The Holbrook news., 1910-05-20
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The highest masts of sailing vessels are from 16O feet to 1SO feet high, and spread from 60,OOO to 100000 square Feet of canvas.
 Mrs. Helen Troy of Auburn, N. Y, has been received into full membership of the Six Nations. She has devoted the last IA years to study and research regarding the Iroquois traditions.
 l. requires many hands to clothe the New York women and some women outside of the city, for there are 96,162 employees in the metropolis working on women's clothing and their yearly output is valued at $261 ,O49,2S7.
 A junior league of the New York State Association opposed to Woman Suffrage has been formed at Albany with Mrs. N. H. Henry as president. The membership is said to have reach ed already the neighborhood of one hundred and to include young women of every social grade in Albany.
 Germany,s first complete fiotilla of turbine torpedo boats was commission ed last month. It consists of II yes sels of the newest type built in Vienna,
 
 built in the two first-named establish ments have attained a speed of over 34 knots. Besides Parsons turbines, three types of German turbines are represented in the hotilla.
 In the Comptes Rendus of the Bio logical Society of Paris, M. Picard gives an account of a useful wasp found in Senegal and Nigeria. It is one of the burrowing wasps, and feeds its larvae on a species of tsetse fly In view of the part played by many species of the latter in spreading dis ease, this wasp might prove a useful ally to those who are fighting malaria in tropical countries,
 China now possesses $500 miles of railways, of which only 1880 are man. aged by the Chinese. The management of the remaining 4,370 miles is divided among six foreign powers, as follows: Russians manage LOTT miles. Belgians sO3 nNe| Japanese TOP miles. Ger mans t2 miles, English eos miles, and ESeIIhmen 400 miles. When the railVaf3 11ow being laid down in China are hiii1Hed the total length Of China's TailH15 sFstem will amour. 70 5000 anil ts
 perhaps worth recalling that > the affibf baking loaves came to Flu rqh c,Ilte late in history. Flat cakes sfS t.nIea even in the earliest times. Hate as the beginning of the epth century loaf bread was com Fely unknown in many parts of 3ntinent In 1872, for instance, an English captai ordered
 Ito the value of S5 in Gothenburg ra" lker stipulated for payment in ad-
 on the ground that he would rsII be able to sell them in the city
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 roleum has been introduced into medicine with beneficial results, and if Paris contemporary be not mis- informed the properties of petrol are lifnitless It is claimed, says the Lon don Globe, that from the residuals of crude petrol a chemist has succeeded in extracting butter. It is said that butter can be made from a base of nitrogen and carbon, but that the resi- duals of petroleum produce these ele- ments in greater proportions even than milk. It is further claimed that this artificial butter is better than the nat ural The color is said to be little darker than that of dairy butter.
 Fulwood's Rents, the little Holborn court leading into Gray's Inn gardens, which will be largely rebuilt former 1y possessed the privilege of "sanctu- ary,'' and hence became a notorious resort for fraudulent debtors and still more unpleasant characters. Yet this dingy "dive" can boast of many glor- ious memories. Francis Bacon lived here in ''Fulwood's House" and val ued his furniture at e6O, huge price for that period. Here the Whig Club and Melbourne and Oates Club met in the reign of Charles II, and here stood Squire's coffee house. from which sey- eral numbers of the Spectator were dated-Westminste Gazette.
 A part of the Nobel prize, which was awarded to Selma Lagerlof, will be applied" says the Times of Stock holm, "to the purchase of a house on the Marbacka estate. where she was born. This is situated beautifully near the banks of the River Mellanfrykan, it's main building being the old home stead. WHICH IS SeFeTely pIalH III drcnl- lecture, but large and comfortable. It came into the hands of the family through her grandfather. who was regimental clerk. At his death it was Inherited by Eric. whose children were born there. Through reverses the es- tate passed into the hands of strangers, from whom the Nobel prize winner will rescue it, and her joy at being able to do so is shared by her country. men"
 The demolition is now being pro- ceeded with of Nos. S5. S6 and ST Fet- tel lane, three old. gabled buildings -rhich were nriginallv mart nf fha