The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Drazv your money IN cash, Beginning
at end Of first year.

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The Frenehman eats twice as much
bread as the Britisher.
About 100000 people are on the
sea, either as passengers or seamen,
heyery day in the year.
The population of Egypt on July 1,
1904, was 112.447 foreigners and TO-
3S6,423 natives. besides about 100000
nomadic Bedouins.
The quality of the tobacco raised in
Greece varies greatly. Some of it sells
as low as cents and some as high as
! "a cents per pound.
| The best customer of the United
States in the purchase of clover seed is
the United Kingdom, which takes
about one-third of the total exports.
The Japanese Imperial library at To
kyo has ON its shelves something like
1000 written and printed mathematical
works, extending as far back as 1895.
Water from an artesian well at Os-
years has now been discovered to pos
sess medicinal qualities similar to the
waters of Vichy
One of the fashionable restaurants
of London has introduced French serio-
comic singing for the entertainment Of
its patrons during the supper hour
after the theater.
In the navigation season of 1905 the
three locks at the Sault Ste. Marie
passed an average of eighty seven YES
sells day, This record has never been
approached BY any other ship canal in
the world.
Deputy. Marshal Frank H. Chapman
of Rutland, VT, is the owner of the
speech which was prepared by Samuel
Godfrey to be delivered by him from
the scaffoId at the time of his execu-
ton in 1918.
The first lattice bridge ever erected
in England is at London and is likely
to be taken down soon. 1t was taken
to England from America for exhibit
ton at the international exhibition in
London in 1851
In the Friends burial ground in Sa-
lem, N j., there stands the largest oak
tree in the state and possibly the lar
gest in the United States. 1t is now
used as the trademark of the New
Jersey Forestry association.
The worlds yearly use of postcards
is enormous Germany uses. 1,161, 0O0,-
600, the United States 770,500,000,
Great Britain 613,000,O00 As to let
tiers, however, the United States is far
ahead Of all other countries.
1t is said that the father of NJ. Fal-
Heres, the new president of France,
was man of such immense strength
that he used to pick up eask of wine,
drink heartily from the bunghole and
then ask, ITO whom shall / pass the
cup?'
Northern California has lost its prin-
cipal antique. The oldest house in
that part of the state, built by Mayor
T. B. Reading in the remote period of
1874 and known therefore as ''histor-
ical structure has been destroyed by
wind and food.
Near the town of africa, on the coast
of northern Chile, there are still to be
seen the huge boilers of an American
man-of-war, the Wateree. This vessel
was swept two miles inland on the
crest of the tidal wave accompanying
the great earthquake of 1868 and
stranded there.
Matrimonial tickets are supplied by
the Canadian Pacific railway to those
settlers in the Northwest Territories
who wish to make journey in order
to get married, and ON presenting the
return coupon and marriage certifi-
cate man is entitled to free transpor-
tation for his bride.
Just 142 captains Of full rugged ships
have been born In Searsport, Me-, or
have lived in that town while la com
mand of their vessels. The largest ship
In the list was the May Flint. which
had a gross tonnage Of 1888 tons. The
smallest was the Vistula, of 400 tons.
Searsport's banner year in shipping
was 1885.
A deed executed Nov. rs, 1871, has
just been recorded at the registry at
Fall River. The instrument starts off,
''In the commonwealth Of Massachu-
sets Bay" Charles Mason, the grant
or makes over seventeen and a half
acres of land in Swansea for I've love
and good will for We son, Charles Ma
son, Jr., yeoman."
At one time the London ZOO had d
standing offer Of $1,000 for a good
adult male giraffe. Not only are the
animals scarce in Africa, but the work
of transporting them over sea is the
despair OF every wild beast importer.
And even when after Infinite solicitude
and care they are safely landed In New
York. Hamburg or London they are
apt to die like flowers.
There is now underground telegraph
4 fc communication between London and
Scotland. Germany's underground sys1
tenn dates from 1870. France followed
suit IN 1870 as the result Of a great
storm that isolated Paris in 1915. uf
to date her system has cost $S6,000,oO0
| but is believed to have more than paie
for itself Lines constructed ia lSSt
ara still Ia excellent condition.