Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-02
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Berlin has adopted luminous street

The Norwegian army includes
corps on skates.
The pay roll of American railroads
amounts to billion dollars a year.
J If each individual! in New York City
owned an equal portion of its real es-
tate he would be worth in land ST.
$40, according to the assessed valua
tlon.
While the British send on an aver
age two kilograms a head each year,
according to government statistics, the
Americans send only one and one-tenth
and the Germans nine-tenths.
Money is accumulating in New York
City more rapidly than at any time
in the last two years. Banks are re-
ceiving much faster than they are pay
ing, and good investments are being
diligently sought in every direction.
The new catalogue of Columbia Uni
verslty shows the total number of Off
GERS of the administration and in
|
IF resident students 1858, as against
0.l55 last year. Since the last cata-,
logne was published eight special funds
have been created by special gift or
bequest.
Briquettes composed Of calcium car
blde have been prepared by II. X. Kof
fer of Vienna, and are claimed to be
non-hydroscopic, keeping indefinitely.
and do not continue to give off gas
after withdrawal of water. They are
made by intimately mixing finely gran.
ulated carbide with a binding material
and compressing in molds.
DR.. William S. Bigelow, who is re-
sponsible for the cutting Of the new
United States gold coins in intaglio
instead of in relief, a new departure in
coinage, is neither a sculptor nor Il
numismatist, but the author of the re-
cent book on Buddhism and Immor
tality." He has given years of study
to the literature of the Far East.
Discussion arose at meeting Of the
Ballycastle County Antrim) Board Of
Guardians on a letter from the local
government board asking what order
the guardians had made on a former
letter from the board requesting that
the paupers should be supplied with
forks at meals. 1t was decided to in
form the local government board that
the guardians did not consider forks
ecessary.-LOndon Globe.
Two Russian sailors, wishing to de-
sert from their ship lying in the Tyne,
England, took a boat and rowed for
the open sea. They took with them
food and clothing and $500 in cash.
The flood tide set them ashore again
and they tried to land, but the sea
was running too high. For many hours
they drifted helplessly about, and final
ly their tiny craft was pitched upon
the beach of Manhaven, near South
cave where they lived four days and
nights, until their food became eX-
hausted. Hunger drove them into the
; open, and eventually they were ar
, rested.
In times past a fashion lasted, with
: slight notifications, for years. Much
the same fashion continued through the
. long reign of Louis XIV, and another
, through that of Louis Nv, while the
! ladies of the middle ages never thought
l of varying their costumes. AS for the
: Greeks and the Romans, generation
. succeeded generation with little change
: in female dress; and yet all these la
: dies of the past were more artistically
: dressed than those Of to-day. Many,
l no doubt, spent more than they could
/ afford, but when they had costly
: dress they kept it, and did not throw
D it away to replace it with another
Truth.
s Some curious thermometers were
a made. Otto de Guericke, burgomaster
D Of Magdeburg made one which was
e twenty feet long and gorgeous with
blue paint and gilt stars. 1t consisted
of large globe fastened to a tube,
both Of copper. The tube was bent
t upon itself into the form of a very
: narrow U, in which was placed the
s requisite amount of alcohcs. One arm
n of the u was shorter than the other
e and open at the top. On the liquid was
:, q float, to which was attached cord
Y passing over pulley. At the other
a end of this cord was hung a gilt an
gel, its finger pointing to a scale on
: which the degrees were painted.
Poseidon, the newest Australian gold
e field, is producing some remarkable
nuggets. One shaped exactly like a
: cricket ball, was recently found there
e lying on the surface, the finder at first
mistaking it for a mushroom. And
now from the same Mace. comes news