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The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
CHEAP EGGS IN CHINA

Prices Have Advanced, but They Yet May Be Had for Cents a DoEen.
 Perhaps there is no country in the
 world where there are so many do mestic fowls as in China, and yet there are no poultry farms where chickens are reared in quantities" says United States Vice Consul General w. R. Dor sey of Shanghai. Almost every fam fly in the towns and villages. as well as in the country, keeps a few hens. Many of the birds are of medium size, laying small eggs. but some breeds, such as the Huai fowls and the Lan- shans, are large, and their eggs are almost, If not quite, as large as those of the Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks. It is not uncommon to find hens in the markets weighing as much as eight pounds each.
 Chickens are matched in crude incu- bators. When the chicks are a few days old they are carried around in baskets and sold for about twice the market price of eggs. When large enough to forage for themseles they are allowed to roam over the fields to pick up what feed they can find. At night they are fed a little paddy or cooked rice left from the meals.
 Hens eggs are produced and sold in large quantities at certain seasons. Many are exported annually to Japan. They are usually so cheap that few of the Chinese are so poor as to be de prived of having some on thair tables on special occasions. A few years ago the price throughout the year at the open ports on the Yangtse river aver aged to 5 cash each. or cents. Mexican currency (equal at that time to cents United States money) dozen. With the abolition of the old copper cash and the substitution of 1O-cash pieces Cor cents) for the same, the price of everything has ad- vanced. Eggs are now sold at 12 to 16 cents, Mexican currency, a dozen, equivalent at the present rate of ex- change to 5 to 6 2-3 cents United States money. The flavor of Chinese eggs does not differ materially from that of the eggs in the United States"
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

There Is even persistent Paris ru- nor of ''R. C."-'the King of the Cata- combs" In the version used by Gas ton Leroux he is chief of a disciplined army of foreigners, counterfeiters, bur glars and abductors for ransom. ,,- tacking only the very rich and operat- ing without scandal. In the quarter of the Pantheon where superposed gal leries exist below the level of the Me tro, the King of the Catacombs has a secret chamber. Surrounding 1t, in a circle, are. the headquarters of each of his sections, watched and overheard by "R. G." when he pleases, through a circle of peep-holes.
 This vast conspiracy, which utili1es equally young men of good society as indicators, clerks of public services as spies, physicians to give false cer- tificates and bands of Apaches to mud dle clews of expert burglary, has ex- perts to work its counterfeiting press es, execute its forgeries and frauds on insurance companies.
 The work is done in leisurely impun- ity 100 feet beneath Paris. Electric lighting, steam heat. scientific venti- lating, vast underground kitchens, heavy carpets and hangings, luxuri- ous furniture in sleeping-rooms and clubrooms makes this realm of R. C." seem like pipe dream romance. But the police know it's existence and are powerless. The catacombs are maze a labyrinth, tangled with masonry and cave-ins!
 Subterranean Paris It is wonder full place, concealing mysteries, honest and dishonest, equally enticing to the imagination. It has been long known. long forgotten. It has enjoyed long impunity. But now that the Metropol- itan Underground Railway is throwing its branches. literally, under the entire capital, the supporting surfaces that were just strong enough are being weakened A few streets have caved in There will be more. You will hear lots more of Subterranean Paris!
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

At 6:30 p. m., recently, the corner of the rue Damremont and the rue de Tourlaque, Paris, sank into the ground. Pedestrians saw a man and woman down, buried to the hips in falling dirt, heard the woman crying: Mon sieur. an the mother of a family, save mel"
 The hole enlarged. Tons of debris poured in. Two policemen, let down with ropes, disengaged the man. But the woman had disappeared.
 The hole was fifteen feet long, twelve feet wide and thirty feet deep. Po- lice and troops made a cordon; fire men evacuated the adjoining houses At depth of 1OS feet they found the body of Mme Chevalier-on the floor of gallery of the ancient catacombs!
 They blame the recent heavy rains, undermining the surface; because. the next day, a spot ten feet square in the sank knee-deep with crowd of tour ists.
 Next, two days later. a part of the Place of the Palais Royal went down three feet in the midst of pedestrian traffic. In neither case had the Met ropilitan Underground Railway any thing to do with the cave-ins.
 At this hour, the Paris under-realm shelters incredible enterprises; store
 
 room plantations of honest under ground farmers; stored bones of gener- ations of Parisians. and luxurious se- cret refuges of rich families.
 It Is the whole story of old Paris.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
A Problem in Mathematics.

