The Holbrook news., 1910-03-25
THINGS YOU MAY HOT KNOW
This country has 900 trade journals.

This country has 900 trade journals.
 At the age of TO years a man has consumed ninety-f1ve tons of food.
 Soldiers in the Russian army are to carry compasses with luminous nee dies.
 Two thousand million microbes are sometimes injected into a persons blood to cure diseases.
 Cavalry officers in Italy undergo . course of instruction in pigeon train- ing for military purposes.
 The smallest screws are those made in watch factories. An ordinary thim- ble would hold 100000 of them.
 The Eastern states. from Maine to Alabama, produced gold worth $259, ,143 and silver worth $35,O7O last year.
 Covering an area of 2,45O acres, the largest hydraulic gold mine in the world is in Trinity county, California.
 The lighthouse of Helgoland has light of O0,OOOcandle power. At Nuremberg a lamp ten times as pow | erful has been made.
 There are about 17O,OOO oil pro- ducing wells in the United States, rep resenting directly and indirectly an outlay of about $7OO,000,OO0.
 A young oak grows three feet in three years In the same time an elm grows eight feet three inches, and a willow nine feet three inches.
 One Scotch casualty insurance com- | pany is offering policies to aviators. while another will extend all future policies to cover the risks of aviation and ballooning.
 Consul Isaac A. Manning of La Guai- ra forwards samples of the jipijapa palm used in the manufacture of Pana, ma hats, brought from near Barquisi. meto, and which he is told grows in many other parts of Venezuela. Among the important improvements contemplated in Japan are the quad, rupling of the Tokio-Yokohama rail- way, and the improvement of the Kioto-Kobe line, so that a very much higher speed may be developed.
 The study of foreign languages is making rapid progress in German schools. Most of the teachers are na- tive born French and English This work is a powerful factor in Ger many's progress as power on inter national commerce.
 Breweries and tanneries and print ing ink factories confer exemption from tuberculosis, and employees iI turpentine factories never have rheu- matism. Copper mining excludes the possibility of typhoid among the work ers.-Harpers' Weekly.
 The wife of a Jerseyman was ad- vertising for serving maid. The Jerseyman Is an editor and his wife has learned the habit of cutting out unnecessary words. This is the way the advertisement read: Wanted A white, semi-green maid servant."- New York Sun.
 There is no such thing as a forest of mahogany. The mahogany tree lives by and for itself alone. It stands solitary of it's species surrounded by the smaller trees and dense under growth of the tropical forest, rearing it's head above it's neighbors. Two trees to the acre are a liberal esti- mate.
 In Berlin the walters association is considering the plan of making tips obligatory and according to fixed table. In the cheaper places they pro pose that the customer shall pay to the waiter 12 per cent of the amount of his bill and in the large establish ments the attentive 'tKellner" will be satisfied with per cent.
 This one comes from Missouri, where one editor showed" them why: An evangelist asked all the men present who were honest and paid their debts to stand up. All rose but one He said he was the local editor and couldn't pay his debts, because the men standing were his deliquent subscribers" s."-Atlanta Constitution
 In the Russian campaign the per scnal baggage of Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, who married Eliza beth Patterson of Baltimore, contained sixty pairs of boots, 200 shirts and 318 pocket handkerchiefs. The transpor- tation of his wardrobe entire required several heavy wagons. while his whole campaigning kit stretched over half a mile.
 Thackeray was six feet two inchea in height and Sir H. W. Lucy says the great novelist wore 79s-inch hat, beating Dickens and John Bright by a full half inch MT. Gladstones hat was 7as-inch measurement-the same as Macauley's-while Beaconsfleld needed a full Finch The hat of Dan- iel OConnell. however. would have beaten them all. measuring S1a inches by 10 inches.
 A portrait bust. heroic in size and .ractad on an artistic pedestal of