The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In Hungary travelling IS as cheap as
three miles for 4 cent
There have been over 10000 church
bells cast in Troy, n. ~ since the FIRST
foundry was built there in 1895
During the last ten years rs many
people have lost theh lives through the
plague in India as have persisted in all
the wars since the time Of Napoleon.
Since July 81 Belgium his a law for
bidding tile manufacture Of sale Of alb
smith on penalty Of % TO SEQ francs or
imprisonment Of eight days 70 six
months
Until a few years ago The consump-
ton Of meat was only about forty-siy
pounds per head annually IN Italy But
/ it's steadily increasing, notwithstand
ing the rising cost of>meat
A commission has been appointed to
investigate the plague OF nun butter
flies with wh+rh Bohemia is threat
eued These insects have come TO The
forests in thousands and seem likely to
destroy them
The first two converts from Moham-
mechanism have been baptized al "a
ria, in Hausaland, west Africa by
Bishop ZugweH, and, being men Of i'm
/ portanee, they had 10 sacrifice much
in accepting the Christian faith.
More salt was produced in the Unit.
ed States in 1906 than in any previous
year, and the value of the product was
greater in any year since 1890. The
/ quantity was 3.94i,133 short tons, or
/ 2S. 1880 barrels, valued at $685.
$50, gain of 30S,S76 tons. or 2,206,5SS
barrels, over the production in 1905.
Quite q, sensation has been caused
among Biblical students by the discov-
cry of Brugsch Bey, the great Egyp-
tologlst, of a monumental inscription
telling how the Nile failed TO rise for
seven years i'm succession about 1,70o
years before the Christian era, and a
long and terrible famine was the re-
suit.
Many physicians in British India
have curious habit when called upon
to treat persons bitten by dogs sus-
pected of rabies of sending the brains
of the dogs to the Institute of Kasauli
where victims of hydrophobia are
cared for, before they send the pa
tients. The latter sometimes arrive too
late.
Every little while strange personal
prejudices and whims crop out In
deeds that are filed for record. One
deed that was examined recently at
the registry of deeds at Northampton.
Mass specifies that the property shall
never he sold or leased to any person
or persons of foreign birth or OF Irish
descent"
The theory that the germs of tuber-
culoss get into the human system
chiefly through the medium of cows
milk is discounted in Japan, where
such milk Is practically unknown
while the mortality from tuberculosis
is nevertheless very great, being In
Tokyo about one-fifth of the total num-
Der of deaths.
Policeman Jarboe of Kansas City
arrested man who admitted that he
had broken into a house. "My wife
and | are separated" said the man.
"and | broke in to kiss my boy and
steal lock OF his hair" holding up a
yellow curl "You are going back to
that wife," said the officer, and the
family was reunited
| The South Carolina state arsenal at
Beaufort dates back to 1896. In 1852
the present building was erected, and
now it is to be repaired in accordance
with an act passed at the last legisla-
tive session. 1t is tenanted by the
Beaufort volunteer artillery company,
with one exception the Oldest military
Organization in the country.