The Holbrook news., 1910-03-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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periodicals
 Sewing on buttons Is not a wifelI
 duty in Japan-there are no buttons.
 New York City Is not a city of spend
 thrifts. for It's savings banks have
 2.S70.659 depositors.
 New York City has more. automo
 piles run at public expense than any
 other three cities in the world.
 There are now under construction ir New York City buildings which will aggregate in value about $106, 100000.
 Japanese mothers do not kiss their children. though they may press their lips to the forehead or cheek of a very young baby.
 Japanese inns furnish fresh tooth brushes every morning free to every guest The brush Is of wood. shaped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush of fiber at the large end.
 Steam railways of the United States carry a large number of passen- gers each year. but the railways of New York City carry 66 per cent more than all of them combined. During the last year these lines carried 1900, 100000 passengers.
 A Chicagoan who recently advertised that he had a stove for sale received among large number of answers the following: 'If you have a kitchen stove, water front, or a nice single bed that you would care to trade for new ostrich plumes or brand-new mourn ing bonnet, I.would be glad to hear from you and will give you a good trade. e."-Ghicago Record-Herald.
 Snakes. toads and frogs have al ways been held in high regard as re- medial agents. Thus, in Devonshire to dry the hind leg of toad and wear 1t around the neck In a silken bag; or else cut of that part of the living reptile that corresponds to the part affected in the patient and wrap the dainty bit in parchment and wear 1t around the neck. A remedy of good repute for rheumatism in this tie the dust in a piece of green silk and wear it around the throat
 Francis Wilson declares that an cleo trician who lives in New Rochelle is the most absent-minded man in the world. Mir Wilson's door bell got out of order and refused to ring. Meeting the electrician, who was also a friend. he asked him to call and make the re- pairs. Several days afterward he re minded him that the matter had not been attended to and inquired when he could find it convenient to look in after 1t. The electrician explained: "I called at your house the same day you asked me and rang your front door bell again and again and nobody paid the slightest attention to me"
 The British Postmaster General in his annual report says: ''The result of penny postage with the United States. established in October. 1908, is an in- crease of about 25 per cent between the two countries" During the year s4,S25 900 telegrams passed over the post office wires, decrease of 1.3 per cent, owing to the increasing use of the telephone. Conversations by tele- phone numbered 22.5O2.024. The years postal revenue was S90.OO0,000 and the expense of operation was $65, 1000, ,000. The net profit was about 23,5OO. .OOO. Telegraphs and telephones earned ST. 500,000 net, decrease of about $1, 500,000 from 19O7-08.
 Ohicial trials of "whistling kitch- en" for army use have been made by the Japanese war office, and the results cussful The inventor is a paymas- ter named Okezaki The kitchen trav- els on two wheels and can be drawn over almost any gronnd by one horse. It not only boils rice and heats soup, | but it notifies by whistle when the cooking Is finished. It can take up a supply of water from the muddiest of ditches or ponds and transform 1t into good drinking condition and carry it | in that state to the front. The ve- hicle can be taken asunder and carried by two men.-Japan Mail.
 Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana | has made himself well known in the | Senate offices at Washington by banish- i ing the air of inaccessibility which | hangs around the corridor. Over on | the House side tiny brass tablets on 1 the doors state to whom the offices be- long, but on the Senatorial side there is a long line of blank doors with | hardly a name plate to break the mo- i notony Senator Dixon. however, has put up card with vivid lettering on which Is boldly inscribed: Senator Dixon, Montana. Entrance. Walk in." As even the brass name plates on the Representatives doors need pair of glasses to decipher them. Senator Dix on's plan has done much to make him popular.
 Interest has been aroused lately In the natural bridges of the country.