Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
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Ivory doubles IN price every few
years.
Brandy was first made in France in
1910.
The first pair of spectacles was made
by an Italian in 1893.
Norway has a factory In which "a
600 pounds Of haddock can be turned
into fish balls in a day.
Though hydrophobia has been
stamped out OF Britain. It is still ram
pant in Germany, where every year
over $500 dogs and cats afflicted with
the disease are destroyed.
When the post Office was first opened
at kai-Feng, China. the clerks had a
fight with some Of the men who bought
stamps and refused to go away until
the stamps were licked and stuck on
their envelopes for them.
The present wave OF agitation for
the amendment Of the British copy
right law is gaining strength from the
discovery that q great-grandson OF
Robert Burns Is now making q pre-
cartous living as a mender OF pots and
pans.
Queensland and Victoria possess
only small ostrich farms, which have
not produced very encouraging results.
In all there are now about two thou
sand ostriches in Australia. The In
feraor feathers are used at home and
the more valuable ones are exported.
chiefly In Germany.
The French government takes Is per
cent OF all the money stsked at the
casinos Of the seaside and other health
resorts on the little horses and other
gambling devices. For the season Of
l9OS-O9 this percentage amounted to
$94S,393, the summer season natural
ly contributing the greater part-over
100000.
The duke Of Atholl holds part of his
lands conditionally on his presenting
white rose to his sovereign when
honored with visit. The late Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert once were
his guests at time when these flow
ers were out Of season and the duke
had much difficulty in obtaining two
roses for the occasion.
The court house at Washington, Ma
son County, Kentucky, in which Uncle
Tom Of Uncle Toms Cabin" fame was
sold, was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed on August 13. The building
was erected in 1894. 1t was the sale
OF the aged negro at this place that
gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis
for her story.-Green Bag.
One of the main features Of the agri-
cultural exhibition at Allahabad, In.
| dia, next month will be the tillags
| field, on which as large as possible a
choice Of plows and other implements
, OF tillage will be regularly at work, so
| that visitors can see for themselves
the depth and quality Of the tilth. and
the weight and draft OF the various
implements.
About one million persons In the
working period of life in the United
States are on the sick list each year
The cost OF their illness Is about ST.
100000 a year. OF which at least
one-half Is preventable. Therefore. the
estimate. considered low. OF the pre-
lventable loss from disease and death In
this country is $3.50. 900, 000.-Protes
sor Irving Fisher.
, Henrik lbsen's posthumous works
have Just been published in Norway.
They consist Of collection of verse,
biographical material and sketches OF
the plots and morals of his plays, as
well as the text OF the plays as first
completed. the last showing the great
planning of his plays in advance and
to thorough revision.
Wilfred Stevens, OF Shakopee, Mimi.
translator in the service OF the United
States government, has working
knowledge of twenty.odd languages
and can converse is as many dialects
OF various other tongues as may be
demanded OF him. He knows more
diplomatic secrets than any official
Of the government, with the possible
exception of the President and the
Secretary OF State.
Hookworm can certainly be quickly
conquered, malaria more slowly and
consumption most slowly. but almost
as completely. Consumption is vir
tually the same great, sweeping de-
stroyer In modern cities of science
that 1t was a century ago. say, in Lon.
don. Indeed. since the great grip cpl.
demic OF 1881 consumption seems
worse than 1t ever was before and the
grip epidemic of twenty years ago did
not make things any better.-New