The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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A 2,OOO-year-old oak tree stands near Dax, France. the branches oi which shelter 500 persons.
 Only about one of every thousand married couples lives to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary.
 The great majority of immigrant ar rivals at the present time are coming from Austria, Russia and Italy.
 A graps basket more than sixteen feet long was made for exhibition in a recent parade at Westfield. N. Y.
 News paper is made by machinery at the rate of 15O to 400 feet a minute. according to width and quality.
 Lettuce as a food plant has a rec ord of being eaten by Persian kings more than two thousand years ago.
 The Carnegie Steel Company pays about one-seventh of the entire taxes collected by the city of Youngstown. Ohio.
 Using electricity. Nome. Alaska. the most northerly town in America, is one of the best lighted cities in the world.
 An elephant in the wild state has such a delicate sense of smell that it eau detect an enemy nearly a mile away.
 The first American flag ever made in the United States of America. made of bunting, recently was sold at auction in London.
 Oklahoma has the greatest Indian population of any of the states. The last time they were counted there were 117,370 of them.
 ord for itself in 1909. when the cost of buildings of all kinds erected made grand total of $9O.00O. 900.
 A recently invented rescue stretcher for mines has oxygen tanks at one end opening into bag into which mans head and shoulders may be placed.
 There has been invented in Spain a cylindrical barrel for grapes, divided into four sections, to ventilate the con- tents and prevent them being crushed.
 The Marblehead, one of the oldest cruisers in the navy, has been com missioned in the service of the Cali fornia state naval militia at Mare Island
 For use in manual training schools a Wisconsin man has patented a tool chest which may be converted into a work bench by clamping it to the top of two desks.
 A balanced grand piano has been i'm 5, 1fI f1 duplicate of the other. and the lid is hinged in the center so as to distribute the sound waves evenly.
 An arm to be suspended over a roll of wrapping paper. carrying a roller to imprint merchants advertisement on every piece Of paper torn off. is a New York mans invention.
 A Pittsburg widow, who was com pelled to sell her beautiful hair in order to keep her children from starv- ing, has received an offer of marriage from rich man in Oklahoma.
 According to the last census there were in Holland about 2.62O.OOO head The dairy ration is composed largely of oil meal or oil cake and grass or hay.
 A metal seat, hinged and suspended by chains from a window casing, has been patented by an Ohio man for window cleaners as well as for use as a shelf on which food may be placed to cool.
 Gold pieces are the only coins of the United States which are worth their face value intrinsically A dou- ble eagle contains S2O worth of gold. without counting the one-tenth part of copper.
 The Porto Rican agricultural exper- iment station reports that Java coffee l growing is now being introduced into the island to meet the demand in the United States for "a highly favored | aromatic coffee"
 For telephoning from moving train an Iowa man has patented a device consisting of a metal bar to be sus- pended from a locomotive or car low | enough to come in contact with stand | ards set in the ties.
 The first trust in the United States | to pass the $1OO. 100000 mark in cap italization was the United States Leather Company. organized in 1893. | It's capital stock combined with an is- sue of bonds amounted to $13S, 900 900.
 Calgary. with it's 30,OOO population and the commercial center of 5O,O0O,- 900 acres of rich farm land in the province of Alberta. Canada. owns It's own street railway. electric light plant and water works and has 300 employees on its city pay roll. Ten years ago the city had in 1t less than 5000 peo- pie, and 1t expects to have 100000 in 1915.
 To get rock for the Morena dam in Southern California, one of the biggest blasting operations on record has just been successfully carried out A tun- nel 125 feet long was first driven into the face of the granite. In this cham ber was placed 38,s50 pounds of pow der and dynamite. This was exploded