The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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country show a valuation of $5,OOO. O0O.O0O.
 No one is at present engaged in ex porting hard woods from Ecuador which is rich in them.
 Glass water pipes covered with as phalt have been in use for a long time in some parts of Germany.
 Tanning snake skins for the manu facture of woman's belts has become lucrative industry of Madras.
 The largest delegation of foreign students attending American colleges last year was sent by Canada, PAP.
 The United States annually exports more spirits of turpentine than all the > other countries of the world-16. 100000 out of 24,O0O,OOO gallons.
 A new fertilizer is now being made in Norway from the mortar from pur- flying the sugar liquid. which was formerly difficult to dispose of.
 Of the worlds stock of money sev- en billion dollars is gold, three and one-half billions silver. and four and one-third billions uncovered paper.
 The sudden demand for popular edu- cation in China is shown by the fact that the school attendance in one prov ince has increased 5000 per cent in five years.
 Akron, Ohio. is now the home of fourteen rubber factories. The total capitalization is about $25,OOO.OOO. Tbasa oo1,a,o1ia. aroDIo,- batu,aap II 900 and 12,OOO persons.
 In 1887 the wheat crop of California was more than three times greater than that of Kansas Last year the Kansas crop was seven times greater than that of California.
 For the purpose of promoting the sale of German goods abroad, instruc- tion courses for cultivating the artis- tic taste of storekeepers and their salespeople have been instituted in Berlin.
 A bill is being pressed in France to give that country a system of deposit accounts at postofhces. against which checks might be drawn for transmits sion of money from one point to an other.
 Steel is a true alloy, containing sev- eral foreign elements. Here, as in iron, the special values of the differ ent steels depend on the nature and proportion of these clements. Steel may be had as soft as the softest irons.
 The forest service considers that it would be entirely possible. if the for est land is improved and the timber economically cut and completely util- ized, to produce on the remaining 450.- OOO,OOO acres sufficient wood for population much greater than that now in the country.
 That the year holds some terrible fate in store for John Bull is predict ed, although in more or less vague terms, by the majority of those who profess ability to lift a corner of the veil of the future. The latest i'll omen to scare superstitious people is that in 1910 Good Friday occurs on March 9, Lady day. and that is supposed to forbode great evil.
 James H. Hyslop. the brilliant psy- chologist. narrated. during a discus sion of the Paladine case in New York, an original old lady's opinion of ghosts. "Ghostsl' exclaimed the old lady scornfully. q don't take any stock in them. If you die and go to the good place, it isn't likely that you'd want to waddle back to this poor vale of trouble; while if you go to the bad ha
 Henceforth all seacoast guns of six inch caliber and over, except mortars. | will be provided with double tubes, so that, should the inner tube give way, | the damage will not extend to the | outer tube and the enyeloping jacket | and hoops. This will permit the res toration at small cost of guns whose | tubes give way. and will facilitate the rehabilitation of guns whose accuracy has been lost through erosion and wear of the bore.
 The wear and tear of coinage is delayed by the admixture of baser metals with the precious ones. In their pure state gold and silver would be too soft to stand the usage for which coins are intended. Manufac- turers of brass and gunmetal are able to effect very surprising results in alloys. They will produce bright and useful substances with the most un- promising materials gathered from the old metal merchants.
 The total production of coke and anthracite pig iron for the year 1909 was 25, ,0O2 tons. Estimating the pro6uction of the charcoal stacks for the same year at 100000 gives the grand total of coke, anthracite ar,,l charcoal pig iron of the United States for 1909 as 25,797 900 tons. The total production of coke and anthracite iron nnnc a nnn ]