The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

ST. petersburg occupies six large and
many small islands at the mouth Of the
Neva.
New South Wales is overrun with
mice. In one store In the town Of
Merton the other day 10000 were
caught
The Motor union Of Great Britain
and Ireland. the largest organization Of
motorists in the world, has 1900 mem
bers.
Cape Town authorities are extending
the conveyance of mails by camels,
which has experimentally proved very
successful
A league has been formed in Swift
Eerland to preserve picturesque spots
throughout the little republic from
commercial vandalism.
Berlin, the home of the automatic
restaurant, gives that institution a
creditable support, and their number
is constantly increasing.
A New York concern which proposes
to raise spruce trees for the lumber
has recently imported from Germany
1900 young trees.
Many Of the hotels of the country
towns of England are managed By
women, and it is claimed that they do
it far better than men in the same pO-
sitions
Berlin supports a professional bird
catcher, who keeps scientific institu-
tons supplied with birds, nests and
eggs He is the only man in the en-
pire permitted to do 30.
Every week the canal commission
imports no less than 200 tons of insect
powder and 200 tons of sulphur bars
into Panama. These are used in ex-
terminating the mosquitoes.
Army reform in India has caused the
disappearance of two historic regi-
ments, the Sixty-fourth Carnatic light
infantry, which was raised In 1859,
and the Bombay marine battalion,
dating from 1777.
Happy, Though Married Two Days."
was one Of many labels attached by
practical Jokers to the luggage of a
newly married couple who left an Eng
lish railway station the other day Oh
their way to Canada w
A new law which will gradually re-
suit in the entire disappearance of
slavery from Siam has come into eff
feet says the Bangkok Times. No one
can now be born a slave, and no one
can be made slave.
While the Chinese are held to be the
most economical people in the world it
has apparently never occurred to them
to use the vast areas Of their verdant
hill and mountain regions as pasturage
for cattle, sheep or horses.
An art critic prophesies that the next
movement of European art, which he
thinks has exhausted the possibilities
of realism, may take the form Of a
return to the principles enunciated by
the Chinese 1000 years ago.
Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati has
organized a choir Of priests, consisting
Of local clergymen, for the purpose Of
rendering the Gregorian music Of the
mass at all the funerals of priests
which take place In his archdiocese.
Iceland possesses a large number Of
trees, although it is credited with hav-
ing only one The climate and soil are
by no means unfavorable to tree grow
ing, and evidence exists to show that
Iceland was once covered with trees.
Radium has been found in wheaton
-four, said Professor ]. ]. Thompson, at
the Royal institute, London. How it
kn IN
plain. There was no doubt, however,
that such flour would produce radio ac-
tive bread
A strong protest is being made
against bringing to England the pyg-
mics whom Colonel Harrison captured
lately In Stanley forest Africa. 1t Is
held that no one has any right to cap
ture and enslave them for exhibitions
or any other purposes.
With reference to the threatened In
vasion of the crinoline the London
Daily News calls attention to the fact
that since the crinoline was last In
fashion the fat has become an institu-
ton. How could women wear crino-
lines and live in a fiat2
Miss Kate z. McWilliams of Brook
Ign has broken the record for school
teaching Resigning from heE work
recently, she has to her credit fifty
consecutive years Of service in the
Brooklyn public schools, forty-eight
being in one school as principal.
Just before General de Sonnar, an
Italian senator, died recently he had
himself dressed In his generals uni
form and all his medals and decora-
tons. Then he called for a glass of
champagne and, with his relatives
gathered around his couch, drank to
'the kings health and the prosperity
of Italy"
A Spanish contemporary says that
In 1904 nearly $4,000 bulls were killed
in bullfghts Of the country. The bulls
killed about 10000 horses. The best
and most valuable bulls for the arena
are raised on the vast estates of the
Duke Of Veragua, in Andalusia, who
has made a fortune out of this bust
ness
The eminent German economist and
former coadjutor Of Bismarck, Adolph
Wagner, used to insist that the older
professors ought to be pensioned in or
der to give the younger ones room to
expand Now that he has reached his
SEVENTEEN birthday he seems to have
lost his interest In that doctrine. He
expects to do a great deal more work.
The question of tipping the waiter
has been formally settled by the secre-
tary of the navy. A naval officer may
give a tip of 10 cents a meal to his
waiter, 90 cents to the various persons
who virtually demand them on trains.
tips may amount to 80 cents day In
an American hotel and Is cents day
in foreign hotel, $3.50 day on the
Atlantic, 81 day on the Pacific and
on the West India voyage. Greater lib
crafty than this the United States will
not countenance.
A Curious story.
In "A Diary From Dixie" by Mary
Boyd Chestnut, there is a curious story
of a beautiful Washington girl, Matte
Reedy, who, weary of the abuse that
her northern friends showered upon
the southern general John Morgan,
took up the cudgels in his defense
whats your nameY' asked an officer,
turning fiercely upon her. My name
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