The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-01-22
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Over hundred counties in Texas
have gone dry by local option.
Peary says if you want rabbits to
taste good you should live on dog meat
awhile.
Since last year the coal companies of
india have advanced prices nearly 100
per cent
Fifty years ago flour was $40 bar
rel pork $50 Il barrel and butter so
cents a pound in Minnesota.
The Russian navy has fifty-three adj
mirals, vice admirals and rear admi-
rails and only eight battleships
The ''Who's Who for 1907 is such
bulky volume that the London World
says the question now does not seem
so much who's who as who isn't.
Some scientists believe that North
America was in contact during prehis-
toric ages with Africa and with Eu-
rope, the former connection coming
first.
No live creatures except bees will be
carried by post between Great Britain
and Nicaragua, according to a parcels
post agreement just concluded between
the two countries.
There is in India a large element of
wealth which is wholly inactive The
boarded wealth in the form of orna-
ments, jewelry and buried treasure
has been estimated at many millions.
1t is largely held by princes, rajahs
and other mobiles.
1t has been stated that the average
earnings of the laborer in India is 2T
rupees or about SO year, but table
in the Indian directory of 1906 enables
one to figure out the average earning
for the cody laborer to be sc rupees, or
about $1s.G6 a year.
During the early fall, when the ne
groes of the south are shocking corn,
they build the shocks over several
large, ripe watermelons, then leave
them until Christmas. The shocks pro-
tect the melons from freezing and also
keep them cold enough to be fresh.
Japanese articles are stated by Rus
sian editor to fail to make much head
way in the Manchuria markets, being
for the most part articles of luxury,
such as silk textiles. cabinets and toilet
accessories. which are beyond the
means of the masses of the people.
Probably the smallest inhabited house
in the country is at Llandyssul, South
Wales Built by the owner, bachelor,
: who occupies it, it has frontage of
five and half feet, is six feet from
front to back, six feet from the ground
to caves and about four feet more to
the ridge.
Near one entrance of the Cathedral of
Seville hangs a patched and painted
crocodile, which once served as a
princely love token that failed Of its
mission. In 1860 it. was sent by the
sultan Of Egypt to a beautiful prin-
cess of Spain, who declined sutton
whose first present could scarcely be
said to speak of affection. *i4
The fact that America. through Its
missions. puts as much money into In
dia as England does and draws out
nothing, whereas England draws ont
$1OOOO0,O00 year. was cited by Mr.,
\. w. j. Bryan as evidence that the Unit
! ed States was the most altruistic ma
ton in the world, when this statement
was challenged by group OF Anglo
Indian officials in India.
i The rapid reconstruction Of = trestle
was recently carried on at Galveston,
Tex. Fire destroyed 400 feet OF the
long railroad trestle which extended
from the mainland to the city and
stopped traffic. The construction forces
and materials were Immediately start
ed to the work, and by midnight of the
same day the trestle was sufficiently
repaired to allow traffic to be resumed.
Some OF the most noted Partisan art
lists have contrived to transform Ed
mond RostanRs country home, Arraga,
In the south Of France, into fairy
land The walls of his magnificent
apartments, whose windows look out
over the crests of the Pyrenees, are
J covered with the very delightful tales
which Hans Christian Andersen and
he Grimm brothers have immortalized