The town of Sturg.s, in Mississippi. Is the only round square town in ex- istence By legal enactment the circle has been squared, and the mathemati- clan may now proceed to calculate the area of a cquare circle. In the laws of Mississippi for the year 1886, on page 6S2, is found the following:
 An act to incorporate the town of Sturgis, in Oktibbeha County, Missis- sippi.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by ths legislature of the State of Mississippi that the town of Sturgis, in the county of Oktibbeha, is hereby incorporated and that the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at the quarter stake in front of Caleb Hannah's residence and running 600 yards in every direction, making said corporate limits 1,2O0 yards square"
 Thus the circle is squared by the solemn declaration of the law Youths Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

The Paris of the middle ages was quar- ried underground for the stone built above ground. In the days of Joan of labyrinth under half Paris, already a mystery, where Satanailost Hardy de Passavant and the Duke of Burgundy met the heads of the trades unions. Fantastic streets, their smooth stone ceilings forty feet beneath the surface, emptied into vast dark halls, turned, intersected, without plan, according to the quality of the stone. Galleries dat ing from Gallo-Roman times had be- come forgotten in Gothic times-as tourists know who have stayed at a certain pension near the Pantheon.
 The known extent of this under ground world is astonishing. Up to the twelfth century the palaces, churches, public and larger private buildings were constructed from cata- combs quarried under 1,500 acres of the present surface in the three we'll known groups-under the Gobelins; under the Latin quarter, and. on the OlACA cAdCt IuS WhOlO 1lOSduCiO ter.
 How is it that this underworld does not cave in oftener? The weaker sur faces have already caved in. In par ticular, around the year 1774, the cave ins, following prolonged rains and much new building. became so numer ous as to alarm the population. At the moment when a commission was examining a house in the Rue de'En- fer went down-entire-twen yards below the surface-into an abyss.
 Drayloads of boxed goods enter cer- tain Monmartre courtyards in plain daylight-and disappear. No search could find them. They gave gone down concealed elevators to a primitive lit tie railway that runs through some old quarry gallery, five blocks, ten blocks, to another part of Paris. Some honest commission merchant hoists them up and mingles them with other goods, all ready for shipment
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
COLD PETEv IS DEAD.

Honest Negro Paid Notes Securing
 Freedom 20 Years After War.
 Peter Morton, or "Old Pete," a colored man and a quaint character of antebellum days, died at his home in Geneva court recently, the Cincin- natl Enquirer says He did not know his exact age, which was about 80 years, and there is probably no one now living who does. When asked about 1t he would say that he was "a right smart sized boy the year the stars fell, and when Jenny Lind came down the Ohio River"
 "Old Pete,' since the close of the Civil War, has at different times been a family servant and man-of-all-work in many prominent families on the | hills, and in Avondale, and varied his employment occasionally by doing porter work in downtown stores. It Is related of him, and the story was confirmed by himself, that before the Civil War he was the property of Kentucky gambler, who went broke. and Pete" with all other chattels pos sessed by the gambler, had to be sold to satisfy his creditors.
 The officers of bank in Maysville, Ky. who. had taken a liking to the colored man on account of his genial good nature and strict honesty, offered to buy his freedom for him if he would execute his personal note in their favor and make his payments upon 1t, according as he was able, until they were repaid. This he agreed to. but with the close of the Civil War and the scattering of his friends far and wide, Pete fell into hard lines from lack of a permanent home and steady employment, but he never for got his financial obligations to his banker benefactors and he continued making his payments to them for twenty years after the close of the war until the debt was finally paid. Often he was told that the claim was outlawed and he could not be legally forced to pay it, but he invariably re- piled that his benefactors had trusted him and no matter how long it took he would pay them back to the last cent.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

