The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
FACTS IN A Few LINES.

farming
AS a stock raising country Venezuela
could supply the world with beef were
the grazing facilities utilized.
A bill has been presented to the sen
ate of Brazil authorizing women to
practice the learned professions.
The supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that mo workhouse, city, coun-
ty or state prison keeper has right to
whip prisoner therein"
The Sandringham club is the first
woman's club in London to provide a
billiard room where its members may
receive instruction in that game.
The French postoffice department has
excluded mourning envelopes from the
mails for the reason that they can be
opened without much chance of detec-
ton.
The eighty-third annual report of the
American Bible society makes the state
ment that G5,962, sos copies of the Bible
have been issued since it's establish
ment.
Great Britain has been engaged in
over 40 wars, big and little, since the
queen came to the throne in 1887. In
fact. there has hardly been year with
out lighting of some sort
The treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain was written
in French, as also have been the ma
jority of international documents dur
ing the last two centuries.
North Carolina has $50 cotton mills
which is more than any other state in
the country except Massachusetts. But
South Carolina has fully as many spin
dies in operation, 100000
More sausage of the various kinds
made are eaten in this country than ev
er before, and the production of sau
sages here amounts to hundreds of
thousands of tons annually.
In the case of one cereal, rice, the
United States produces only about half
the amount its population consumes
OF all the others this country produces
an enormous surplus for export.
Opener and closer is new femi-
nine vocation She is sent for when a
family departs from home temporarily,
the operation before the return.
A large number of men whose serv-
ices had been refused by the English
war office went to Natal at their own
expense and attached themselves to the
Imperial Light horse. or any other reg
iment that would accept them.
The only emerald mine in the world
Al 4
1t is controlled by the government,
but is leased to a French syndicate,
and everything connected with the pro-
duction of the gems is conducted with
the greatest secrecy.
TO rapidly decrease the area of ca
noe sail a new reefing device has
light brace set in the sail parallel to
the boom, the latter being suspended in
brackets which allow it to be revolved
by pulling a cord, thus winding up the
sail and drawing it down on the mast.
The town of Kos, the capital of the
small Turkish island of that name ly-
ing off the coast of Asia Minor pos
sesses the Oldest tree in the world. I'm
der its shade Hippocrates inculcated
his disciples in his methods and views
concerning the healing art 1000 years
ago.
Aluminium shoppers for bottles are
now being made at the rate of several
thousand pounds a week The blanks
are cut from sheet metal and after
shaping rubber gaskets are forced over
them. Such shoppers have retained the
nf ~ flti1
years
More people over leo years old are
found in Eild climates than in -the
higher attitudes According to the last
census of the German empire, of pop
uIation of 55,000,G00 only - have pass
ed the hundredth year. France, with
a population Of 40.000000 has 213 cen
tenarians.
The question whether the ancient
Egyptians made porcelain seems to
have been settled at last Specimens
heretofore found were pronounced of
Chinese origin by experts. but frag-
ment of Il statuette recently found near
Memphis is declared to be real Egyp-
tan by Chatelier.
Near Deer gulch. Washington, the
leader of 1000 sheep jumped over a
precipice. and the remainder followed
it, The narrator says that after 300
were Killed they made pile high
enough for the others to walk over
them and down the incline of carcass
es. The dead We're burned.
A support for the spines of persons
picking cotton and other material
where it is necessary to carry baskets
is made of piece of fiat steel fitted
with T head, with straps to support
the shoulder blades, a second cross
piece fitting the small of the back and
carrying a strap for the waist.
The washing in Egypt is usually
done by men. The Egyptian washer
men stand on the banks of the Nile
and slap the wet clothes with a noise
like the shot of a pistol on the smooth
stones at the edge of the running wa
ter and such women as wash pound
the dirt out of their clothes in the same
way.
An English observer has called at
tention to a long overlooked source of
error in the magnetic compass This is
the nickel of which nearly all cases are
made, the superstition that this metal is
nonmagnetic seeming TO be general, al
though as long ago as 1916 Faraday re-
ferred to its magnetic character as well