The Holbrook news., 1909-12-10
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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An official estimate places the num- ger of dairy cows in the United States at 2l,OOO.OOO.
 More coal is mined by machinery in proportion to the total output. 'n Ohio than in any other state. Some varieties of rice ripen in two months after planting. while others require up to six months of eultiva- ton.
 New York City has been increasing Its birth rate for the last six years. For the twelve months just passed 1t has been twenty-eight to the thousand inhabitants.
 In recent trials of the Pollak-Virag high speed telegraph between Berlin and Konigsberg, a distance of 4SO miles. 2.SOO distinctly recorded words were transmitted in five minutes. It is remarkable that notwithstand- ing the love and devotion of a Jewish mother there seems to be no trace of a real Jewish lullaby. Those known are of a recent origin.-American He brew.
 There is the promise of much cheap CT ice in New York City next summer, no matter what the natural crop may be. for there will be many more arti- fcial plants. in operation than ever be- fore.
 Subway railroads are good invest ments in New, York City. Profits have increased about IT per cent in the last three months over the same period last year, the gross earnings being sS,S2l,- 500. an increase of $459,400.
 Harry P. Whitney began his busi- ness training as bank clerk at $2O week. He now has charge of the $3O'- 100000 estate left by the elder Whit uey. and it is said that his -trusteeship has increased the family fortune
 Stanley Field, son of Joseph Field. ns Manchester, and nephew of Marshall Field; Rodman Wanamaker, H. H. Rogers. Jr., Arlan A. and Clendenin l. Ryan. are young men who nave avoided the frivolities that too often have stultifed the heirs to great wealth and are making their lives sig nifeant by work.
 Menus in New York restaurants are not always what they seem, and ap- DarentIy are frequently dressed s1mp- lv for appearances. In large Broad way restaurant a menu that looKeo fair and ostensibly presented ninety four dishes showed on analysis to give onlv twenty-seven that could be pro 5uced from the culinary department. The women's Educational and In dustrial Union of Boston has added expert visiting housekeepers to its de nartmenr of household economies Fol small fee the visiting housekeeper' wiI droD in and set the machinery O the household running smoothly bI exhibiting new equipment or glvini aid and instruction in whatever branci mistress or maid may need 1t.
 Simmons College. Boston. is said t' be the only place in this countr! where women can be trained to plal and manage lunchrooms. The deman for such training is reported to hay more than trebled during the last tw years. as more and more cities an school boards are realizing the necei sity of providing working girls an boys and school children with healtf ful midday meals.
 Miss Jane Wright of Cincinnati ha been elected to take charge of the al library of Princeton university. Sh was librarian at the Cincinnati al museum and resigned to go to Prince ton. The trustees of Princeton ar said to have allowed the place to r main vacant for over year becaus thev were anxious to get person wh measured up in every particular to tn standard which they had fixed
 The craze for roller skating, whic has spread in such extraordinary fasl lon throughout all classes of socie' In the British isles during the la year or SO, has now caught the sailo and petty officers of some of his m iesty's fleet in its seductive sway. Du Ing the Thames display the people g ing around the warships in steame were amused to see quite number seaInen making precarious rink the deck of a battleship.-Lond' News
 The effect of the new Canadian la on cigarette smoking by boys is shov in the trade returns. Although SC 10000 cigarettes were smoked in Ca ada since the first of the year, most them being made in the Dominion. t number shows a decline of 100000 on the figures for the preceding twel months. The results are more str ing when it is remembered that law was in force for only eight mont of the year. It forbids the sale or g of cigarettes or cigarette material boys of 16 or less under penalties from S1O to S100.
 An eight-inch disk of cardboard
 yolved on the shaft of an electric T .o- of hfohest speed gets stiff, owl