The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
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grown rapidly in the last decade.
 Babylon's inhabitants frequented Ii
 braries seventeen centuries before Christ
 Under the new law for buildings in
 New York city the number of dark rooms in tenements have been reduced from 25O,OO0 to 1O1,117. Let there be light" is the motto of the board of inspection.
 Of the 1,467 foreigners at the col, leges of the United States, 46o hail from North America. 45S from Asia 313 from Europe, only 154 from South America, 64 from Australia and IS from Africa.
 The United States has more (22,244.- 446) dairy COWS than any other coun- try in the world; more horses, 23,000.- 532; more mules, 4,O56.399; more swine, 57,976,361, and (except British India) more cattle, 73,246,579.
 In a Belfast breach of promise case the man, farmer, won. He agreed to marry a spinster if she could raise $500. She was able to get together only $500, so the farmer called it off. despite the fact that he had ordered the clergyman to be on hand to marry them The judge said that the promise to marry was conditional, and the con dition had not been fulfilled.
 Robert Wynne the former United States consul general in London, in tends to resume newspaper work in the British capital Before MT. Wynne became postmaster-general of the Unit ed States he had a long and brilliant journalistic career. being also presi- dent of the Gridiron Club at Washing ton He is intimately acquainted at first hand with London and its celebri- ties.
 There is an old superstition that if a spider settles on ones clothes it is a sign that he will shortly receive money When a spider is found upon our clothes" says an old writer, we used to say, some money is coming toward us. The moral is this: Such who initiate the industry of that con- temptible creature may, by Gods bless AuSy WCdhC lllClnoClNCo lhlO NCdAIh anu procure a plentiful estate.''
 To get rock for the Morena dam in southern California. one of the biggest blasting operations on record has just been successfully carried out Describ- ing the feat, the Engineering Record says that a tunnel 125 feet long was first driven into the face of the gran ite In this chamber was placed 3S.950 pounds of powder and dynamite. This was exploded by electric fuses and dis lodged 10000 cubic yards of rock.
 Blue books have a reputation for to that of the famous Clarendon Press, which is said to offer a guinea reward for the detection of a single printers error in the editions of the Holy Scrip lures. A cancel" note just received from the kings printers shows the re- markable anxiety to insure correctness. It informs us that in a chart attached to the Army Medical Report of 1908" there is misplaced dot. Can this ex- ample of minute corrigenda be beaten? London Chronicle.
 In Belgium a prisoner has turned the old trick and escaped through the prison window hospital. The prince of rogues weighed 300 pounds and found himself too large to pass through his cell window. so he played sick and "soldiered" around until they put him into the prison hospital. He ate noth- ing to speak of for fifty days, and be- came so thin that he easily squeezed through a window of the chronic" ward, having at odd times sawn through the bars. Once through the window friends below helped him to the ground and took him in an auto. many surprising things have been re- ported, has recently been improved in France in a way to render it more gen erally useful. Two in1ammable gases must be employed. One is required to keep the metal at high temperature. The other is oxygen to concentrate ac- tion by oxidation along the line of the cut. For heating, either coal gas. acetylene or hydrogen is employed, but as there is sometimes difficulty in pro- curing a supply of those gases the new blowpipe is arranged to use instead the ordinary gasoline employed by mo- torists.
 The charge that bees are destructive to the fruit on the tree is not borne out by the facts. Their tongues are formed exclusively for the extraction of sweet juices. and their mandibles | are unable to pierce the skin of a fruit. | Grapes have been taken intact from | the interior of hive in which they | had been allowed to remain four days. | A grape which had been smeared with | honey was licked clean. but was not | injured The bees inserted their | tongues in pinholes made in the skin | @l.