Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-04-22
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now be done from the chauffeur's seat.
One of the first telephone exchanges
in this country was opened in New
Haven in 1873.
The maximum wage of brakemen
on English railways has just been
fixed at S7.7S week.
Peanut cake seems to be supplant-
ing cotton seed cake as the preferred
food for Swedish cattle.
Vacuum suction combs are now in
use in stables to curry horses. An
electrically driven fan produces the
necessary vacuum.
In Liberia coffee trees attain a
height of more than twenty feet. The
price of the product is s and cents
pound at the plantation.
The wireless apparatus on the Gu
nard liner Caronia is the most power
full of any in steamship service, hav-
ing radius of 1,200 miles.
A new windmill apparatus for gen.
Grating electricity for farm use has
been perfected in England. storage
battery supplies the current when the
wind is not blowing.
At one of the most important gro
ceries in Hamburg they think they
are doing well to dispose of thirty
to forty pounds month of sweet po-
tatoes to resident Americans.
That people will eat elephant meat
with relish has been proved by
butcher in Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main, to
his own profit and without the knowl-
edge of his customers. This enter
prising tradesman learned that a vi
cious elephant was to be killed and
made bargain for the carcass. With
IN few days that elephant was trans
formed into $500 pounds of sausage
meat and every pound was disposed Of
at good price.
1t was year ago that the London
post office directory contained for the
first time among the list of trades
"aeroplane manufacturers" There was
only one then, but now six are emu
merated under that heading. Subsid-
iary trades are springing up. Two
firms announce themselves as aero
plane engine manufacturers, two are
aeroplane fabric makers and there is
one propeller maker, as we'll as a
provider of "aeroplane timber and
bends"
Whitefeld, one of the founders Of
Methodism, who died in 1910. was a
strenuous preacher. His usual pro-
gram was forty hours solid speaking
each week, and this to congregations
measured in thousands, but he often
spoke sixty hours a week. This was
not all. For "after his labors, instead
of taking rest he was engaged in Of
fering up prayers and intercessions or
in singing hymns, as his manner was,
in every house to which he was in
vited."
Is woman ever justified in poi
soning her husband? The question is
suggested by recent incident in
Servia. Sara Chumitch seems to have
had an undesirable husband, for he
was a notorious and implacable usurer.
At the moment when he was about to
ruin several families who were in
debt his wife intervened and poisoned
him. Next day she received a letter
of gratitude, signed by hundreds of
citizens. She was acquitted by the
jury and left the court amid cheering
crowds
Says the Pekin and Tien-Tsin Times:
"a novel sort of crime was discoy-
cred by the Tien-Tsin police when a
portly native was arrested and asked
to explain his embonpoint. He had a
thieves bag around his waist, filled
with dead cats to the number of seven.
one of them, very fine specimen of
the tortoise shell, was still quite warm.
In smaller bag was found the lure:
it consisted of bits of dried fish treated
with some deadly poison The man
was sent up to the yamen, where he
received thirty blows and one months
imprisonment"
Ernesto Nathan, Mayor of Rome
who declined on several occasions to
accept decoration from King Victor
Emmanuel, was finally forced by
clever ruse on the part of the king
to take the grand cross of the crown
of Italy. Nathan was making a call
at the Quirinal, and when about to
depart was asked to take from the
queen little parcel to his wife. The
box contained the decoration. which
the mayor was compelled to accent
and by virtue of which he became a
member Of the small fraternity of
which his sovereign is the head.
Although the use of telephones in
mines is not of recent origin, the ad.
vantages are, perhaps, hardly really
appreciated until they have once been
tried. Probably at no time in the his
tory of mining has there been a great