The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-02-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The Baldwin Locomotive works Of
Philadelphia turned out $3.50 locomo-
lives In the year 1905.
A Russian alienist reports that in
2,42I cases Of solitary Imprisonment he
found 1856 insane persons
| Steam OK" and steam camel are
/ the names given to automobiles by the
natives Of German Southwest Africa.
Joseph Nix, the Wesleyan reformer,
took 3,s45 signatures to the pledge In
nine days gospel temperance meeting
at Bradford, England.
Lyons, in the valley of the Rhone, In
France, is the largest silk manufactur
Ing center In the world, producing an
nuaIly about $SO,OOO,O0 worth.
In the course of lawsuit in London
the other day a music publisher stated
that even the greatest composers en-
ploy prima donnas to sing their new
songs all over the country. Otherwise
the songs would never get known at
all.
In the church of Tasow, in the gov
eminent of Kursk, Russia, the altar
piece Is a painting Of THE Last Judg-
ment," the foreground being vivid
representation of hades. Conspicuous
among the lost ones In torment Is Toll
stoi
The phrase which has become trite
by its frequent use, 1.-THE pen is
mightier than the sword, which Lord
Lytton put in the mouth OF Cardinal
Richelieu, was written when the steel
pen had barely begun to supplant the
quill
The worlds consumption Of tea out
side Of the countries In which it Is
grown may be taken to be about 500,-
100000 pounds per annum, valued at
$S5,O0O,000 About 80 per cent Of the
tea exported from Asia Is consumed by
English speaking people.
The first Jewish services ever held
In British East Africa were held on
Yom Kippur at the Masonic hall Of
Nairobi and resulted In the formation
OF a congregation There are about
thirty Jews in the protectorate, most
Of them engaged In dairy farming.
A company has been formed to fur
nish a new soap which makes laundry
work with salt water possible. Now
ocean steamships will not have to carry
from $4,000 to 100000 pieces of bed
and table linen to last during the entire
voyage. Washing can be done aboard
j. X. whitney of Concord, N. H., has
copy of the Boston Notion published
In 1871. The paper Is remarkable
principally for its enormous size. The
page measures 81 by Al inches. 1t Is
believed to have been printed on one
Of the mammoth hand presses OF the
old days.
A commission Of Belgian artiIIerists.
appointed to report on the best quick
airing field guns, reports that the Krupp
stands campaign usage best, while the
st. ChamouId IL superior in fre. So
now 1t Is for the war minister to make
up bis mind as between the German
and French weapons, ias
Carrying out experiments In psychic
phenomena some scientists at Ruv0
produced some striking results. A four
teen-year-old boy was put In q trance
and In this condition answered Ques-
lions put to him In Greek, Latin, Ara
bic, French. English, German, and con-
versed in those languages, his voice be-
ing that OF a man.
An eIeven-year-old boy named Harri-
son has never missed an attendance at
wayerbridge school, near Wigtcn, Cum
berland, England, for seven years. Liv-
ing a mile from the school, the sturdy
lad has daily trarnped there and back
In all sorts OF weather ever since he
was four years old and has by this
means traversed over 1000 miles.
Police Justice Pollard Of st. Louis
has for several years followed q rule
with cases OF drunkenness which has
for It's sole idea reformation instead OF
punishment When men are brought
before him for the first time no re-
Quires them to sign total abstinence
pledge for a year or more and stays
the sentence As long as the pledge is
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