The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-03
'NEWSY ITEMS
OF INJ.TERES /
Happenings Gather
State, City, Tow
County.
ssARIvER CHANGES IT'S MIND"

The 60,946 police Of the United King
dom cost 100000 year.
The trade Of Korea amounts to some
thing like $15,000,000 per annum.
The lifeboats around the British,
coast during the last year rescued $50
people.
A New York life insurance company
holds $s,000O00 worth Of Russia's rail-
way securities.
Australia has more places OF wor.
ship in proportion to; her population
than any other one country.
Agricultural implements to the value
of $50, 951.S05 were exported from the
United States during the year 1903.
At the close Of the last calendar year
the United States had exported 81, 457, :
565,7S5 worth Of goods, leading the
world.
a concession for narrow gauge rail
way from Rosario, to Buenos Ayres haze
been granted to the Central Cordoba
Railway comnanv.
Arrangements have been made for
telephone communication between va
rious towns of Lancashire and France.
French legislative sanction is awaited
According to a correspondent of the
Jewish Chronicle, $4,000 Jews were
converted to Christianity in the nine
teenth century. The large majority
became Roman Catholics.
Orders have been given from the
British war Office that every boy serv-
ing in the army is to attend school un-
til he obtains first class certificate or
reaches the age Of eighteen
Four persons died and several were
made critically i'll as a Consequence Of
eating food supplied by cookery
school attached to the Grand Duchess
Alice Institute For Women at Darn
stadt.
Recently an old woman at Clichy,
France, was told that she had won
$4,000 in Spanish lottery. Later
she found she had been hoaxed, and
the shock Of disappointment killed her
instantly.
A specially constructed covered van
containing twenty-eight cages is to
make the daily round of the Paris POI
lice stations to pick up stray dogs that
have been captured and convey them
to the pound.
Wages in Russian factories are 2
cents an hour and upward. There are
thousands who work FOR a cent an
hour and tens Of thousands who do not
receive 80 cents a day for ten, eleven
and more hours work.
Through "slSidding" on the frozen
roads at Freiburg, Switzerland, mo-
tor car dashed into a milk wagon and
upset 300 gallons of milk. The cats Of
the town gathered in large numbers to
snjoy an unrestricted meal.
A Liverpool magistrate announced IN
Irt that in the event of any person
being convicted of damaging property
while seeking for hidden treasure he
would probably send him to prison
without the option Of fine.
Fishermen on the lake of Neuchatel
are using automobile boats. They are
driven by a benzine motor and lighted
by electricity. They are fiat bottomed,
glide noiselessly over the water, do not
brighten the fish and are great sue
| cess.
Who ever heard of q river changing
| its mind and turning round and run
ming in the other direction? Yet that
is what the Kansas river has done at
one point for a distance of two miles,
where cutoff was formed by last
years floods.
| An uncommon occurrence was OBJ
served at a Canton (AIe.) church the
other Sunday. A great-grandmother
daughters, grandchildren aud great.
grandchildren were in attendance--viz.
Mrs. Eliza Barrows, nearly ninety, and
her descendants.
Negotiations are proceeding between
the Amsterdam and Antwerp diamond
merchants for the formation of com
bination which win enable them to
fight the De Beers mine, which con-
trolls the worlds output. and the Lon
don trust, which practically rules the
trade.
The island of Bornholm, situated in
the Baltic, acts as a huge magnet. 1t
exerts such an influence on the com.
pass that 1t can cause a vessel to turn
perceptibly aside from its course The
effect of this magnetic island is per
ceptible at distance Of nine and q
half. miles.
From balloon shallow places in the
pecan and rocks rising near to the sur
face can be seen much more clearly
than from the shore or from shipboard.
For this reason the French naval en-
gineer, Renaud, suggests that captive
balloon would be a most useful aces
sorry to a marine surveying ship.
Last year there were taken from
the streets Of Manchester 1860 tons
of mud in various stages of moisture
and deposited on moss and peat land.
with the result that really valuable
agricultural land is reclaimed. Now
the London corporation has bought
about 100 acres Of ground near Bark
ing and will soon make similar ex-
periments.
The most curious spire in England is
at Chesterfield, the leaning tower OF
Pisa not being moro interesting to
sightseers than the queer kink in a re
spectacle church, which, tradition
says, was caused by the devil kicking