Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-22
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Sleeping sickness has been known in
West Africa for one hundred years.
In Norway the average length of life
is greater than in any other country.
Russia is establishing numerous
wireless stations over its great terri
tory.
An electric machine has been made
to wash and purify tAe air in any
room.
1t Is estimated that 60 00O-horse pow
er can be easily developed from the
st. Lawrence river.
An Alabama man, ninety-seven years
OF age, says he has eaten hot biscuits
regularly all his life.
The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her.
ring season has yielded S0O,OOO,OOO her.
rings, which sold for $5,0OO,OOO.
Formaldehyde is used In meat ex.
ported to England, and the government
Is making Investigations as to its eff.
feet on the health Of consumers.
Yale students are teaching more than
one hundred New Haven boys in
classes under the direction of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Rice stands first In the list of Slams
agricultural products. The average
yearly export of rice for the last five
years has amounted to 94S.3S9 tons.
The Belgian minister of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Congo to study sleeping
sickness and to seek means to cure 1t.
Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie Is chairman
OF the committee which proposes to
build woman's clubhouse in Brook
lyn at cost of 100000. At a mass
meeting held the other day in the
chapel Of Packer institute stock sub
scriptions to the amount of $4,000
were received. The largest single con-
tribution was that of the Brooklyn
Women's Club, which guaranteed
$500. The building will not be start
ed until the committee has the full
100000.
One Of the marvels of the age Is the
extreme cheapness of ocean carriage
The modern tramp steamer could car
ry her cargo one thousand miles for
Sd ton and make profit of 10 per
cent. A modern tramp steamer could
leave England and go around the world
by the two capes, and even then carry
cargo at 92 IS ton. These are mar
velous figures, and they show to what
extent the world Is indebted to the
carrying trade.-Cassier's Magazine
for May.
The population Of southern Califor-
MIA, according to Colonel Drake, who
Is the worlds foremost statistician in
such matters, can not fail, In very
short time, to exceed twenty million
souls, for there is human breed there
which multiplies with the miraculous
rapidity Of Belgian hares. When Long
Beach had population Of only little
more than thousand there sprang up
in few months, from the smallest
real estate agents.
AS a specimen Of how practical the
Japanese are with their knowledge Of
western science and determination to
deal with disease, they have levied a
tax on every household to produce two
rats every month. A fine Is imposed
II the rats are not caught and pro-
duced at the time of inspection
Every rat Is examined, and II found
to be plague infected the house from
which 1t came is to be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. Twice year
every house and shop has to disgorge
all its effects and be completely cleaned
out The things only go back after
sanitary nspection.-Java Times.
Perhaps the reason the English are
so far behind in flying is because they
worked the whole thing out long ago,
and are sick and tired Of 1t, for John
Milton, in Britain to the Conquest"
says that the youth King Harold, last
of the Saxons, strangely aspiring, had
made and fitted wings to his hands
and feet. With these, on the top of
tower, spread out to gather air. he
flew more than furlong; but, the
wind being too high. he came fiutter-
ing to the ground, manning all his
limbs; yet so conceited was he of his
art that the cause of his fall was
attributed to the want of tail. as
birds have, which he forgot to make.
At the banquet given in her honor
after the Nobel prize had been award
ed to her Miss Selma Lagerlof, the
Swedish author, spoke Of the pleasure
such a festival would have given Fred
rika Bremen. She said all old maids
should shower blessings on the mem
ory of Miss Bremen for showing them
how to attain an Independent place
in the world and an object in life.
She then pointed out the change which
had taken place In public opinion since