The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| diamond market.
An absolutely freproof chimney fifty
feet high has been built of paper in
Breslau.
At Jonkoping, Sweden, there is a
monster machine which makes 1,O0O,.
600 boxes of matches per day.
American dentists in the leading cit
les of Europe have larger profession
al income than their colleagues who
practice in the United States.
General Morteza Kahn, Persian min
lister to the United States, estimates
that within the last few years 10000
persons have been killed in political
riots in Persia.
Regulations have been issued for the
naturalization of the salt industry of
Manchuria. The salt merchants have
been prohibited from depending on for
eign capital under penalty
While cleaning a Goldfish recently
Fish Warden f. A. Townsend of Ca
lais, Me-, found ring in the stomach
of the fish. The ring looks to be a
gold plated silver ring of the serpent
| variety.
Two monster whales have just been
| killed on the Eden coast of New South
/ Wales, thereby furnishing a reminder
| that the whale fishery was once looked
| upon as the staple industry of the Aus
tralian continent.
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently in the Kongo district,
1 Africa There have been no casualties,
but the natives were panic stricken.
Many of them ran for miles and re-
fused to return to their villages unless
they received guns and ammunition.
To meet the deficit in the budget the
French minister of finance suggests
the doubling of the licensing fees of
vendors of absinth. This taxing of the
"green peril WILL it is thought, be
popular. The minister anticipates that
it will bring him in 100000.
Guanajuato holds tie worlds record
as silver producer, having yielded
$1O00O0O,000 Mexican in the last
three and a half centuries. The actual
results from the mills in operation in
Guanajuato at the moment show that
they are producing silver at three
times the average rate as shown by
the old records.
The eightieth anniversary of the
birth of Count Leo Tolstoy will be
marked by the municipal council of
Moscow by the opening on Sept. 10 of
a public library in Moscow and by
giving the counts name to the school
! ba oftnOdad in hie voufb
There has been an epidemic of sui
cides in st. Petersburg for three
months, the average number being
eighty-fiye a month. The high record
for a day was reached lately, when
eighteen persons killed themselves.
Many of the suicides were destitute,
but most were Respondent.
| A Pittsfeld paper reports a woman
in that city as much disturbed be-
cause the title of presiding elder has
been changed to district superintend--
ent She says, Nobody will know.
whether the man is working for the
Methodist church or for an insurance
company"
Any person in the Philippines who
uses cocaine except on the prescrip-
ton of a physician, is subjected to a
fine of $4,000 or five years imprison-
ment, or both, at the discretion of the
court. The possession of hypodermic
syringe is deemed prima facie evil
dence of guilt.
when you teach children to avoid
kissing, swapping gum and eating half
baked foods and to be clean you will
be doing something to prevent tuber-
culosis," declared DIR. s. A. Knopf of
New York at the recent convention of
the American Medical association in
Chicago.
Summer milk by the brick can now
be bought in both Denmark and Bel
GUM. The Belgian government has
given yearly subsidy of about $4,000
to increase the trade. In Copenhagen
a firm engaged in this business makes
weekly delivery of 100000 pounds
per week, and a great deal of this
goes to, distant countries.
Major F. G. Guggisberg. R. E., is
now busy preparing in London the
final sheets of the map of the Gold
Coast Colony and Ashanti the produc-
ton of which may be said to repre-
sent over six years of patient work.
Probably no man knows more about
the west coast of Africa than this
well known surveyor of the royal en-
gineers.
Notice has been given to British sub
jects at Tangier, Morocco, by the
British consulate that his majesty's
government will refuse henceforth to
advance money as ransom in the
event of their being captured by
brigands either in or outside the town.
! This decision has been received with
great indignation by the British col
ony.
Mr.. Meserve of Bridgton, Me-, prob
ably has one of the most valuable
collections of Abraham Lincoln photo
graphs to be found anywhere. Mr..
Meserve has spared neither time nor
| expense in making up his collection.
Some of the photos are sittings from
life, and the owner of the pictures
possesses the original negatives, upon
which money value can hardly be
| placed.
An alloy that gives off showers of
sparks when struck with metal-ignit-
ing not only gas, but alcohol soaked
/ Wicks-was q recent accidental dis