Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-11-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The bamboo tree does not bloom IN
til its thirtieth year.
A full grown cat has thirty teeth.
while dog has forty-two.
A nursery for the Chi 'ren of ma
irons Is connected with Glasgow
theater.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
rose leaves were imported during the
decade ending 1908.
Germany, Great Britain and the
United States produce four-fifths of the
worlds supply Of pig iron.
Canada produces nearly one-half the
worlds supply of maple sugar, about
100000 pounds annually.
French theaters receiving govern
ment subsidies are obliged to give a
free performance every year.
Guatemala now ranks next to Bra
I'll In Importance as the source of the
supply of coffee. Ecuador is rapidly
expanding is cocoa production.
About sixty miles from Melbourne,
Australia, there have been discovered
on government lands deposits of some
2O0OO,000 tons Of good black coal.
A movement has been set on foot
at Calcutta to erect a statue to Lord
Kitchener, in commemoration Of his
tenure of office as commander-in-chief
in India.
These two battleships authorized by
the last congress, which will 10 laid
down next fall, will carry heavier bat
teries than any other warships afioat
or ordered by any nation.
There are valuable race horses In
England which have teeth filled with
gold. 1t is too risky to have such
horses suffer, and go off their feet
when racing time approaches.
An old Scotswoman was advised by
her minister to take snuff to keep her
self awake during the sermon. She
answered briskly: why dinna ye put
the snuff In the sermon, mon?"
According to official figures, the
number of merchant marine steamers
of Japan at the end of last year was
1918. OF these 101 were steamers Of
more than three thousand tons.
The Oberammergau passion plays
will be given next year, from May II
to September 25. The burgomaster is-
sued notice the other day reminding
the men that they must now let their
hair grow long.
In 1905 the average daily prison pop
ulation of Russia was $4,000. Last
February 1t had increased to 1S1,137
The great majority of the inmates are
political offenders, confined without
trial or hope of being heard.
Professor Korn of Munich has estab-
lished stations of distance photography
at Berlin, Munich, Paris, London. Co
penhagen and Stockholm. He believes
1t will soon be possible to take pictures
at distance not only of individuals
but Of groups and scenes.
There are hard times ahead for
Chicago's public school "frats" and So
rorities. The president of the board of
despite the fact that he has
a son and a daughter who have be-
longed to them, declares that he has
no use for them, and the new super
intendent of schools, Mrs. Ella F'lagg
Young, Is strong in her opposition.
A woman who recently applied to
the Lambeth guardians for relief said
that for the last three months she and
her five children had lived rent free by
"squatting" in the rooms of empty
houses. In Lambeth there are many
such houses which have reverted to
the duchy of Cornwall and people are
permitted to occupy the places until
the premisis are demolished.
State Senator Ernest r. Ackerman,
of New Jersey, who is now enjoying his
annual trip abroad, is one of the best
known and most enthusiastic collectors
Of postage stamps in this country. So
arge Is his collection that he has set
apart one room in his home in Plain.
field as stamp room, in which are
some of the rarest of stamps, so dear
70 the heart of the philatelist.
1t is curious that the British naval
should have abandoned oil
'uel at time when In foreign fleets
t has been decided to substitute oil |
or coal. The British empire has very
limited resources of oil fuel, and at
present the navy's supplies have to be
imported. These supplies might be cut
,ff in time of war, and 1t is probable
or this reason that oil fuel Is being
,iven up.
A farmer standing outside his farm.
louse. saw a pair Of his pigeons fly
way. Shortly afterward he heard a
hot and the pigeons did not return
n the course Of the afternoon. as he