The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12

mind these are marble busts of former
chief justices.
Precisely at noon each week day ex-
cept Saturday when the court is in
session the members of the court the
chief justice Mt their head. with their
black silk robes about them, march sin
| gle file in solemn procession from the
consultation room across the corridor.
through the lobby of the court, to their
places on the bench. The crier calls
out the usual summons to attention
and concludes with God save the
United States and this honorable
body" From that moment the utmost
formality prevails, but never a sign OF
pomp or splendor about the august
body so eulogized by Gladstone and
other European pUblicists.
Eminent Jurists.
Though jurists who reach the alti-
tude of the United States supreme
court are all conceded to be mental
giants. there is great contrast in their
physicaIN size. Some. like Justices
Peckham and McKenna, are below the
average stature of man, while their
colleagues. justices White and IIar-
Ian. are as big physically as they are
mentally. Judging by little acts OF
everyday life, the heart of each meas-
ures well up to the popular estimate
Of his brain, and there is plenty of
human nature even under the judicial
robe. The yearly salary of these men.
Is only $12,500-less than many law
yers make on single case.
The wealth of the United States to-
day is 000,00O,000 or more than
that of its two nearest competitors,
Great Britain and France combined.
Every successive sunrise sees $1O000.-
coo added to the market value of the
tangible property Of the United States
Today there are fewer saloons in
the thirteen southern states than i'll
Greater New York and only few
more than in the city of Chicago In
New York there are 10000 places
where liquor is sold, in Chicago 2S,-
600 and in the entire south only 90
600.
A spire that was unique in church
architecture was recently torn down
in Providence, r. L., it being that of
the Jefferson Street Baptist church.
which was entirely of brick, even to
the apex each brick being especially
fashioned for the place which it occu-
pied
A gravestone in the ancient church,
yard Of Perranzabuloe, Englhad. gives
particulars of Philip and Grace Mitch
ell of that parish. who died. one in
1862, the other four years later Each
was hundred years of age and they
lived together in wedlock for more
than seventy years"
The metric system has been intro
duced in Denmark by a law of March.
1907 The law provides that the old
weights and measures may be used for
a period of five years in conjunction
with the new. However. all govern
ment and local authorities may use
the old system for only two years to
come.
Munich is to have one of the most
beautiful graveyards in Germany The
city has purchased about 300 acres of
forest land about five miles
from it's borders. which will be used
as cemetery. 1t win be the first for
est graveyard in Germany. and it is to
be so used that its idyllic character
will be preserved.
The fact that a man today can sit
down i'll a restaurant overlooking the
embankment or at Il table I'M
der the treSs at the edge of the Thier-
garten and dine on fresh salmon
brought from the waters of California.
Oregon and Alaska shows graphically
how Industrial efficiency has given ro-
nance to modern trade
There are twenty seven cities and
towns named Troy in the United
States, nineteen named Athens, seven
teen Uticas, sixteen Alexandrias, ff-
teen Romes and twelve Carriages not
to speak of seven Atticas and seven
Syracuses. Only two states, Indiana
and New York, contain towns bearing
all eight of the names. Ohio and Mis-
souri, contain seven each.
Covering long abandoned we'll in
Bosworth street, Boston, was an old
which workmen unearthed
while excavating for water pipe. 1t
bears the following inscriptions 'Wil-
liam Trow, son of William and Eliza
beth Trow Decd Aug. 81, 1924,
Aged l Year and 4 Mo-" The stone
has border of acanthus leaves and
at the top the traditional cherub's
head fanked by wings, all neatly
carved,