Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-03-04
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duty in Japan-there are no buttons.
New York City is not city of spend
thrifts, for its savings banks have
2,S70.659 depositors.
New York City has more automo-
biles run at public expense than any
other three cities in the world.
There are now under construction in
New York City buildings which will
aggregate in value about $1O6,OO0,OOO
Japanese mothers do not kiss their
children, though they may press their
lips to the forehead or cheek of a
very young baby.
Japanese inns furnish fresh tooth
brushes every morning free to every
guest. The brush is of wood, shaped
like pencil. and frayed to tufty
brush of fiber at the large end.
Members of the London Stock Elk.
change were trimmed by fakir sell.
Ing limitations" of common almond
nuts at 2 cents each. But the "imi.
tations" turned out to be real nuts,
showing that brokers know more about
melons than nuts.
Steam railways of the United
States carry large number of passen-
gers each year, but the railways of
New York City carry Sc per cent more
than all Of them combined. During
tne last year these lines carried 1,3OO,-
100000 passengers.
A Chicagoan who recently advertised
that he had stove for sale received
among large number of answers the
following: "If you have kitchen
stove, water front, or nice single bed
that you would care to trade for new
ostrich plumes or brand-new mourn
Ing bonnet, would be glad to hear
from you and will give you a good
trade."-Chicago Record-Herald.
Snakes. toads and frogs have al
ways been held In high regard as re-
medal agents. Thus, in Devonshire
the standard treatment for scrofula Is
to dry the hind leg of toad and wear
1t around the neck in silken bag; or
else cut of that part of the living
reptile that corresponds to the
part affected In the patient and
wrap the dainty bit in parchment and
wear 1t around the neck. A remedy
of good repute for rheumatism in this
same county is to burn toad to ashes,
tie the dust in piece of green silk
and wear 1t around the throat
Francis Wilson declares that an cleo
trician who lives in New Rochelle is
the most absent-minded man in the
world. Mr.. Wilson's door bell got out
Of order and refused to ring. Meeting
the electrician, who was also a friend,
he asked him to call and make the re-
pairs. Several days afterward he re-
him that the matter had not
been attended to and inquired when he
could find 1t convenient to look in after
it. The electrician explained: 81
called at your house the same day you
asked me and rang your front door
bell again and again and nobody paid
the slightest attention to me-"
The British Postmaster General in
his annual report says: ''The result of
penny postage with the United States,
in October, 1908, is an in
crease Of about 25 per cent between
the two countries" During the year
S4,825,000 kilograms. passed over the
post Office wires, decrease of 1.3 per
cent, owing to the increasing use of
the telephone. Conversations by tele-
phone numbered 22,502,0 ,024. The years
postal revenue was $90,000,O00 and the
expense Of operation was $65 1000 900.
The net profit was about s23,500,O00
and telephones earned ST.
100000 net, decrease of about ST.
100000 from 1907-08.
Official trials of "whistling kitch-
en-" for army use have been made by
the Japanese war office, and the results
are said to have been eminently sue
cussful. The inventor is paymas-
ter named Okezaki. The kitchen trav-
els on two wheels and can be drawn
over almost any gronnd by one horse.
It not only boils rice and heats soup,
but it notifies by whistle when the
cooking is finished. 1t can take up
supply of water from the muddiest of
bitches or ponds and transform 1t into
good drinking condition and carry 1t
in that state to the front. The We
hicle can be taken asunder and carried
by two men.-Japan Mail.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana
has made himself we'll known in the
Senate offices at Washington by banish-
ing the air of inaccessibility which
hangs around the corridor. Over on