The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Agricultural capital represents one
third Of all the wealth of nations
Cape Colony has 10000 acres of vine
yards, containing 60,000,000 vines.
Spain is going in for a small coinage
of nickel A German firm is said to
have the contract for the coming.
The first man dressmaker was Rhom-
berg, a Bavarian, who lived in Paris in
1870. He adopted for his crest an
open pair Of scissors,
A chased silver gilt tankard of 1899
has been sold in London at auction for
the remarkable price of S11,500 1t is
seven and a half inches high and
weighs twenty-five ounces.
Walking mile uses up seventeen
( and half foot tons of energy, and if
you carry sixty pounds that distance
you use up twenty-five tons days
work for a man is about 300 foot tons
1t is said that during the twenty
three years tie Z! Cobre mines, = Gu
ba, We're operated more than S50,00O,-
900 worth Of copper was produced. The
works We're entirely destroyed during
the war of 1898,
A Judge in Lancaster Pa, rules that
when a newspaper is stolen from the
doorstep the subscriber is the aggriev-
ed person. The court says that from
the moment Of delivery by the carrier
the paper is the sc51crlber's property.
Vice Consul II. NJ Wolcott deems i
strange that the city of Santiago Cuba
with an estimated population of over
10000 and ships of the American navy
making frequent calls at the port, is
without an up to date American steam
| laundry.
In England most of the work of re-
setting jewels is put into the hands of
English jewelers., because the English
| jewel settlers method of having all the
metal work at the back of the stones
instead of around the sides, as In
France, is most popular.
Mining is one of the principal sources
Of wealth of the province of Santiago,
Cuba, owing to the abundance and ac-
feasibility Of tne minerals. Iron is tie
most abundant, but copper and manga
nese are found in sufficient quantities
for profitable exploitation.
All express companies operating in
Canada are now subject to the juris-
diction of the board of railway com
missloners for Canada. Under the rail-
way act no company shall carry any
goods by express until their rates have
been submitted to and approved of by
he board.
From Descriptive Catalogue of
london Tokens" published in 1855, one
earns that one time smoking was prac-
iced in the house of commons, for the
author mentions a seventeen century
order that mo member do presume to
smoke tobacco in the gallery or at the
liable of the house sitting as commit
-ees."
Paul Boyer, a waiter at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, New York fell in love
with the handsome Indian maiden out
side of a cigar store and, tucking her
affectionately under his arm, started
down the street, Unfortunately he let
her fall across the car track, and she
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was picked up minus her left arm and
box of Perfecto de Wood cigars.
1t is understood that it Is the inten-
lion of the Hungarian government to
Invite a species of worlds parliament
If journalists from England, America
md all continental countries to take
part in the festivities at Budapest m
September in celebration of the for
Itieth anniversary of the coronation of
Emperor Francis Joseph as king of
Hungary.
A $25,000,000 cooperative restaurant
and hotel supply company is being or
ganized at Montreal. 1t is proposed to
operate branches in the large cities OF
the United States and Canada. A mon
ster cold storage warehouse is to be
built In New York IL the scheme works
successfully in Montreal. 1t is claimed
the company will begin operation with
business amounting to several million
dollars.
Bert Trim, q blind resident of Woon-
socket X. L., is an expert whist player,
being a valued member Of local club
He uses a special pack of cards, on
which there are faint imprints suffi-
cient to tell him what they are, but
which are far too fine for the ordinary
touch. Trim, who has been blind since
childhood, is now thirty years old. He
plays the plano and cornet in excellent
style and is often heard In local enter
ailments.
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