The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-11-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

guidance Of their teachers annually
plant about 100000 trees.
An estate of 10000 acres bordering
on the Delaware river is solely utilized
for the study of live birds 1t is thor
oughly equipped us bird observatory.
A bill has been passed by the Belgian
parliament ordering seats to be placed
at the disposal Of shopgirls when they
are disengaged during business hours
Horseshoe fall, Niagara, has receded
more than 200 feet within the memory
Of living men and is now travelling TO-
II ward Lake Erie at the rate of fully 500
feet a century.
Two kinds of living creatures only,
men and dogs, can stand an instantane-
GUS change from arctic cold to tropical
heat without suffering deterioration or
losing their health,
The Argentine minister Of finance
has introduced a bill to make the franc
the unit of currency instead Of the pa
per plaster. The new coin would be
called an Argentine
Statistics find that something like
1000 vessels Of all sorts disappear III
the sea every year, never to be heard
from, taking $4,000 human beings and
I involving d money loss Of $100,000000
I A honey farm conducted by a wo-
man at Glen Cove, N. Y, has 600 hives
Of bees, each hive containing from 50,-
600 to 10000 bees. From fifty 10 hum
bred pounds of honey are taken from
each colony during a season.
Senior Joaquin Walker Martinez the
Chilean minister to Washington, says
his country will be greatly benefited by
the building Of the isthmiau canal, in.
bringing the United States into much
closer lmercial communication
About twenty seats at the imperial
t9eaters iIa ST. Petersburg have never
been marked in the plans, anM their
sale has been privately exploited by
the box office keepers, who in ten. years
have obtained over $4,000 by the
fraud.
Chairman Davis of the Vermont
bridge commission is authority for the
bridges across the Connecticut river
connecting Vermont aud New Hamps
shire towns Ten Of these are toll
bridges.
Andrew Nj. Camp-town clerk OF Dur
ham, Conn., is in possessions Of the orig
NAL charter OF the town. dated 17uS
and signed by Governor SaItonstalL
which was recently found amoag some
old papers in the garrett OF one of the
ancient houses at Durham
The city Of Edinburgh is in posses
sion Of 100000 or more which III can
not spend. 1t was bequeathed by
public spirited citizen named Usher ten
years ago for the building OF a city
hall but the town council mas never
been able to agree on a scheme.
One advantage gained from the
dredging Of the upper reaches Of the
river Rhine is the disappearance OF the
marshes which formerly covered vast
areas. The earth is becoming solid
and bids fair TO be arabic IN time.
Much has ALREADY been reclaimed
The heat developed by the firing of
heavy guns is remarkable During
some recent tests gun thar had been
fired seventy-fiye times melted solder
placed upon its chase. willie another
was hot enough to soften lead, indicat
ing temperature Of 600 degrees i.
A resident Of Wilton, VT. has an old
musket which is said to be relic Of
the days when the settlers devoted a
few hours to an Indian hunt as often
as occasion required. Tile barrel is
four feet nine inches long. and the
whole weapon stands over SIX feet.
Nj. p. McMahon Of Burlington, VT,
has purchased an old clock which has
been in the Flannery family for years
The works, which are Of wood. We're
made in England in 1752 The case
was built in Connecticut The clock
Keeps good time in spite of the fact
that 1t was last repaired in 1888.
Professor I1raeplin Of Heidelberg,
Germany, an authority On experiment
tai psychology, recently nude 1900 ex-
| periIuents with delicate instruments
and found that one third Of an ouncr
\ Of alcohol taken into the human s$s-
4 TEN is enough to appreeiabIy depress
sight, hearing. feeling and the various
mental operations
Ordinary washing does not remove
white lead from the person, and those
who have to handle This poison fire.
Quenty get it into their system in eat
ing, by cuts, etc, the result being lead
poisoning. A German scientist has re-
Gently invented a chemical soap that
when used changes the white lead K
sulphide Of lead, which is nonpolson
a Gus.
The new town Of Cuzzo, Ia southern
Indiana. begins its existence under !
peculiar provision The land on whicl
the town is being built belonged origl
nally to w II Nicholson He has no
disposed OF d single lot the deed fo
(which does not contain the provision
that Il ever liquor is sold directly or in
{ directly on the premises the land shal
revert at once to the grantor, his heir
SD 4, $50 rms