The Holbrook news., 1909-12-24
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 more than half came from the Straits Settlements.
 Practically all the important coal mining states have inspection laws designed to prevent death and disaster among the mine workers.
 Several French schools are using machines which suck dust from the leaves of books, spray them with dis dnfectant. and dry them with hot air.
 At Tourcoing. France. five couples of working people celebrated their golden wedding the other day. Great festivities were provided for the occa' sion by the municipal authorities. z. Wild boars still abound In a region which can be reached by railway In 2 two hours from Smyrna. Near Sam sOun some sportsmen have shot as many as fifty wild boars in single year.
 One of the requests for a patent re- oeived In the patent office of Germany 2 wns for device for making ones own matches. With the aid of 1t, any one can, by five hours work, save 6 or [ centsl
 Signs are not wanting to assure any one that every year single chrysan- themumsa are steadily gaining in favor. mainly, of course, with those, whose aim Is to grow plants for general dec orations and for supplying cut blooms for their own table. Single blossoms, fortunately, are not criticised by the home grower as to the size, as their beauty cannot be thus measured Gardening Illustrated.
 The government Is going into the hotel business, having agreed, through its insular branch in the Philippines, to take S300,000 at par of the bonds to provide money for new hotel at Manila, which, with its working capi- tai, Is to represent an investment of $45O,OOO. When the Philippines have a centennial, or some other big cele- bration, will the insular government put up it's hotel rates on the visiting public?-New York Press.
 The new marriage law now under consideration in Victoria, Australia. has as It's object the prevention of clandestine marriages. It provides that no clergyman shall perform the cere- mony unless the couple applying shall have obtained a license. An exception is made. however, for reasons un- known, in the case of Quakers. who are not obliged to come before the mar rying authority armed with a permit One of the latest ideas for killing rats is a trap into which the animal walks. attracted by an electric light and a display of food. Once in he cannot get out and an electric current kills him in fifty or sixty seconds. The apparatus can be so arranged that the electrocuted animal itself signals it's fate to any desired place, advising the watchman by an electric bell or theI lighting of an electric lamp that there is dead rat to be removed.
 Music batons were first used in England about 1920. It was not until ten or twelve years later, however. that the taeoa came into general use. A German conductor who yielded one produced such wonderful results with his orchestra that it was thought there must be some magic power in the baton. and 1t consequently became popular with conductors all over the country. Before the advent of the baton time was kept by the first violin ist or by the pianist.
 What is regarded as the most an- cient coin In the world is one that was discovered a few years ago by a German archeologist during his ex- r,1n fr, r. of pure silver, bearing a perfect Ara mean description of Panammu Bar Rerub, king of Schamol who reigned 800 years B. c. Up to the time this coin was found the Lydians had al ways been regarded as the inventors of money, but this new find showed that the Semitic Arameans. who lived two centuries before the Lydians. are the oldest known coiners of money
 Tn 1846, under Louis Philippe, there were eight thousand doctors in France | In 1891 the number had reached fif- ] teen thousand. In the space of forty | five years. 1S46 to 1891. the number l had almost doubled the yearly in crease being 1855. In the decade fol- | lowing this period the augmentation is 1 given at two hundred, and since | 1901 the increase has been much great | CT. And the number of students at | the medical schools and the universi- | ties continues to grow. The number enrolled on January 15, 1906, was 7507. and a year later 7,649, an in | crease of 142. In 1908 and in 1909 the | numbers were S.265 and 9.246. or 616 | and 597 in excess of 1906.-Le Revue. |
 For some time past efforts have been | made to raise funds in order to pro tect from the ravages of wind and weather and the encroachment of | drifting sands the ruins of St. Piran's onatory at Perranzabuloe, said to be