Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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pounds pressure it is 274.3.
A 2,000-year-old oak tree stands
near Dax, France, the branches of
which shelter 500 persons.
Only about one of every thousand
married couples lives to celebrate the
golden wedding anniversary.
The great majority of immigrant ar
rivals at the present time are coming
from Austria, Russia and Italy.
A craps basket more than sixteen
feet long was made for exhibition in a
recent parade at Westfeld, N. Y.
News paper is made by machinery at
the rate of 150 to 400 feet a minute,
according to width and quality.
Lettuce as a food plant has rec
ord of being eaten by Persian kings
more than two thousand years ago.
The Carnegie Steel Company pays
about one-seventh of the entire taxes
collected by the city of Youngstown,
Ohio.
OoAh6 CiCSIliNlly, AldShd, Juc
most northerly town in America, is
one of the best lighted cities in the
world.
An elephant in the wild state has
such a delicate sense of smell that it
can detect an enemy nearly a mile
away.
The first American flag ever made in
the United States OF America, made OK
bunting, recently was sold at auction
in London.
Oklahoma has the greatest Indian
population Of any of the states. The
last time they were counted there were
117,370 of them.
Chicago made new building rec
ord for itself in 1909, when the cost
OF buildings Of all kinds erected made
grand total Of $90,0O0.OO0.
A recently invented rescue stretcher
Tor mines has oxygen tanks at one end
opening into a bag into which mans
head and shoulders may be placed.
There has been invented in Spain a
cylindrical barrel for grapes, divided
into four sections, to ventilate the con-
tents and prevent them being crushed.
The Marblehead, one of the oldest
cruisers In the navy, has been COM
missioned in the service of the Cali
fornia state naval militia at Mare
Island.
For use In manual training schools
Wisconsin man has patented tool
chest which may be converted into a
work bench by clamping it to the top
OF two desks.
A balanced grand piano has been
invented in England One side is a
duplicate Of the other, and the lid is
hinged in the center so as to distribute.
the sound waves evenly.
An arm to be suspended over q roll
OF wrapping paper. carrying a roller
to imprint merchants advertisement
on every piece of paper torn off, is a.
New York mans invention.
A Pittsburg widow, who was COM
PEELED to sell her beautiful hair in
order to keep her children from starv-
Ing, has received an offer of marriage,
from a rich man In Oklahoma.
According to the last census there
were in Holland about 2,62O,OOO head
Of live stock, nearly one-half cattle.
The dairy ration is composed largely
OF oil meal or oil cake and grass or
hay.
A metal seat, hinged and suspended
by chains from window casing, has.
been patented by an Ohio man for
window cleaners as we'll as for use as
a shelf on which food may be placed
to cool.
Gold pieces are the only coins of
the United States which are worth
their face value intrinsically. A dou--
BILE eagle contains $40 worth of gold,
without counting the one-tenth part
Of copper.
On the principle Of the slide from.
bone is a gas fixture invented by an
Indiana man, so constructed that the
burner may be slid to any point along
the wall Of room where the light is.
most needed.
The Porto Rican agricultural exper-
iment station reports that Java coffee
growing Is now being introduced into
the island to meet the demand in the
United States for "a highly favored
aromatic coffee"
For telephoning from moving train
an Iowa man has patented device
consisting Of metal bar to be sus-
pended from locomotive or car low
enough to come in contact with stand
ards set In the ties.
The first trust in the United States
to pass the $10O,OO0,0OO mark in cap
italization was the United States.
Leather Company, organized in 1893.