The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


900.
 The annual whaling catch at pres
 ent Is about 150.
 German pianos cost in Australia
 from S60 to $200 wholesale
 Swarming bees send out scouts to
 look for desirable locations
 When completed the new White Star
 liners will be the largest vessels afioat, being 890 feet long over all by ninety
 two feet beam
 The examination of over 400 flies at
 the Connecticut agricultural expert ment station showed that they carried an average of 1,250,O00 bacteria each.
 Athens has sixty native dentists.
 There are also three foreign dentists who have modern equipments, charge high prices, and have so many clients that they are obliged to turn some oi them away.
 All notes or legal papers executed in Mexico must bear revenue stamps, and all papers executed in the United States or other countries must bear these stamps before legal action can be commenced in Mexico.
 The woman's nine hour law has been signed by Governor Hadley, oi Missouri. It limits the employment of women and girls in factories, res, taurants and such places to nine hours day, between a. m. and 10 p. m.
 The postmaster-general of Egypt who has inspected the new borings in the Jezah oil fields, states that the dis covery is of the greatest importance to Egypt and the Sudan. The flow of the well in question was estimated al three barrels a minute.
 The Iowa agricultural experiment station has found out that on rail roads running east and west it Is nec essary to plant a different kind ot grass on the north side of embank ments from the south side, because oi the different amount of sunlight that each side receives.
 In Japan government physicians make thorough physical examination of all school children once year, and there is monthly inspection of them by the medical corps every month There is also a monthly sanitary in. vestigation of all school buildings, their contents, water supply. sur etc.
 Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, of Bos ton, has been appointed to take charge of the prize contest of the American School of Peace League, The league has offered two sets of three prizes each, for the best essays on the peace Mrs. Andrews has been interested in peace societies for many years. She also is an enthusiastic club woman and an ardent advocate of equal suffrage.
 Mrs. Arthur Slade, of New York, Is the president of the Ely Club, which has just opened a clubhouse where young women studying for a profes. sion can find a home in New York. A small charge for board will be made md the applicants for membership nave to be recommended by some one ,f the graduates of the Ely school who organized the club and have 1t in ,harge. The applicants were so nu, nerous for the present school term hat an extra house had to be taken IS a dormitory, and there are still in he neighborhood of one hundred on he waiting list.
 Recent experiments on showy flow. ITS like the poppy tend to show that insects are not always attracted to lowers by the brightly colored petals, ut rather by the rception-doubtless y means of smell-that there is honey r pollen. In these experiments the unopened flower. bud is inclosed in auze net, so as to protect it from in. ects, and when 1t expands the petals re carefully removed without touch ng the remaining parts with the fing. IS (for bees avoid a flower if the nell of human fingers is left on it), nd the petalless flowers receive prac. Ically as many insect visits as un. 1uched flowers do.
 The palace of the escurial, in Tole- 0, built by Felipe II. to commemorate is victory over the French at St. uentin, is the only building of the ind in the world. It was dedicated , San Lorenza. and Juan Baptista. le architect, took gridiron as his lodel. The bars were represented by ows of magnificently built buildings, nd the handle by a superb church. he palace has nearly two thousand ,oms, over six thousand windows and DOTS, and eighty-three staircases, hile seventy-three fountains and the of forty-eight wine cellars slp to assuage the thirst of this mon CT gridiron's occupiers.
 Major Sylvester, Washington's chief
 police, has made what the Post calls l wise and timely suggestion," that le horde of guides in the capital be objected to examination as to their