The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Manchuria's coinage system is to be
revised, with the silver dollar as the
standard
American manufacturers of well
drilling machinery have a practical
monopoly Of the business throughout
the world.
1t has been decided that congress
Of the chambers of commerce Of the
British empire viii meet in Australia
during the year 1909
Nearly all medical men in the West
Indies advise the wearing Of thin
wooden and not cotton underwear.
Many persons wear cholera belts" of
flannel.
Occasional shipments are now being
made from Africa to the United States
of the mahogany nut the kernel Of
which is sweet and resembles the aim
ond in flavor.
Consul John e. Jones of Winnipeg
says that fully 30 per cent OF all the
great business enterprises of that Sec
ton Of Canada have American capt.
talists interested In them.
The annual output of beer In the
United States is between 100000
and 60000,O00 barrels. At its present
price, about Sc barrel, this would be
worth between $342,00O,000 and $780,
100000.
midas exports of lac exceed ST., 0O0,-
900 year. Lac is, resinous incrusta-
ton produced by a scale insect which
sucks and excretes the sap of tree,
From the crude article shellac is man
ufactured.
Fradel Osterwal, one Of the many
Russian refugees In Paris, committed
suicide by shooting himself with a re-
volver. In his room was found a card
on which he had scrubbed, please in
form my mother that / leave for
eternity today"
A novel will has been unearthed at
Binghamton, N. Y, dated Feb. B, ITO.
1t is long document and was made by
Jacob Blackwell, transferring to his
heirs the property known as Black
wells island. He also bequeathed a
farm where Long Island City is now
situated.
In the country at large about one
third of the single women between the
/ ages of fifteen and twenty-five are en-
gagged In occupations outside of their
homes and in the cities about 90 per
cent, so that very nearly half Of all
the women in the country are at work.
Between the ages of twenty-five and
tlthirty-fiye about one-fifth of the num-
Der are SO engaged.
There Is no nation In the world that
gives greater encouragement and OPP
portunity to its people toebecome skill
ed artisans than Germany. Municipal,
state and the. federal government all
contribute to the establishment and
support of technical and industrial
schools, and there is scarcely city or
town Of any Importance where one of
these splendid institutions is not found.
The eminent philologist, Professor
Skeat, is counted among the new con-
verts to Esperanto. He took his first
lesson at p. m. and that evening was
able to appear before an Esperanto so
ciety and translate into English sto-
|
Professor Skeat is an expert linguist
The average learner probably could
not hope to master Esperanto in so
summary a fashion.
Natives of India have held for CEN
| turtles that the waters of the river
Ganges are blessed and healing to those
who battle therein. A scientist says,
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the Ganges and the Jumna is hostile
to the growth Of the cholera microbe,
not only owing to the absence of food
materials, but also owing to the actual
presence of an antiseptic that has the
| power of destroying this microbe."
There are about 100000 people in the
District Of Columbia. Over 10000 of
/ them live outside of the old city Of
1 Washington (Which now has no legal
existence, being merged In the District
Of Columbia), in a large number of
small towns and villages scattered
over the hills and valleys Of the terri
tory. About one-third Of the popula-
ton is colored, the largest number Of
colored people gathered in any place
in the world.
Professor Felix Adler Of New York
will fill the Roosevelt chair for 1908 at
the Berlin university, and the German
scholar who comes to Columbia is
Max Verworn Of the University Of
Goettingen. For 190s-10 the American
professors selected to go abroad are
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of
the University Of California and Pro-
fessor William Morris Davis Of Har-
ward. DIR. verworn is one OF the most
distinguished Of living psychologists.
Taxicabs in London, as in New York,
are a marked success, and the hanson
is being crowded out, reports say. Al
though scarcely a year has passed
since these swift moving carriages ap.
peared, the capital already invested In
London taxicabs is $10,O00,000. There
are 1853 taxicabs on the streets, 1900
taxicabs on order and 1,700 licensed
+, drivers. There are eight London taxi
cab companies, the average days
earnings of a cab being $11.2O. The
average cost is $1,703.
Camille Flammarion, the astronomer,
declares that from actual figures re-
Gently obtained he has become certain
that the temperature of Europe has
been falling. France has been suffer
ing for long time from an excess of
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