the United States carries a revolver
 and to this fact 1t attributes the nu-
 merous murders in this country grow
 ing out of the relation of the sexes.
 It is to be doubted if there are rela-
 lively more murders of that kind in this country than in other civilized
 countries; but 1t is undoubtedly true that the carrying of deadly weapons does tend to promote killings of every description. In those countries where the knife is an almost indispensable portion of the dress or equipment. stabbings are quite as frequent as gun play is in the widest. portions of America. But the London publication is mistaken in supposing that revol- 'vers are carried by any large portion of the men in America who call them selves gentlemen. In the prevalent styles of masculine dress 1t would be very difficult for a man to carry a a suspicious bulge at some portion of his anatomy. The Southern fire-eater of the old days customarily wore a long-skirted, loose frock coat, and with little practice his pistol could be pretty well concealed under his arm pit, or in his hip pocket But with the close-fltting sack coat and trousers of to-day such concealment is impos- sible. In overcoat weather the prob lem of concealment Is easier; but when the overcoat is temporarily re- moved discovery would become immi- nent The average man would rather run the risk of going weaponless than to incur the ridicule of a bulging pock- ct or the revealing sag of a heavy piece of metal when he hangs up his overcoat. Perhaps 1t is to the fashion of clothes more than to the laws against the carrying of concealed weapons that we owe the present al- most universal discarding of the gun carrying habit.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
BUENos AYREs.
4 City with All the Finish of n
 Paris or n Berlin.

A City with All the Finish of q
 Paris or n Berlin.
 Buenos Aires, the capital of the Ar. genuine Republic. is in some respects the most cosmopolitan city in the world No important European nation but has contributed its capital and its people to the upbuilding of this great metropolis It also has the distinction of being the second city of Latin pop ulation in the world. being larger than the largest cities in Italy and Spain.
 There is perhaps no city which ex- hibits a greater variety of pleasing contemporary styles of domestic archi- lecture. The city council tries to en- courage beautiful building by annually offering a gold medal to the architect who is found to have planned the most attractive facade and by freeing from the building tax the building thus fa- vored
 The outward aspect of Buenos Aires is rather that of a European than of an American capital. It has all the finish of Paris or Berlin The ab- sence of the irregular sky line, caused in North American cities by the ex- treme height of some business build ings as well as the fact that the ground of the city is quite uniformly built upon, even in the more outlying regions. keeps the city from present ing that unfinished appearance which even our largest cities have.-World T0-dou
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
WILD HORSE IN NEW YORK.

Roaming the Woods East of City
 Hall and Frightening Residents.
 Driven wild by cold and hunger, a black bobtailed ownerless horse has been running in Burdens woods in the Ravenswood part of Long Island City and residents have asked the police to capture 1t.
 No one knows where the animal came from. and it's presence was un- known until about two weeks ago. the New York Sun says. Those who know something about horseflesh say the animal is a thoroughbred and when out on foray it clears fence with the ease of a born and trained cross country hunter.
 Telling about the horse, one woman informed the police that it chased her around the yard and tore her waist from her back with its teeth. Another woman says 1t vaulted the fence into her yard, ripped her wash from the line and kicked over the out buildings. On another occasion it bolt ed into the stall of a hard-working horse and, kicking the rightful occu- pant out of the place, proceeded to eat everything in sight. It is further re- lated that 1t attacked feed wagon on Vernon avenue and got away with two bags of oats.
 Equipped with a wash line Police man George Morrison, of the Hunters Point station house. who has punched
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Adria, Italy, was recently under an fnterdict of the Pope for two weeks, and its people were deprived of all religious services and rites for that period. That is one of the gravest punishments in the power of the Ro- man Catholic church, and is rarely used in modern times. In this in- stance 1t was visited upon Adria as the result of the mobbing of bishop when he attempted to remove the archives of the episcopal see to Rovigo from Adria. where they have been kept since the third century. Adria was once a sea port, and the Adriatic takes its name from the city, but the sea has receded until now it is seventeen miles from the cathedral. in the walls of which there are still the iron rings where galleys were once moored. The papal interdict was used with special ire Quency in the thirteenth century, when whole countries, as France, England, Portugal Sicily and Denmark, were in turn under fnterdicts for varying pe- riods. The case of Venice in 1909 and again in 1606 is usually cited as the last use of the interdict before the case of Adria. although 1t has occasion ally been invoked since then against single churches or individuals.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Librarians are beginning to discuss che problem of dead books" the many unused and uncalled-for volumes which rapidly cumber up the shelves and clog the working collection. There is only partial solution in the storage plan and in the arrangement of books under various systems. Many large li- nraries aim to possess at least one copy of almost all new books, but the rate of production is now so great that there is physical limit to such system. and periodic thinning out of trash and dead matter seems inevit- able before long.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
POSSIBLY YOU ARE NOT LAZY.

