The Holbrook news., 1910-05-27
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In some cheap restaurants the coffee is often half chicory.
 The trees which are used in the gov ernment work of reforesting are grown at eight government nurseries in the western forest reserves.
 Since 1883 the sea has washed away 419 acres of the British isles, but it has also added SO.752. The land gain ed. however. is at present useless.
 In Switzerland education is both free and compulsory, and such ample facilities are provided for all classes that illiteracy is almost unknown.
 In the English Church Times the clerical obituary for 1909 contains 461 names. The ages of 370 of the de- ceased clergymen are mentioned and these show the attainment of an aver age age of 711a years.
 So many counterfeit nickels are dropped in the fareboxes of New York street railway company that the lead realized when they are melted down makes an appreciable item in the revenue of the road.
 For the years 1908 to 1907 Great Britain has produced 32.6 bushels of wheat an acre, as against 13.9 in this country and 9.3 in Russia, which makes the poorest showing of the large wheat-growing countries.
 Two Tennessee draftsmen have pat ented a magnetic T-square, which is held against the iron bound edge of drawing board by an electro magnet in ito head. A switch cuts off the cur rent and allows it to be moved.
 Ms. Lulu Rice of Longmont, Colo, recently received certificate enabling her to practice embalming. She was the only woman among the seven can dicates who took the required exami- nation and the only person who got a certificate.
 The London employer, in hiring a shop clerk, insists on an agreement that the latter shall not go into busi- ness for himself or enter the employ of another within a certain distance radius and within certain time limit after leaving his employer.
 London seems to have. possessed roller skating rink over three-quarters of a century ago, for in 1923 mention can be found of the invention of skate flor rendering the amusement independent of frost" which was be- ing practically exhibited at the old tennis court in Windmill street"
 Benjamin Franklin observed the Londoner's habit of wasting daylight more than a century and a half ago. In walking through the Strand and Fleet street at o'clock one summer morning he noticed there was not one shop open, though it had been daylight and the sun up above three hours, the inhabitants of London choosing voluntarily to live much by candle light and sleep by sunshine, and yet often complain, a little ab surdly, of the duty on candles and the high price of tallow."
 Salmon require little or no food in fresh water, and while they will take most of the things swimming against the current and swallow or nibble at them, still they always spit or drop them out of their mouths, seemingly only making play at eating. One I41n5 EAug uAucICuCGS III SGd trout come not from being of differ ent breeds-for all sea trout are of the same class, only look different be- cause of the water they frequent or the food they eat. And the same thing applies to brown trout So there are only two breeds of trout-New York Press.
 Nobody is going to poke out a good eye just for the sake of getting a glass eye," says the city salesman, but l know a man who makes money on his glass eye. He goes to Europe three times year on business. While there he does little trading in jewels as side line. It is on the homeward | trip that he turns his glass eye to good | account. In the cavity back of it he | carried two or three small but valu. ] able diamonds. Half the duty saved is his commission on those stones | alone. The customs inspectors have never got onto him. Naturally they can't go around jabbing their fingers into peoples eyes. New York Sun.
 One of the most popular spots in Central Park is Dr. Tanners we'll, near the West S1st street entrance. A i few years ago the newspapers were full of the exploits of Dr. Tanner, who | said he could do without food for forty days. While he took no nourish- ment for that length of time it was said that he allowed himself all the | water he wanted and that he got it | each day from the spring that comes | out of a rock near S1st street and 2th | avenue. The park authorities after ward scooped out a basin to collect | the water and provided cups Lots of | persons who remember Dr. Tanner sseribe wonderful properties to this | water and they go there every morn i ing to drink.-New York Sun.
 There. are English people who no