The Holbrook news., 1909-05-14
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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 England's food importations aver age about S16 for each inhabitant
 With all its possessions considered. there are six colored persons to every white in the British empire.
 The first alarm of fire by an electric telegraph system was given at s 80 ip. m- April %, 1852, in Boston. Street sweepers of Chicago and Bos- ton carry tiny electric lamp on their caps to keep from being run over.
 Stockholm. Chrlstiana, Berlin and London in the order named have the lowest death rates of all the cities of Europe.
 Of tn races of the world. 6OO,O0O,OO0 are white 7OO.OOO.oOO yellow. 215. 100000 black. S5,OO0.OOO brown or Ma layan, and 15,OOO,OO0 red, or Ameri- can Indians
 The first application of electric heat ing for household use was the electric fatiron- Now there are hundreds of thousands of electric flatirons in use in private homes and laundries.
 Experiments made in Germany prove that the germs of cholera or typhoid may endanger not only those who live below stream, but also those above the polluted point. as fish carry the germs upstream.
 The first rotary converted in Ameri- ca, as well as the largest, was built by the General Electric Company. These machines are used to change al- ternating current into direct current for street railway service.
 Rhodes. the city of the Colossus, still survives, medieval city in all Its de- fensive war gear of tower and cur tain and keep. It is the city which the Knights of St. John erected in the midst of the Byzantines, after being driven out of Jerusalem in the early fourteenth century.
 Josiah Quincy. the prominent Boston politician, was walking near the city hall, when be heard a laborer accost another thus: That's Josiah Quincy" An who's Josiah Quincy?'' the other asked ''I never see such ignorance" reJoined the other. Hes the grand son of the statute you see in the yard.''
 4 sailor enters a livery stable to hire horse for the day, to take some friends into the country The proprie- tor has one brought out for inspection, and begins: There's a beauty for youl Small head, clean legs. short back" ''Short back be blowedl We want one with long back. It's to carry nine"
 Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the youngest son of one great novelist and godson of another, has lost his seat in the Parliament of New South Wales, Australia, through the discovery of rich silver mines at Broken Hills, a thousand miles northwest of Sydney. The newcomers. miners. elected la- bor candidate
 Two French-Canadians were talking. 'Ah, Antonla," one of them exclaimed, ''eef you ave h'only been at dees we'd ding of Pierre Coubertin an Emile La Roche you shall nevaire forget heem. So gentil, So mooch luxuryi H'every one so 'appy an, So grand an fine Theenk of eet, AntoineI H'every one wear de Prince h'Albe-t pants an dreenk de real ginger ale."
 Larger than Niagara is the cataract of the Iguazu falls, almost at the in- tersection of the three frontiers of Paraguay, Brazil and the Argentine Republic. The river takes its name | from a Spanish word meaning great | waters Few sightseers ever catch 1 glimpse of Iguazu falls because it | takes six days to make the picturesque | Journey of about 1.25O miles from Bue- | nos Aires.
 Goats, more than any other thing, | have assisted the rural inhabitants of | Asia Minor to destroy the magnificent | forests which once extended from | Smyrna through to Konia, the ancient | capital of Karamania. Not only have the peasants and nomads destroyed the | timber for the sake of frewood, but | they destroyed it also in order that their goats might obtain suitable pas ture. And the goats in their turn pre- vented the new shoots ever after from replacing the trees which had been cut down.
 One of the leading comedians of the Frankfurt Theater, in Germany, the other evening went to the director and asked for an advance on his weeks salary. The books showed that the whole amount had already been drawn o1d tho drrocfor Sofd sssy0 ssUa-v