The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Burmah is to have Pasteur insti-
tute.
CALIFORNIA; most successful fruit
growers are women.
The number Of sugar factories in OPP
Grafton last year In the Russian en-
pire was 27S
The deposits in the government saw
ings banks In Australia represent
S49.55 per head Of the total population
Twenty years ago a German taught
the japanese how to make shell but
tons. Now Japan is exporting shell
buttons to Germany, France and other
countries.
An expedition is being equipped I'M
der the auspices Of the Russian min
istry of marine, with the object of dis
covering a northeast passage between
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Doki Indians In Canada are to be
made wealthy by the sale of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the
sale of the lands will approximate
$1,000,0O0, and some families will re-
ceive as much as $4,000.
Owners of even the smallest toy
manufacturing establishments in the
Nuremberg district, Germany, cater to
the foreign trade. Factories employ
ing from six to twenty people are no
exception to this rule
In the annual report just issued by
the prison commissioners for Scotland
1t is stated that. no female has re-
ceived sentence of penal servitude
during the past year. This is the first
time this has happened.
Superstitious people have been flock
ing to Duttapuker, India, to view a
strange date palm, measuring twenty
five feet, which stands erect in the
daytime, but with the decline of the
sun bends so far down that its leaves
touch the ground.
In certain districts Of Australia
where the ground is permanently COW
cred with grass or fine sand the horses
are shod with leather instead of iron.
The superior advantages claimed for
the leather shoes are lightness and
ease of application.
L
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and Of a uniformly
good character. 1t is stated that a
large vein crosses the entire group of
Islands, and it has been clearly traced
In one vicinity for twenty-five miles.
During the last. two decades France
has expended $40.OOO,O00 on railways
In east Africa, and the brigand chiefs
who ruled that vast territory now oc-
cupy civil and military positions and
are amenable to the, authority of off,
cials appointed by the home. govern
| ment. ~
~ Owing to the Irritation many men
manifest when being measured by
tailors, the leading sartorial artists in
Paris have adopted new method.
Instead Of measuring customer they
photograph him against screen bear
Ing lines, similar to those on billiard
charts ~ p
b. Chicago, recently launched, a fireboat
which the city roudly believes to be
the most up to date craft of it's kind
In the world. She is the first floating
FIRE fighter to be propelled by cleo
tricity and is to be equipped with tur-
bine pumps capable Of throwing $4,000
| gallons minute
The Paris mint in 1907 issued g.
100000 coins of an average value of
about Z francs 80 centimes. This in
Guided coinage for France Tunisia, In
do China and also. for Bolivia, which
ordered 100000 nickel coins For
France the twenty franc pieces were
easily In the lead.
The leading areas Of yellow pine pro
| duction in the United States are no
longer In the south Atlantic states,
but have been shifted to the south
west. The states of Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi and Arkansas each pro
duced 10 per cent or more of the total
cut yellowzpine lastryear. sds
+ The International congressaon tuber-
eulosis Will be held in Washington
next September. A9great exhibition IL
lustrativea of what is being done the
world around in the, fight against the
disease will be held In connection with.
the congress, and the two will con-
tinue from, Sept. 81 ito Oct. H.. !.
| 2Charolles; a smallotown thirty miles
from Macon, In France, hasurecently
been visited by shower of sulphur.
The roofse gardens, fields, vineyards,
rivers and ponds were covered with a
yellow dust and for some time the
peasants in the fields were troubled by
sulphurous biting odor which made
breathing difficult. u
All American flags made for the gov
eminent hereafter will contain forty
six stars, the baby star having been
added for the state Of Oklahoma. The
stars In the new flag, some of which
have already been placed on sale, are
arranged, according to orders from
the government, in six rows, of which
the first, third, fourth and sixth have
eight stars each and the second and
fifth rows seven stars each.
In connection with the death of Gro
yer Cleveland 1t is interesting to note
that only twice before In the history
of the nation has the United States
been without living ex-president.
George Washington died in 1899, when
John Adams, the second president, was
in Office. Andrew Johnson, at the
time the only surviving ex-chief exec
utive, passed away In 1875, two years
before General Grant retired to pri-
| vate life.
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