The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Foreigners of various nationalities
are busy in Colombia exploring for
minerals.
a pet dog of John Case of Long Is
land bit off his owners nose while Case
was caressing the ANIMAL
William E. Robinson in his zeal to
catch rabbit chased it across a cerAe-
terry in st. Louis and was fined So
High tide the other day drove out
rats from the piers at Boston, and in
two hours business men and boys kill
ed thousands.
Italians to the number of 10000 emf
grated last year to South American
ports as against $4,000 who came to
the United States.
A sick lion in the Bronx IN. " Zoo
logical park became excited by noises
and roared until he had hemorrhage,
which caused his death.
There are parts of Spain where the
hat is unknown, except in pictures.
The men when they need a covering
tie up their heads, and the women use
flowers.
Twin sisters named Moore of Chica-
go are so much alike that DR.. Charles
A. Street, dentist, in love with one
of them, was forced to identify his
sweetheart by her teeth.
Fishermen at Calvi, Corsica, were
sure the other day that they had seen
sea serpent over sixty feet long They
were SO terrified that they begged the
government to send torpedo boat to
protect them.
A hog weighing 240 pounds, fed in
Brooklyn on beer and whisky by some
jokers, knocked over two policemen,
boarded a trolley car and caused
panic and was finally caught by a re-
serve force of twenty policemen.
About sixty-four years ago there
were twelve Joneses on Jones Hill, in
Enfield. N. H., and now none Of that
name is left there. There were thir-
teen Cloughs at North End and ten at
Enfield Center, none Of whom is left.
An index of prices just published in
Milan shows that with single excep-
ton during an unusual period about
twenty-five years ago. prices of food
and food products have never before
been so high in Italy as they are at
present.
A statue in Wells cathedral, England,
representing 1.-THE Fruit Stealer," is al
most an exact copy of the features of
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. The
statue is carved on capital in the
nave of the beautiful church and is
about COO years old
The judge at the Clerkenwell Lon-
dom county court said that disputes af-
fecting the internal parts of motor cars
were becoming so frequent that he
thought of taking course of technical
instruction at the Northampton insti-
tute to help him in deciding them.
In digging over the earth dredged
from the Kennebec river (Maine) chan
mel workmen found an anchor that re-
minded many of the days of Captain
Kidd The fiukes have spread of
nearly four feet, and the anchor was
roughly hand forged. 1t is covered
with rust
A negro woman named Verden went
to Alaska thirteen years ago to work
to keep her parents from starving. She
recently returned to Des Moines load
ed with jewelry and worth a million
dollars. She got start by keeping
hotel, where every man paid 500 a
month for board
Although the sovereignty of China
has been theoretically restored in Man
churia. the South Manchurian railway
refuses to carry Chinese mails unless
they are sent through the Japanese
postofiice and international rates paid
on what is considered to be Chinese
inland correspondence.
Students in the Carnegie technical
schools at Pittsburg are practicing sur
veying at night In Schenley park. The
object is to instruct In night work
those who are to become mining and
railroad engineers. Lanterns are used
for placing sights and small electric
lights for taking yernler readings.
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