Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-03-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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The handkerchief of the French SOL
der has printed ON it certain sanitary
rules desirable to observe during a
campaign.
The following is the shortest sentence
containing all the letters Of the alpha
bet: Pack my box with fve dozen liq-
uOr jugs-Home Notes.
South Dakota is congratulating her
s;lf on the greatest gold year in her
history. The report of the state mine
inspector, filed with the governor,
shows the states gold production for
the last year to have been S7,4G0.000.
Missouri is the greatest tobacco pro-
ducing state. The quantity Of the weed
produced during the fiscal year which
ended June 80 last, was 71,212.212
pounds, 100000 pounds more than
was produced by North Carolina, which
comes next.
There are now 667 women students
In the University of Glasgow. This is
said to be the largest number on rec
ord. Queen Margaret College is the
women's hall, which is presided over
by Miss Galloway, LID, and Janet
Spens, VI. A.
About 10000 fox skins are sold out of
Maine every year. Very few Of The sly
animals are shot. Many are killed by
the use Of poisoned. bait, while hun
dreds Of others are killed in drives,
known as the New Hampshire meth
od."-Fur News.
A New York woman shopper who is
fond of figures has estimated that the
time lost by customers each day in one
Of the large department stores in wait
ing for their change is equal to the
average time of labor for one person
for seventy days.
This year 1854 women registered in
Boston to vote for school committee.
Twenty-nine years ago, when the priv
ilege Of voting at these elections was
first granted to women, only 900 regis
tered, and for the following nine years
Motorists who suffer with cold hands
while driving their cars may have re-
lief by using a steering wheel provided
with electric heat. An English inven-
ton describes a steering wheel with a
core that carries two electricaily-heat-
ed coils insulated one from the other
and from the Outer rim
Sir William Wallace, the British resi-
dent-general of northern Nigeria, has
reported to the home government that
cannibal tribes owning hundreds of
thousands of horses in Nigeria are be-
ing subdued by peaceful means, and
/ that their country contains perhaps the
richest tin and copper fields in the
world.
Booker 7. Washington was born near
Hale's Ford, Va, about 1883. His
mother was a slave in the Burroughs
family where she was known as Jane
Burroughs. Her husband lived on a
neighboring plantation. Booker Wash
ington was educated at Hampton Insti-
tute, Virginia, where he graduated in
1875 He taught there until he was Sc
ected head of Tuskegee Institute,
which he organized.
Miss Harriet S. Hayward, of Brock
ton, Mass, Is the first woman to be
elected by county in Massachusetts
to preside at a county teachers associa-
tion. She is the primary supervisor of
schools in Brockton, and the Plymouth
County Teachers Association. over
which she was selected to preside, is
one of the largest in the state. The
meeting is said to have been the best
ever held.
Il When the Cloughey County Down,
Ireland) lifeboat went to the assistance
of the French bark Croisette, which
had been driven ashore on a submerged
reef, the men refused to leave the ves-
sci without little half-breed fox ter
rier. The animal was eventually found
and rescued amid the cheers Of the
bark's crew, who were then brought
ashore in the lifeboat and Hospitality
housed by the villagers.
The Ligue Rationale Aerienne re
Gently received from Commandant Dol
fuss the offer Of prize of f400 for the
first kite Of French construction capa,
BILE Of lifting a man to the height OF
200 meters, and Of maintaining him In
The air for period of at least one
hour. 1t is interesting to see that at
tention is thus again directed to the
use of kites, which would appear to
have been somewhat neglected owing to
the success Of the apparatus Of the aer'
oplane type.
. A party Of Maine hunters has the old
way Of catching birds by putting salt
I on their tails "beaten to frazzle," as
! President Roosevelt would say. The