Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-09-10
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Napoleon said, no matter how raw
ing or raging. he never dared to let
himself get angry above the throat.
The tidal movement in the Petitco-
diac river at Amherst, N. s., repre-
sents three million horse power a day.
A proposition is being considered to
harness 1t.
Tests show that the wind movement
Of fifteen miles an hour against the
side Of building will force 1875 cubic
feet Of air through n one-sixteenth-
inch crevice In an hour.
The largest movable bridge yet
built in Asia is double leaf roller
lift affair. with an opening two hun
dred feet wide. erected by a Chicago
company for railroad in Burma.
Ghee is used in India as is butter
In America and European countries,
and In fact Is butter, so prepared that
1t never grows stale, instances being
known Of its preservation for as long
as two hundred years.
.Tectorium, a substitute for glass, is
prepared by applying varnish to a
finely meshed iron wire fabric. The
varnish consists principally Of good
linseed oil. in which the vertically
hanging wire fabric is repeatedly dip
ped up to as many as twelve times.
A tank car of 1853 barrels of cotton
seed oil recently shipped from Ken
lucky for the Seacoast Canning Com
pany is said to have arrived at East
port this week in good condition. This
being the first attempt to ship oil east
In other than barrel packages, the ex-
pertinent was awaited with much in
terest.-Kennebec Journal.
The Paris critic, Martin, once only
had taken his chocolate in a place
other than the Cafe Foy, and he then
found 1t not good. This happened at
the Regence, and the young woman at
the desk to whom he expressed his
displeasure, said: You are the only
one to complain. All Of the gentle
men OF the court who come here find
1t good" They also say, perhaps,
that you are pretty" he replied, slow
ly.
Years ago Mark Twain, who has re-
Gently celebrated his seventy-third
birthday, Used to be fond of telling
this story: At the dinner table one
day there was party of guests, for
whom Mark was doing his best in the
way Of entertaining. A lady turned
to the daughter of the humorist, then
a little girl, and said: Your father
is a very funny man." YES" re-
sponded the child, when we have COM
pany."
A little girl who had live bantam
presented to her was disappointed at
the smallness Of the first egg laid by
the bird. Her ideal egg was that OF
the ostrich, specimen Of which was
on a table in the drawing-room. One
day the ostrichs egg was missing from
Its accustomed place. 1t was subse-
Quently found near the spot where the
bantam nested, and on 1t was stuck a
piece Of paper with the words: Some
thing like this, please. Keep on try
ing"
In recent years the most prosperous
city in Germany has been Nuremberg.
where the consumption of fresh meat
for 1908 was more than $4,000, 900
pounds. This was an annual per cap-
ita consumption of fraction over 121
pounds, or about one-third of a pound
q day for man, woman and child. The
population Of Nuremberg Is largely of
the wage-earning class. In many of
the manufacturing towns Of England
the working people do not eat beef
once a week.
Breaking away from the time hon.
ored program Of essays and recita-
tions, the graduating class of the Os-
wego IN. ~ high school decided upon
a novel plan Of celebrating the COM
mencement season. The students some
time ago set about raising funds to
take the entire class on a sightseeing
trip to Washington, which was all the
graduation festivities they had. As
one paper puts 1t, They propose to
learn how the government is run, in
stead OF telling how 1t should be-"
Sausage has even from very early
times been popular table delicacy.
was familiar with It. In
Roman days the sausages of Lucania
were in high esteem. They were made
from pork and the nuts of the stone
pine. fayored with bay leaves and
other things more familiar. Bologna
was celebrated for its sausages long
before the German sausage had even
thought OF invading the rest of the
world. and until quite lately It was