Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-10-22
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Copper and wire sheets are now
produced direct from crude metal by
one process.
Asbestos of reported good quality
exists In large quantity in Raiputana
and in Afghanistan, and native COM
pany has been formed to work the de-
posits and manufacture the product.
About six hundred patents are
granted each year to British women
upon inventions, ranging from articles
distinctively feminine in nature to
motors, railroad cars, flying machines
and wireless telegraphy.
Brazil is offering an alluring field
to the American makers of patent
medicines, as against the standard
proprietary medicines there exists no
prejudice on the part of Brazilian
doctors or their patients.
The proportion of felonies relating
to property to the population in the
police area of London has risen stead
! lily of recent years. In 1907 it was
26S9 to each thousand OF the popula.
tion, higher figure than in any year
since 1895.
The population of the state of Vera
Cruz may be approximately put down
at 100000. Every settlement, vii
lage, town and city is provided with
private and public educational insti.
tutions for the elementary education
of the people
| Professor Beniamina Rinaldi pub
fishes in the Corriere dele Maestro of
Milan an interesting statistical study
of elementary education in Italy.
School teachers are the worst paid
public servants in Italy Their pay
averages from 81 to 46 cents a day.
Every metal is believed by Gruttin,
a German chemist, to have It's pecu-
liar odor, which he regards as a gase-
GUS transformation product He has
made some of the odors perceptible
for few moments at intervals by
heating the metals to 122 degrees
Fahrenheit
Sturgeon are much scarcer now in
the lower Amur River than formerly,
| owing to the fact that they are caught
contrary to law, with dragnets and
during the spawning season. Stur-
geon weighing from 100 to 100 pounds
were once caught in quantities, but
are uncommon now, the average
weight being between thirty-six and
forty pounds
skirt steak is not exactly a piece
de resistance, or flirtatious piece, as
some thoughtless sillies may think,
but Is quite another piece, the cheap
est piece Of steer 1t is a piece Of
the diaphragm, or midriff, between
lungs and bowels, and makes good
steak, stew or sausage, having the
great advantage of being absolutely
fresh, being too cheap to be kept in
storage.
1t is reported that syndicate pros
pecting $50 miles south of Suez, on
the Red Sea coast, has struck OIL the
gusher giving increasing quantities
| daily, and indicating large reserves.
The well has been properly capped
pending storage arrangements. The
possibility of cheap supply of fuel is
discovery of the greatest import
ance to Egypt, and its geographical
position should render the discovery
valuable to the British navy.
Cleanliness was not a fad in tho
middle ages. King Edward w. of En-
gland was supplied with a barber to
shave him once a week, and "if some
necessary" to wash his head and feet
One medieval laundress was given so
little to wash that the washing bill
OF ducal establishment came to 40
shilling ($960) year. Four shirts
was considered large allowance Of
linen for Lord Howard, and a point
Is made of the fact that Master How
ard was actually given a shirt to 60
to college with.
Separate schools for tubercular chill
dren may be established in Philadel-
phla In the near future. The new
school code specifically. prescribes that
children suffering from tuberculosis
can not be admitted into the public
schools, and at the same time pro-
vides for the compulsory attendance
or all children between the ages of
and 16 years. 1t is the opinion of
the educational officials that the only
solution of the problem is to set aside
special schools for the use of the
tubercular pupils.-The Medical Jour
nal.
Stromboli in pouring out streams of
lava, Is playing most unusual part.
says the London Chronicle For the
remarkable character of this molian
Isle Is that 1t vomits fame persistent
ly and cinders spasmodically The
'llghthouse of the Mediterranean has