The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
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 Kissing and shaking hands are rare ly practiced in Japan.
 Japan has few millionaires and prac- tically no multimiIlionaires.
 There is a record of wheat growing in China as far back as 5000 B. c.
 For home consumption last year England imported 2,167 ,2SO,0OO eggs. area of the world is capable of tillage.
 Turkey has government tannery for such products as are needed in the army.
 there were 163, POS telephones in use in London.
 The colonies of France every year produce half the vanilla beans used in the world.
 A 2.000,OOO-ton hill in Cincinnati is being moved three miles to make a railroad fill.
 The first census of the city of Bang kok. recently taken, showed a popula- tion of 62S,675.
 Underground railways for Buenos Ayres are being considered by the Ar genuine government.
 Arranged in straight line the rail- road tracks of the world would reach to the moon and back again.
 The Japanese "Hello." at the tele- phone is "Moshi moshi." or "Ano mel" with the accent on the may"
 The Australian state of Victoria spends nearly s5OO,OOO year in it's warfare against the destructive rabbit.
 Covering an area of 2,45O acres, the largest hydraulic gold mine in the world is in Trinity county, California.
 While 2,OOO-horse power locomotives are common in the United States and many exceed that size, 1,2OO-horse power engine is considered large in continental Europe.
 A monument recently was erected in Nuremburg, Germany, to the memory of Peter Henlien, who first substituted springs for weights in the clock and made the watch possible.
 At 21 Alexander stood at the head of his army on the plains of Thessaly, Wilberforce entered Parliament, and Tasso had begun his immortal poem, Jerusalem Delivered" which took ten years to complete.
 A concession has been granted to the company of Buenos Ayres, which is capitalized at about s12,000,- 900, to erect powerful station at Punta del Este, but thus far no prog ress has been reported.
 More than half million dollars worth of radium has been produced at the imperial American laboratory, at St. Joachimsthal, the pitchblende from which it is extracted being taken from a worked-out silver mine.
 The estimate for dividends in the United States in 1909 is $395 100000, a gain of $3O,OOO,OOO over 19OS The largest dividend payers for the year are Standard Oil, $99.335, 1858, and United States Steel. s39 .206,996.
 Oyster production in Canadian wa ters is steadily decreasing. The yield fell from 35,757 barrels in 1903 to ,7, ,297 barrels in 1907. Canada import ed $271,76O worth of American oysters in 1908 out of total export of $663,S worth.
 Owing to the high price of cotton some German textile experts have been turning their attention to other fibers hat might be used as substitute for t. Recently spinning company at Jhemnitz has succeeded in spinning he fiber contained in the seeds of the lapok, or silk cotton tree of the trop- cs In its natural state this fiber can lot be spun owing to it's extreme brit leness, but it is reported that Profes- or Goldberg of Chemnitz has found a method of treating it to make it spin lable, and the yarn is described as laving a peculiarly soft, silky feeling. The fiber has the advantage of being considerably cheaper than cotton, but 10 information is at hand showing the qualities of fabrics made from .apok yarn.
 In a French village a citizen had Ipon his land part of an old build ng containing two very beautiful win ows. He was in debt and embar- assed and eagerly closed with the of CT of rich archaeologist, who bought hem Thereupon the government in- pector, hearing of the bargain, ar ived just in time to stop the masons rom dislodging the windows. You he said to the villager, sell my man." But, excel sncy, have used the money and paid " creditors" The villager was in de- pair, but the official was untouched That's all right" he said, "the money safe; the windows are no longer ours But the buyer cannot move a tone of them. He can. however. come