The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES


The Londoner uses the means of To-
comotion within the city on an average
40 times year, the Partisan 217
times.
Great attention is being given in Bo-
hemia to the building of mountaia
dams not only to provide water power,
but to lessen the damages from foods
There are now 274 penny savings
banks in operation in Glasgow and the
west of Scotland which acknowledge
the Glasgow Savings bank as the par
ent institution.
The most profitable of the Bolivian
mines are the tin mines. They yielded
las@year about 10000 tons of pure tin,
which is 10000 tons more than the
product of 1900
Uninjured mammoth remains are
among the vast natural resources of
Siberia awaiting exploitation For
commercial purpose the skeletons are
more valuable than the best Indian
ivory.
Experts have found near the City OF
Mexico deposits of peat including
what is called moss peat, kind which
reproduces every fifteen years and af-
fords an inexhaustible quantity OF
peat
One political club in New York city
has 3S7 members in the fire dapart-
ment 1874 i'll the dock department, 2S7
in the street cleaning department and
80 affiliated young women who are pub
lie school teachers.
The cornea of the eye of young
man who has lost his sight, but whose
cornea was intact, was grated on the
eye of DR.. Floyd Swimley of Forest,
O., whose sight was destroyed by an
explosion, and he is able to see.
Criminal records kept in New York
county for the last six years show that
trifie more than one-half of the per
sons charged with crimes are found
guilty, while expert opinion is agreed
that not two out of hundred are in
nocent
Perhaps the largest berry farm in
Maine is that at Lakeview farm, near
Lockes Mills. Fifteen acres of hill
side soil are devoted to raising rasp-
berries and blackberries, and at the
height of the season 100 pickers a
day are employed.
The w. Fl. Fl. Greene farm on John
nycake hill, ST. Adams, Vt, recently
sold, had been in the family for more
than 11S years, and the original grant,
still in the possession of the family,
was decided to Job Greene, great
grandfather of the present grantor
John L. Keely, prisoner, handcuff-
ed, leaped from a train going thirty
five miles an hour in Montana and,
fireman and compelled him to file off
his shackles. When captured later he
was dressed in the height Of fashion.
The making of pineapple cider is
new industry which has been started
in Australia. "A beginning was made
at the Merryfield orangery, Toowoom-
ba, with three tons of small pines.
Ninety gallons of cider were manufac-
tured, which was put aside for matur-
ing.
A hemlock tree more than 220 years
old was cut recently on the James Pat
terson lot in Barre, Mass, by Smith
& Rice. The hemlock was thirty-eight
inches across the butt and furnished
1900 feet of square edged boards. Two
hundred and twenty circles were
counted.
Until a few years ago Yucatan fol-
lowed the old Spanish tropical custom
of having immense doors and win
dows, grilled and barred iron openings,
some stone fretwork and almost no
glass. Now glass is being imported
freely as protection against dust and
vermin and as a means for the display
of goods.
In recent address in Philadelphia
DR.. Edward A. Spitzka, the brain spe-
cialist, spoke strongly against the hang
ing of convicted murderers and in ia
vor of death by electricity Dr. Spitzka
declared that electrical executions were
painless and that hanging was the re-
verse, basing his conclusions on his
observations at q score of hangings
and at thirty-one electrical executions
in several states.
Russia is contemplating the construc-
ton of huge new waterway across
Siberia, nearly parallel with the course
of the Transsiberian railway. 1t is
proposed to connect five great Siberian
rivers = the Tobol, Ishim. Irish, OBJ
and Yenisei-and other less important
streams by canals or light railways,
and with a view of this the Russian
government has ordered extensive sur
yeys to be taken
A correspondent of the London
Chronicle writes: While sailing off
Felixstowe on August bank holiday
last year addressed a post card to my
self, stamped it and placed 1t in
bottle, which | threw in the sea. had
quite forgotten about 1t, but the other
morning / received the card through
the post, bearing the Tromso Norway
postmark and the sender's name and
address. The bottle had been floating
about nearly eight months.
Albernon Ashton, whose penchant
for writing letters to the newspapers
earned him the sobriquet of "England's
greatest bore" will write no more. He
is tired of being the butt of the para
graphers' wit, the scorn of editors in
general. Moreover, although professor