The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-07-12
A FEW LINES OF
INTERESTING FACTS

A copy Of the sBreeches Bible" Of
1899 has been presented to the Nation
al Bible Society Of Scotland.
The eagle was chosen as the symbol
Of the United States BY congress and
as such has been placed on certain Of
the coins Of the country.
Six sovereigns have paid visits to
Dublin before Edward yII.-namely,
Henry IL, Richard IL, james H., viii
Ham III. George Nv. and Victoria.
It was stated III the house Of COM
mons the other day that thirty mem
bers Of the Irish Nationalist party
had served terms Of hard labor in pris-
on.
At sale Of pictures In London a
portrait Of lady by Gainsborough
realized $500 guineas, while Romney
portrait of lady fetched 1000 gum
cas-.
More than 100000 of the 1890, COO
people Of Mexico do not work, and Of
those who do work 1,48S,024 are in do
nestle service and 10000 are salary
earners.
The American Bible society. which
does not pretend to print its Bibles III
all languages. issues either the whole
Bible or portions of it In 242 languages
and dialects.
While scores of people We're running
from a supposed mad dog In New York
a black tomcat sprang upon the ami
MAILS back, and 1t quickly disappeared,
yelping as 1t went
Abyssinia produces the finest ostrich
feathers, the price there being $144
to 1921 per dozen for the best white,
SO cents to $1.93 dozen for black and
half as much for gray feathers.
Frank L. Frugone (''Big Frank''),
editor of the Italian Evening Bulletin
Of New York, is going to stand for con-
gress, as a Republican, against that
other "big" fellow, Tim Sullivan.
The Norwegian adelsthing has passed
bill prohibiting the sale or export
abroad of ancient national relics. such
as old Morse coins, arms, Runic inscrip-
tons, remains of Viking ships. etc.
The Montgolfier balloon which made
the journey from Paris to Rome on
Dec. 2, 1904, the day Napoleon was
crowned by Plus VII. has just been
found in one of the storerooms of the
Vatican.
During the last twenty-four years
1861, 473 frozen meat carcasses have
been imported to London, and of this
huge total New Zealand has been re-
sponsible for 41,154,O2O and Australia
II, 769,S5O.
1t was noted with mingled awe and
delight by attentive English reporters
that King Edward on his recent visit
to Ireland wore his hat slightly tilted
to the right" All loyal hats will now
be worn slightly tilted to the right.
Some time ago it was decided to
plant in the garden of Anne Hath
away's cottage at Shottery all the va
rious shrubs, flowers and plants mem
toned in Shakespeares plays and SON
nets, and they are all in Furnishing
condition.
The Egyptian government has got Sir
William Arrol & Co., builders Of the
Forth, Tay and Glasgow railway
bridges, to construct the Nile bridges
at Rodda island, near Cairo. The con.
tract, which is for 100000, was Sc.
cured in face of strong continental
competition.
Statistics show that in the past
twenty or thirty years New York has
lost much ground in the export trade
relatively to outside ports Its ship
ments Of wheat and corn la 1881, for
instance, were 60 per cent of the coun-
try's entire exports, whereas in 1903
the ratio was only "A per cent.
1t is reported that the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company and
the Friedrich Krupp company intend
to erect shipbuilding yards on the Ems
Dortmund canal, in the vicinity of the
coal lands which they recently pur-
chased. These shipyards are only to
build canal and river craft.
Duke Of Wellington, the old time
battleship which led the British Baltic
feet in the Russian war in 1896, is
to be sold at auction. She is built of
wood, has three decks and is 240 feet
long. She has been used as depot
ship at Portsmouth for many years.
In war times she carried 104 guns and
had a crew Of over 1000 men.
A young New York broker whose ia
Their has dropped two fortunes in Wall
street about year ago fell heir to
$4,000 from the estate Of an aunt. He
at once employed an expert and pur-
chased at pawnbrokers' sales and else
where diamonds that took his whole
fortune. The other day he sold the
whole lot at an advance Of $4,000.
French society has begun to rebel at
the printed list of wedding presents.
1t is no longer good form in certain
sets to run down the gamut In public
print Of the parental check down to