The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-31
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INTERESTING FACTS

ty-five admirals and one iron built coal
barge.
Germany possesses the only known
workable deposit of potash minerals in
the world.
Commercial failures to the number
Of 1851 were reported in Germany
in 1908. The average amount Of each
failure was $1O,S56
In forty -nine countries the Salvation
Army now has 1900 separate societies,
$4,000 paid officers, 451, 730 unpaid Of
ficers and 17,170 bandmen.
Though the Dutch have been in the
island Of Sumatra, in the East Indies,
over 300 years they have not yet sub
dued the natives of that small patch Of
territory
There is wild flower in Turkey
which is the exact floral image of q
humming bird. The breast is green, the
throat yellow, the head and beak al
most black.
The population of Brazil is 16,000,000,
of which 100000 are Italians, 1,000,-
900 Portuguese, 25O000 Germans, 1000
English, 400 Americans and about 1000
of various other nationalities.
A recent United States labor bureau
bulletin states that trade unionism in
England is twenty-five years in adj
vance of that of this country in its
methods, and that sympathetic strikes
are becoming unknown in England.
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built by the aborigines in America is
the Cahokia, situated eight miles west
of the Mississippi river, between the
mouth Of the Missouri and st. Louis,
which is 100 feet high, 1880 feet long
and TO feet wide.
A test case In New York has estab.
lished the constitutionality of the state
child labor law. 1t was held that an
employer was liable to fine when he
employed child under twelve years
old even though the parents made afi-
davit that he was of proper age.
There is a movement on foot to APP
ply the curfew law to the national cap
itaI. About 1000 cities and towns in
the United States, mostly in the west,
now have curfew laws to keep children
who are unattended off the streets aft
er a stated hour in the evening.
The loss of life from accidents and
disasters in the United States last year
was: Fires, 1892; drowning, 2,471; ex-
plosions, 1856; falling buildings, etc,
474; steam railways, 1000; electric
railways, 573; electricity, 1856; mines,
1888; cyclones and storms, 4S7; light
ming, 1879.
The German emperor has drawn an
ornamental sketch which is described
as memorial sheet" to be presented,
with the official announcement of
death, to the relatives of those soldiers
Of the southwest African colony who
have fallen, or will fall. in battle
against the Herreros.
DR.. George Mcclellan, demonstration
of anatomy at the Philadelphia Acad-
envy Of Fine Arts, declares that the
perfect form of man is more beautiful
than that Of woman. AS an artist he
abhors the abnormally developed man
and says grace and symmetry of mus
cles are preferable to the development
of the athlete.
The British regiments are to have
their old historic numbers restored to
them instead of the county names by
which it was once hoped that terri
torial esprit de corps would be built
up. But it is found that there is more
magic i'll the memories of Salamanca
and Waterloo than in the associations
of Sussex or West Yorkshire.
1t is said that of all colors violet is
the one most stimulating to the eye
coats and that the electric light, and
more especially that given out by the
large lamps used in many public places,
is rich in violet rays. 1t is claimed
violet dresses and draperies are re-
sponsible for many eye leases" and for
not few of the skin troubles about
which the dermatologist is frequently
consulted.
The United States Statistician says
two-thirds Of school year would be
saved to American boys and girls by
putting the metric system in place of
the other twelve or thirteen systems.
Garry the enormous saving Of time in
to the counting houses of the country,
into all kinds Of calculations from the
farm to the factory, and fairly good
idea is obtained of what the metric
system would save.
Whether the people of Kentucky
shall return to the system of viva voce
voting is to be decided by them at the
state election in 1905. During the dis
cussion of the matter in the house of
representatives one member said that
the open ballot would prevent voters
from sailing under false colors, and
another member retorted that it would
result in the corporations getting con
troll Of the elections.
The Hongkong Daily Press says;
1.-THE European seeker after curios out
here is a source of revenue to many an
INSCRIPTIONS native vender A method
whereby the appearance of century old
china is simulated is to kill a dog and
place the new, comparatively valueless
porcelain in its inside. afterward bury
ing 1t in the earth. AT the end of a
year the ware Is transformed into a
choice specimen Of veritable AN
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The Baltic is equipped with an cleo
trical device for preventing collisions
with ofhar vessels The rooanar,f an