The Morris County chronicle., 1904-06-14
A FEW LINES OF
INTERESTING FACTS

Dowager Queen Margherita OF Italy
has lace handkerchief worth $4,000.
Theodore Pidcock, Washington (N.
J) farmer. claims to have the Oldest
plow in America.
The age at which the greatest mum.
Der Of Japanese girls marry is between
twenty and twenty one.
Andrew Carnegie has the best collec
ton Of autographs of crowned heads
and famous persons in contemporary
history.
The Tamarack copper mine, in the
Lake Superior region, is said TO be the
deepest shaft in the world. 1t Is now
down 4,973 feet.
The production Of steel ingots In Ha-
vre, France, in 1903 was 1854 ,620 tons
against 1,56S,303 tons in 1902, an in
crease Of 2S6,31z tons.
Growers of the famous ROCKFORD
cantaloupe at Roclyford, Colo, report
an average net return Of $3.50 an acre
for the season Of 1903
DIR. Cecilio Baez the newly appoint.
ed minister from Paraguay to the.
United States, is the first minister that
country has had here in fifteen years.
For new variety Of rhubarb it Isl
claimed that it not only fruits all the
year round, but that its flavor resem.
bles a combination of the raspberry
and strawberry.
The oldest brewer of lager beer in
the United States died in New York
recently at the age of eighty-four. He
was Max Schaefer, and he learned the
brewers trade in Germany.
In an article on the eating of rats
and mice the London Medical Press as.
serts that, apart from prejudice, there
is no particular reason why we should
not feed on our domestic rodents
The gold dollar of the United States
is the monetary standard of Canada,
British Honduras and Colombia, and II
is anticipated that Mexico will attain
the gold standard, with the American
dollar as its unit, at an early date.
DIR. Dawson Burns has published his
annual analysis of England's drink
bill The total amount Of the expendi-
ture on spirits, wine and beer during
1908 was 74,445,271, a decrease OF
over f5,000,0Oo as compared with 1902
Lake Baikal the "Holy sea-" is, ex.
cepting Victoria Nyanza, in Africa
the largest lake in the eastern hemi
sphere. 1t is 3,100 feet deep, its bot.
tom being 1000 feet below sea level
and in area corresponds to Lake Michi-
gan.
At Laughton-en-le -Morthen, York.
shire, live John and Ellen Baxter, sup.
posed to be the oldest married couple
in England. John is .ninety-six years of
age, and his wife is ninety-eight They
have been married seventy-five years
and have lived in one cottage over six.
ty years.
Fifty-three women have been regu.
larly ordained and are doing the full
work of ministers. Forty-five of the
fifty-three are married, although some
of them were ordained before mar
riage. Most of them have Independent
parishes, where they preach, make
pastoral visits, officiate at marriages
and at funerals.
Hundreds of boys from the Denver
juvenile court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Longmont, Colo.
to work this summer The boys will be
sent out in parties of twenty-five each
in charge of a probation officer and
will be equipped with tents and camp
Ing outfits. They can earn from $120
to 81 per day each.
Rev. Thomas H. Laslie, principal OF
the public schools of Owensville, Ind,
believes in fiogging. In one day re
Gently he whipped thirty-two boys
ranging in age from seven to fourteen
years. All the boys were in one room,
and the fioggings were administered
only after the principal had been called
to that room three times to quell dis
turbances.
clever smuggling plan has come to
light on the Dutch Belgian frontier,
where a farmer had some buildings
put up, part of which were in the one
country and part in the other The
customs officials, hearing strange
sounds, made search and discovered