The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17
"A FEW LINES OF
INTERESTING FACTS


The area Of Korea is $1,000 square
miles.
There are 249 women doctors in
Great Britain.
London bridge is crossed every day
by 100000 people.
Russia has 10000 miles Of coast line,
half Of it icebound.
Clockwork submarines are the favor
lite toys in Europe at present.
Russia is two and one-half times as
large as the United States and Alaska.
Education costs $165,0OO and reli-
gious sacrifices $4,000 a year in Ko-
rea.
Gold is the great mineral wealth Of
Korea, nearly 100000 worth being
exported annually.
The United States has fifty-three
times as many miles of telegraph and
sends fifteen times as much mail as
Russia.
In the wintry weather in Sweden
and Norway trusses of straw and hay
are tied to the lamp posts for the bene-
fit of the BIRDS
Port Arthur has but one docking
basin, and when the Japanese made
their famous attack it had not been
used or even cleaned out for years.
The production of copper ore and
precipitate has greatly decreased in
England. Forty years ago it was 210,-
600 tons. In 1902 it was only 6,112
tons.
Coal has been found in Siberia, so
that on part OF the Transsiberian rail-
way-namely, between ,Irlxutsk and
Cheliabinsk the locomotives burn coal
instead of wood
The increased production Of coal in
Great Britain last year He'd to the EN-
ployment Of 1928 more persons than
in 1902, the total number engaged In
1908 being S42,066 and In 1902 1924, 791.
Berlin has about a thousand tele-
phone girls. They must be on enter
ing service over eighteen and under
thirty, healthy and we'll educated
Their minimum salary is So cents a
day, the maximum 1915 year.
The Japanese women are as active
and strong as the men. An English
writer on physical culture suggests
that this may account for the Jap's
courage in war. After he has settled
his domestic problems with wife as
muscular and agile as himself war has
no terrors for him.
Fourteen women weighing more than
800 pounds each responded to an ad-
vertisement for the --LATEST barrel
shaped woman in New York" to serve
MS model at the dressmakers' con-
vention A girl from Staten Island
weighing $40 pounds was chosen, and
she was promptly nodded into shape.
A man who lives on the little island
Of Trenton, off the Maine coast, bought
d fine collection Of rare foxes last year
and started fox farm. He trusted to
the sea to keep the animals on the is
land, hut during the winter it froze be-
tween the island and the coast and the
foxes decamped.
They are discussing in England a
new system of road building which
would save large percentage in the
cost of construction. Instead of the
present method of convex surfaces
with gutter at each side it. is pro-
posed to build concave roads with a
gutter in the middle.
A curious sight on the coast Of Java
is d long stretch Of shore about TWEEN
tyrnine miles in length where the sand
is filed with particles Of magnetic
iron. In some places it is said that the
surface sand contains so per cent of
iron. 1t can be smelted, and COM
pany has been formed to exploit the
deposits.
A new form of looping the loop is
promised the Parisians. A French en-
gineer says he will make motor car
run down slope to chasm in the
track, at the end of which it will mount
a springboard and turn a complete
somersault, coming down on the other
side of the chasm and on continue
ton of the track.
Two prizes Of $125 each have been
offered by an agricultural society in
Germany for new pigment for tattoo
ing black cared pigs The tattooing Of
white cared pigs is well known and
successful, but dark color is useless
for dark ears. An additional $25 is
given for every year the tattoo lasts
beyond the first year.
Engineers are alarmed at the inroads
that crawfish and muskrats are MAX
ing in the levees along the Mississippi
river. The crawfsh burrow into the
leyees, and the muskrats follow to
catch and eat them. Then the musk
rats burrow right through the bank
and make so many holes of this kind
that in time Of flood break is likely
TO occur.
Judge Jacob Fawcett of the supreme
court of Nebraska is a native of Mil
waukee. While living in that city he
learned the blacksmith's trade and for
several years worked at the forge. Hav-
ing, taste for law, ne devoted his
leisure time to its study. He removed
to Omaha and was admitted to the bar
and for fifteen years has been steadily
rising in the profession.
The transatlantic steamers are re-
gaining the business they lost during
the period OF depression in the nineties,
In 1891 10000 cabin passengers were
landed in New York That was the