The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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typewriters.
 The use of leather shoes of the for
 eign type is rapidly extending in la
 pan.
 There are in France over 19,000
 qualified medical practitioners and over Il ,000 pharmacists.
 Of the Philippine islands the one which probably has the most product i've soil is Mindanao.
 In reply to an inquiry, Consul Chas. M. Caughey of Milan reports that har- ness racing is becoming more general in Italy, twenty-six meetings having
 been held in 1908 in twenty-three ci- ties.
 With view to raising the standard of pillow. needle point and Midland lace production by English peasantry the lady mayoress of Midland will hold an exhibition entirely of English hand. made lace at the Mansion house.
 The Chinese thrash rice by hand, beating a bunch against a frame sus- pended over a basket. For a flaming mill the usual way is for them to put the unhulled grains into a receptacle and tread on them with bare feet un- til the breeze has blown away the chaff.
 Fifteen hundred "six-penny cabs" hansoms and four-wheelers have just been placed in the streets of London. oIr f4 hox scored a great success. Each cab bears little flag with the announcement: "Sixpence (12 cents) not exceeding one mile."
 The financial possibilities of cine matograph theaters have dawned slow ly on the British mind, long after they were extensively exploited in the United States and on the continent, but provincial theaters are now begin ming to feel the effects of their compe tition seriously. There are one thou sand of these shows in the United Kingdom already, and the number is increasing monthly. The price of ad- mission ranges from a penny to a shil- ling.
 The electric treatment for skin dis eases, first introduced by Professor Le- duo of Paris, in 1903, has now emerg- ed from the experimental stages and is extensively used at Bartholomew's hospital, London. The treatment con- sists of passing an electric current through the diseased part, one of the al hofn oA with a solution containing a drug or chemical The electricity breaks up the solution into ions, which penetrate the tissue cells with the current
 Up-to-date stenographers use the typewriter automatically, pretty much as pianists play in the dark. This not only relieves the eyes, but gives greater freedom to thought and move ment of the body, and puts a large part of the work upon the centers of the automatic nervous system in the tip-top of the spinal cord, which act more or less independently and with out concentration and fatigue of the higher brain cells. Some can type a rapid dictation in the dark with only seeming playful effort. and few can use their fingers, chew gum, talk. laugh and work all at the same time. New York Press.
 In microscopic form Moissan, the French chemist, produced absolute diamonds, which are but crystalized carbon. The largest artificial diamond yet produced measures less than one (.03937 of an inch) in d. ameter. In Moissan's laboratory they believe that if they could deal with forty or fifty pounds of iron as easily as with four or five ounces their dia- monds would be larger. They also believe that the process of their labor l atory is the process of mother earth. though. down in her secret laboratories the earth has temperatures and pres ;ures they can not command and aeons of time to perfect her work.
 M. P. Remlinger, director of the Pas eur Institute at Constantinople. writes to The Lancet" to point out he danger of spreading disease by al- | owing domestic animals to enter the ! ;ickroom. He smeared boullion cul- ures of various micro-organisms on he coats of dogs and cats, and at reg liar intervals cut of number of hairs md took cultures from them. AS 'esult he found that the typhoid bacil- us was present on the seventeenth ! lay and the organism of diphtheria on he twenty-fourth day in undiminished Tirulence. Among the diseases men. toned by M. Remlinger as offering pecial danger in this way are scarlet ever. measles, diphtheria, whooping ough, typhoid fever and tuberculosis.
 Sir David Gill. who, says the West Gazette, Is to make a report O the International Geodetic Confer ,nce on the progress made with the- African survey from the cape to Cairo long the 30th meridian east, com-