The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-01-02
FACTS in FEW LINES

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More than 40oOo00o calendars are
given away in this country every Jan
uary.
A cousin of Lord Curzon, late vice
roy Of India, is a truck driver in New
York
The railway scrap heap Of the coun-
try last year reached the value Of ST.,
250,00O
There is one firm in London which
has not made a single bad debt in the
whole course of its fifty years exist
ence
For saying that the kaiser had an
''ugly face" Matthias Rohrmann of
Phalsbourg, Lorraine, has been
sent to prison for two months
In Switzerland every male between
the ages Of twenty and sixty-five is
obliged to vote unless he be pauper,
a criminal or bankrupt These have
not the right of voting
The authorities Of the Rand, South
Africa, are having trouble with an or
ganization called the RED Door"
among the Chinese coolies. Its object is
to remedy grievances by force.
A landmark of Paris dating from the
city's most ancient days is to disap-
pear. This is the street Du Petit-Pont.
which commentaries the struggles of
the city against the Norsemen.
General Cronje passed short time
in London recently ON his way to South
Africa America" he said, yes, very
fine, very big, very quick. But Eng
land-London- unspeakable."
Now it is said that pumpkins cannot
be raised in Aroostook county, Me,
because the soil is so rich there the
vines grow SO fast that they wear the
pumpkins all out dragging over the
| ground
A British army order advises that
| where possible mules should be used
| to draw machine guns. when, howey-
er, a mule is hot, available any intelli-
l gent noncommissioned officer will do
instead"
Formed from the trunk of an oak
tree, canoe seven feet six inches
long, bearing distinct marks of the
stone ak which followed 1t out, was
| recently unearthed at Acharacle, Ar
gyllshire, England.
The sultan of Morocco owes his well
organized army of 10000 men, to which
| in wartime $4,000 irregulars could be
| added, entirely to the Scotchman, Kaid
Sir Harry Maclean, who draws sal
airy of $4,000 year.
|, A stone resembling moccasin with
/ foot in it, with the toe marks show
ing. was recently dug up at the farm
of Fred D. Clark in Milford, Conn.
| Some believe that the stone is the pet
rified foot of an Indian.
On the occasion of the comforting of
degrees at Dublin university, Oct 81.
number of students stormed the or
gan gallery and prevented the playing
Of "God Save the King" They sang
| instead "God Save Ireland"
The police of Andover, Hampshire,
! England, have been so active in arrest
ing motorists that the latter have boy
| cotted the town, to its loss in a very
heavy sum during the year. The mo-
torists even stopped their subscrip-
tons to local charities.
Three railroad signalmen, whose
prompt action in an emergency recent
~ prevented great loss of life on an
| English road, are to receive the Albert
medal, priced decoration which is
given for "acts Of heroism performed
BY civilians on land or sea."
In an official return issued recently ii
| Ii shown that the total deposits at the
pOstoffice and trustee savings banks of
Ireland have grown in the last ten
/ years from $36,S55,00 to SOS, 4S0,00O,
while the number Of depositors has
risen from 32S,622 to 5lS,576
Honolulu has on exhibition a speci-
men OF the iIiili, or "stone that breeds,
from Kau island The natives say that
If the stone is placed in i glass jar and
water poured oyer it and the jar be
Tkcorked for Il couple Of days the stone
will reproduce itself in the form Of
four or five smaller stones.
Rubusana, a full blodded Kaffir, a
SdNdkE utilli HIS .NlShlCtht1 JCdtt -
today a poet, a pastor and a patriot, a
scholar who has mastered English
4 Greek, Latin and Hebrew and is en-.
gagged in London in completing the
first authentic translation of the Chris
tian Bible into his native tongue
On eight acres Of land ]. f. Daniels
OF Bristol. VT, raised 250 bushels Of
onions, 1900 punches Of small onions
1900 cabbages, 900 canlifowers, 1Ot
bushels Of cucumbers, 400 bushels Of
| turnlps. 100 bushels of table beets, 15t
bushels Of green peas, 200 bushels o.
potatoes and three acres Of sweet corn
The modern steam turbine was II
some respects anticipated by an inven
ton Of an Italian architect named
Branca. who lived in the seventeenth
| century. In farnore distant tines tht
engine devised by Hero was at least !
Il hint Of the turbine which is now max
ing Roadway against the familiar re
] ciprocating steam engine.
Al GUARANTEES CURE FOR PILES
Itching Blind BleedinQ ProtrudinQ Piles