The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-26
FACTS in FEW LINES

Colombo mas IOuF IlueS udlly, anu
Malta has none at all.
Norway produces annually some 600,-
600 tons of ice. London buys one
third of this.
A new monthly postal service across
! the Sahara has just been established
The messengers are mounted on cam
els,
The old First Baptist church of Kan
sas City, organized in 1855, has been
sold for business purposes, and a new
editice to cost 100000 will be built.
Gelatin dynamites are more difficult
to explode than the ordinary brands
and require quintuple force caps or
double strength fuses to develop the
full force.
The latest innovation aboard the new
North German Lloyd liner Kronprinzes-
sin Cec-.ie is fully equipped photo
graph studio, which has become pop
ular with travellers and is profitable
business.
st. Louis and other western cities
expect to be able soon to feast on Mex
lean oranges every year from the mid
die of October ON, these oranges being
ripe a month or so earlier than the Cal
ifornia fruit.
Bolivia ranks second among the tin
producing countries. The bureau Of
American republics announces that the
Bolivian expectation of tin to Europe
and An,arioo in 1907 o,oo1,,+od - ~
300 tons against 1880 tons in 1906.
Some of the old time frigates lived
four times as long as our modern bat
tleships and cruisers, and they were
made entirely of wood Steel ships
rust out; wooden ships wear out. At
ten years our navy is obsolete or prac-
tically so.
The statistics of tourists who stopped
in the hotels of Geneva during the year
1907 show a decrease of more than 81
600, the number having been 265, 500
against 29I7S6 in 1906. OF American
citizens the number was 1862 against
1S,001 in 1906
The coal supply of the Philippines
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and of a uniformly
good character 1t is stated that
large vein crosses the entire group of
Islands, ana it has been clearly traced
in one vicinity for twenty-five miles.
In the last twenty-five years we have
burned up $3,500,0 900, 600 worth of prop
erty dhe highest point ever reached in
our national debt, 1896, was only ST.
733,000000, we have wiped 100000
buildings out of existence in the last
ten years, and, mark you, that is abso-
lutte loss.
A New York inventor has devised a
mechanical attachment for an automo-
bile which OH pressing a button will
start a watch or clock fastened to the
dashboard. At the end of a mile the
watch stops automatically, thus en-
abling the driver to test his speed from
time to time
Payment of SO cents due to John
Vogt, a veteran living in Montgomery,
Mo, because of a mistake in the set
tlement of war claim in 1861 was
made by check recently The check
was for S110, the balance being due
because of an error in payment when
he was discharged from service as
soldier.
Eleanora Duse, the Italian actress, has
bought the rights Of a play written by
young man named Guido Casali, who
is in prison for the murder of a bar
rister at Perugia. While awaiting his
trial he wrote the tragedy, wherein he
analyses the sentiments which drove
him to commit the crime. She will
produce the play shortly.
Moses B. Cotworth is now on his
home returning way from Alaska to
York, England, full Of worry about the
poles, parallels of latitude and things
like those. He estimates the thickness
Of the ice covering Greenland at 10000
feet and says it's weight is 'lncalcula-
bic" He feels sure it is affecting the
earth's crust, axis and rotation
The Austrian government is about to
build hotels near the spring, eighteen
miles from Carlsbad, which has been
found to contain radium. The spring
Is considered to have water of high
medical value in certain diseases. 1t
is located near the uranium works,
which yield most Of the worlds supply
OF radium.