Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-01-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



Natives Of the Upper Congo eat GER
tain kinds Of caterpillars.
The use OF barges in the coastwiss
trade is increasing enormously.
Nitrogen iodide is so sensitive that
the touch of fiy's foot would ex.
plode 1t.
Cotton plants require little care in
Honduras. They produce cotton in
luxuriant abundance during nine
months of the year.
Glass water pipes covered with as.
phalt have been in use for long time
in some parts of Germany with sue.
cess. They give thorough protection
against the entrance of gases and
acids.
Somebody has invented a combined
electric lamp and shaving mirror In
which the reflector can be arranged to
throw the light only upon the face
below the eyes, no light falling upon
the mirror or the eyes,
Oficial statistics for the first six
months Of 1909 show a continued de-
cline In the population of France The
marriages decreased 6,201 as com.
pared with 1908, divorces increased by
543, births decreased 1882 and deaths
increased by 25,019
| Dorando Pietri, better known aa
Dorando, has just been married in
Capri to his old sweetheart. Teresa
Dendi. The young couple will live In
villa. which Dorando has built with
the money earned In America He ia
said to have made small fortune.
Simply because Benjamin Franklin
associated electricity with lightning,
and that most people are more or less
afraid Of lightning, electricity is be-
lieved to be dangerous factor In flra
hazards This Is not true, for It has
been proved time and again that cleo
tricity causes fewer fires than a mum
Der OF other things about the house or
Office
Governments of the federated states
of Germany are considering the intro
duction Of land tax OF the "unearned
increment" The measure is expect.
ed to raise $5000,000 annually. 1t Is
held that such tax would rest heavl.
ly on spectators and landowners in
cities, but lightly on country districts,
where values increase very slowly II
at all
'Pajamas" means "leg garments"
They were eagerly adopted by Euro.
peans In India from the Mohamme.
dams, probably by the Portuguese In
the first place. Earlier Anglo Indian
generations knew them as Tong
drawers or mosquito drawers" and
still earlier generations as "mogul
breeches," under which name they are
referred to by Beaumont and Fletcher.
A dressmaking establishment In Bos-
ton almost entirely operated by cleo
tricity has an electric cutter capable
Of cutting out 250 thicknesses Of cloth
at once, a button sewing machine
which puts on 5000 buttons day, a
buttonhole machine making 400 an
hour, sleeve sewers, tucking machines,
waist and skirt machines making 1900
to $500 stitches minute.-Chicago
Journal.
Cool off" is an Americanism which
has invaded England, but by no means
the only one The London Chronicle
remarks: I'm many shops one finds
the word candy being used Familiarity,
and it no longer means the jaw-break-
ing but wholly delicious sugar candy
of ones youth. 1t Is the same with
cracker which used to convey to the
English child's mind only something
that belonged to Christmas time and
could be pulled. The one surprise OF
to-day Is that weekend which ought
to be an Americanism, is really good
old North Englandism."
1t was Halley's comet which ap-
peared In 1865 at the time of the in
vasion OF William the Conqueror and
again in 1456 when Constantinople
was besleged by the Turks and the
crescent-shaped tail was mighty
omen. Halley's comet duly appeared
in 1859, somewhat retarded by the at
traction Of Jupiter and Saturn, its per-
turbatlons having been accurately cal
F, culated by the French astronomer,
Clairaut 1t appeared again in 1888.
and is now once more rapidly ap-
preaching the earth and the sun, hav-
ing passed the orbit Of Jupiter In
April last.-Popular Science Monthly
for November.
Among the photographs in the col
lection made by an American tourist
who recently returned from the Orient
is one showing a mammoth olive tree
in the garden OF Gethsemane The
trunk is divided near the ground, CIV
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