The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-11-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES

For speaking French to him a land
lord Of Dusseldorf hotel recently
charged guest extra in his bill
Owing to the success of South AT
rIcan ostrich farms the ostrich feather
trade in the Sudan seems doomed.
Tigers appear to be on the increase
in Burma, owing to the restrictions on
the possession and carrying Of arms.
English capitalists are going to work
the ancient gold mines in the Alps to
which the Romans used to condemn
early Christians.
Probably the Oldest Of the many old
clocks in Maine is one owned by DR..
Coutourier of Westbrook 1t was made
in London in 1865 and has been. In the
Doctors family for several generations.
Britain's new record breaking battle
ship. the Dreadnought, Is the ninth
vessel of that name belonging to the
British navy. The first was launched
about 1872 and was in use as late as
1859.
Denatured alcohol is used in a hat
factory at Manchester, England. The
manufacturers use the spirit, recover
It and redistill the product III their own
factory and use it over again until 1t
is used up.
For a small silver cup of the com
monwealth period, weighing three
ounces, $3.50 an ounce was paid in Lon
don recently, while Charles IL. tum-
bier, with the York hallmark Of 1852.
brought 500 an ounce
Very numerous are the patents that
have been issued to women on novel
ties in furniture. One piece, which
appears to be a school desk, also con-
tains an organ. With simple manipu-
lation an innocent looking sofa Is CON
verted into a bathtub.
After the Torrey- Alexander mission
closed In Philadelphia a number OF
Christian men and women banded
themselves together to hold seven serv-
Ices week. They 60 about In a gos-
pei wagon, never take up a collection,
sing the Torrey- Alexander hymns and
are all personal workers.
Children in Italy are not allowed to
rub their eyes. When an infant bursts
into tears no effort Is made to repress
the emotion, but the youngster is al
lowed to have Its cry out 1t is assert
ed that this beauties the eyes and
makes them clear, while rubbing the
eyes Injuries them In many ways.
A Paris jeweler has bought large
number Of stones which have been
found in mines on the cars private
property. Every year stones from these
mines are offered for sale by tender, in
the same way as the forest lands and
mines belonging to the car are occa-
sionaIly sold by the imperial cabinet.
The fact that the Ohio building at
the Jamestown exposition will be a re-
production Of Adena, the home of
Thomas Worthington, governor of Ohio
from 1914 to 1918, lends new interest
to a fine old house. When 1t was built
It was the most stately and luxurious
mansion In wide region northwest Of
Ohio
Women have patented cigarette ma
chimes, but it would seem that the fem
mime fancy went too far when 1t un-
dertook to evolve an Improvement In
cigars by soaking them in an extract
Of pine needles Sin order to take away
that nasty TASTE Yet such an ''im-
provement,' 50 called, may be found
In the patent office.
The Canadian commercial agent in
Mexico reports that, although modern
dairying has not reached any high de-
gree Of development in that country,
there Is an ever increasing number OF
dairies being established, and as the
demand for creamery butter and cheese
increases old methods are being super
seeded in favor of modern machinery,
Conway, England is sorely troubled
over the fact that the gravestone IN
the churchyard which Is associated
with Wordsworths poem, 1--WE Are
Seven" has been seriously damaged
by the enthusiastic tripper One bit
after another has been clipped off, and
IL the destruction Is allowed to con
tinue nothing of the stone win be left.
The cure of Austruwell, small place
near Antwerp. In turning out a lumber
room came upon large canvas about
five feet by four feet Having passed
sponge over the picture the cure,
struck by Its beauty, transferred 1t to
his sitting room, where 1t was soon
declared by experts to be genuine
work by RubeDs, The subject is the
Assumption of the Virgin
The late Lord Graulley married the
daughter OF an island fisherman. His
widow, a beautiful, but totally Hitter
ate woman, although she had become
by her marriage an English peeress Of
the realm, survived her husband fol
nearly twenty years without ever leay-
Ing the island of Capri, retaining hel
peasant dress and habits and living
happily and contented among her kins-
| folk
| The Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey o.
Rochester is condemned to suspension
from the Protestant Episcopal ehurcI
as a result of the decision Of the cour
Of review sustaining the decision Of
the lower court that DIR. Crapses
should be suspended for alleged heret
ical teachings