Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
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Sweden and Spain have the fewest
alien residents.
Four and a half million gross boxes
Of matches are used in London in
year.
A watch ticks 157, $4,000 times in
year, and the wheels travel 3.55SA
miles.
AS a general rule, a mans hair
turns gray five years earlier than a
woman's.
During the year 1909 the London
dog-catchers caught $4,000 and dis
patched 21,253.
More women marry between the
ages of twenty and twenty-five than at
any other time of life.
A rosebush in garden at Freiburg
covers ninety-nine square yards and
bears ten thousand buds.
1t is estimated that the coal mines
already developed contain enough coal
to supply the world for thousand
years.
The natives Of Korea carry visiting
cards which measure about twelve
inches square, and when their use is
required they are merely shown.
Bahia Blanca, Argentina, is now the
largest wheat shipping port in South
America. 1t has population of forty
thousand and is growing rapidly.
The Farthing Gazette, probably the
cheapest daily newspaper in existence,
mas been started in Moscow, and has
already considerable circulation.
There was to be an attack by night.
The darkness was impenetrable. A
sergeant addressed his section as fol-
lows: Now, pay attention, No. sec
tion. We are going to do night at
tack; there'll be no talking or smok-
ing; II there are any orders to be
passed down l will just tip you the
wink!"
Peter the Great, Russia's famous
czar, when he was staying in England
had particular liking for the com.
panionship of HALEY, after whom the
comet Is named. After carousing with
him at Deptford one evening, Peter
wheeled the astronomer in a barrow
through yew hedge and did such dam
age that he had to pay handsomely to
John Evelyn, the owner.
Edward FitzGerald, the translator OF
the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, was
more or less genial opponent of mat
rimony as state. One day he said to
his friend, Miss Ellen Churchyard, OF
Woodbridge: DO you know, Nell,
what marriage is?' Miss Churchyard
thought not "Then I'll tell you,"
said he. Marriage is standing at ones
desk, nicely settled to work, when
great big bonnet pushes in at the door
and asks you to go for walk with
it." +
1t Is proposed to establish wireless
telegraph station at the meteorologi-
cal observatory on Mt. Mirador, In the
Philippines. to give warning of ty-
phoons to vessels in the China sea and
points along the China coast A sim
liar station will probably be estab-
lished later at Santo Domingo de
Basco, on the island Of Batan, for COM
municating information of the pres
ence OF typhoons in that vicinity to
the headquarters OF the Philippine
weather bureau at Manila.
Tin holds chief place in Slams
metal resources and Is found through
out the Siamese portion Of the Malay
peninsula. The average annual pro-
duction Is about 5,175 tons, valued at
$4,110,000. English mining companies
and the Chinese are the chief workers
for tin. Gold stands second to tin in
the country's mineral resources, but
thus far its working has not proved
profitable. Copper and lead mines have
also proved failure. Transportation
cost Is enormous, but railways are be-
ing extended north and south.
When the British square at the bat.
tie of Abu Klea, In the Nublan desert,
was penetrated by the dervishes one
Of them attempted to spear a gunner
who was in the act of ramming home
charge. The Briton Drained the
Sudanese, but the rammer head split
on the mans hard skull. Next day the
gunner was sent for. Mistaking the
reason, and knowing from experience
that soldiers are charged for govern
ment property which they break, he
led off: please, sir, I'm very sorry
broke the rammer, but I never
thought the fellows head could be so
hard. I'll pay for the rammer so as
to hear no more Of the case"
1t Is somewhat curious fact, II It
is a fact, that the last of the terres-
trial continents to be explored is the
largest mass OF raised land in the
world. The concentration of attention
upon the South pole since Commander