The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-24
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times as many factories as Russia.
A man named Oliver Twist was fined
the other day in London court for
being drunk and disorderly.
The guns of the artillery service OF
Japan used to be purchased abroad
but are now chiefly manufactured 10
| Osaka.
A toothbrush is to be provided for
each of the children in the Hampstead
workhouse, and they are to be trained
to use it in class drill.
Brooklyn has a Y. w. @. Al. for col.
ored women. The membership has al
ready reached over 100 Most of the
members are servant girls.
The ravages of drink in Edinburgh
have, it appears, reached the worst
proportion ever known in the expert
| ence Of the Edinburgh Lunatic asylum.
1t is now the style in England to
bob courtesy to royalty. The low
sweeping salute has gone out; also one
says "ma'am," not madam" to the
queen.
|
after the province, town and village
of that name will be known as Upper
! Nile province, Kodok and Dalwar re-
spectively.
A drinking cup pronounced by the
| British museum to be 5000 years old
has been found in field at Stoning-
field, Essex. 1t is now in the, Chelms,
| ford museum.
The number of bills discounted by
the Bank of France and its branches
in 1908 was Is, 435, $685. The number OF
notes in circulation on JAM %, 1904,
was 35,060,244.
| Port Arthur was named after Lieu.
| tenant Commander Arthur of the Brit
| ish navy, who anchored his ship in the
bay one day about fifty years ago. His
was the first foreign ship that had Wis.
tied the bay.
| The British admiralty is about to try
| the experiment Of giving premium to
| the workmen in its service who finish a
| job in the quickest time. Those who
do work in the ordinary time will re-
| ceive the ordinary wages.
1
| The Advance states that in Britain's
Indian empire there are 109 languages,
spoken by 100000 people. which
have not yet been given the Bible. In
the Philippines there are fifty or more
languages without Bibles.
! Anthracite coal has been discovered
in the vicinity of Cumberland, British
Columbia, and the mine is being de-
veloped Samples contain SO per cent
| carbon and SIS per cent ash. The
| coal is compact and lustrous in APP
pearance.
| Among the ancient treasures of ia
pan which the mikado has poured into
the military chest are gold coins issued
three centuries ago. They are of large
size and of almost pure metal and
worth much more than their intrinsic
| value, of course
| Hitherto cantaloupe raising in Colo
RADIO has been mostly confined to the
famous Rockyford district, in the Ar
kansas valley, but the farmers of
mined to enter that very profitable
field of horticulture.
| The London Daily News wants to
know whether the Napoleon statue in
| Washington will represent the Corsi-
can in his uniform as a general of the
republic or in the uniform he designed
| for himself when 1.-THE pear was ripe
and he overturned the republic in 1904.
A Swiss newspaper contains an adj
vertisement of which this is transla-
ton: THE report having been spread
that II. G. - has appeared to us since
his death, we hereby declare that this
is quite untrue and warn all persons
against spreading the report under pain
Of prosecution
According to Paris newspapers, the
surgeons are now dressing wounds
with silver leaf The silver is simply
placed on the wound or ulcer and as it
sticks closely to the surface a little
cotton soaked in collodion is sufficient
to keep it in place The effects of this
sheet of silver are said to be very re-
markable.
Sunlight, fresh air, food and exercise
are the great necessaries Of life, says
DR.. J. w. Seaver, the Yale director Of
physical education And SO many a
man in business heartily believes; but,
being unable to get his fair share Of
the other three. he makes up for the
lack by consuming thrice the amount
of food he needs.
There are more John Browns than
any other name in the new city direct
DRY Of Philadelphia, but they lead the
John Smiths by only one. Among the
100000 names recorded are 1850
Whites, 450 Blacks, 8 Greens, Red,
II Blues and S Lavenders. In the bird
line there are Canary, Robin, Eagle,
Grow, Hawk, Sparrow, Buzzard, Pea
cock and Bantam.
The experts of the agricultural de-
partment have theory that the de-
generation Of the modern culture has
been based upon seed originally Inn
ported from Arabia and that by get
ting back to the wild coffee plant, the
habitat of which is the province of
Kaffa, west Africa, a new variety may
be created, the value Of which will be
incalculable A supply of Kaffa coffee
| is to be secured through King Menelek.
The British Twenty third regiment,
| known as the Welsh fusileers. always