The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-03-13
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A business In Australia IS that Of
lending engagement rings and we'd
ding trousseaux.
The entire collection Of the diplomat
ic letters Of Pope Plus VII. has been
stolen from the achives of the Vatican.
For the saving OF would be suicides
the municipality of Rome has decided
to employ police motor boats on the
Tiber.
Europe has population of about
305,OO0,O00, or about one-fourth of that
Of the whole world. Belgium has the
densest population
A French explorer has found in the
interior Of Borueo a singular and grew
some wedding gift. 1t was the skull Of
a Negrito-Papon carved by the Dyaks.
1t is said that the town Of Paita, in
Peru, has not had a drop Of rain in
thirteen years. The common joke about
Paita is that people never die there.
They simply get tired out.
Luccheni, the assassin of Empress
Elizabeth Of Austria, according to the
Paris Matin, is giving his jaiIers
great deal of trouble. He is either in
sane or pretends to be and has made
several attempts to kill his guards.
London barber shops now provide ac-
commodations for and welcome the
many men who prefer to shave them
selves, among other things keeping
their shaving utensils in order. They
also teach the inexperienced who want
to learn how to shave themselves prop
erly.
London is undoubtedly leading the
world in the matter of women's clubs,
Twenty-one years ago there was not
single Institution of the kind; now
there are thirty, with total member
ship of over 10000 There are also
several mixed clubs, of which the wo-
men members number about 1000
In China an odd way of taking the
census prevails. The cities and towns
are arranged In groups Of ten houses.
The oldest man In each group visits the
nine houses which, with his own, make
up the group, counts the members of
every family and sends his report to
the imperial census bureau
A jury in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, Eng
land, after being out some time on a
case of alleged false pretenses returned
to court and said: 1--WE can't bring
him in guilty and don't like to say he
is not guilty. They were sent back
and in fifteen minutes reached this YER
dict: I'VE find him guilty, but not
with intent" The prisoner was dis.
charged
When J. Henniker Heaton, NJ. p, de.
clined to accept the honor or knight
hood recently, on the retirement Of the
Balfour cabinet, he declined for the
third time. The title was offered him
in recognition Of his services in carry
ing the imperial penny postage scheme
in 1898 and introducing telegraphic
money orders in the United Kingdom
and the parcel post in France.
A Lubec (Me) genius has made a
violin from material taken from the
cabin floors of the old frigate Mime
sofa, which was towed to Eastport and
burned in 1902. The instrument is said
to have very fair tone, and the work
manship is good, considering that it
was all accomplished with the aid Of a
pocketIxnife and another with curved
blade.
The school department of Gardiner,
Me-, has got a conscience fund. SUI
perintendent Turner received a letter
inclosing $1.25 from a woman who
says that years ago as little girl she
made collection in the schools Of the
city for some purpose Her temptation
came in the form of a yearning for
candy, and she embezzled the above
amount from the funds in her hands.
Through the efforts of Admiral Nc
Gala bronze tablet has been placed
on the house occupied by the chaplain
at Mare Island navy yard announcing
that the house was occupied by Farra-
gut, 1854-5S while he was the first
commandant of the yard
A newspaper man who entered tel
egraph station in small Maine ham
let the other day presented dispatch
to be sent to his paper He was some
what taken aback when asked by the
operator if he wished it to 60 that
day. When he was able he explained
sarcastically that he wanted it to go by
freight along next week. That's why
came to a telegraph Office" he said.
Mrs. Ellen II. Weston of Springfield,
VT, has a dance card which was used
in 1914. The back Is painted to resem-
BILE the ten of diamonds. The face
reads as follows: Social Ball The
company of Miss Betsey Parker Is re
spectfully solicited at the assembling
room Of ], Parker of Rockingham on
the 30th Of December next at 2 O'Clock
p. m. J. Boynton, H. Albee, ]. Walker
J. Parker, managers. Dec. 18th, 1914. ?
The father of Campbell Zimmerman
the new prime minister of England
laid the foundation of his fortune in
Glasgow by abolishing in his place OF
business the system then known as
'prigging." ITO prig' was to bargain
and beat down the price of goods. Mr.
Campbell started marking all his goods
in plain figures, from which his sales
men were allowed to make no reduc'
ton. His success was immediate and
great, He rose to be lord provost OF
Glasgow and was knighted by Victoria
The German admiralty has resolved
upon furnishing ships of war with
means for recognizing each others
identity at distances too great for read