The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-07-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Tokyo is 100 years older than st.
| Petersburg.
Americans drank 1,494, 191, 1926 gal
Ions Of beer last year
Japan has very few millionaires and
practically no multimillionaires.
1 London's new county hall, on the
| banks of the Thames, will cover five
and six-tenths acres.
The London Times says that the
Russian government is ordering moth
ing in England or America that can be
| obtained elsewhere
The cake used at Portland (Me)
wedding was baked for a relative of
the bridegroom on the occasion of his
marriage forty years ago.
A concrete chimney that has been
completed recently for Tacoma
smelter is BOT feet in height and is said
to be the highest in the world Of its
kind.
The most costly picture frame in the
world is said to be that which incloses
the Virgin and Child in the Milan
| cathedral It is made of hammered
gold and is worth $125,000.
Recent travellers in Tibet have no
ticed that, while effects of the rarefied
air are severely felt at attitudes of be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 feet. on going
yet higher all disagreeable sensations
pass off.
Excitement has been created at
Mombasa, east Africa, by the discov-
cry of the west African rubber tree
| Funtumia classical in the forests Of
the protectorate. London syndicates
are competing for large tracts Of for
est land.
The largest bequest ever made by
negro to Tuskegee institute at Tuske-
gee, Ala, was recorded recently when
the will of Mary e. Shaw Of PhiladeI-
phia was probated. 1t bequeathed
$4,000 to the Institution of which
Booker T. Washington is president.
At meeting of the Amalgamated
! Society of Tailors in London member
stated that she knew of a woman who
had made cloth skirt plated.
tabled, trimmed with bands and but
tons-for nlnepence, the said skirt be-
ing ticketed in the shop window, "The
Best English Tailor Made"
One of the shoe dealers in Louisville,
KY, is building up a nice little trade
in wooden shoes. He has three lots
sent to him from Holland each year
and sells them to the German garden
ers who live near Louisville. They find
them Of great value for wear when
working in their gardens.
The British museum, London, has de-
cided to collect and keep gramophone
records of the voices of the most emf
nent singers and publicists. They will
be for the use of posterity. The mas
ter records will be Of nickel and prac-
tically indestructible. From these play
ing records can be stamped at will.
Skyscrapers are forbidden in Berlin
but the architect, Professor Siegmund
Muller, after his recent trip to Amer
lea delivered lecture in Berlin In
which he spoke strongly in their favor,
declaring that they offered great busi-
ness advantages and were safer in
case Of fire than any other buildings
Swordsmanship in one or other of its
forms is making marked progress in
England. New sales d'armes are be-
ing opened and fresh clubs formed
! year by year in London and the prov
inces, and international matches have
been arranged in which the English
teams have at least borne themselves
we'll
The Manchester Union wonders when
in the last half century that city has
had the number Of people within its
limits that attended the agricultural
fair in 1851. The drawing card Of the
fair was Daniel Webster, and over
$4,000 people were on hand to welcome
the great statesman when he arose to
make his address.
The store Of Tewksbury & Raymond,
at Randolph VT, Is adorned with a
rather unusual relic in the sign line.
The sign was sent from Boston to
Randolph seventy-six years ago by
Amos Tewksbury and was once the
common thing among a class Of trad
ers long since passed away. The sign
reads, Cash and Barter Store"
Lying neglected and broken amid the
bushes and brambles at the edge Of
the farm of Moses u. Goodwin in Eliot,
Me-, is slate slab which bears this
inscription; Here I've We Remains
Of Simon Frost Esq'r late first Justice
Of We Court Of Common Please and Reg
lister Of Probate for We County Of York.
He departed this life We Sd day of
Feb'ry, 1766, age Co."
Il. II. Payne, well to do resident OF
Williamsport, Pa, was on a visit to
New York with his daughter Florence,
who Is not yet out of her teens A
fellow guest at the Waldorf Astoria
gave Miss Payne a hint as to the stock
market She acted promptly, invested
her own fortune ON the information
and returned home richer by $4,000
all made inside Of a week.
The first apple trees that were graft
ed in Dover, N. H., were in orchards
on Dover neck. The work was don.
in 1741 by Major Samuel Hale, whs
was then schoolteacher The matol
graduated from Harvard college II
1740 and went there to teach In thu
fall Of that year The following win
ter he cut scions from choice fruit
traes IN I2oston ana IN fha snrin0 praft