Famous Physician Says Weariness
 Is Result of Physical Conditions.
 Sir Lauder Brunton, the famous English physician, says that weariness is the result of physical conditions. and the chronically tired are not al ways lazy.
 One constantly hears the complaint from patients" writes Sir Lauder. that they are always tired Other people term them simply lazy, but it i Is quite possible that in many of these cases there is some physical condition 1 in the person which renders exertion specially distasteful to them, although other people cannot observe it."
 Sir Lauder illustrates his point by story of an eminent medical professor who, while acknowledged to possess brilliant abilities, was accused by his friends of being lazy. He died at an early age of heart disease, and his friends were then willing to admit that there was some excuse for his laziness.
 In discussing the relation between mental and physical fatigue Sir Lau- der Brunton makes the striking declaration that "it Is a mistake to re- gard muscular fatigue as stimulus to the brain, or mental fatigue as stimulus to the muscles. Long-con- tinued muscular exertion renders the brain anaemit.'' '' This fact he illus trated by the following story:
 Many years ago I used to write for a medical periodical. On returning home one night after a very heavy days work at the hospital and feeling completely exhausted I found a note from the editor, Please let me have an article on such-and-such subjec; tonight I sat down with pen and paper, but not word could 1 write. Then I lay back lazily and began to speculate as to the cause of my want of ideas I thought: The brain is the same as it was yesterday, but yester- day I was not tired; perhaps 1t IS the feebler circulation that prevents the brain from acting. If the blood does not go up to the brain, 1 may bring the brain down to the blood l, there fore. placed my head flat on the table. looking sideways at the paper, and De- gan to write easily. On raising my head again every idea fled, so l placed my head again down on the table, and finished the article in that position
 "A similar instance was afforded by the practice of the late w. G. Lecky, the historian He had a large magni- ficent head, mounted upon long neck and a willowy body. He found out that his circulation was not sufficiently strong to raise the blood to his brain in sufficient quantity for its funda- mental activity in the upright position. For this reason he wrote his history while kneeling on a sofa which had large broad head. This served him for a writing table, and in this kneel- ing position he wrote all his works, the blood having thus to travel to his brain in a horizontal line, instead Of upward against the force or gravity as 1t would have had to do in the sit ting position
 The secret of being tired apparently lies in the fact that the muscles when in work give off poisons which bring on fatigue. Worry and sorrow are also given as causes of weariness.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
SWISS TRAMPS FEW.
A Poor Place for the Man Who
 Doesn't Want to Work.

