The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-22
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

a 1nllduelp0ld man OWLS cat IudI
he claims has killed $500 mice during
it's lifetime.
United States transports are still
sailing from San Francisco manned by
Chinese crews.
The Florists Hall association of the
United States carries 100000 insur-
ance on hothouses.
Prussian manufacturers have donat-
ed over $250,000 for the benefit of the
chronological institute in Berlin.
Instances are known where the pol
len of one tree have fortified the
flowers of another five miles away.
Rats recently operated the striking
mechanism of the disused Flushing
IN. " town clock for several hours.
In Surrey, England, there is a great
poultry fattening establishment, which
annually sends about 10000 fowls to
London.
The average duration of yellow fever
is a week, but in grave cases the at
tack may be precipitated and prove
speedily fatal.
While Liverpool has greatly increas-
ed in Importance as shipping port, it
has for years steadily declined as a
shipbuilding center.
Fifty cats took possession of a Liver
pool mans house while his family was
away, and the human beings attempt
to eyict them was repulsed.
In Great Britain there are 7,340,096
houses of all kinds. AS the population
is about 100000 this gives five per-
sons and, say, baby to each house.
If the reports of the criminal court
of the state of New York may be taken
as an index, it is safe to say that crime
is on the decrease in the United States.
The Renter of Paris remarks that
the amount of idle money in the
French banks available for investment
or employment was never so large as it
is now.
Mice have long been in demand as
pets. They can be trained to perform
many tricks, are very fond of music
and have been taught to dance grace
fully to waltz time.
Germany is the third greatest iron
country in the world, and yet twenti-
eth of its entire output of iron ore
comes from the Krupp mines and is
manufactured in the Krupp works.
1t is 40 years since the first British
volunteer donned his uniform, and at
that time it was "his" in reality, for
even privates in those days provided
their own garb and weapons of war.
After a recent tornado in Australia
thousands of water snakes were found
on the beach in one place, while in an
other the beach was entirely washed
away, leaving nothing but bare rocks.
Thanks chiefly to the use of the Sc
rum treatmentlthe mortality in Prussia
from diphthera has been reduced from
a rate of 1916 per 10000 in the years
1854 to 7.G and 81 in the years
1867.
A deed filed in the Cumberland coun-
ty (Md1 registry some time ago bore
4S signatures. including those of the "A
grantors and witnesses, although the
value of the property transferred was
only $175.
American coal miners are teaching
all the miners of other countries how
to mine coal by electrical machines.
Hauling by mules costs 80 cents a day
per mule, while electric locomotives do
the work at half that cost.
According to a recent official return,
England during the last ten years has
paid off $355,000,O00 of her national
debt and as a matter of rank in the
debtor nations has sunk to third place,
France and Russia occupying the first
two.
1t is estimated that the amount paid
in london at auction sales of second
hand books last year was f125,000. A
feature of the year has been the large
number of rare books offered and the
exceptionally high prices obtained for
them.
A favorite dish with the Eskimo is
an ice cream made of seal oil, into
which snow is stirred until the desired
consistency has been obtained. Then
frozen berries of different kinds are
added, with a little Of the fish egg for
fiavoring.
A medical man prophesies that if for
the next ten years the present relative
death rates are maintained in 1909
there will be more deaths in the state
of New York from cancer than from
consumption, smallpox and typhoid fe-
yer combined.
1t is estimated that there are 11,000,-
900 cows in the United States devoted
to butter making and that their aver
age yield is 125 pounds of butter a
year, or total of 1875, 100000 pounds,
or about Is pounds for each one of the
population of the country.
A pet monkey untimely deceased,
had very formal burial in satin
lined white casket in Baltimore re
Gently. There were six pallbearers,
eulogistic address, four carriages for
the mourners and several flower de-
signs, including an empty chair" and
a gates ajar."
Tea is cheaper than any water bot
tied. By actual measurement over 300
cups of tea can be made from every
pound of black tea, which, at the rate
of so cents a pound, would give six
cups for / cent. Coffee at its present
low price is much dearer than tea, as
only four cups can be made for / cent