of paying COM
missions to agents in order to secure
patients. The evidence has shown
that many prominent doctors, and
even professors whose reputation ex-
tends beyond their own country, en-
ploy paid agents in society to enlarge
their clientele. Wellknown women
are said to have made it their busi-
ness to sell their sick friends to the
highest bidder. The Berlin Medical
Society will demand an explanation
from several members.
Remarkable has been the career of
f. &. Selous, the famous hunter and
explorer, who accompanies Mr.. Roose-
velt on his African big game expedi-
ton. He was only 20 years of age
when he went to Matabeleland, in
days when railways were unknown
there and when the interior of the
country was sealed book to the Eu.
ropean. For years he was in unknown
countries hunting elephants, lions and
other animals and at one period he
was nearly three years without see-
ing newspaper, a telegram or any
Kind OF money and he was perfectly
happy. He spent nearly a quarter of
century Of his life penetrating the
interior of South Africa. Then he
went to Alaska on a 15,000-mile tour
In search of moose and caribou.
When the free trade bill for the
Philippines passes Congress and comes
up to President Taft for signature
says the Manila Times, he will have
gold pen with pearl handle made
wholly of gold and pearl from the
Philippines with which to affix his sig.
nature to that important document.
Some time ago Manager Schwinges of
La Concha button factory conceived
the idea of making a pearl handled
gold pen and pearl inkstand to be-
sent to President-elect Taft as a me.
mento of the Philippines that nigh.