The Holbrook news., 1910-01-28
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Nicholas Leblanc. a French chemist in 1791
 There. is one mill in Minneapolis which turns out between seventeen thousand and eighteen thousand bar rels of flour each day.
 To encourage saving among the people. the Spanish government has established postal savings bank un- der guaranty of the state.
 The new terminal station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New York has sixteen miles of tracks, including twenty-one standing stations.
 More than ten thousand school chil- dren of Chicago are forced by reason of inadequate seating accommodations to cut their attendance to half day session.
 Britain's antarctic expedition now in course q preparation will carry wireless telegraphic equipment suffi- cient to enable messages to be sent tO New Zealand from the ship and from stations established at bases of sup plies on land or ice.
 Boston University, according to its new year book, has an attendance of 1,514 In all it's departments. Of these 962 are men and 552 are women. The chief increases are in the College of Liberal Arts. the courses for teachers and the School of Theology.
 Boomerangs are now made of cellu- Ibid and hard rubber. Celluloid Is better than cardboard because it is waterproof. light, very hard to break and can be worked into the peculiar curve and twist so necessary to give the boomerang its singular properties.
 An inventor of moving picture ap- pliances and machinery has devised a new screen which gets rid of the an- noyance of darkness in the room. With his patent screen, large mir TOT with a chemically frosted surface, pictures are as plain in the light as in darkness, thus doing away with the danger of panic in the dark.
 For train dispatching the Canadian Pacific Railroad has found the tele- phone 30 serylceable that the present system of about five hundred miles of telephone lines will be extended to one thousand miles within a year. The company states that about 50 per cent more traffic can be handled now than was possible under the old tele- graph system of dispatching.
 Dr, Amy Tanner. formerly a pro lessor at Wilson College. has been chosen to supervise the work of meas turing and testing defective children 1ff the rnstttute TOT -cfIffd srudy,- which has just been opened at Clark Uni varsity, Worcester. Mass. The insti- ute is -to- be devoted entirely to the study of children and will eventually have five departments, each super Tised by an expert.
 In FIafmstad, Sweden. Pontas Holmstrcm Is about to start spin afng mill for making yarn out of pa per. Such mills already exist in Ger facture of rugs land carpets seems to be the best practical use of this new paper yarn. It Is said that people in Sweden. especially in t-e provinces of Ostergotland. are already making car pets with paper weft. Narrow rolls of paper tape are used, but this, of course, Is not spun.-London Globe.
 One hundred leading London chefs are to celebrate soon the professional jubilee of NJ. Escofier. the Napoleon of the kitchen. The supper will be surprisingly simple, consisting of En- glish oysters. filet of sole, chicken en casserole style; cold meats, salad and an ice. This seems in strange con trast with some elaborate and mon strous bills of fare that President Taft Is steered up against or steers | away from. Escofier has been chef at the Carleton and Savoy for many years. and formerly, when chef to Ma | poleon IT.. was captured at Metz- New York Press.
 Not long ago Noah White, of Chesta. tee district had a putting sheep This sheep went across the Blue Ridge III ] Union County on a visit, and while | there went to the house of a lady with her flock of sheep. This lady decided | to put Che strange sheep up until It's owner called for 1t. but To and behold she made a failure. for the sheep com to- show fight. The lady made for the house. the sheep in hot pur- suit. putting her every step until the door was reached. Then 1t entered, and did not stop until 1t ran not only the lady. but every child she had of the place. After staying a while 1t left, and the family took possession of the house again.-Dahlonega (Ga.) Nugget
 There Is a real campaign in Europe against the corset. The Queen of Italy Is opposed to stays, and Carmen Sylva. Queen of Roumania. wishes ev- arv Wnu1au thin and f0 ct