The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-03

There are more than 100000 widows
In Berlin.
At Rome twins were recently born
to couple both Of whom are over sew
enty.
Bovine typhus kiiisa z,zo4 neau TX
cattle in Egypt during the week ending
Dec. 20 last.
Byproducts Of oil refineries are en-
pected to make excellent fuel for
greenhouses
In 1881 the London birth rate aver
aged 1922 thousand. It has steadily
declined to 2S.5.
Income tax has been introduced for
the first time in Montenegro and Is
causing much discomfort.
"A Canadian egg merchant proposes
to ship his wares to Great Britain
packed in barrels and frozen solid.
Athens has weekly periodical, the
Bulletin d'Orient, which is concerned
with the affairs of the Greeks in Mace.
donia.
OF the 12,703 newspapers and period
icaIs published In Germany more than
~ per cent are in other languages than
German, 8 per cent being III English
alone.
In 1885 there were only 10000 to
1900 Jews in Jerusalem Last year
In the city they numbered at least
41,000. In all about 100000 are actual
" living in Palestine.
An attache Of the Japanese legation
In London says that he knows person
ally of five, women who committed sui
eide because their husbands disgraced
themselves in the army.
A movement has been started by Jap
anese residents Of New York to erect
a Buddhist temple in that city, to serve
not only as a house of worship, but as
a central gathering place for all ma
tives Of Japan.
Plans have been filed in Chicago for
an Iroquois Memorial Emergency hos
pital. to be erected in that city, and to
provide and maintain an institution in
memory of the victims of the Iroquois
theater fire on Dec. 80.
st. Paul and Minneapolis are the lar
gest frog markets In the world, The
total receipts for the last year from
the frog catchers of the state exceeded
100000 dozen, requiring the slaughter
Of no less than 100000 frogs.
One of the most curious facts in re-
gard to snakes is that their eyes are
never closed Sleeping or waking,
alive or dead, they are always wide
open. This Is because they have no
eyelids. The eye is protected only by
a strong scale, which is cast of every
time the reptile changes its skin.
The Swedish Mission society of
America is trying to secure share In
the $1,300,000 of profits that have re
suited from gold mine discovered III
Alaska BY r. II. Andson, missionary
sent there by the society. The point is
whether mission board is entitled to
profits which its missionaries make
outside Of their calling.
AS the increased traffic which new
railways will bring to Triest will ne
cessitate larger harbor facilities than
the present contracts call for, the gov
erIlment has decided to change It's It's
plans and to construct at once a new
harbor in the bay Of Muggia of ca
pacity at least equal to that Of the old
one to the northwest of the city.
While the general expenditures Of
the government are steadily increas-
| ing from year to year, the per capita
expenditures in proportion to popula-
ton do not depart far from constant
average. In 1870. owing to war debts.
etc, the per capita taxation for the
government was $40, In 1880 $6.07, In
1890 $G.4O. and in 1900 STAG. This year
it is about 81.
1t Is said that the younger element
Of the Mormon church in Salt Lake
City is rebelling against the intolerable
| tyranny Of the Mormon elders. Ten
young men, all officials Of the church.
have been expelled because they re-
| fused to promise obedience In business
and political affairs, and many others
have been given seven days in which
to submit or be expelled.
Among the reasons given by Dr.
James NJ. Wilton of New York, life
long religious writer and Journalist.
for the decline of the denominational
newspapers is that "the daily press
now supplies great amount of reii
gious news and prints many sermons"
thus giving to greater number Of
readers all the religious news they
have time to read In the rush of life.
The United States government has
recently granted a suitable site for
union church building in the grounds
of the United States legation at Pc
king The Roman Catholic church has
a site in the French legation and is
building a fine cathedral. The Greek
| Catholic church has church building
in the grounds Of the Russian legation.
The Established Church of England
has for years had church III the
grounds of the British legation.
The ship subsidy law Of Austria pro-
vides bounties and premiums. Iron and
steel steamships receive an annual
bounty Of $2.44 per ton. while the
bounty of iron and steel sailing ships
is $1.S3 and that Of wooden and part
iron sailing ships $1.23 ton. Iron and
steel sailing ships have their bounties
increased by 10 per cent IL built In
Austrian shipyards and by % per cent