Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-11-05
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wholesome exercises.
The house fly becomes full grown
In about four weeks.
The railroads of the world are val
ued at s27,775.00O,00O.
Muscles to the number of 4061 have
been counted in the body of moth.
Spiral wire hoops now take the place
Of wooden hoops on barrels and kegs |
Whooping cough kills more children
under 5 years Of age than scarlet
fever.
There Is now an international stand |
ard unit Of candle power, which will
be soon in use in every country except
Germany.
OF the 100000, 900 gallons of wine
manufactured in the civilized world
every year about 100000 are made
in the United States.
Waterways in Alaska navigable by
steamers approximate 1000 miles, OF
which nearly 2,7O0 are in the water
shed Of the Yukon river
The deadly gauge of Nero's drunken.
ness was finely wrought intaglic
ring. When he could not see the fig
ures on 1t he knew he was drunk.
At the present rate of increase in
travel 1t is estimated that the rail
ways Of Manhattan and the Bronx will
carry 1,7O0,O00.0O0 passengers in 1920
According TO statement bv the
German colonial secretary, the value
of the diamondiferous deposits in Ger.
man Southwest Africa amounts to
$3.50, 900, 900.
Ancient Egyptians to save their eyes
decorated their eyelids with beautiful
black velvety antimony paint, which
protected from glare and Egyptian
sore eyes. The paint went back near
the ear to end In a symbol.
"The way in which some tailors give
credit" said Judge Rentoul, at the city
OF London court, "is awful. The idea
Of giving man credit for $3.50 worth
Of clothes. Firms who give such credit
must charge enormous prices"
For many years the observatory OF
the vatican has been divided, a por.
tion being on the vatican hill, some
little distance from the square of St.
Peters, but by recent rearrangement
the entire establishment will be moved
to the top Of the hill.
The men of 40, the California pio-
neers, are rapidly dwindling. There
are now only seven members Of the
Sacramento Society of California Pho
neers. The eighth member recently
| died, and the survivors acted as pail.
bearers and mourners.
The researches of Professor Flinders
Petrie at Memphis have resulted in the
unearthing of the palace Of King
Apries, the Pharaoh Hophra Of the
Scriptures and contemporary of Jcre,
miah. Armor and bronze figures OF
gods were found in the ruins.
The Austrian Alpine Club has recent.
| ly come into possession of fine build.
ing, the gift of the city of Munich
The new building Is excellently situat.
! ed on the banks Of the river Isar
The club has a great quantity of in.
teresting material pertaining to the
Alpine district and 1t Is proposed to
start an Alpine museum in its new
home.
new use for convicts has been
found in Missouri, where a number
were taken out Of the penitentiary al
Jefferson City and put to work on the
Galloway bottoms helping the farm
ers save their wheat from the ad
vancing waters Of the Missouri river
The prisoners worked we'll, enjoyed
their outing and would welcome an
other chance to get outside the walls
And now the southern corn "pone'
and Johnny cake" are in danger. A
story comes up from Durham, N. G..
that there are some serious cases oi
pellagra under treatment in that dis
trict. Pellagra Is disease Of the
skin somewhat resembling leprosy. Its
appearance has caused many families
to give up the use of cornmeal as food
1t being held that the disease finds Its
causation In maize.
The sign Of the times is that homi
eide Is going to stop short and stay
stopped here better than in any place
the world has ever known, the Golden
Age Of Imperial Rome and England
not excepted. Time may yet come
when child at midnight with a bun
die Of long green may go through New
York's streets and no thief dare molest
! There are places In the United State:
where even stealing a chicken is un
known, and no door needs lock or bar
New York Press
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