The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-04-06


house SITS. except tnat it is lowered
during the committee of the whole. i
rests upon pedestal awaiting orders.
| OF course the effect Of the mace il
| purely moral. ut cools hot blood,
one writer said who had just wit
messed its working under Gar Reed
In the British house of commons there
is also a mace, but on various occa
sions of disorder there it has beer
finally the police who restored the
peace.
Plain Mr.. Knox.
"Mr. Secretary won't go with Sec
rotary of State Knox. Any subordi
nate who so addresses him is liable tt
hear lecture on true democratic man
ners The head of the state depart
ment has let it be known that his
name is Knox and that plain "Mr
Knox" is the proper American way
to address him.
Mr.. Knox is also going to establish
some more democratic presidents in
his office. He gets to work promptly
at Q every morning and is anxious to
see his subordinates follow suit.
Mrs. Taft's Automobile.
Mrs. Taft's new $4,000 gasoline au-
tomobile of the limousine type is the
personal property Of the new tenants
of the White House, purchased from
their private funds and designed for
use on all occasions when their jour
neyings about Washington and in the
suburbs have no official significance.
Mrs. Taft's car, like the other White
House automobiles, has the right OF
way over all vehicles in Washington
and will not be, compelled to observe
any speed limit Her car is upholster-
ed in dark blue broadclot1, and her
chauffeur wears neat and unostenta-
tfous livery of corresponding tint. On
either side at the front are mirrors,
which enable the chauffeur to keep
constantly informed as to what We
hicles are following him ard thus min
imize the danger of collisions at turns.
The interior of the car is the en-
bodiment of luxury. There is an cleo
trio dome light supplied with current
from storage battery Of sufficient
capacity to keep it aglow for twenty
four hours. CARL SCHOFEILD
1t is almost certain now that the city
Of Messina will be reconstructed, the
sentiment of the people being entirely
IN favor of such course. Large sums
have been spent on the harbor, which
IS excellent and too valuable in its sit
uation to abandon.
A German inventor has managed to
replace the needle in the monograph
with a Jet of compressed air which fol-
ows the record without friction and
thus does away with the unpleasant
scratching and buzzing which have af-
aicted the instrument
Although more than 125,000,000
pounds of rubber are used in the world
each year, SO little attention has been
given to- its cultivation that the pure
lrticle sells at wholesale at $3.50 a
pound, one of the highest prices paid
or a staple commonly.
The site of the present Madison
square Garden, in New York, was oc-
,upied for nearly twenty years by the
,lder Madison Square Garden, which
vas the abandoned passenger station
If the New York Central and Hudson
River railroad remodeled. 1t was at
one time called Gilmore's Garden
A Tyson (Vt) correspondent AYERS
that on the shell Of the only egg, laid
in two years by a certain hen belong
ing to Ezra Burt of Tyson was
raised, water line map, by which Mr..
Burt discovered considerable amount
If gold buried, by his great-grandfa
.her during the Revolutionary times.
A new method of treating cholera in
India by intravenous OF peritoneal in
iections of strong salt solution, is at
wide attention Whereas two.
thirds of the cholera cases terminated
fatally before the new treatment was,
since its adoption two
thirds of the patients have recovered.
Seminole, famous foxhound be-
longing to Judge A. Floyd Huff of Hot
Springs, Ark, was last during one Of
the field trials of the National Fox
Hunters association, but reached her
home after travelling about $50 miles,
during whicha trip she was compelled
to swim both the Mississippi and Ar
kansas rivers.
The perpetual lamp Of Professor,
Molisch is a glass flask Of gelatin. sup
porting a. colony of phosphorescent
bacteria. Tie light is less than that of
a candle, bat is sufficient. for photogra-
ply, and terminating peas and lentils
turn to it-as source of energy. Being
without heat rays, it represents the.
much sought cold light.
Commenting ON the fact that Presis-
dent Roosevelt set aside fully 10000
acres on, the Pacific coast as refuge
for birds, a German periodical ex-
claims, sand this in. the land of the
dollar hunters while we in idealistic.
warm hearted Germany have within
the last fifty years completely exter-
minated several varieties of BIRDS"
5 AS the taxicab is fast dethroning the
old horse vehicle, so wireless telegra-
ply is crowding out the pigeon as a
carrier Of messages. AS each Of the
important warships of France has now
wireless apparatus, there is no longer
any use fer the pigeons, which occupy
an important positions at Rochefort
The minister of marine has intimated
that after next New Years day the