A Poor Place for the Man Who
 Doesn't Want to Work.
 Switzerland is not a place for tramps, because the man out of em- ployment and who makes no effort to find work Is not tolerated for a mo- ment in that country. The district authorities will secure him a job at hard labor and little pay, and such an offer can be refused only under the penalty of going to a penal work house. These institutions are under military discipline. the work severe, the wages penny or threepence per day, and release Is granted only upon the advice of those in charge. No diff ficulty is experienced in determining between beggars and unemployed. be- cause all legitimate laborers have pa- pers given them by the district in which they live containing informa- tion concerning the position they have held
 In every part of Switzerland are es- tablished relief in kind" stations for the exclusive use of respectable unem- ployed. Only those are admitted who have had regular work during the pre- vious three months and have been out of employment for at least five days. These men must be on the lookout for work and accept any situation that is offered, because the chronic loafer is soon detected by the police and his papers are marked so that be can never again seek refuge in station" Exchange.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Presidents of farmers unions in Ok iahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Arkan- sas have lately been taken on an auto mobile tour over the good roads of New York, New Jersey and New En- gland by the chairman of the execu- tive committee of a Western railroad company. He wished to show them the relation of good roads to content ed and prosperous rural communities, and to the marketing of farm prod ucts.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

cows in the West, accompanied by John Kelly, of the Bergh Society, spent all Wednesday trying to lassoo the ami nal. The woods where the animal roves are about mile in length and half mile wide. Morrison and Kelly got back on Wednesday night empty handed
 It Is proposed to get detail of COW cops together and have roundup to capture the animal.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
A Trying Time.

Colonel" asked the beautiful girl, when was the most trying moment of your life?"
 "It was when I went to my wife's father for the purpose of asking him to let me have her. He was very deaf. and I had to explain the matter be- fore twenty clerks."-Chicago Record. uAAAH
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

The value of concentration is mo- where more fully demonstrated than in the difference that exists between the man who has nerve and his neigh nor who has nerves
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

When John D. Rockefeller was in formed that a plot had been laid to kidnap him, he said: "Oh, pshawi" This completely demolishes the claim that MT. Rockefeller's strongest exple- Sive is 'Oh, tush,'
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
A Great Succes.

First Young Wife-Do you find it more economical, dear. to do your own cooking?
 Second Young Wife-Oh, certainly Ny husband doesn't eat half SO much as he did.-London PupnA
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
His Bald Spot

Little Margie's father had a bald spot. While kissing him at bedtime one evening she said:
 "Stoop down, papa. I want to kiss you on the head where the lining shows"
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

When the north pole is exploited as a summer resort 1t should be popular in open seasons for the reason that by rowing around it over a course not more than half a. 'mile in length any one who cares for the distinction may claim a certificate as circumnaviga- tnr
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

At St. Louis man recently got a jury to award him s5O.OOO damages for the alienation of his wife's affec- tions. The jury must have been con Vinced that he would never be able to win the affections of any other woman.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

When Hartman died some of the wise ones guessed that he left $150- 100000. It turns out that he left f149 100000, which shows that some people are good guessers.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
Spartan self-Denia1.

When MT. D., known to be miserly, but not believed to be a miser. was approached delicately for a contribu- tion to the organ fund, he shook his head courteously, but with an air of fnality.
 Charity" he said, "is pleasure one must do without"
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

King Edward. it is said. can pick out an American women by looking at her back. Probably none but an Amer tcan woman would dare turn her back to the king.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
A XnciIIatfnr FelIo,r.

What does your husband want fo. Christmas?"
 "Oh. he can't make up his mind That man doesn't even know what he wants for breakfast Louisville Courier. Journal
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

For fourteen years western woman saved her pennies in order to secure . divorce. AS rainy day economist The Is entitled to the record.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

A few weeks after she has been hap oily wed a woman's greatest desire Is to make a match involving her dear est friend in matrimony.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Now that the football and hunting peasons are over, there won't be so huch work for the undertaken, but better outlook for the census taker.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
A Modern one.

Tourist wonder at your allowing people to mount that ruin.
 Native-It's quite safe, sir. It was only built last year-Bon Vivant.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

A Philadelphia man dislocated his jaw five times in two weeks. Some day he may learn that the safest way is to let his wife do the talking.