Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The smokers of England consume
1900, 100000 cigarettes every month.
! The Swiss Matchmaking industry
has shrunkeD to half of Its one-time
size.
The oldest waiter in Germany, aged
II, recently retired from his work at
Elbing.
In 1908 the American merchant ma
rine carried only ~ per cent of the
freight between the United States and
Uruguay.
New Mexico produced 2,467. .937 short
tons of coal last year. a decrease of a
trifie more than per cent from the
output Of 1907.
France has followed the lead Of the
United States in the establishment of
a laboratory for the investigation OF
mine accidents.
The cruiser battleship Invincible of
the British navy maintained a speed
of 33A miles an hour for eight hours
in a recent test
About 1000, 100000 barrels of oil, or
enough to fill the Panama canal twice,
was produced In the United States dur
Ing the last fifty years
Brazilian scientists have succeeded
in developing new variety of coffee,
with unusually large, fine berries,
which ripen very early.
English was spoken by 100000
people at the beginning of the nine
teenth century. Now more than 100,-
100000 people speak 1t.
Asbestos is being used now in the
construction Of warships to a consid-
cradle extent, to replace the infamma-
BILE wood and the heavy iron.
There are 100000 different species
Of insects on the earth. Some are so
small that 1000 of them are only
equal in size to grain of sand.
The pineapple is proving the most
important and valuable of all the
fruits in Formosa A single firm had
an output of 100000 tons last year.
If some holes are punched through
a coal shovel from the back, dust and
slack will drift through and the rough
ened places will prevent coal sliding
of.
In Australia there are ants which
build their nests along a north and
south line so accurately that a trav-
eler may direct his courses by their
aid.
There are in Great Britain $4,000
holdings Of over one acre. of which
81 per cent are under fifty acres,
whereas only 3h per cent are over 800
acres.
The project of linking India and
Ceylon by a thirty-eight-mile railroad
bridge that will have coral reefs to
support It's piers is again being agi-
ltated.
In Massachusetts, tree planting is
systematically conducted along the
public highways. Fifteen thousand
trees have been planted in a few
years.
A cigar lighter and incandescent
lamp, mounted on the same handle
and operated by the current from ig-
milton batteries, is a convenience for
automobilists.
OF late there has been an extraor-
dinary development of service in fine,
new modern fast ships between South
America and ports in England. Ger
many and Italy.
Work has begun In Germany on a
university professors airship, of the
general plan Of Count Zeppelin's, but
larger and having wooden instead OF
aluminium frames.
Twelve biologists, seven topograph-
ers and three engineers, divided
among fourteen field parties, are ex-
ploring the mysteries of Alaska for
the geological survey.
A wire screen. supported at the
Snds by curved metal springs, has been
patented by an Illinois man as a pill
low, which he claimed to be cool and
comfortable and sanitary.
Motor boat service has been intro
duced on the Viga Canal from Mexico
City to Lake Xochimilco. the trip be-
Ing made In about three hours. s.
Malo is the head Of the concern.
There is telephone line over the
Alps. but the record elevation In this
respect belongs to the United States.
there being line at Camp Bird. Col.
which is $4,000 feet above the sea
level.
According to the census of 1905 the
: population Of the Ave principal cities
In Saxony was as follows: Dresden,
b1s,296; Leipzig. 50S.627; Chemnitz.