The Holbrook news., 1909-12-17
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 The first biblical illustrative art
 consisted in the symbolic frescoes of
 the Catacombs.
 Cheap labor has been the principal
 handicap in introducing modern ma chinery in India.
 The first printed Green Testaments were those of Erasmus, published at Basel by Froben in 1516.
 Berlin has about hundred fac tories for linen goods = forty more thaa the kingdom of Saxony.
 Seventy thousand Americans will settle this year on 10000 to 25,0O0 farms in the Canadian Northwest and take with them wealth of $7O,O00.- 900.
 The Bug Bible is so called because of it's rendering of Psalm xci, 5: Afraid of bugs by night" Our pres ent version GA. D. 1551) reads: Ter TOT by night"
 There are 251 postal savings banks in operation in the Philippines with o,1OO QCpOo1lOIS dlQ i1i yOOO OA QO- posit. Filipino depositors number 4.591 and Americans 3,S75.
 The German government has on Lake Constance nineteen-knot, 350- horse power boat for raising kites in weather observations. The results are daily telegraphed to the chief forecast ing offices.
 In the annual report of the Russo Chinese Bank it is stated that the clos ing of the free port in Vladivostok has led to commercial crisis in the Far East. Before the closure took place goods were imported in such large quantities that for a long time new import sales will be difficult
 Labor distress in New Zealand is sending many skilled and unskilled workers to Australia. Public works expenditure is reduced from S12,000,- 900 to $7,000,000 a year. One-seventh (130.000) of the people depend upon the state for their living, and all de- partments are retrenching. That Is one of the chief dangers of public own ership of public utilities and produc- Ing works.
 English yegetarians are awfully sore on the Japs for proving traitors to their old vegetarian mode of living and are predicting endless calamity, even ruin, saying: When rice-eating peoples take up meat the result is al- ways disastrous to their health" Japs know what to eat and are too wise to listen to any British advice intended to weaken them as warriors.-New York Press.
 The Germans are developing their high school at Kiao-chau, China, with their usual thoroughness Its scope is even larger than the proposed Hong Kong University. Except a grant of $10,000 from the Chinese Government, the whole cost is paid by the German Government. German textbooks and other works are translated into Chi nese in department of the school, says the London Times.
 The industrial census of Germany for 1907 Gust published by the Ger man imperial bureau of statistics) gives 4,025,591 industrial concerns. employing 14.34S.3s9 persons, of whom 3.510.466 were women. The increase in twelve years is 4,O79, ,12O-a ratio about four times as great as that of the employing concerns. These figures do not include railroad. postal, tele- graph and telephone employees.
 .Adventurer" is word, once highly respectable, that has degenerated with the lapse of time. It was once a com pliment to call a gentleman an adven- turer. and the Merchant Venturers of Bristol, England, are still respected. The Hudson's Bay Company dates back from May 2. 1870. In the royal charter it was described as the Gov ernor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading in Hudson's Bay"
 Alcohol is really the Arabic "al- kohl'-"al' being the definite article, as in algebra" (the reduction) and "alkali" (the soda ashes), and kohl the black powder wherewith the east ern beauties stained their eyelids. But alcohol" came to be used for any finely triturated or sublimated DOW der, and then for sublimated liquids. Alcohol of wine" being the most in- teresting of these. it gradually took the name entirely to itself.
 Use of the fork is comparatively modern. The original fork was two and it's adoption was held to betoken an unusual degree of elegance and refinement. "The taste for clean Illness has preserved the use of steel forks with two prongs," writes Lady Newdigate. (She spoke to the closing years of the eighteenth century.) With regard to little bits of meat, which cannot so well be taken hold of with the two-pronged forks, recourse Is had to the knife, which Is broad md round at the extremity" Peas at hat time were eaten with a knife.