The Holbrook news., 1909-12-10
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house in the western hemisphere It cost s1O.OOO.00O.
 Statistics just compiled show that the average is 31S car rides year for each inhaoitant of New York City.
 Five Chinese government schools are teaching railway engineering. and a sixth probably will establish course.
 The five largest office buildings in New York contain 2.3OO miles or teie- phone wire and almost 10000 tele- phones
 When dusting or cleaning the new tungsten lamps the lamp should De burning to prevent accidents to the delicate filament.
 The average person does not expert ence any sensation from an electrical current until the pressure reaches about thIrty-five volts.
 The largest electric sign in the South advertises the city of Montgom- cry, Ala. The sign is 75 by S5 feet and contains about 2,500 lights.
 Since Manchuria was converted Into a province it's expenditure has increas- ed rapidly Its balance sheet last year was six million taels on the wrong side.
 Rio Janeiro, with a population or O,OOO, spent more money for public improvements last year than any city in the United States, excepting New | York
 The submarine cables of the world cover a total of 27s.20S miles, distrip- uted among 2,O53 cables. Three-fourths of this total mileage Is owned by pri- vate companies.
 There has been much dispute as to whether whales can utter any sounds A writer in Kosmos says that he and forty other persons who witnessed the throwing of a harpoon at whale on the Brazilian coast heard distinct groan when the animal expired
 Public watering troughs for horses were condemned as disseminators of disease by the State veterinarian or Missouri, Dr. F. D. Luckey, and by Dr. Schoenleben, of Kansas, at the session of the Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanitary Board in Chicago
 Mrs. Wyman, age 70, of Pittsfield. Mass. recently broke all records in her pie-making career She made seventy two pies of nine different varieties as follows: Custard. apple, cocoanutr prune. raisin. squash, chocolate, blue berry and lemon Mrs. Wyman did the work alone and had it finished oy noon.
 A shell which will hit two marks will be tested this fall The solid steel head of the shell contains charge or high explosive which is detonated on impact. Back of this is the shrapnel chamber, containing 120 bullets and charge of high explosive. The shrap-
 nel portion can be timed to explode
 above a body of troops. leaving the
 solid head of the shell to pass on ana
 strike elsewhere.
 A woman in Worcester. Mass. was
 surprised at receiving extra large oiiis
 for gas used the last two months and
 on Investigating the matter found that
 her new maid was keeping teakettle
 singing on the gas stove all day long. D Tn answer to her query as to the req q son the maid informed her that she e felt more like working while the kettle
 was singing. The maid now works . without accompaniment. ,f Japan can boast of the most luxuri- Le ous prison in the world. It is about
 fifteen miles from Tokyo. In the r. midst of gardens, where flourish med a. lars and cherry trees, encircled with s ponds bearing fine crops of water H. ,e ies, rises the mass of spacious and airy
 cells. Lighting throughout Is by cleo
 tricity. Among other features are
 bathrooms with marble baths, hot and " - cold water, dressing rooms and read g Ing rooms.
 is He was a citizen of Aberdeen. Scot
 land. who had gone to spend few e. days in London with his son. After r. their first greetings at the station, the re voung fellow remarked: "Feyther, you he are not Iookin' well. Is there anything at the matter?" The old man replied Is Aye. lad. I have had quite an acci is dent" What was that, feyther?' IT, "Mon." he said, "on this journey frae tn bonnie Scotland I lost my luggage. le Dear, dear, that's too bad; 'oo did |
 bappen?" "Aweel," replied the Aber
 donian, the cork cam oot." o Tn olden times thumbscrews were in used to torture prisoners into comics ". sion, and thus gain. from them secret Ie- that only intense bodily pain would "a. bring forth; but this, with many othe te. fendish means of torture, was left be an hind by advancing civilization. Now ed however. 1t has made its appearanc
 again. but, as a means of self-infiicte,
 torture, says Popular Mechanics. It
 the newest aidto-beauty fad of Flu - rope. and it's mission is to squeeze tn ,u ~ tips of the fingers until they chang !, from fat and pudgy to long and taper