The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW.
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i try uses 32,000 cars.
 The Turkish turban contains about
 twenty yards of material.
 At last reports there were 61,15S
 postofices in this country.
 One town in Spain has one hunch-
 back to every thirteen inhabitants.
 In eighteenth-century England the
 fashionable woman's headdress often had to be left untouched for weeks at time
 Syracuse university on her last birth day. The money is to be used as an endowment fund for the teachers col lege.
 The beauties of suburban life in New Jersey seem to appeal to many worlds goods, and in Morris County 1t is the boast of the inhabitants that seventy-ive millionaires now have their homes there.
 Italy levies graduated income tax as well as>sas direct tax on land and AOuoCo. 4HCOACS dlO CACuuPI from taxation. The minister of finance estimates that the income tax for this year will amount to about $49, 600 ,000, while the land tax will bring in $36,- 00,000
 The patent office is some S7,000,000 ahead on revenue from patents. nearly $1 ,000, GOO last year alone. Considering the measureless, multiplied millions of blessings and dollars from inventions, and considering the silent tragedy and despair of poor inventors, this seems like settling the lamb in its own moth CTS milk.-New York Press.
 Natives of Papua are said to have converted a Church of England clergy man to a recognition that there is something in the witchcraft practiced by the magicians of New Guinea" The Rev. Copeland King, who has been la boring among the Papuas for eighteen years. has told a Sydney interviewer that he was once stricken with fever by a Papuan magician.
 Butter that was sold to the English working. classes of the fifties was adul- terated with ground flint: The flint stones were ground and manipulated into a substance called soluble silica" This, dissolved in water, formed stiff jelly, which was mixed with the but ter. fresh salt and coforing matter being added. The compound resembled a very good-looking dairy-made butter.
 Quite recently a warship of the At lantic squadron found 1t necessary to call for few hours at a military post on the coast of Ireland. Tommy At kins, meeting a full-bearded Irish tar in the street couple of hours later, said: Pat. when are you going to place your whiskers on the reserve list?" When you place your tongue on the civil list was the Irish sail or's reply.
 An iron cyclone cellar is a novelty described in Popular Mechanics. It the cyclone States of the West Is man. ufacturing the cyclone cellar or extra heavy galvanized corrugated iron. It has . cylindrical shape, and Is pro vided with stairway, seats. shelves and bins Under ordinary conditions 1t Is used for the keeping of fruits and veg etables. The whole is anchored soidly
 It was the custom in medieval times to serve roast meat on a spit. and to pass 1t round the table for each guest to cut of what he liked. Tn France one still finds chicken livers and bacon served on small spits. It is to prefer fingers to table utensils eveD after these were perfected and ih gen. eral use. For knives were certainly invented at the period when Charles XII. chose to butter his bread with his royal thumb.
 France has done more to push for ward the science of aerial navigation l than any other country, and, although | the last disaster assumed the magni- | tude of a national calamity, will con- tinue to do so with as much enthusi- | asm and faith as before. yet the death list in the last year has found France the sufferer in every instance but one. Of the seven killed during this per iod. says Popular Mechanics, six were Frenchmen. flying over French soil. | and all. commencing with M. Lefebvre | in a Wright aeroplane, were killed during September.
 Henry Sienkiewicz says that his in- spiration for Quo Vadis" came from the study of three famous master pieces. First of all, in the works of Tacitus, with whom or all the Latin classics I am best acquainted. Then was deeply influenced by Chateau brsand's Genie du Christianisme es- pecially by what he has written about the early Christian martyrs. But I owe most of all to the English Car final Wiseman's 'Fabiola; the Church of the Catacombs,' an able and pictur-