Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-06-24
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The most valuable leather belt ever
made sold for $4,000. 1t is 243 feet
long, " inches wide, and three-ply.
Any child over Z can be prosecuted
as a criminal in England, but in Ger.
many II is the limit of responsibility.
Asparagus has been cultivated for
more than 1000 years from wild va.
rieties found in Natal, Siberia aud
Persia.
For the second year in succession
the Rhodes scholarship for Manitoba
has been won by youth of Icelandic
parentage. Joseph T. Thorson is the
name of the latest winner.
Announcement that airship commu.
nication will be started in May be.
tween Munich and Oberammergau in
Germany recalls the fact that propos.
ais for an aerial service from Paris to
Lyons were made in 1884, within a
year of the first balloon ascent.
Victor Hugo was a good business
OhC vi lllo u6SIIlUtS
him as "the keenest hand imaginable
at bargain, past master in the art
of drawing up contracts and the only
author on record who made a fortune
out of his books while his publishers
lost on them
M. Edmond Blanc is looked upon as
the real ruler of Monaco. He pays
$350,000 year for the gambling con-
cession ne holds and thus provides the
greater part of the revenue of the
principality, In one respect M. Blanc
is a disappointed man. He can not
gain admission to the French Jockey
Club.
AS result, 1t is said, of the in.
creased spirit duties under the British
budget the police have noticed in re-
mote districts of Ireland. indications OF
revival of Illicit distillation of Ii.
Quor. There has also been consid
cradle increase, it is reported, in the
consumption of spirits of ether as a
beverage since the price Of whiskey
was raised.
In Italy the supply of machine guns
is still in its infancy. By the end oil
the year, however, every infantry reg.
iment and every Alpine battalion is
to have one gun for training the men
In the fall of 1910 beginning is tc
be made to give every infantry and
cavalry regiment one battery of foul
and every Alpine battalion one bat
terry of two such guns.
Men of former ages, unless they
lived near the sea or river, had great
difficulties in gratifying their taste fol
fish. The great houses had their fish
ponds or stews, but sea fish, such as
cod, Dream, sturgeon herring ant
sprats were salted, and the excessive
consumption of highly salted fish IN
the middle ages is said to have pro
duced leprosy. Fish was also baked
in pies to enable it to be carried fol
great distances.
A piece of railroad construction was
recently completed by which the Is
land OF Japan now has a system run
ming throughout the full length of thf
empire. The total length of the line
is 1,750 miles and the distance from
north to south of the island can now
be covered in five days and nights. Al
the close of the fiscal year 1908, 4,45:
miles of state railroad had beer
opened for traffic and ASS miles of rail
way were controlled by private inter
ests.
An orange vender, intent on forcins
trade, has been doing novel busines:
in the residential part of the city fol
the last few days He rings the bel
and tells the servant who answers thai
he has a box of oranges to deliver
The box is properly addressed and Is
said to have come from California
The express charges are usually about
$3.50 or $4, and an amount far in ex
cess OF the value of the fruit which
the box contains. A number of credu
lous people have been viCtimized.--
New York Tribune.
The Pekin Gazette of recent date
gives two rescripts in connection with
criminals who ION account Of mad
ness" have killed their father ant
grandfather, respectively. The words
are always added in such cases, fol
the crime of parricide is so heincus
that strictly speaking the whole popu
lation of the city is responsible; the
city walls have to be razed and a new
site found elsewhere. In Szechar
province there is deserted city, Wis
ible to travellers from the river, where
this law was once strictly carried out
More than half of the young mer
who enter college in the United States
are physically defective said DR.. R
Tati Mackenzie, physical director OIL
the University of Pennsylvania gym
nasium, in a recent address. "Stu
dents are not deformed except in rare
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