The Holbrook news., 1910-06-17
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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 For extinguishing fires the London brigade last year used 11,375,000 gal Ions of water.
 Among all their palaces and castles it is BaLmoral that the members Of the British royal family have always looked upon as their home.
 Within five years Uruguay will have 140,000 olive trees, capable of produc. ing two million pounds of olives and fifty thousand gallons of oil
 Riga, Russia, population 5000, is to have new central passenger sta- tion with approaches, an improved GUS tom house quay, harbor extension and new warehouses.
 A committee of the New Zealand Legislature has just recommended that telegrapher's cramp be added to the list of diseases for which the employer must compensate the workman who suffers it in his employ.
 Mrs. Alice H. Herman is said to be the first woman to,practice in the crim- inal courts of Tennessee. Mrs. Tiernan
  studied law after her marriage. She is now practicing in Memphis with her husband
 Miss Knox, principal of Havergal College, Toronto, and Miss Keys, sister of Professor Keys, now on the staff of VaSsar College, are the two women be- ing considered by the governors of To- ronto University for appointment as dean of the university. If either is ap- pointed she will be the first woman on the staff of the University of Toronto.
 The resident director in New York for the Hamburg-American line is au- thority for the announcement that some time in May the company will begin steerage passenger service be- tween Hamburg and New Orleans di- rect, with the chief object of diverting the current of immigration from the north Atlantic seaboard, and thus to give the immigrants opportunities to locate in the South.
 Mrs. William R. Thompson, class of TT, has just been elected a trustee of Vassar College, to hold office until 1916. Mrs. Lucien Howe, class of '32, was elected president of the alumnac association. Mrs Howe has been the chairman of the fellowship committee for several years. The fellowship is held by Miss Winifred Scott, class of 1904, whose work at Columbia Univer- sity is comparative literature.
 The funeral of William Henry Haw- kins from 420S Eighth avenue marked the opening on an era of burial with modern improvements. The coffin was borne to Kinsico cemetery in an auto mobile that also accommodated the mourners and carried the floral trib- utes. In the mourning party were only the members of the immediate family and the usual funeral procession was with.-New York Press.
 The national demographic bureau of Buenos Aires estimates the population of Argentina on December q. 1909, as (, 1905, ,6S4, an increase of 311,6S4 in one year. In population Argentina ranks second among the South American re- publics. Brazil is first. with 22.000. 900. Chile ranks third with 3,,52O,OOO Of Argentina's population five-siXths al ndllNG SCAllAOS, C1O,o1O Ibdl11hoS 424, ,SO5 Sjaniards and 104990 French.
 When the attendants of the United States Senate received orders the other day to remove the two old snuff boxes long in use in the Senate chamber and replace them with new ones, attentive observers got reminder that the use of snuff is gradually increasing. The habit, once so common, has never by any means declined as generally as has been popularly believed. Snuff making, though somewhat restricted as compar- ed with its former volume is still highly profitable business.-New York Mail
 What Brooklyn bridge is to the American section in foreign geogra- phies Maryland fried chicken is to the American section in foreign cook Each in it's own department is the representative institution of our coun- ny Authors of foreign cook books font think much of American cookery, put they can't afford to slight Mary and fried chicken. Cook books in half ,f the civilized countries on the globe pay tribute to it. but no two of the re- ,eipts are alike"-New York Sun.
 Rome correspondent informs IS hat some very interesting discoveries nave been made in the course of ex- ,avation work around the Island of Lido at Venice, where a number of lncient pieces of artillery have been ound beneath six feet of mud The .annon are all in a state of. excellent though it is clear from heir construction that they must date pack to a period almost immediately liter the discoN cry of gunpowder; and t is believed that they will prove of rery great artistic and historic value London Globe.
 Figures show that railroad employees