The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-03

to everyday uses.
A @blacIx lily new to science has
been discovered at Nueva Caeeres, il
the Philippines.
A model coal mine, the first Of its
kind IN England, is to be included ii
the scientific equipment of Birning.
ham university
The exports Of palm seeds from the
Netherlands amounted to 50,452, Coz
pounds, 52.49s,G00 pounds and 57,043,.
500 pounds in 1901, 1902 and 1903 re
spectively.
The art treasures at Windsor castle
are said to be worth oyer $50 100000
The king has had thee rearranged, but
has not been able to insure them as
vet owing to their great value.
"A bin to prohibit juvenile cigarette
smoking has passed its second reading
in the South Australian Legislature and
will probably become law. Tie age
below which smoking is prohibited Is
fixed atsixteen years.
In view Of the notorious laziness Of
the Russian peasant, writes 4 st. Pc
tersburg correspondent, it viii be inter.
esting to watch the effect of the new
law permitting labor ON Sundays and
festivals
An association in Manchester, Eng
land, known as the Minnehaha Anna
teur Ministries has made d business fol
the past twenty-five years Of giving
performances for charity. In that time
( it has raised $97, 100
An attempt is to be made by tic
British war department to raise a see
ond battalion of the Irish guards. Ii Is
expected to be successful, as the first
battalion now has several companies III
excess Of the establishment
Swedish doctors having found Mi
mute pieces of enamel from granite
ware in cases of appendicitis, it is sur
missed that the common use Of this
ware may have something to do with
the prevalence of appendicitis.
or the 1000 white settlers scattered
among the total population Of 100000
in German Southwest Africa not many
more than 1000 are at present Ger
man. and these are very largely com
posed of the military and official ele-
ment.
There is more smoking of pipes done
in cold weather than at any other
time, and, excluding the vacation sea
son, there are more pipes. and smoking
tobacco sold during the cold weather
than during the temperate and heated
spells.
Canada Is pushing for sales in Ja-
pan. Cohsuls are being appointed with
authority to pay for early statistical
information. Sample rooms viii be at
tached to the consulates. japanese
products will be exhibited in CONNER
cial museums In Canada
For several years the Santa Re com
pany has been filing in China basin, in
south San Francisco, to make solid
ground on the bay front there for
freight yards. The work is done at
last. having cost the company $685.
600 1t now owns fine site of fifty
three acres.
In one of the London public schools
teacher asked her class what turf
was. Nobody could tell. she next ask
ed what grass was There was long
pause, and then the smartest scholar
raised hand. 'sWell?" asked the
teacher "Please, ma am. it's what you
got to keep off of, was the reply.
A man brought up at ST. Adams as
an incorrigible rogue was proved to
have married his aunt His children
are therefore his first cousins, and he
is his own uncle. His Grandmother
and his mother-in-law are the same
person. Apparently the judge sympa-
thized with him. for he was discharged.
A number Of Philadelphia business
men have organized what is to be
known as the Downtown club, each
member Of which is pledged to war on
tipping. They have become tired of
feeling walters at noon in order to Sc
cure reasonably quick service, and the
Downtown club is their way of over
coming the nuisance.
A lawyers club Of California has
been formed, with a branch club in
every county and headquarters In San
Francisco. Its declared objects are the
reduction Of expense to litigants, the
elimination Of delay in reaching final
settlement Of cases and the securing
of uniform rules OF practice In the va
rious counties of the state.
Along the international boundary of
the Canadian northwest twenty years
ago was an acreage of 100000 under
crop, yielding 100000 bushels of
wheat Now the acreage is over 1000
900 and the annual yields 110o00,0O0
bushels, while population, acreage and
output are augmented at rate no 9th
err country can approach