The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-11-21
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fossil pigs the size OF COWS nave Ueeu
found in Oregon.
A statue OF the Sumerian King David
found at Bismya, Babylonia, recently
IS believed to date back to 1900 b. G.
Lassa, the Forbidden City of Tibet,
has 10000 people, two-thlrds Of whom
are women, who conduct all the bust
ness of the city.
| The japanese method of preserving
the salmon which are caught In large
numbers at Sakhalin is to salt them
down and press them into bales.
Leonardo da Vinci not only put the
violin into the hands of his heroines,
but he himself played upon unique
violin at the extremity Of which was a
carved horses head.
Recently Sir William Crookes lectured
! twice at Kimberley, South Africa, ON
the making of artificial diamonds The
lectures cost $1,000, for they included
elaborate experiments.
CoaIlie, clever dog belonging to
Charlie Cahill of Bath, Me, left home
for several hours the other day When
he returned late In the afternoon he
was Juggling a big pumpkin along. with
him.
During the preparatory maneuvers
of the Servian infantry at Nish regi-
ment was lost for twenty-four hours
When it was finally sighted the men
were at the bottom of a ravine dancing
to music furnished by gypsy camp.
Franconian wine growers are getting
alarmed at the steady encroachment Of
phylloxera Already in a single district
near Wurzburg the government has
had to pay $4,000 indemnity for In
fected vines destroyed by its agents.
Reports Of an extensive volcanic out
break on the island Of SavaI, in the
Samoan group. are brought by the
steamship Sierra from Australia The
eruption is ten miles south Of Matan-
tua, and new mountain hsxs been
created 1000 feet high
Among the rare pieces which caused
hot bidding at coin sale insNew York,
the other day was an old New Hamp-i
shire cent o6 I776. This coin is down,
in the catalogue as priceless and
unique The buyer had to lazy down
$60.5e to get possession.
One of the. oldest settlers in King
man county, Kan, is an cid mule. 1t,
helped to draw the first wagon load of
provisions into, the county. This mule
has been admitted as member Of the
Old Settlers association and attends,
every picnic. 1t is one Of the land
marks of the county
Enoehi Burnatte. OF SpringGHhI,. Mass.
has presented tile. BasIchertDwm Hlstors
icali society with correct NODDED of the
gold washer used in California by the
old foity-niners, Inside are two bags
OF size that wonlSf holdi$l 500 worth
of gold EACH. Mr. Burnette inside the
model for his own, amusement
A teacher in al lower west side pahs
lie scfool in New York recently receiv-
ed tho following letter: 'Kindly eNcu-
plate my son Moses from beng one ag-
grigate day absent. Because his moth
er sustaining sick Moses had to, So
journi in the house perpetual, so Kind
" apology him for not coming once
day tOtschoolT
1t was Rockland (Me) sea dog who
painted his boat the other day, with
curious resuAts. He got along alright
until he canhe to put on the name on
the bow @Star7 was easy work on
one side Of the bow, and then he went
at the other He followed his FIRST job
so closely that when he fnished he
found the port bow inscribed ASRatss"
German sources estimate the total
length of railroads in the world at 537
105 miles, America has 2T03S6; Eu
rope, 1S7,776; Asia, 46,092; Africa 10,
!, 649s Australia, 16,702. The value Of
the worlds railroads is placed at $43.
O00OO0000 The total rolling stoel
consists Of 10000 locomotives, DDS.
4 600 passenger coaches and 3000,O0t
freight cars.
j The monks of the st. Bernard hospfc'
in Switzerland are up to date. They
have purchased an automobile to carry
provisions up the monntaiR. In ordel
not to brighten teams they had horse
hitched to the motor wagon The gov
ernment's permission had to be obtain
ed because Of the bridges, some o
which were not intended for sucl
heavy loads.
A. g. Smith os Broekton, Mass, ha
received unique present from an en-
graver at New Haven, Conn. in tn
shape Of a cherry stone containing on
dozen silver spoons. The stone is Ii
two parts, which screw together, ant
the spoons are arranged about on th
inside. The spoons are perfect an
large enough to be distinguished wit
the naked eye
A six foot man wearing the uniforE
OF the British navy was walking alon
Beekman street, New York, recent
when ragged Italian girl Of twelv
stopped him with request that he 4
up d bundle Of wood for her. Withou
q word lie entered store. obtained
piece Of rope and bound the load 81
curely. He then Lifted it to the girl
head ana passed GA PIP the street