The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-12-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

origin.
The earliest known cookbook was
printed in Venice In t4T5.
4 uandkerchiefs wrought and edged
with gold were at one time Worn in the
hats of English gentlemen as favors
from young women.
In small shop in New York city
managed by woman flowers Of Won
derful coloring are made from the
scales Of various fish.
4 The town Of Lucerne has bought for
5000 Schaffhausen's old guillotine and
announces that it will lend it to other
towns at $3.50 an execution.
The potato bug may soon find its oc-
cupation gone or at least have to
change it's diet The vineless potato
has been produced in Montana.
County Judge Alexander of Littleton,
Colo, unable to decide the disputed par
entage of Baby Ruth Sherlock, ended
the case by taking the child into his
own home.
Baltimore board Of estimates has re-
fused to permit wooden Indian to be
placed in front of cigar store. The in
ference is that a wooden Indian is too
combustble.
Her eggs having been taken from her
hen at Aythorpey Roothing, in Essex,
England, is brooding over litter OF
young pigs. which readily leave their
mother at the call of the hen
The recent electrical exhibition in
=
that the executive committee has been
able to refund to the exhibitors much
of the money they paid for space.
! Golf is the national game of Scot
land. 1t was prohibited by the king in
1857, but of late years has sprung into
renewed popularity and has spread
with amazing rapidity throughout the
world.
The vests gold output may be dou-
bled by the invention of a resident Of
Colorado City. 1t is a simple machine
for saving our gold, is run by gaso-
line engine and may be taken any
where.
A Paris correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette writes that, thanks to the
recent antituberculosis congress there,
half the people of Paris are at this mo-
ment suffering from imaginary tuber-
culosis.
In their latest annual report, an ex-
haustive document, the British lunacy
commission say as result of their re-
searches into the relation Of drink and
insanity, ut cannot be denied that al
cohol is brain poison"
A boiling spring on the farm Of v.
| T. Lundvall at New Sweden. Me, that
has not been dry since the town was
first settled, disappeared entirely the
other day. The bottom was scooped
out and water found at depth of
| two feet.
A Belfast (Me) youngster, who tried
to catch a rabbit by running it down,
was obliged to give up the effort When
asked about his success he reluctantly
admitted that he had not captured the
animal and assigned this conclusive
reason: well, when got near to him
he was too far off,"
The hens In the United States now
produce one and two-third billion doz
ems of eggs year, and at the high
average price of the year the hens dur
ing their busy season lay enough eggs
in a single month to pay the years in
terest on the national debt.
On the mile Of road from Perkinsville
to Baltimore, VT, there are eight men
keeping bachelors hall and not q wo-
man on the whole mile On the west
side of Main street are ten unmarried
women; only three men on that side Of
the street. 1t is called widows row.
Mrs, w. Felch Of Manchester, N. H,
has TWO pages from copy Of Harper's
Weekly of Oct. %, 1868, which pages
contain Lowell's poem, sThe Courtin',"
in full. The poem is illustrated, and a
facsimile Of the authors signature Is at
the end. This is thought to have been
the first publication Of the poem.
Sir Henry Maclean, Scotch adyen-
turer, is the man to whom the sultan of
Morocco owes his compact and well or
! ganized army Of 10000 men. This force
can be increased by 10000 irregulars in
case Of war. Kaid Maclean, as he is
known in Morocco has a comfortable
salary of $4,000 year.
4. A. M. Thompson Of Greer county,
! Mo, cut into a bale Of cotton to get a
sample, and the knife exposed watch
in the cotton. Later on Il was found to
belong to Herman Worth, one Of the
balers at the gin. He had not missed it
until it was found in the bale of cotton
above stated. The watch was uninjured
and still running.
In several places in Prussia, Berlin
telegram to the London Leader says,
experiments are being made with a
somewhat novel material for soldiers
beds namely shavings Of paper These
are stuffed into bags, on which the soil
diers lie. They are said to be more
comfortable than straw and more
splingy. Straw beds, moreover must
ba changed every six months