Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-04-08
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school houses is being considered by
the London authorities.
Germany forbids the use of boric
acid in curing meats and requires that
all meat picked in salt or brine must
contain at least per cent salt in its
lnnermost part.
A dressmaking establishment in
Boston almost entirely operated by
electricity has an electric cutter ca
pable of cutting out 25O thicknesses
of cloth at once.
In the cities of Great Britain the
population of which is 100000 or more,
the average rate of fare for street ral!.
way travel is IL cents a passenger
mile. In the cities of continental Eu-
rope the average rate of fare paid for
urban transportation is / cent a pas
senger mile.
In 1898 certain individuals hired
man to go from Castine to Wiscasset
and carry letters and papers once a
fortnight. He walked the whole dis
tance over the route. The next year
postmasters were appointed and mail
sent once week by carriers on horse
back. Rufus Crane, the first postmast-
er, in Warren, collected 20 cents as his
pay for his first three months of work.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
At one of the Wagner operas few
days ago a woman nudsed her friend
and said: Who's that distinguished
man bowling to you over there% Her
friend looked in the direction desig-
mated and smiled in return greet
ing. That's my butcher" she said.
Il see him here quite often. When /
go marketing in the morning we al
ways discuss the opera. He's German,
you know, and really knows a lot
about other things besides cutting
meat."-New York Sun.
At the trials of the rebels held at
Carlisle, England, after the 1745 ris-
Ing, one witness was, although
Scotchman, examined under the Eng
lish form of adjuration. He gave an
account so palpably wide of the truth
that the prosecuting counsel had him
re-sworn after the form Of his own
country. He then gave evidence of a
very different stamp. On being asked
how he came to utter so many false
hoods when first sworn, he replied:
Sworn! There's an unco' difference
atween blawing on a beauk an sean
in anes saul to hell"
From time to time scientists en-
deavor to measure. the heat radiated
from some of the brightest stars. One
of the most successful efforts in this
direction was prosecuted under the di-
rection of the astronomers at the
Yerkes observatory. With the aid OF
an apparatus recalling the principle
of the Crookes radiometer, they have
ascertained that the star Vega, which
shines very brilliantly near the zenith
earth an amount of heat equal to that
Of an ordinary candle six miles dis
tant. Arcturus, the star celebrated by
Job, which has somewhat fiery color,
radiates about twice as much heat as
Vega.-Harper's Weekly.
The festival of st. Thomas of Can
terbury, from being perhaps the most
popular of saints days in England,
has now fallen into complete desue-
tude, and it's revival is not advocated
by even the most fervent of Anglo
destroyed the Beckett tradition. The
king was Gas always) in need of
money, and the shrine of st. Thomas
in Canterbury cathedral seemed suit
able object for legalized loot. So in
1888 an order was issued that the
bones Of the saint should be burned
and the offerings made at his shrine
the trophies of three centuries and a
half-forfeited to the crown. Beckett
was to be decanonized, his images
to be destroyed and his name erased
from all the service books. The work
was faithfully performed. "The name
of Geta," writes Dean Stanley, has
not been more carefully erased by
his rival brother on every monument
of the Roman empire" - London
Chronicle.
When a man succeeds In making a
name there Is one class that receives
the news with delight, mingled with
no feeling Of envy, and that is his old
school fellows. This is the case with
M. Jean Aicard, the eminent writer.
His classmates at the Lycee de Tou-
Ion have presented him with his swor1
for his reception among the immor-
tails. The sword is inclosed in green
sheath of Russia leather. 1t Is orna-
mented with the "cigale provencale."
One ornaments the pommel, another