The Holbrook news., 1909-06-25
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The Servians look upon light hair with marked disfavcr.
 The average snowfall in the vicinity of New York is seven feet.
 A mans beard is generally heavier on the right side of his face.
 The latest storm doors for large business places are revolved by electric motors.
 In 1852 duty was imposed on ne groes imported Into New Netherland to work on their Bouweries"
 The largest pin factory in the world is at Birmingham, England. It turni out 37.Oo0oOo pins every day.
 The chief publishing centers of Ger many are Berlin. LeIpsic, Vienna, Stuttgart, Munich, in the order here named.
 While the seeds of the dorowa, an East African lesuminous tree, are ex tensively used for food, the pods and leaves form an excellent cement when mixed with crushed stone.
 An electric wagon with a platform ooRROACC0 Oy Q ctAOA16 lClCcCOP0 IOHSIi Is used in New York city for trimming and repairing the street lamps sus pended high above the thoroughfares.
 The August meteors. according to leading astronomer. form a stream SC broad that the earth, though 1t traveli faster than eighteen miles a second takes seven weeks to cross it.
 
 In Japan about 9S per cent of the males of school age attend the educa tional establishments and 93 per cent of the females. In Mexico only 16 per cent of the population can read and write.
 The Tuilleres hydro-electric works the largest of the kind in France, is nearly completed. It is built on the river Dordogne, where nine 2,7OO-horse power turbines produce 23,OO0 electri cal horse power
 The Michigan Central will electrify its terminals at Detroit and the main line as far as YpSilanti, thirty miles west of the city. Electricity will be obtained from the water power of the Huron river at Cheslea, Mich.
 Manitoba became a province in 1870 Its population was 62,26O in 1881, 152,. 5O6 in 1891 and 255,211 in 1901. The value of Manitoba s harvest last year was little short of $70,O00,O00. The census of 1908 gave Winnipeg, Its cap ital city, population of 10000. There is nothing wild in guess that its pres ent population is not far from 10000
 Servians in their good nature and love of humor are said to remind tray. elers of the Irish peasantry. They are hospitable to strangers; their patriot. ism is vehement, almost quixotic, and they take great interest In politics. Many of the domestics in the towns and cities come from abroad as the Servian girl is too independent for do nestle service.
 London ladies stimulated by the Olympic games of last summer have taken to the foils, and fencing Is now the fashion. Indeed. an official of the Sword Club holds that fencing is like. ly to have an even wider vogue among women than among men. Many women prominent In the social world are act ively interesting themselves in the foils, and there seems every Likelihood that something approaching craze may be started in the fencing world during the coming season.
 Boston women established the first playground In 1902. Last year there were eight, and nearly S2,OOO was ex. pended, or about $1 for each child, very cheap price for the amount of good obtained. The Playground League Is the name of the society of the play ground boys themselves. who wear buttons, and discipline all bad boys, thus making the government easy enough for those in charge. Not the least important result of the play grounds in that city is said to be that involved in the self-government.
 In the year 1894 William Patterson, founder of the Bank of Scotland, con- ceived the grand project of planting on the Isthmus of Darien a British colony which, in his own words, should se- cure for Great Britain the keys of the universe, enaDiiHS tHelr pOSSesSorS tc give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters Of the commercial world" This colony was actually founded at place still known as Puerto Escoces, but its people were subsequently, forced by the Spaniards to evacuate and re- turn to Scotland.
 Having raised S5OO,OOO to duplicate Andrew Carnegie's gift and having re- oo.,-od NT. CorDario,s obaol- for tho