The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-02-27
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Five counties in California contain
| quicksilver mines.
Last year twenty minor planets were
discovered, and their umber is now
Oil.
There las been no issue of silver i've
cent and copper two-cent pieces since
1879.
An Ohio newspaper speaks of man
beirg bruised by $ emphatic gestures OF
a mule"
The first gold mine known in the
| United States was discovered in South
Carolina in 1870.
An exchange softly says of defaulter /:
" He admits gap of $4,000 between
himself and creditors"
A firm advertises raw silk stock
ings." Good gracious, who wants them
cooked Rocblasd Courier.
The clip of wool for 1879 is the largest
ever shown in the United States,
amounting to 233, $50, GOO pounds.
| During 1879 more railroad accidents
occurred in the transportation of coal
than of any other kind of freight.
The Philadelphia NeOs says that
| fashionable women are often very
brave; they do not fear to face powder.
Yes, pie is the great destroyer.
| Whenever we are confronted by 1t we
at once cry for quarter. Boston Tran.
script.
| A young man at Canton, Ohio, sued
his own mother for $4,000 for SANDER.
| She circulated a report that he was
drunken and thievish.
Talk about Robinson Crusoe's island
being uninhsbited! Didn't he find q
great swell on shore and little cove
running inlandP Avast there.-Boston
| Transcript.
Eminent German statisticians calcu-
| late that the amount of money spent in
railroads since the invention of the To-
eomotive reaches the vast sum of $l5,-
O00. 0OQ 600.
Who will write the music of the
futureP" asks a New York paper.
What troubles us. " replies the Detroit
Free Press, " is to know who will have
patience to listen to it.
Both peaches and aprieots are natives
of Persia; they were brought into Europe
by the Romans. They were first intro
duced into England for cultivation in
the year 1924, by Henry the Eighth 8
gardener.
The Ponca Indian, WoodworkeT, says
he has never seen a gray haired Indian
in his life. There are men in his tribe
over ninety years old and their hair IS
Jet black, and bald heads are never seen
among the red men.
You can train the eye to see all the
bright places in your life, and so slip
over the hard ones with surprising
ease. You can also train the eye to rest
on the gloomy spots, in utter forgettul-
ness of all that is bright and beautiful.
The only tine in life when q woman
seems to be happy is when she calm y
sits down and attempts to trim a new
bonnet with old trimmings. She seems
to be truly happy; but what q Nesuvius
is at work within ber!-Qt1ifscy Modern
Aryos
| see him in the starlights gleanis
His soft glance answers mine;
| With melting look and tender beam
/ see his blue eyes shine.
! My garden wall see him scale
| Still. hearti He will not lalls
| hear his voice-his tunefil wall
The cat upon the wall.
The reason why the moon appearssas
| large as the sun is because of its near
ness, its distance being only GAO, ,OO0
miles. while the sun lie about $4,000, GOO
| miles. The moon then is by far the
nearest of all the heavenly bodies. Her
| distance, however, is not always the
same, but changes, SO that at times u is
80, 900 miles less distant than at others
A hig six-footer was yesterday lifting
for all he was worth on a wagon-Wheel
which was stuck, when q little two-foot
mite of humanity, nearly as broad as ~
was long, and Just out of long dresses
and into pants, with his hands IN his
pockets and staggering air, sang out
i' Mister, do you want me to help you
can. grunt while you lift. '-OH Ctsy
Derrick.
William Franklin, of Salem, Oregon,
astounded his bride by telling her that
he did rot believe husband ought to
/ have any secrets from his wife, there
fore he would confess to her that he had
murdered several men. He assured her
that he would kill her and himself IT she
revealed the matter. The love that she
had borne for him thereupon changed te
loathing, and she soon told lhe story
Next morning the couple were tounC
dead, Franklin having carried out n1'
threat.
In the early settlement Of Illinois and
Missouri two trappers were going down
the Mississippi river to New Orleans
on fatboat. Every well regulated
boat in those days carried plenty .oi
whisky aboard. The trappers tapped
barrel with gimlet and sucked the
whisky through straw. The Nilsson.
rian 'Fpuked," but the Illinois man, like
his successors, being proof against sc
weak a beverage, kept his down. From
that day Illinois men were called "Suck'
ers," and Missourians Pukes."