The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-06-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

FACTS IN FEW LINES
Seventy-fve years ago Yucatan de-
clared itself independent.
A Northampton firm has made a pair
Of boots for the Russian giant The size
is 241a.
The japanese parliament has passed
a bill denying the right of mining in
Japan to foreigners.
The constabulary force in the west
of Ireland is being rapidly reduced and
several stations have been closed.
In st. Louis a servant broke SO
worth of dishes to obtain satisfaction
for So worth of wages, and the judge
fined her $25.
Jesse James, only son of the noted
Missouri bandit, is reading law and
taking the three years course in Kan
sas City school Of law.
A Dublin man sentenced to six
months hard labor for neglecting his
children had done only three and one
half days work since July, 1900.
The Siamese navy now has II ships,
and these vessels mount 80 guns. The
largest ship in the fleet is a cruiser of
5000 tons, and the second ship of the
first line is gunboat of 700 tons.
There are now 2,461 newspapers pub
lished in Great Britain, including 1874
dailies in England, IS each in Scotland
and Ireland and Z in Wales, while in
1916 there were only 551 journals of
all sorts published, including 149 dai-
lies.
At a religious revival at Luther, l. T.,
a young man and a young woman
walked to the mourners' bench and
surprised everybody by asking the
preacher to marry them. The groom
said he was as near heaven as he ever
hoped to be.
A wealthy French manufacturer has
placed at the disposal Of President
Loubet a fine steam yacht. The owner
is understood to have done so in order
that M. Loubet should no longer be the
only European ruler without such a
pleasure craft.
ROllCO ICpOLl 1IOuu Is
land, in the Arctic ocean, which has
been received at the Canadian mount
ed police headquarters at Ottawa, was
conveyed 1000 miles by dog Sleigh
1000 miles by water and 5000 miles
by rail. Its Journey took over two
months.
The Swiss government has granted
permission for the building of electric
tramways on the following lines: Cas-
tagnola to Lugano, Menziken to EN-
menbrucke, Munster to Rothenburg, Au
to Berneck, Altorf to Fluelen, and ca
BILE railroad from InterIaken to Helm
fehfluh.
DR.. Ami of the Canadian geological
survey believes that diamonds are hid
den in that part of Canada between the
great lakes and Hudson bay, and he
warns surveying parties and explorers
to be on the lookout for anything that
will show traces of diamonds In that
territory
Although the present French repub-
lie has been in existence for thirty-five
years, yet only a single one of its pres
| idents has completed his term of office.
Theirs, Marshal MacMahon and CAST
mir-Perier resigned more or less vol
unfairly before the expiration Of their
terms, finding the position untenable.
| William Standifer, a soldier Of the
Confederacy and seventy years old, is
pupil in the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college of Starkville, Mass.
He never went to school in his youth,
Land now that his ten children have all
married and set up for themselves he
I thinks it is time for him to get an
education.
A Norwegian inventor has discover
ed way to sound deep places in the
sea without the use of lead. 1t is
done by electrical waves, and a mes
sage is sent down through the water
and rebounds from the bottom in some
way, the depth being found from the
time it takes the waves to travel down
to the bottom and back.
The regulations for grazing lands in
Manitoba are published in the Canada
Gazette. The leases are for twenty-one
years, and no single lease shall cover
an area greater than 100000 acres
The lessee shall pay an annual rental
of 2 cents an acre; the lessee can pur-
chase reasonable acreage within his
leaSehold for a house, farm and corral
Captain Harry Leonard of the United
States marine corps has been ordered
by President Roosevelt to the Chinese
capital as military attache of the Amer
lean legation During the Tientsir
campaign he risked his life by going tc
the rescue of a wounded comrade, car
rying him to safety on his back across
a fire swept field and losing his arm as
penalty for his achievement
General Won Budde, Prussian minis
ter of state and public works, In q
comparison between railway accidents
In the United States and Prussia show.
ed that derailments are three times
more frequent in the United States and
collisions three and a half times, while
the number of persons killed is thirty.
six times greater. Accidents are grow
ing less frequent on the Prussian roads
During the year 1904 W Alfred
Green, a business man, walked a dis
lance of 5,205 miles, an average OF
fourteen and quarter miles day
Writing of this in Outing, Mr. Green
says: "At the beginning of my walk
my weight was 1872 pounds In street
clothes, while at the end of it my
weight was 17S pounds. This loss Of
fourteen pounds was in every way ac
ceptable."
Japan's official control of the use Of
opium in Formosa is a success. Its
import into that island fell from $780,
10 in 1902 to 1894, 095 in 1903, a de
crease of $175,O00 The price is fixed
by the government, and selling agents
are only allowed a profit of ~ pei
cent. Since late In 1900 the number Of
opium smokers in Formosa has de
creased by about 1000 a month Eact
opium smoker has to be registered
Public opinion as well as the law II
against it's USE
Unsafe.
81 understand, senator, that you re
gard your colleague as an unsafe
man."
IT do. 1t would be just like him t.
get scared and turn states evidence a
the first indication of danger" -Chica
/ go Record Herald