Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-11-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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The first biblical Illustrative art
consisted in the symbolic frescoes of
the Catacombs.
Cheap labor has been the principal
handicap in introducing modern ma
chinery in India.
The first printed Green Testaments
were those of Erasmus, published at
Basel by Froben in 1916.
Berlin has about a hundred fac
tories for, linen goods - forty more
than the kingdom of Saxony.
Seventy thousand Americans will
settle this year on 10000 to $4,000
farms in the Canadian Northwest and
take with them a wealth of $70,000,-
900.
The Bug Bible is so called because
of its rendering of Psalm xci, 8:
Afraid of bugs by night" Our pres
ent version "a. D. 1551) reads: Ter
ror by night"
There are 251 postal savings banks
in operation in the Philippines with
8,408 depositors and $717,000 on de-
posit. Filipino depositors number
4,591 and Americans 1876.
The German government has on
Lake Constance nineteen-knot, $50
horse power boat for raising kites in
weather observations. The results are
daily telegraphed to the chief forecast
| ing Offices.
Ex-President Castro's decree cancel
ing the contracts of the National
Match Mandatory" and the "Vene-
zuelan Salt Monopoly, Limited" has
been annulled by the federal and cas-
sation court of Venezuela.
To celebrate the advance of the
printers art, particularly its increase
| in speed, Caxton memorial Bible
was wholly printed and bound in
twelve hours in 1877. Only one hun
dred copies were struck off.
In the annual report of the Russo
Chinese Bank it is stated that the clos
ing of the free port in Vladivostok
has led to commercial crisis in the
Far East Before the closure took
place goods were imported in such
large quantities that for long time
new import sales will be difficult.
Labor distress in New Zealand Is
sending many skilled and unskilled
workers to Australia. Public works
expenditure Is reduced from $12000,-
900 to $7.O00,O00 year. One-seventh
(130,000) of the people depend upon
the state for their living, and all de-
partments are retrenching. That is
one Of the chief dangers of public own
ership of public utilities and produc-
ing works.
English vegetarians are awfully sore
on the Japs for proving traitors to
their old vegetarian mode of living
and are predicting endless calamity,
even ruin, saying: When relocating
peoples take up meat the result is al
ways disastrous to their health" Japs
know what to eat and are too wise to
listen to any British advice intended
to weaken them as warriors.-New
York Press.
The Germans are developing their
high school at Kiao-chau, China, with
their usual thoroughness. Its scope is
even larger than the proposed Hong
Kong University. Except a grant of
$4,000 from the Chinese Government.
the whole cost is paid by the German
Government. German textbooks and
other works are translated into Chi
nese in a department of the school.
says the London Times.
The Industrial census of Germany
for 1907 (just published by the Ger
man imperial bureau of statistics)
gives 4,O25,591 Industrial concerns.
employing 14,34S,3S9 persons, of whom
3,51O,466 were women. The increase
in twelve years is 4,O79,12O-a ratio
about four times as great as that of
the employing concerns. These figures
do not include railroad, postal, tele
graph and telephone employees.
"Adventurer" is word, once highly
respectable; that has degenerated with
the lapse of time 1t was once a COM
pliment to call gentleman an adven-
turer, and the Merchant Venturers of
Bristol, England are still respected.
The Hudson's Bay Company dates
back from May 2, 1870. In the royal
charter 1t was described as the Gov
ernor and Company of Adventures of
England Trading in Hudson's Bay"
What is perhaps the most curious
book In the world is possessed by the
Prince de Ligne. This work is neither
printed nor manuscript, the text be-
ing formed of letters cut In vellum
and pasted on blue paper. Notwith.
standing this extraordinary method of
presenting the text, the book is as