Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-04-29
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1t is possible to accommodate COM
fortably 100000 persons in the New
York hotels at one time.
Candidates for the profession of
teaching in Canada receive a special
course of training at government ex-
pense
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 160 feet to 180 feet high, and
spread from $4,000 to 100000 square
feet of canvas.
Mrs. Helen Troy of Auburn, N. Y,
has been received into full membership
OF the Six Nations. She has devoted
the last IA years to study and research
regarding the Iroquois traditions.
1t requires many hands. to clothe
the New York women and some women
outside of the city, for there are 96,162
employees in the metropolis working
on women's clothing and their yearly
output is valued at $261, ,O49,2S7.
A junior league of the New York
State Association opposed to Woman
Suffrage has been formed at Albany
with Mrs. N. H. Henry as president.
The membership is said to have reach
ed already the neighborhood of one
hundred and to include young women
of every social grade in Albany.
Germany's first complete fotilla Of
turbine torpedo boats was commission
ed last month. 1t consists Of II ves-
sells of the newest type built in Vienna,
Germania and Schichau yards. Those
built in the two first-named establish
ments have attained a speed of over
"a knots. Besides Parsons turbines,
three types of German turbines are
represented in the flotilla.
In the Complies Rendus of the Bio
logical Society of Paris, M. Picard
gives an account of a useful wasp
found in Senegal and Nigeria. 1t is
one of the burrowing wasps, and feeds
IT'S larvae on species of tsetse fly.
In view of the part played by many
species of the latter in spreading dis
ease, this wasp might prove a useful
ally to those who are fighting malaria
In tropical countries.
China now possesses $500 miles of
railways, of which only 1880 are man
aged by the Chinese. The management
OF the remaining 1870 miles is divided
among six foreign powers, as follows:
Russians manage LOTT miles, Belgians
9O3 miles, Japanese 702 miles, Ger
mans 6S4 miles, English COS miles,
and Frenchmen 400 miles. When the
railways now being laid down in China
are finished, the total length of China's
railway system will amount to 5000
miles.
1t is perhaps worth recalling that
the art of baking loaves came to Eu-
rope quite late in history. Flat cakes
were baked even in the earliest times.
but as late as the beginning of the
nineteenth century loaf bread was COM
paratively unknown in many parts of
the continent. In 1912, for instance,
when an English captai ordered
loaves to the value of S. in Gothenburg
the baker stipulated for payment in ad-
vance on the ground that he would
never be able to sell them in the city
if they vert left on his hands.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Petroleum has been introduced into
medicine with beneficial results, and
If Paris contemporary be not mis-
informed the properties of petrol are
limitless. 1t is claimed, says the Lon
don Globe, that from the residuals of
crude petrol chemist has succeeded
in extracting butter. 1t is said that
butter can be made from a base of
nitrogen and carbon, but that the resi-
duals of petroleum produce these ele-
ments in greater proportions even than
milk. 1t is further claimed that this
artificial butter is better than the nat
ural. The color is said to be a little
darker than that of dairy butter.
Fulwood's Rents, the little Holborn
court leading into Gray's Inn gardens 4
which will be largely rebuilt, former
ly possessed the privilege of 'sanctu-
ary," and hence became a notorious
resort for fraudulent debtors and still
more unpleasant characters. Yet this
dingy rdive" can boast of many glor-
ious memories. Francis Bacon lived
here in "Fulwood's House" and val
ued his furniture at ESQ, huge price
for that period. Here the Whig Club
and Melbourne and Oates Club met in
the reign of Charles II, and here stood
Squire's coffee house, from which sev-
eral numbers of the Spectator were
d-Westminster Gazette
"a part of the Nobel prize, which
was awarded to Selma Lagerlof, will
be applied" says the Times of Stock
holm, ito the purchase of house on
the Marbacka estate, where she was
born. This is situated beautifully near
the banks of the River Mellanfrykan,
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