The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

, boats already on the canals of Holland
The total exports of camphor iron
Formosa last year amounted to 4,121,
566 pounds.
!, The capacity of the Atlantic cable
is 300,000,000 words annually. Onl.
25000,O00 are sent.
Fish worth f57,000,000 is landed ev
cry year in England and Wales, find
ing employment for 10000 men ant
boys
Paraguay, once the hermit state
par excellence, is soon to be In direc
} communication by steamer with thu
United States and Europe.
Foreigners may now open and man
age drug stores in some Mexican cite.
provided they announce on the from
of their store that they have no loca
professional title.
Time was when the patent kid made
in France was unequaIed, but now the
French themselves are said to prefer
the American leather of this kind as
being less liable to- crack
OF the 59,O95 men employed on Brit
ish sailing vessels, 928-or one in sixty
lose their lives by drowning, where
as of the 1929 men employed on
steamships only 674-or Tn 241-are
drowned.
The Milford On. H) Cabinet entered
upon it's one hundred and sixth vol
ume on July 2. The paper has been
published by the family of its present
owner, Colonel w. B. Rotch; for nine
ty-eight years.
The capital invested in breweries in
the United States, according to the
last federal census, was $415,O00,O00.
The experts of the United States
Brewing association say that it is now
nearer $7O0,OO0,OOO.
/ A quantity of Saracen wheat has
been sown In Chile, with fine results.
The first harvest showed a yield of
sixteen bushels for one and Of very
fine quality. 1t grows very strong and
nearly four feet In height.
| Experiments made in Sicily have
shown that rubber can be successfully
cultivated there, but it will take ten
years to bring the trees to profitable
productiveness; hence the assistance of
the government is being asked.
| A mask of aluminium wire to absorb
mercury vapors is the suggestion of
Signor Tarugi, an Italian, for avoiding
poisoning In mercury mines, mirror
factories and other places where werk-
ers are exposed to this volatile metal
Drought has never been known. in
the southwestern districts of Austria
liza, nor are rabbits found there, but
pasturalists on large scale are ham
pered by several varieties of poison
bushes which prove harmful to stock.
A % caliber bullet played a unique
trick in Gardiner, Me-, recently, lodg>
ing in telephone cable and cutting
twenty out of sixty wires therein In
closed. 1t required seven hours to To-
cate the trouble and considerably more
time in making repairs
Japan contributes more than one
half of the S4O,OO0OOO cigarettes con-
sumed annually by the 20,OO0O00 Ko-
reans. New Korea prefers cigarettes to
the old fashioned pipes, some of which
were so long that a servant was re-
CURED at the far end to apply the
match.
Sam Jett of Winchester, KY, has a
thousand acre goat ranch in Breathitt
county. 1t is mountain land and is In
closed by a wire fence. His speciality
is the Angora breed. The fleece OF
this goat is what is known in trade as
mohair and is very reliable. The ranch
is proving quite success.
From a British newspaper: "a gen
tleman in good social position finds
that wherever he goes friends ply
him with whiskies and sodas, which
he does not like and which disagree
with him. They resent 1t If he re
fuses them. He would like introduc-
ton to society in which whisky and
soda do not form so important an
element"
From Sept. 10 to 80 an exposition
will be held at Nuremberg in the inter
est of culinary art, general food prod
shop confectionery, bakery, hotel and
innkeepers' appliances, etc. The expo
sition Is to commemorate the twenty
fifth anniversary Of the Innkeepers
Association of Nuremberg and is undeI
the protectorate of Prince Alfonso O.
Bavaria.
President G. Stanley Hall of CLARK
university announces that college pro
fessors must organize for self protec
ton and boycott all news gatherer
as enemies to academic dignity an,
weight. He says: college professors
must do something to keep themselves
: from being made ridiculous. The tim,
has come when a college professor can
not open his mouth without bein,
+ made to look speak and act like ;
! fool"
An Uncle Remus" home for chill
+ dren Is to be established near Atlanta
: Ga, as a memorial to Joel Chandle
Harris The Juvenile Protective as
ISOLATION Is to have charge of the in
: stitution, which viii contain school
!. gymnasium and mechanical workshop
) Near the main building viii be severa
I other buildings, the largest Of whicl
! Will be the capitol, and the whole ed
ucational plant viii be known as tn,
Juvenile state