The Holbrook news., 1909-12-24
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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London public schools taught more than 3.200 children to swim last year.
 A rapid decrease in the use of rye flour for bread in recent years is not ed in Germany.
 Because the enormous rats of Ugan- da are so voraclous missionaries are using books bound in tin.
 The first grain elevator in Russian Asia soon will be built at Tchalablnsk. along the Siberian railroad
 Spun glass as a substitute for hu- man hair in wigs and other tonsorial adornments Is said to be a success.
 The first bitumincus coal mined in the United States was found near Rich mond. Va. early in the eighteenth cen tury.
 English experts are examining the forests along the Amur river with a view to exporting Siberian lumber to Europe.
 In It's warfare against the Moors the Spanish army has revived the ancient sling to throw explosive grenades into the enemy's ranks.
 It Is proposed to convert Blackwell's island. New York, now used for penal institutions, into the greatest tuber cufosis sanatorium in the world.
 A feature of a new German system of telephotography is that the wire used to transmit picture may be used for telephoning at the same time.
 i- hol; the natives of Asia Minor that the. thicker the clothing worn at all sea sons of the year, the better it is for the human body, protecting it alike from the winter cold and the summer heat. In Caucasia 1t is not uncommon to see people wearing huge bearskin coats in the midst of summer with the thermometer standing at 100 degrees.
 A tourist returning to the east on transcontinental line, while passing through a forlorn-looking town in the desert heard two men conversing as the train stopped for water. Good by, Bill" said one. 1T am leaving this burg with just one pair of pants. and not another thing on earth" You are lucky. old pal" replied Bill; that's more than anybody else ever took away from here"
 Senator Deliver in a recent cam paign told this story to illustrate the logic of an opponent: Did you ever hear about the young woman in Fort Dodge? One spring morning she sal on the piazza of her pretty little home sewing a button on her husbands coat The husband himself appeared and she said, fretfully: Its a perfect shame the careless way the tailor sewed this button on. This is the fifth time I've had to sew it on again for you.
 The high rates at which medicines and drugs are sold by the private phar macies and drug stores of St. Peters burg have induced the municipal au thorities to start a municipal phar macy. for which purpose s15,450 has been recently allowed The city phar macy will supply medicines and drugs to all the disinfection and sanitary de partments, as well as municipal hos pitals. To private persons drugs will be sold at 20 per cent discount against the normal charges.
 The American consul-general at Liv erpool shows that during the siz months ending June 30 of the present year, 272.124 tons of salt were shipped from the Mersey, of which 190,505 tons were billed from Liverpool. Much o this was to fill orders from the United States Increased quantities went tc British North America, the West In dies. Central and South America. Afrt ca, Asia and on the continent of Flu rope There were descended demands from Australasia and ports in the Uni ted Kingdom.
 Tn spite of the reputation for latitu he gained from his early trial for heresy, the late Professor Jowett. of Oxford. was intolerant oi pretentiousness and shallow conceit One self-satisfied undergraduate. met the master one day. Master" he said "I have searched everywhere in all ancient and modern. and nowhere do find the evidence of God" "Mr. -" replied the master. after a shorter pause than usual. '1f you don't find God by o'clock this after noon you must leave this college"
 The public service commission of the State of New York has declined to com pei the adoption of electricity by the railroads passing through the Adiron dack country as means of prevent ing the destruction of forests by fire The proposal was rejected because oi the prohibitive cost of the operation of electric roads even though most oi the power were obtained from water 'alls It would mean an expediturs of much more than a million dollars l year above the present cost of steam operation for the railroads of the State ,f New York.
 By the introduction of improved ma ,hinery it is claimed that Great Brit