The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
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At the beginning of the present year there were 163,2O8 telephones in use
 in London.
 A 2,00O,000-ton hill in Cincinnati is being moved three miles to make a railroad i'll.
 United States covered 85O,0OO,000 acres and contained 52.OO0. 100000 feet of lumber.
 Extraordinary traffic on roads in England is only permitted, nominally. after those conducting it have agreed to pay for the injury caused.
 All of the food served to a guest at a Japanese banquet and not consumed by him at the time is taken to his home by the servants Of his host.
 The figures of this country's wheat crop indicate not only larger home consumption as result of increased population. but also larger consump- tion per capita.
 Portrait of George Washington on the first half of the reply postal card. Portrait of Martha Washington on the second half. Thus the lady has the last word.-Boston Transcript
 For hundreds of years the people of Saxony have used stoves made of fire brick covered with glazed tiles, which retain and gradually radiate the heat for hours after the fire has gone out.
 One of the greatest civic and eco homie problems confronting the au- thorities and public servants in the federal district of Rio Janeiro is that of providing homes for the working classes.
 Saying that he was born In 1910. man named Lacey, who was summoned at Norwich, England. for picking g flower In a public garden. pleaded ab- sent-mindedness and the case was dis missed.
 The production of sand and gravel in the United States in 1908 was ST. 216.044 short tons, valued at $13,270,- 032, a decrease of 4,635,874 tons in quantity and of s1,222,OS7 in value over 1907.
 North Queensland diocese has an area of 13O.0O0 square miles and pop ulation of 10000, but only fifteen cler- gymen, said the bishop of London in a missionary appeal at the church house, Westminster
 One theatrical manager in New York reserves a box in his house for and their families one night every week The rents are shaded, but just how much Is known only to the manager and his treasurer and to the clergyman.
 In the borough of Manhattan ap- 5000 passenger elevators and 12,000 freight elevators are en- gagged in the daily transportation of 6.500.000 people. In the six years. l903-190S, more than 4.O00 of these ma chimes were installed.
 Dr. Rose Ringgold is the only wom- an contract surgeon in the United States army. When on duty she wears ] divided skirt and a uniform coat. She is especially interested in the hos JIIdl pIOOiClu Ol III Ilc A6lQ md has made study of the work of he Japanese hospital corps in the war with Russia.
 English ship owners and Argentine :attle raisers have organized com any to ship regular weekly supplies ,f chilled meat from the River Plate o London and Manchester. Work has begun on nine new fifteen-knot refrig- ,ration steamers to be added to the vessels already at the disposal of the ;hip owners.
 The pay of officers in active service n the army is: Lieutenant general, Ill ,000 a year; major general, SS,00O; ,rigadier general, S6,00O; colonel, S4,- 100; lieutenant colonel $3,500; major, s 900; captain, $2.40O; first lieutenant. 2,OOO, and second lieutenant, S1,7OO. rom colonel down the payment is in- reased every five years.
 The so-called treasure of St. Peter t St. Peters in Rome. hitherto not accessible to the general public, will ereafter be exposed to view on the g, ayment of small fee. It consists of everal old church vestments, among hem the dalmatic worn by Charle- nagne at his coronation. The collec- ion of vestments is the most complete a the world and every kind of em- roidery Is represented.
 Joseph Walton of Darklands, Swad- ncote, Burton, who has just retired ) spend the evening of his life in a ouse next to that in which he was orn, has achieved the remarkable rec I'd of working full time in a coal pit hen close on to 90 years of age. He as worked as miner for about seven years He remembers the time when oilers worked twelve hours day for alf a crown, and he was one of the rst to join th5 Miners Association. alton was one of a family of seven-
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