The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Switzerland has hotel keepers
school, where hotel Keeping is taught
in all it's branches.
Australia has arranged for the re-
patriation of thousand discouraged
Australians now in South Africa
A Baltimore scientist now claims to
have discovered that natural gas was
used on the affairs Of many primitive
temples.
A Tokyo newspaper remarks ''that
one days pay for an American work
man in San Francisco represents fair
monthly stipend for Japanese"
OF the 95,O00,0O0 yards which still
remain to be excavated before the
Panama canal is finished 43,50O,OOO are
concentrated in the famous Culebra
cutting.
Mrs. j. B. Hines of Washington
swept her dining room and threw the
dust into the kitchen stove. The dust
exploded with loud report and blew
the stove to fragments.
What is regarded as the worlds
shearing record has been established
by nine men on Hawkes. bay station,
Australia. They succeeded in shearing
1894 sheep in nine hours.
The two new Cunarders are the first
vessels to exceed the Great Eastern in
beam. They are lightweight feet wide
as against the eighty-three feet of the
leviathan of fifty years ago.
Mrs. James E. Mansfield of Newark,
N. j., while on her deathbed wrote
this, which has been admitted to pro-
bate: "This is my last will. Property,
both personal and real, to my hus-
band"
In the thirty-five years that William
]. Wheeler of South Paris, Me-, has
been an insurance agent he has made
settlements for damage done by light
ming in eleven out of the twelve
months of the year.
The fact that SLIT square foot has
recently been paid for land in New
York city recalls the other alleged fact
that the entire Manhattan island was
originally bought from the Indians for
S24 worth or geWgaWS.
A small table that had been many
years in an almshouse at Bristol, Eng
land, was sent recently with other dis
carded furniture to an auction room,
where it was recognized as Chippen-
dale and sold for $367.50.
A pack of English foxhounds- were
recently in full cry after fox and the
field was having fine run when all at
once two sheep dogs jumped out, killed
reynard and ended the days sport
there and then to the general disgust
Richard j. O'Mulrenin, M. A., Of
Dublin by his will left the violin which
was played on Vinegar hill the night
before the battle in 1898 to the mu-
scum In Kildare street, Dublin. His
library was bequeathed to the Gaelic
league.
Edward B. Condor, who went to
Tanana, Alaska, without dollar three
years ago. now owns mining properties
worth a million. At recent dinner
given in his honor he burst into tears
when presented with a gold watch, for
he declared it was the only gift he had
ever received.
Eben Appleton of New York city
has In his possession the "star span
gled banner" which few over Fort
McHenry and which inspired Francis
Scott Key to the composition of his
national ode. 1t is his intention at his
death to leave the flag to either one OF
the national museums at Washington
or the Massachusetts Historical mu-
scum at Boston.
The men who mechanically handle
large sums of money seem to lose the
sense of relative value A customer
asked the paying teller of a New York
downtown branch bank, How much
money do you usually have on hand
when the bank openss" Not very
much" was the answer; mot ovel
$500, 600 or $4OO,OOO We keep the mos
Of it in the main bank uptown"
There is now canal connection be
tween Milan and Pavia, about twenty
Ave miles long, through an ancien
channel, which has been In use TO
more than 600 years. Thousands O.
canal boats from the Pc go to Milan
every year, pass through the city''
canal system, which is founded on th'
old defensive meats Of the middle ages
and proceed northward to the italian
lakes, or vice versa.
Probably the oldest scrapbook il
New England is that of William +
! Fernald Of Old Orchard, Me. 1t is
big book, devoted exclusively to tn
preservation Of news lore pertaining t
appendicitis Every person, great Q
small. who has had an attack Of ap
pendicitis and a newspaper motto
within range Of Mr.. Fernald acquire
space Of record in his book. Al
phases OF the case are noted.
\, A wonderful family Of BARRIERS
that Of benjamin M. Youells, VIII
lives at Easton, Pa, and who, althoug
eighty seven years old, still Yields :
razor or his nine children, all Q
whom are living, the three sons ar
BARRIERS, and two of his six daughter
can handle razor as skillfully as
man. The other four daughters ar
married to BARRIERS. Nine Of his seve
grandchildren are BARRIERS, and b
seven great-grandchildren say the