The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-10-13

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| At Roubaix, one of the socialist
strongholds of France, the 11,000 pub
lie school children receive free food
and clothing at the expense of the
town.
There are over 100000 embalmed
specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles
and fishes in this country, the bulk of
which were embalmed within eight
years.
| The British museum has presented
10000 documents relating to the
French revolution, of which 1t had du-
plicates, to the French National library
| in Paris.
China drew the largest check on the
Bank of England of which the bank
has any record in settlement of the
Japanese indemnity. 1t was for f11,-
O0S,S57 les Cd.
| that has heretofore existed between
Russian and Finnish postage stamps.
Finnish postoffices are now provided
with Russian stamps only.
The latest test for sobriety is a word
of % letters. 1t is electrophotomicro
| graphy, and the meaning as there CIV
en- is "photographing by electric light
objects magnified by the microscope"
After long and patient struggle the
women physicians of Russia have Sc
cured a decree placing them upon an
equality, both socially and politically,
with the male physicians in the empire.
"Women as we'll as men can ride on
the cars" Such is the translation of
paragraph No. 2 in the rules or notices
to the public prepared by the Korean
president of the Seoul Electric Railway
company.
| Mr.. Suchsland, a German scientist,
has discovered that the aroma of to-
bacco is due>to microbes, and it is said
he will patent, if he can, a process for
making cheap cigars smell like expen-
sive ones.
All geese are not so foolish as they
are reputed to be. One belonging to
Mrs. Ed Smith, at Morton, Bourne,
Lincolnshire, has learned how to pro-
| vide herself with water by turning on
the tap with her bill.
A Bath England gardener SO years
old was found by the coroner to have
swallowed 90 small bottles of medicine
whole, rubber corks and all. They
were beyond his power of digestion,
and peritontis set in.
The botanical garden of the Vienna
university can now boast of possessing
| Of A ,.oI Inn hoe
plants not to be found in any similar
institution in the world or indeed any
where else in Europe or America.
A circular has been issued by the
| French minister Of public works to the
railway companies in France inform
ing them that unless their trains keep
better time the government will en-
force the full penalties ordained by
law for railway mismanagement.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to
$3.50 per day, President McKinley's is
equal to $131 day, cabinet officers,
the vice president and the speaker of
the house get $22.22 a day, senators
and congressman $3.50 and the chief
| Justice of the supreme court 500 day.
The hydraulic mining pits in Califor-
mia materially changed the landscape
in many places. The pit of hydraulic
mine in Nevada county, Cal, which
was washed out some so years ago is
| again covered with a growth of pines
| and other trees, and patches of brush
again dot the once verdureless slopes.
Vermuth is composed of nutmeg, Pc
ruvian bark, mild NORWOOD, sweet
| flag, cardamom, centaury, elecampane
root gentian, angelica root NORWOOD
| grana, alcohol, water, TONGA beans, CO.
.riander seeds, cinnamon, dittany, sage,
| basil, iris, raisins, mint, -marshmallow
flowers, sweet marjoram and white
wine.
In an old church in Ross, Hereford
shire England, there are two thriving
elm trees, which naturally sprouted
| from the pavement of the edifice and
| stand one at each end of pew. This
pew was many years ago occupied by
| John Thyle, who spent great deal of
| money planting elms in Ross, his ma
| tive town.,
! A curious fact was revealed in con-
nection with a recent London bazaar
Before it could be held at the Albert
hall permission had to be obtained
| from all the seat holders. This, with
two exceptions, was obtained, and as
the DIRECTORS. an old lady and an old
| gentleman, refused to give their sane
ton the idea of holding the bazaar in
the hall would have had to be aban-
doned but for the strange coincidence
that both these seat holders died while