The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
PUBLISHED MoRR1srowN n. }, SATURDAY, OCT

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| In 1872 our importations of carpeting
| amounted to nearly G6. 600, 900 in 1877
| there were only $675, 600. 81 s
+ The Sidney (Australia) people begin
to fear that they have acted very pre-
cipitately in announcing an exhibition
! for 1879. It is proposed to hold an in
ternationaI industrial exhibition in Glas-
Cow in 1880, the matter being in the
hands, Of number of influential citizens
headed BY the lord provost. z
A Japanese paper states that there are
already thirty-eight banks in the coun-
try, and that sixty -four others are being
established, while other finance COM
panies are applicants for official license.
The largest -four mill in the world is
now. according to an American paper.
being built at Niagara Falls. It's ca
pacity win be about l, 200 barrels day.
The structureis is placed on the hydraulic
canal, which has aperpendicular fall of
about 100 feet. .s s,4e..s....,i .,...ss'..
In the United States department of
the Paris exhibition is an ingenious ma
chine for registering sums of money re-
ceived, and giving printed receipt, as
we'll as maintaining printed record, in
columns ready for addition. There are
seventeen keys, each bearing figure,
and which, on being pressed, can imprint
upon a card the sum received, while the
same characters are also imprinted upon
q roll of paper out of the control of the
cashier, in six. columns for addition.
The printed receipt card also bears the
date, the signature of the house, and
any other legend desired. Y a
Thefamous marble quarries of Carrara,
although they have been worked since
the reign of Augustus. and have furnish
ed a steady and enormous supply to the
whole civilized globe, seem to be mex
haustible. They compose an entire
mountain range, and embrace every va
riety and quality of marble, from the
coarse, common kind to the statuary
marble, Monte Crestola and Monte Sagro
yielding the largest and finest blocks.
The blocks, are. detached, drawn out by
oxen, and rolled down the hill. The
quarries number some 500, only about
twenty of them furnishing the marble
used by sculptors. +, Most of the inhabi-
tants of Carrara and the vicinity-rsome
5000 workmen in all--are employed in
tA0 1auOr dG AO1ty coAtS w blAuy-tWO
cents day. The marble taken out dur
ing the year before last was about 120,-
600 tons, valued at So, 400. 600. of which
10000 tons went to the United States.
The export of marble to this country has
increased immensely within twelve to
fifteen years, the third largest firm of
marble quarry owners now at Carrara
being American. The American consul
there is a member of the firm, and his
consulate is said to produce larger in
come than any other in Itsly.
Torpedo telegraph posts, which, by
an arrangement of supplementary cur
rents, /" are caused to communicate Sc
we're shock to any one meddling with
them, are in use in Australia. The I'M
expected punishment, attributed to
supernatural power, which fell upon
certain natives in the vicinity of Nc
Donald Peak, when they attempted to
cut the wire, had the effect of deterring
other tribes from in any way damaging
the Australian trans-continental line,
the total length of which is about 2, 100
miles. ss#