The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
FILINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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 Half of the worlds production oi nickel comes from the United States
 There are in Argentina four broad guage railroads, three. narrowe gauge and two English, gauge.
 Gas lighting has recently been boom ed in Japan, and some ten new com panies are to be fioated.
 Textiles may be rendered fireproof, according to the Paris board of fire commissioners, by sleeping them in a 10 per cent solution of phosphate of ammonia, then drying them in the open air.
 Wages are not excessive in Japan. Of skilled operatives, the highest paid are spectacle and precious stone work CTS, S1 a day. Shipbuilders receive 75 cents a day, masons 70 cents, fire workers and carpenters 60 cents. Printers receive g cents.
 Logging by electricity. it is said, will soon become the common practice in British Columbia, where electricity can be readily obtained from water power With the disappearance of the steam engines in the woods will go 95 per cent of the annual forest fires
 Freight rates in Cuba are legally subject to discriminating rebates on commodities such as sugar, tobacco, coal and fertilizers. EacA railroad Ill Cuba serves q district of its own and the lines are noncompeting. The rates given under the authority of the na- tional railway commission are very high, leaving plenty of room for rebat- ing.
 At thirty, Caesar achieved his great est conquests; Luther broke the sable night of the sixteenth century; Char lemagne had made himself master of the French and German empires; Cor tez gazed on the golden cupolas or Mexico; Alexander Hamilton had for mulated our federal Constitution Horace Greeley had founded the New York Tribune and John Howard Payne had sung his deathless song of Home, Sweet Home"
 Miss Jean Gordon, Louisiana's only woman factory inspector, is vigorously opposing the effort which is being made by the owners of theaters Ill New Orleans to exempt first-class thea ters from the provisions of the child labor law Miss Gordon is backed by the New Era Club, which is said to in- clude every woman of influence in the city. They declare that late hours and excitement are bad for children, with out regard to the class of the theater in which they work.
 Railroad people do not so much dread strikes as they dread the effect upon net earnings Of granting merely such demands for higher pay as they privately believe to be reasonable. Their last experience with wage in- creases was practically awkward. Late in 1907 and early in 1903, when the higher schedules began to go into ef- feet, gross earnings began to vanish, and between the increase of outgo and the diminished income. the results on income statements were heartoreaklng- New York Evening Post
 A Durham farmer was travelling to London to consult a lawyer, when the fear struck him that he had left cer- tain important papers behind. He made a hurried search of his bag. If I did leave those papers" he remark ed. "I'm a fooll" Just as he was ex- aming the last bundle of papers he ex- claimed: Well, I'll bet I am fool" A sman on the other side of the com partment lowered his newspapers for a moment and said slowly and deliber- ately: "Oblige me, sir. by laying It. tie money that same way for me"
 One of the novelties of the vaude- vile stage in Europe is drove-six in number-of performing pigs. They have been seen in various places on the grand circuit" says a Berlin pa per. "and since their arrival in this city have been much spoken about. Of course they are American, and the man who drives the six animals harnessed to a miniature racing wagon is also an American. We have seen the mani mate hog in barrels and the animate elsewhere, but the animal never be- fore interested us as much as do these, because or Inelr reIndrhdole IIdIHlHS-
 Queen Margherita has a weakness for the books of American and Eng fish novelists. She also reads Eng fish and American magazines and it is her opinion that the American school of short story writers at present is the best in the world. The queen gives over several hours every day to fiction. She reads extensively in Italian, of course, but her especial fondness is for books of English. She talks and writes English fiuently, and in all lit erature likes nothing so much as tales of Western American life, whether of the mining camp or the ranch. She has read almost everything that has been written about the cowboy.