The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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In London there is an average of one
clergyman to every 1000 persons.
Last year thirty-nine japanese banks,
with total capital of $38.000,O00, sus-
pended payment
An Egyptian paper says that the ma
tive families pay an average tax of
$4.65 an acre, or 28.5 per cent of the
crop.
The cotton mills of Switzerland have
remained almost stationary for the
last ten years, owing to foreign COM
petition and tariffs.
Boats engaged In mackerel fishing
off Milford, England, have landed as
many as 10000 fish, and hundred
fish have been sold for shilling.
1t has been decided by the govern
ment to allow only 1900 chests of
Malwa opium to be exported from In
dia during the calendar year 1908.
Hon. Ira A. Chase Of Bristol, N. H,
has railroad guide for 1851. 1t gives
only one train leaving Bristol daily at
8:15 a. m. and one arriving at 3:40
p. m.
Naxos Is noted for its emery stone,
which Is carried over to syria In sailing
vessels for storage in the government
depot, whence its expectation takes
place.
There is trust corporation Of i'm
memorial antiquity at Cairo known as
the Walks. 1t holds landed property
which has been conveyed to it for
pious uses.
When the new police court at Ossett,
Yorkshire, England, was opened the
first prisoner, a beggar, was sentenced,
much to his establishment, to receive a
good square meal
In Buenos Aires they have new
holiday, animal day, which is cele-
brated on April 20. One Of the fea-
lures of the first celebration was the
liberation of 500 pigeons.
The contractors who had undertaken
to give Delhi electric lighting and
street car service have failed, owing,
it is said to the many difficulties with
which they had to contend.
The first mayor of Philadelphia was
Edward Shipper. Before consolida-
ton the city Of Philadelphia was en-
braced between the two rivers, Della
ware and Schlylkiii, and Vine and
South streets.
An incandescent lamp in its green
shade will, when turned upward to-
ward the ceiling, spread soft and
diffused light, plenty strong
enough for room where no one >is
reading. When the lamp Is so used
no shadows are cast
Professor Borel Of the Pasteur insti-
tute of Paris calls attention to the fact
that in cancer the number Of deaths is
three times greater than the number
of patients who had been under the
care of medical men. 1t must thus be
concluded that many of the patients
are not aware of their disease or that
they suffer so little that they do not re-
quire medical attendance
A Sicilian peasant found in a field
he was blowing what appeared to be
an old silver coin. He sold it for a
couple Of francs to dealer, who dis
coverAi that it was an Abacaenum,
coin belonging to the ancient town of
the Sicuh called Abacaenum, situated
between Messina and Tyndaris, and
that it was the only existing specimen
of the kind, which up to the present
had been completely unknown.
An auto car screwdriver has been
designed for the purpose of making 1t
possible for railroads to use screw
spikes In track construction, a method
Of spiking rails hitherto impractical
because Of the labor and expense OF
boring holes and setting the screws by
hand. The machine Is driven by
two cylinder twelve horsepower gas
oline engine and runs at speed Of
from Eve to forty miles an hour.
They have drastic way Of curing
carelessness on the part of railway
employees in France. A child Of nine,
Emile Remilly, travelling in train
with his parents, fell from the coach,
the door Of which had not been prop
erly shut at the last station, st. Cyr,
and lost both bis legs. The st. Cyr
station master has been sentenced to
two months Imprisonment, and the
Western railway will have to pay 3d.
600 damages as well as an annuity Of
81 200 to the boy
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker has sug-
gested that the daily papers of the
large cities try for time at least the
plan OF running a criminal page, just
as some of them have literary page,
a sporting page, etc. She believes
that by this plan persons who do not
care to read the details of crimes WIN
be better able to skip them; also that
it viii be- easier to keep such news
from children, as the criminal page
could easily be removed before turn
ing the paper over to them.
william Redmond, the Irish leader In
the British house Of commons, recent
" In genial mood and In playful al
fusion to the Birthday honors list asked
whether s'as; a matter Of general con-
venience and In order that honorable
members might know how to address
their colleagues with becoming respect
It could be- arranged that honorable
gentlemen who had Joined the titled
classes should wear rosettes for at
least one month after the conferment
of the title." No minister was bold
enough to answer.
Sir William MacGregor, governor Of