The Holbrook news., 1910-09-02
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Princess Albert of Belgium Is said to be the happiest wife in the courts of Europe.
 There are more doctors per capita in New York city than anywhere else in this country.
 Trial Marriages" were discussed at the recent congress of Russian wom- en at St. Petersburg.
 It is only within the last ten years pineapples have had large sale in Ger many.
 The foreign commerce of this coun- try fell off about $5OO,OOO,OO0 last year. The greatest decline was noticed al the Atlantic ports.
 Mrs. Keith Spalding. of Chicago, has given s1S,OOO and forty acres of land to be used in establishing a tuber' culosis sanatorium at Naperville, III.
 The Australians eat an average of 129 pounds of sugar each year, the United States So pounds. Germany SC pounds. France 8 pounds and Great Britain S1 pounds, but in the latter country the ratio is going up.
 Owing to recent raids upon blind tigers" by the police authorities, the city of Savannah, Ga, is the possessor of about 10000 gallons of whisky, be- sides much beer, wine, champagne, etc. It can neither be sold nor given away.
 Figures issued by Manchester Uni versity point to the fact that women graduates rarely marry. Out of 56G women who have taken degrees only sixty-four have married. Twelve of these married graduates of the same university.
 Mrs. Russell Sage Is said to pay the heaviest tax of any person in the city of New York. The tax books show that twenty New York women are as sessed for upward of $1T.0OO.000, and more than a score of others are re- quired to pay for $25O,0O0 to $10O, 900.
 Mrs. ". J. Beggs. now of Seattle. is said to have produced the only rose absolutely without thorns. She was for several years nelghbor of Luther Burbank in California. where she studied his methods. The bloom of this thornless rose Is reported to be of unusual beauty.
 The Grand Duchess Sergius of Rus sIa is to found an establishment in Moscow which is to supply district nurses for the poor. The grand duchess, whose husband was killed by the terrorlsts,.-is. to live in one of the buildings devoted to the work. and other titled men and women will also dwell near her and help in the work.
 bill has been prepared by Charles Francis Adams and introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature to provide that there shall be no alteration or change in the name of any public way, street, place or square, or of any pub lie park, where the name altered or changed has been in use for twenty-five years, without the consent of the High way Commission of the State. At hearing on the measure representatives of many patriotic societies favored it.
 The women of Paris have discovered a new method of stimulation In the tea cigarette. To make one about as much tea Is required as would make two strong cups of tea. As many Paris women are reported to be smoking on an average ten a day. 1t is easy to see why the doctors should be taking meas ures to nip the fashion in the bud. They describe it as 8 horribly easy method of stimulation and sure to un- dermine the strongest constitution In a few months.
 Canton, China. at present Is full of robbers. It is said that in some parts the people are really afraid to go to rest at night, inasmuch as 1t is certain that thieves will enter and rob the place. Accordingly some one sits up, while others sleep. The following is a queer criticism of China's policy by a correspondent: eve have a police force whose work consists mostly in sleeping at post or helping the nearby shopkeeper to chop wood or a neigh boring blacksmith to blow his fire"
 Mrs George F. Lowell received more applause than any of the other speak CTS at the recent meeting of the Massa- chusetts Press Association. Her ad- dress was on woman suffrage, and in reply to a statement made by a speak CT preceding L-t that the women of America could get the ballot or any thing else they wanted. Mrs. Lowell said they could. provided they waited long enough. She reminded them that 1t took Massachusetts women ffty-hve years to obtain the equal guardianship of children. and almost as long to get that of equal inheritance between hus- band and wife.
 The legal adage de mlnlmis non curat lex was apparently reversed in the Glamorgan County Court. held at Cardiff, Wales, recently. when a work man seriously sued hls employers for compensation for injuries sustained while putting in a shop front, the in- 1uries being the result of a flea bite.