The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW.
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 de2Js which enter them with the or dinary l1O-volt current. are recent invention.
 American capitalists are trying to form a merger of every acre of timber producing land in Nova Scotia, invest ing s5.6OO.OOO
 A tack hammer, the head of which folds into a recess in the stick for colvience in carrying, has been pat ented by a Pennsylvanian.
 The North British Locomotive Com pany has just completed and tested the first steam turbine locomotive. The new engine is pronounced sue cess.
 At seventy-three. it Is announced. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert is at work on a new comic opera which will shortly be produced at the Savoy The ater in London.
 France sold the United States $6,67O,S1O worth of champagne in the first six months of 1909, quantity which exceeds the previous highest re- turns TOT whole year.
 Mir and Mrs Louis Adams of Nor wich, N r.. are parents of triplets. two boys and girl. weighing less than eight pounds total. The father himself Is one of triplets
 For fifty-one years Isaac w. Hallam has served the same telegraph com pany at Wilmington, Del. During all that time he has not missed day at his desk. with the exception of fur tough of one week that he took In 1864 for honeymoon. MT. Hallam Is now in his eighty-second year.
 Captain Charles E. Shillaber, who is building a canal from Tampico to Tuxpan for the Mexican government. is seventy years old. He was sailor for twenty-three years and his great grandfather. William Shillaber. was on the Bon Homme Richard with Paul Jones when he captured the Serapis In the English channel after a desperate. fight
 Pigs in Portugal are more docile than anywhere else In the world, said C.. E. Thompson, F. R. P. S., in lec- ture at the Royal Photographic So- ciety's exhibition. Instead of prodding and pushing the animals along the market women carry panniers filled with savory things that pigs enjoy, and the drove trots behind them with out any trouble.-London Globe.
 Early Methodist preachers had req oP fha oII mighty landlord. Charles Wesley him. self suffered. For he was summoned and fined f1O (s5O) and heavy costs not for firing ricks or uprooting hedges. but for walking across field to address an audience. Here is the record: "Goter versus Wesley; dam ages, e1O; costs taxed. f9 16s Sd; July 16s Sd for damages and costs in their cause.-William Gason. attorney for the plaintih.'
 An interesting addition has been made to the contents of the army mu scum in Paris In the shape of the red and white ensign, ornamented with gold beetles. which Napoleon gave to the troops in the island of Elba dur ing his sojourn there. A French con temporary informs us that the flag came into the possession of Col. Camp 1 bell, whom the allies set to keep watch | over the emperor, when he made his | sudden departure from the island, and | has remained in the family ever since. | The gift is one which the French na- tion will no doubt be glad to have in its Westminster Gazette.
 The London Lancet, in a discussion | of the use of salt for removing snow | and ice from walks and pavements. re- marks that it is a pity that to flood | snowbound streets with a plentiful supply of hot water Is so far imprac- ticable in our cities" However effec- tual salt may be in removing snow" adds the Lancet, there can be little doubt that the resulting mixture is most unpleasant to pedestrians and inasmuch as even good leather does not appear to be proof against the cold siush. there Is reason for believ ing that the mixture gives rise to in- jury to health"
 Smith" is. according to Professor Mahaf. the oldest English surname. In a list of names he discovered w:lsn Investigating the Petri papyrl, there Is one. he says. which appears reg ularly in the same form and of which we can give no further explanation. It Is the name Smlth-unmistakabl written. We have never found any thing like It before and 1t Is surely worth telling the many distinguished bearers of the name that there was B man known as Smith in the twen- tieth year of the third Ptolemy, 227 B. C.. and that he was occupied in brewing beer or selling it."
 Strictly speaking soap is the only