Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-29
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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In tnlS country In lJU5 neCIeu 9oi,4
All.
Since 1878 there have been 1921
in Germany. In the United
States in the last year alone there
were 34,500.
The benefit reported to be derived
by farmers from their cooperative so
cieties in continental countries, es-
pecially Denmark, has stimulated the
formation of like societies in the Unit
ed Kingdom.
1t is now held that the area of mer-
chantable forests in Canada has been
very much overestimated. A recent
Ontario estimate was that the timber
used at the present rate will last the
province only thirty years.
Pipeline connections, says the Amer
lean Machinist, have been completed
by which it is possible to pipe oil
from the Oklahoma wells to New York
harbor. Oil has been started on the
long journey of $500 miles. This is
the longest pipeline in the world.
There are many small savings banks
in Germany which accept deposits of
10 pfennigs (2h cents). Thirty per
cent Of the people of Prussia have saw
ings accounts. Travellers are struck
by the absence of beggars. The gov
ernment permits no person to solicit
aims
American engineers have begun to
excavate the ancient city of Sardis,
about five hours distant by rail from
Smyrna. The work will last two to
five years, and 1t is the intention to
lay the entire city bare. Two hundred
men will be employed eight months
each year.
A scheme for the construction of an
elevated electric railway in Toxic is at
present under consideration 1t is pro-
posed that there shall be two lines.
one running from the east to the west
Of the city, and the other from the
north to the south. The cost of con-
struction Of the projected lines is es-
timated at $12,OO0,OOO.
Signore d'Annunzio, the famous Ital-
ian novelist and poet, has been exult-
ing in the extent Of his vocabulary.
MANY people," he tells an interviewer.
find 800 words sufficient for all the
purposes of writing and speaking. In
my works you will find at least $4,000
different words. How many words
fallen into disuse have I brought back
to life! How many other words have
I endowed with an entirely new mean
ing!"
A new system Of treating eggs so as
to prevent them from growing stale
when in cold storage has been discov-
cred in Rochester. This consists in
subjecting the eggs to an electrical cur
rent. The theory is that eggs when
placed In storage are alive and are
gradually frozen to death, whereas If
the life Is destroyed before they are
placed in storage they do not taste
stale, even when kept on ice for long
period.
One of the strangest clocks ever
made was that constructed by man
in Milan. This clock was constructed
of bread. The maker, being poor
man, set apart every day for some time
a portion of his daily bread, which, by
a process of which he would not di-
vulge the secret, he was able to make
as hard as metal From these frag-
ments of bread he thus constructed his
clock, which is said to be an excellent
one, keeping perfectatime.
Hotels, according to an article in tho
Hotel World, should be provided with
portable dog kennels, to be rented to
the guests who insist on taking their
dogs to rooms. Such kennel should
be about four feet long and of a width
that would allow 1t to go through the
door of room. 1t should be construct
ed of wood, lined part way up with
zinc or sheet metal. The upper part
should be covered with open wire work,
and the bottom should be provided
with broad-tread casters.-Popular Me-
chanics.
Lord Byron had decided views on
diet. His fear Of fatness rather than
, it's suitability to his work dictated
, the starvation to which he subjected
, himself. In 1918 he lived upon tea
and six biscuits day, and in 1916 his
diet consisted of thin slice of bread
for breakfast and vegetable dinner.
He chewed mastic and tobacco to keep
+, down his hunger in between. While
at Athens he drank vinegar and water,
,, and seldom ate more than little rice.
and Don JUAN" 1t Is said, was writ
ten mainly on gin and water. And yet
t Trelawney has recorded that no man
, had brighter eyes or clearer voice.
In these days of scarcity of prov
: ender and high cost of living it's a
slight crumb of comfort to hear of one
a commodity that is plentiful. It's crab
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