The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
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The worlds oceans contain 100000 cubic miles of salt.
 The Sultan of Turkey is the proprie- tor of a fine geological garden.
 The top of the Philadelphia city hall tower, which is over 300 feet above the street, probably will be utilized as a wireless telegraph station, to be controlled by the municipality.
 About 600 patents are granted each year to British women upon inventions ranging from articles distinctly femin- inc in nature to motors, railroad cars, flying machines and wireless telegra- phy.
 The government tests at Washington samples of the chain to be used on the gear of the Panama canal locks with stood tensile tests of 1j3,GOO pounds to the square inch before the metal parted.
 It is announced that with the remov- ai of a row of frame buildings not far from Blackfriars bridge, the last wooden buildings within the metropOl- itan district of London will shortly disappear.
 France is about to amend its pres cut law to provide that patent shall lapse if It's holder shall fail to exercise Ihis right in France or in the colonies 9f France for period of three years From its granting.
 In New York city last year the fire JOSS amounted to S7,25O,OOO, while the maintenance of the fire department cost S7,0G0,OC0. In St. Louis these figures were respectively, S1 1,29S,00O and S1,O1S,0OO. In the case of Rome, Italy, where the fire losses last year were $56,OOO, the cost of the fire de- partment was $50,00O.
 Twelve hours, with two hours rest. Is the legal laboring day at Odessa, Russia. Workers under seventeen must go to school for three hours daily. Christians are not required to work on Sundays or feast days, nor Hebrews and Mohammedans on their religious holidays. Those who have to work on Sundays have the next day for rest.
 Wagner's little admonition to the mu- E;cians was most characteristic and I,orthy to be noted by many aG orcnes- tra of this day. "Gentlemen,~ he said, "I beg of you not to take my fortis- Uimo too seriously! Where you see if make a ftp of It, and for piano play pianissimO. Remember how many of you there are down there against the one poor single human throat up here alone on the stage."-Neumann' Per sonal Recollections." I
 As the result of special efforts in the hatchery work during the year the output of fish and eggs in 1908 was greater than ever before in the history of the national bureau, reaching a to tai of 2,S71, ,456, ,2SO. Of this number 2.413,SO9,225 were young fish distribut- ed for the stocking and restocking of public and private waters, and the re malning 457,647,055 were eggs deliv- cred to state and foreign hatcheries The output of young fish exceeds the greatest previous record for any one year by 376,OOo,OCO.
 B. s. Straus, M. P, has elicited from the Home Secretary the state ment that in 1908 as many of 1925 | taxicabs were licensed to ply for hire | in tile streets of London, an increase | of 2,202 upon 1907. In the same twelve months the number of hanson cabs licensed decreased by 1,205. Hansoms | have in few years declined by 2752. | while In the same time mc-3r cabs have increased by 2,924. More strik | ing still, nearly the whole of the | change has been accomplished in the | last three years.-London News.
 Dr. Philip Schidrowitz, analytical | chemist, London, said In answer to pr. Adeney that there was a general idea that the word brandy was derived | from the German. The English word however, was as old as Its Continental equivalents. It was formerly spelled "brandywine" and then "brand-wine.' The prefix, which was common to all the Teutonic words for brandy, meant a thing burning or that had been burnt. Therefore the word meant burnt wine." Taking 1t as an English word. brandy night be defined as a spirit de rived by distillation of the fermented juice of any fruit.-London Post.
 The ancient silver mines at Frei- berg, Saxcny, where a number of the older mining engineers of this country were trained in practical work Sh1le students at technical institutions in Germany. will be permanently closed in April. These mines have a history