The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-06-28
a FEW LINES OF
INTERESTING FACTS


Sailed whale meat Is a Japanese deli
cacy.
An elephant at the London 100 died
Of fright caused BY thunderstorm.
The sultan Of Turkey owns about
500 carriages. Collecting them is fad
with him.
The area covered by the St Louis
fair is 1910 acres; that under roof Is
128 acres.
Punishment BY cold water, or shower
bath, has just been adopted in Austrian
prisons and houses Of correction.
The order OF odd Fellows has now
over million members, and it has
been organized but eighty-fiye years.
The cinematograph is being used by
Paris surgeons in teaching students
how to perform various surgical OPP
erations.
There are fewer blind people in the
United States than in any other coun-
try in the world in proportion to the
population.
The importation of raisins, which
boxes year, has been reduced to all
most nothing by the California crop.
The liquor licenses issued in the bor-
oughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. In
New York city, on May /, numbered
$3.50, and the city's receipts from that
source amounted to $7,300,000.
The history of international arbitra-
ton shows that by decades, from 1910
to 1900, there were respectively 6, 10,
%, &c, 45 and 60 cases. In the last
three years there have been SO cases.
John Baumgartner of Williamsburg
N. Y, invited $50 friends to accompany
him to the theater, and just as they
were ready to start, with band of
music to lead them, Baumgartner was
seized with illness and died.
The Japanese name for torpedo Is
suirai, literally water lightning" A
torpedo boat they call suiraitel, or
water lightning ship" A Whitehead
mine they call gyokeisuiri, meaning
water lightning in the form Of fish.
Julius Jacobs has resigned his seat
on the Liverpool city council, his father
having stipulated in his will that none
Of his sons should become candidate
for municipal or parliamentary honors,
as he had contempt for English po-
litical parties.
An official document has been issued
by the Italian government dissuading
skilled mechanics from emigrating to
the United States, as 1t is expected that
the Industrial prospect of this country
will be much depressed in the near fli-
ture and the number of unemployed
enormously increased.
Italy among her other treasures pos
sesses a small forest Of papyrus trees,
which grow on the banks of the Ana
pus, near Syracuse. This Is most GU
rious, as it seems that this tree can
only live on the waters of the Nile,
the Clane and this small and insignifi-
cant stream at Syracuse.
A curious sight on the coast of Java
is long stretch Of shore about twen-
ty-nine miles in length where the sand
Is filed with particles of magnetic iron.
In some places it is said that the sur
face sand contains so per cent of iron.
1t can be smeited, and company has
been formed to exploit the deposits.
Emigrants from Denmark, none of
whom is illiterate, all come to the Unit
ed States. Ninety per cent of them are
Lutherans, and nearly all Of them set
tie ON farms. The ordinary day la
borer in Copenhagen receives $54 u
year, with board, lodging and washing;
by the day, in harvest time, 90 to 60
cents.
1t can be said with reasonable GER
tainty that electricity and magnetism
are states Of disturbances in the uni
versal ether, although the exact kind
Of disturbance cannot yet be defined,
parity because the mechanism of the
ether itself must be sufficiently known
in order to differentiatc its disturbed
conditions from its normal conditions.
1t can be Understood to what Il nicely
the mechanism of gasoline engine is
adjusted when it is stated that to make
thousand revolutions minute means
that in four cycle engine there are
500 sprays of gasoline forced into the
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