The Holbrook news., 1909-05-14
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tical American mica man.
 Contracts have been let for winni- pegs new municipal electric power plant, to cost approximately S1,014,700.
 The Winnipeg Electric Railway Com.
 pany has three times offered to sell
 It's Lac du Bonnet plant to the city.
 Preliminary work for the construc-
 tion of India's large new steel plant
 near Kalimati station is making good
 headway. The plant on the Ramrana
 manganese property has proved to be
 of the highest value. A forty-tive mile
 railway is already under construction.
 The output of the British shipbuild. about 900.O00 tons of merchant stean
 vessels, or little more than half of the preceding twelve months The number of British ships now laid up at home and foreign ports is estimated at l., 100000 tons.
 John Brown was executed at Harp CTS Ferry on Dec, 2, 1859. It was short
 ly after II o'clock in the morning. I've thousand Virginia soldiers were ranged around the scaffold when he was
 brought from his prison house and placed in a wagon which was to convey
 him to the scene of the execution.
 The curator of the museum at Brus sells has just been pursuing an interest. ing claim in the Belgian courts. Tn May last Mme. Bouriant, the widow of an Psychologist, offered to the museum two scarabs with inscriptions, which the lady claimed related to a voyage on the coast of Africa referred to by Hero, dotus The curator purchased the sea. rabs for S2,00O. and, as may be imag' ined, they created a great deal of inter. est in the learned world, the final judg. ment of which was that the so-called antiquities were forgeries. NJ. Capart the curator, has sued the widow for the return of the purchase price and the courts have decided in his favor.
 From the War Department comes no tice of an interesting relic formerly the property of President Lincoln. Upon the occasion of his memorable visit to Gettysburg the President cut with hii own hands a cane. which he afterward presented to his War Secretary. Edwin NJ. Stanton, by whom it was naturally highly prized. This cane is now in the possession of MT. Jahncke, president of the Jahncke Navigation Company O. New Orleans. who married a grand daughter of Secretary Stanton. It has a gold top with an engraved inscrip- tion, which was probably placed on the treasured souvenir by Secretary Stanton.-National Magazine.
 Few Swiss scholars have had more brilliant career than the new principal of the University of Lausanne. Dr. H. Charles Louis Blanc was born in Lau. same, fifty years ago and began his studies at one of the primary schools In the city. At nineteen he took his de gree in science, afterward going, as so many Swiss scholars have done, to Ger. :. many, first to Stuttgart, then to the University of Fribourg- en- Brisgau, where he won his doctorate in philoso- phy with honors. Since then he has made his mark as Zoologist, and now enjoys European reputation. He has u1Q a ACSCAACn NQlh Au experimenting geological museums in Switzerland and in Germany.
 There is at present an interesting ex- hibit in No. tank at the Brighton Aquarium, says the London Globe. It is something like dogfish, only much ugliness 1t stands unrivaled. It's tech nical name is the toper shark. It is six feet long and weighs from eighty to ninety pounds. while its mouth looks large enough to take an elephant single handed. The shark came into the pos session of the aquarium in rather. curious manner. A man named Lane of Brighton was fishing some two miles of the Palace pier with a long line. when he felt vicious tug at his hook. He quickly hauled in his slack" and then the toper came to light. MT. Lane at once hurried ashore and placed the toper in his new home.
 There was recently introduced in the House of Representatives a bill for the purchase of the house in Tenth street. in which Abraham Lin. coln died on April 15, 1865. The bill proposes the acquisition of the two ad. joining houses and the entire collection ot the .Oldroyd relics of Lincoln. oi which there are some 5000 pieces in the building. There Is also included library of a thousand volumes all relat- Ing to Lincoln and the civil war. In one of the rooms Is 'black locust" rail split by Lincoln in 1880. and taker from fence around his old home. and the walnut cradle in which his children were rocked. The bill contemplates the