The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

IL heuSSld uerS are elSuLy-SlX gen
eral holidays.
Birthdays were celebrated as far back
as the time Of Pharaoh.
Cape Colony has now 10000 acres Of
vineyard, with 60,0OO,Oo0 vines.
Prince Bismarck of Germany would
never sit down to dinner with thir-
teen at the table
In Australia engagement rings are
lent out by certain jewelers. as part Of
their ordinary trade.
No one in Saxony is allowed to shoe
horses unless he has passed public
examination and is duly qualified.
In Holland it is illegal for cyclist
to use horn, as this instrument is
reserved for the exclusive use Of mo-
torists.
Moji Japan, an obscure place gen
GRAFTON ago, is now large city, with
foreign commerce worth $45,000,000I
year. It exports sugar, COAL timber,
cotton yarn and cement and imports
rice, wheat, sugar, raw cotton, oil cake,
machinery and kerosene.
The Alaska Yukon exposition, to be
held in Seattle in 1909, is to be located
on University heights. The buildings.
and their collections of Alaskan prod
ucts are to become the permanent prop
erty of the university after the exposi-
tion closes.
Mrs. Katharine s. Hueppe complain
ed to Magistrate Corrigan in New York
!. II; Of
himself by his odd way of doing busi-
ness Don't interfere" said the mag
istrate IF he wants to make fool
of himself let him do So"
Professor A. L. Kroeber of the Uni
versity of California is an expert on
Indian languages, and he says that in
stead of being mere jargon, as Is popu
larly supposed, they are well defined
languages He declares that California
has more distinct Indian languages to
the square mile than any other state.
Miss Ellen Terry was born in Coven-
try fifty-nine years ago. Two houses
in that English city claim to be her
birthplace. One house has the sign,
''This is the birthplace of Miss Ellen
Terry" the other, just opposite, bears
the legend, "This is the original birth
place of Miss Ellen Terry"
The biggest cannon ball ever made
weighed 1900 pounds and was manu-
factured at the Krupp works, Essen.
for the government of the car The
gun from which this projectile was
fired Is also the largest In the world
and is placed in the Notifications Of
Cronstadt This gun has range of
twelve miles, and it has been estimated
that each shot costs $1,500.
Professor Francis Brown. of Union
Theological seminary has become a
member of the general committee OF
the Palestine Exploration fund, which
now has ten American members. DR..
Brown will be in charge the coming
year of the American school at Jeru-
salem, and this, it is thought, will pro
mote the cooperation of England and
America in the work of verifying and
illustrating the Bible.
Only a few years ago America i'm
ported more portland cement than it
manufactured. Now the tables have
been turned, and this country has tax
en- the front rank both in the produc
ton of cement and it's use in construc-
ton. 1t has been estimated that the
quantity of portland cement used in
this country in 1905 would be suffi-
cient to lay a sidewalk sixteen feet
broad all around the earth at the equa-
tor.
An ingenious device has been in
vented by a street railway employee
and is being tested. Whenever pas
senger stands on the lower step buz-
ger sounds In the motorman's COM
partment and warns him not to start
the car until the signal ceases, which
it does the instant the passenger
reaches the platform or the ground.
Contact points are placed in the step
which are brought together by the
weight of the passenger.
G. Parker Woodbury., New York
banker, will build for himself glass
house. He has engaged an architect
to draw plans for the novel dwelling,
which is to be erected at Beechhurst,
N. Y. Bricks of compressed opalescent
glass will form the walls. The interior
and partitions are to be of the same
material worked into thin slabs, and
the roof is to be of glass. In fact,
wherever it is possible glass is to be
employed, as Mr.. Woodbury. is a great
believer in sunlight.
King Edward carries gold key that
has no duplicate. 1t opens his private
writing desk. Every time the king
quits his personal apartment an as
sistant secretary destroys the contents
of the wastebasket, the blotting pads
and even the wrappers of the newspa-
pers that come from every capital of
Europe. His majesty takes no risks of
spying eyes, and it is an unwritten law
that private secretaries shall not in
dulge in gossipy diaries, after the man
ner of Samuel Pepys.
The historic house of Benjamin
Franklin in Paris is for sale. This
house which Benjamin Franklin built
for himself is situated at Rue
de Penthievre in the Faubourg ST.
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