The Holbrook news., 1910-03-25
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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There are fourteen thousand oysters of full size in ton.
 Kissing and shaking hands are rare ly practiced in Japan.
 Japanese dead are buried in a squatting posture, chin upon knees.
 There is record of wheat growing in China as far back as 5000 B. c.
 The first recorded Thanksgiving was the Hebrew feast of the tabernacles-
 Turkey has a government tannery for such products as are needed in the army.
 At twenty-one, Alexander stood at the head of his army on the plains of Thessaly, Wilberforce entered parlia- ment. and Tasso had begun his i'm mortal poem, Jerusalem Delivered" which took ten years to complete.
 Oyster production in Canadian wa ters Is steadily decreasing. The yield fell from 35,757 barrels in 1903 to 27.- 297 barrels in 1907. Canada imported S271. .760 worth of American oysters in 1908 out of total export of s663.S32 worth
 To check New Jerseys destructive forest fires, the State has ordered the railroads traversing its pine forests to clear the ground for fifty. feet on each side of the tracks and blow up and gravel ten-foot strips to prevent the growth of brush again.
 At twenty, Tintoretto was one of the most prolific and popular painters in Italy; Schelling had grappled with the philosophy of Kant; Calico had discovered the use of the pendulum; Lafayette was a major-general. and Harrison voiced emancipation for the slave.
 At twenty-two Paul Potter painted The Young Bull," now in the mu-- scum at The Hague, said to be one of the finest animal pictures on canvas; Campbell wrote his Pleasures of Hope" on which his fame as poet rests; Farquhar had made for himself ] lasting name as a dramatist, and Condo was the most famous military general of his time.
 
 in a belfry was performed yesterday according to ancient custom in the parish church of Brightlingsea, when Arthur Lucas was chosen in success sion to the Rev. Arthur Petwee. vicar of Brightlingsea, and six mariners who had married Brightlingsea women were admitted freemen of the port on s-k1 treasury.-London Standard.
 The United States and the British empire produce S2.7 per cent of the worlds gold supply. Germany and France, which produce no gold, and Russia, which produces only some s27, 100000 worth a year, feel compel led to hoard vast amounts of 1t to be prepared for emergencies, such as sudden war. This Is the reason why the banks of these countries begin a process of |. hoarding gold whenever there is any likelihood of trouble
 Japan, the country that is not bound by traditions in her search for the best manner of doing things, has tried our national bank plan, and, finding 1t not at all satisfactory, has adopted the European plan of the cen tral bank. The Bank of Japan Is capitalized at $15.OOO.0OO. Its eircula- ton at present is more than S170.- poo, 900, and it's deposits exceed $200.- OO,0OO. It issues all the notes of the country and thus controls the cur rency situation. Besides the Bank of Japan there are other semi-oficial banks filling various specific functions for the government.
 The chairman of the Imperial To bacco Company of Canada was asked,- at Montreal, if the report was correct that they had bought the Ontario to- oacco crop. His answer was that to- bacco grown in Canada to-day was su- perior to the American-grown leaf from the same type of seed, for the reason that the soil in the United States has been used for a number Of years and the Canadian soil is prac-. tically virgin soil for tobacco grow ing purposes, and therefore produced a better quality. The proof of this is that the consumption is constantly in. reasing.-Consular Reports.
 Professor Ranke some time ago brought out a new fact concerning .he brain of a man as compared with that of other animals. It has long teen known that the brain of man Ices not weigh as much as that of a whale, or an elephant, and that theye ars birds and apes whose brains are. heavier than mans in proportion to .he weight of their bodies. But Pro lessor Ranke showed that the way to 'eveal the actual superiority of the human brain is to compare it's weight gith that of the spinal cord. Meas Ired in this way, mans brain is pro far heavier than that,-of my of the lower animals .IHarper's Weekly.