The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES

FACTS in FEW LINES
Labor unions were almost unknown
In Newfoundland up to 1892
St Petersburg used up 100000 bot
ties of champagne last year.
Rich or highly fertilized soils pro-
duce tobacco with high percentage
Of nicotine.
In Austria and France the provision
of rescue apparatus In mines Is made
compulsory.
More than $4,000 tourists every year
go to see the costly palaces Of King
Ludwig II. Of Bavaria.
Prison records show that more fe-
male prisoners have1previous records
against them than males.
The Mexican government is import
ing from Bohemia motor tricycles to
be used in the collection Of letters.
The first monks of Buddhism in Chi
ma were not priests and only became
such when driven to It in self de-
fense.
1t is said that France objects to hav-
ing Hungarian rentes dealt In on the
French bourses in retaliation for the
high duties on French wines In Hun
gary.
Gold, silver and lead mines are, 1t is
said, to be worked extensively in the
bleak district of Innishowen county Of
Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the At
lantic.
China's first school Of forestry will
soon be opened at Mukden. The Chi
nese empire has been pointed out as
the worst example among modern ma
tions Of forest destruction.
The Molteno (Cape Colony farmers
have hit upon novel plan for dealing
with locusts. A farmer has imported
some eagle kites for the purpose Of
soaring locusts from the crops.
Near the ST. Lawrence river in Can
ada there is water slide three miles
long for conveying pulp wood to the
railway. 1t is capable Of moving near
ly 5000 cubic feet of wood an hour
The most complicated watch ever
made, the work of Louis Leroy, gives
twenty-five different indications. 1t
has two dials, and the mechanism, In
four layers, contains 975 different
pieces.
The ivory nut, which is so much
used by button manufacturers, is the
fruit of a species Of palm which grows
In Central and South America. 1t
forms valuable crop, particularly
in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru.
AT a recent exhibition In London
there was shown a series of micro
photographs, pathological specimens
and drawings which showed clearly
that cancer In man and cancer In anil
mails run parallel courses and that the
disease is comparable in the two cases.
The United States produces the
greatest amount Of cotton, but, speak
ing generally. 1t is not of the best
grade. The swamp lands Of Louisiana,
when redeemed, will be capable Of
growing the best quality Of cotton and
in sufficient quantity to duplicate the
long staple cotton crop of the world.
Few know that the government is a
shipper of oranges. 1t shipped last
year thousands Of boxes from Califor-
mia eastward. 1t is doing this to dis
cover method of shipping the fruit
to reduce the high percentage of loss
by decay In transit 1t has already
reduced the percentage from 20 to Z
per cent.
Monarch, one Of the largest and
most valuable st. Bernard dogs in the
world, is owned by Harry N. Plant of
Old Orchard Beach, Me. The dog
stands thirty-one inches high, five feet
two and half inches long, forty-six
inches In girth and wears thirty-one
inch collar He has captured the blue
ribbon at every dog show in which he
has been exhibited.
The Jungfrau railway In Switzerland
has been utilized for the building OF
the new Concordia hut on that noun
tain. The material for it, weighing
about fifteen tons, was carried up to
the Eismeer station, whence eight
Grindelwald guides conveyed 1t for
$500 across the steep Monchsjoch and
then In sleighs across the snow fields
and the Aletch glacier to its place.
For the first decade Of the twentieth
century one Of Canada's greatest ac-
complishments will be the completion
OF the Dominion's second transconti-
mental railway. The Grand Trunk has
finished its prairie section from Win
nipeg to Edmonton. From Edmonton
to the coast, 700 miles, through the
mountains, three years more win be
needed The work Is exceedingly Diff
cult and expensive.