The Holbrook news., 1910-04-01
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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 Texas last year produced more oil by 2,40O,OO0 barrels than the entire coun- try produced in 1875.
 A Massachusetts man worth $1O,OOO,- 0G0 is discovered to have hidden it all but $5OO.O0O from taxation.
 In Rotterdam, with population of 100000. fires are so scarce that the city has practically no fire department.
 An automatic time signal sent out from the Hamburg observatory by tel ephone to all instruments connected with the system of that city has been heard as far as Copenhagen and Paris.
 An enterprising American undertook to establish a trade in burglar-proof safes in the Malaga (southern) dis trict of Spain. There was nothing do ing, for burglars are unknown in that part of Spain.
 King Edward recently received four first prizes for his exhibits at the Smithfield cattle show His majesty is a tenant farmer, not landlord, and pays d ldISC Sulu every JCdA III ACAN and taxes for his holdings.
 In an address before the American Civic Association, Herbert M. Wilson, chief engineer in the United States geological survey, places the annual damage and waste by smoke in the United States at $5OO,OOO,OOO in the large cities alone, or about $6 to each man, woman and child of the pepula- tion.
 One may read in a guide book of Venice, compiled for the benefit of strangers, this notice: When visiting this palace strangers should show themselves especially generous in their tips, as the prince who occupies this palace has no other means of support than to share in the money given to his domestics"-L Cri de Paris.
 At twenty-four William Pitt was chancellor of the exchequer. Rusllin had written his Modern Painters" in five volumes, which established his rep utation as England's greatest art critic; Sheridan had produced "The Rivals" Byron published the first canto of ''ChiIde Harold" and Rossini produced his most popular opera, The Barber of Seville"
 In Devonshire any person bitten by . viper is advised to kill the creature at once and rub the wound with it's fat This practice has, to some extent, survived in this country, where the flesh of the rattlesnake is accounted to be the best cure for it's own bite, but as a rule the leading superstition in the United States is of the elfcacy ot numerous potions of whisky as an an tidote for snake bite.
 The Chicago Record-Herald says: Plans are in contemplation for giving the University of Chicago the finest physical laboratory in the United States, if not in the world. It is said that before all the plans are consum- mated the plant will have cost S1,000,- OOO All of the money is to be fur nished by Martin Ryerson, president of the board of trustees of the univer sity, who also was the donor of the present Ryerson laboratory at the uni versity."
 If an aeroplane flies faster than the prevailing wind it can, of course, make landings or headway as necessary or desired, but so long as the aeroplane is slower than the blowing wind it is more or less not under control and can not be brought down just any where. It is believed that when mo- tors can be relied on for thirty-fve miles an hour they not only can meet the wind almost every day in the year, but can rise from land or water at almost any open place.-New York Press.
 Colonizers of all races seem to be careful savers of their earnings in the countries to which they em1grate. In recent years there has been consider able migration of East Indian coolies to the Island of Trinidad, 2,393 having landed there last year. There was return to Calcutta of 726. carrying with them SS6.O0O in money, besides a large quantity of jewels, in which the coolies invest their savings. In the year there were also remittances to 1uuAd OL dOOuL pAd,OOO- -NSW 1Oi n Press.
 Few people. I fear, nowadays, read Maria EdgewOrth; it-is a pity. She is one of the finest novelists that ever adorned English literature. It was her tales, it must always be remembered. that inspired Sir Walter Scott to the composition of the "Waverley Novels" ." He cried aloud and everywhere his admiration for her and his indebted ness to her. Her writings have, how ever, a high value as historical pie lures, altogether apart from their mer- its as literature; and of all her novels her best is Castle Rackrent." -. P. O'Connor. in T. P.'s Weekly, London.
 The introduction of tungsten lamps is doing much to advance the use of