The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
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mile OF submarine caDle.
Navigation in the Suez canal is often
Interrupted by sand storms.
An Indian stream, the river Kistnah,
600 feet wide, has the longest span Of
telegraph wire in the world
In st. Petersburg is the largest
bronze statue in existence, that of Pc
ter the Great, which weighs 1000 tons.
Outside of Europe the largest six
cities in the world are New York, Chi
rago, Philadelphia, Calcutta, Pekin
and Shanghai.
An electric railroad is being built up
the Zugspitze, the highest peak Of the
Bavarian Alps A hotel is to be built
on the 1000 foot level.
Furniture is as yet luxury in Bra
I'll, Consul General Anderson says.
Outside the cities the tables, etc., in
use are homemade and very primitive.
Eugene e. Stafford of Canterbury,
Conn, has a COW with peculiar tastes.
On recent Sunday the animal made
way with part of her masters coat and
later ate Safford's hat with evident
relish.
No wonder that so many shops in
New York city sell shoes and that so
many shops sell nothing but shoes, for
it is estimated that the pedestrians of
the city wear out 28S00 pairs of shoes
each day.
The nut trees of the world could, it is
calculated, provide food all the year
round for the population of the globe.
Brazil nuts grow In such profusion that
thousands of tons Of them are wasted
every year.
The cuttings in Uncle Sans wood lot
during 1907 were the most severe on
record. They were per cent more
i than the cut reported in 1906 and
amounted to considerably over 10000
100000 board feet
A woman of Wahring, Bohemia, and
her two daughters attempted to COM
NIT suicide because the local newspa-
per had limited not only that they were
extravagant in dress, but that they
dressed with bad taste.
Records of the treasury department
show that the port of New York dur
ing the fiscal year 1907-8 has larger
balance of trade in its favor than ever
before. For the entire United States
the balance is 5000, 457, 103, which ex-
ceeds by 100000 the largest year
before, which was 1900-1.
1T is an unwritten law in Japan that
on the empress birthday all the school
girls shall listen to the reading of the
imperial rescript on education and sing
the national hymn. These observa-
I lions were omitted at a Presbyterian
school in Nagoya this year, and in con-
sequence the head master, Christian
Japanese, has been dismissed.
Modern brick buildings of ten and
twelve stories are being taken down
and replaced by steel frame structures
of greater height on Broadway, New
York. While the foundations of the
original skyscrapers are strong enough
to sustain additions above, there is
enough saving Of space in the new
plan of thinner walls to make the
change profitable.
The island of Yezo, or Hokkaido, is
the richest In variety of undeveloped
resources of any part of the possession
Of Japan. Its area is more than 3OOOt
square miles and it's coast 1000 miles
exclusive of the various Dependent
islands, which have an area of 6,20(
square miles. Mokkaitio is the secone
largest island in Japan. Its population
in 1905 was 1892 1874.
An extraordinary commission has
been created in Paris to investigate thu
Y affairs of the order Of the Legion o.
4 Honor, created by Napoleon as a sig
nal mark of merit for distinguished
service rendered to the state. Thi'
original purpose of its founder hal
been gradually subyerted, and thu
cross has been bestowed for rather or
binary causes, frequently political.
An annual profit of $3.50 per acre car
be cleared In Mexico by the cultivation
of the zapupe plant, the fiber of which
Is used for many purposes. From it /
manufactured, among other things, th
finest cordage and rope. which vii
neither mold nor kink and which i
unaffected by climatic conditions o
any kind. As animals do not toucl
this plant, fencing in the crops, an ex
pensive thing in Mexico, Is unneces
sary.
Professor Paul Haupt, who provoke
storm Of discussion at the interns
tional historical congress In London b
his address on 1.-THE History Of Gal
lee" In which he stated that Jesu
was born at Nazareth rather tina
Bethlehem and probably was not
descendant of David, has been pr
lessor Of Semitic languages and d
rector Of the Oriental seminary
Johns Hopkins university since 1873
. He was born at GoerIitz, Germany,
1858 and was educated at Leipsic az
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