The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Out of a total of eighteen south pole
expeditions nine have been British.
Spiral wire hoops now take the place
Of wooden hoops on barrels and kegs.
One physician out of every twenty
one in the United States lives in New
York city.
1t is estimated that in Egypt there
are 10000.000 people who can neither
read nor write.
Turkey has more aged people in pro-
portion to her population than any
other European country.
The longest pipe line in the world is
that which extends from the Oklahoma
oil wells to New York harbor.
Of the 4.00OOOo,ooO gallons of wine
manufactured in the civilized world
every year about 100000 are made
in the United States.
A Philadelphia has patented a de-
vice whereby all the backs of the seats
in car can be turned by a single
lever in one operation.
The largest irrigation plant in the
world will be included in the govern
ment's plan to reclaim 10000 acres Of
land in the Rio Grande valley.
Rainwater is the best to use in
motorboat and automobile radiators.
That from other sources too often
leaves an Objectionable deposit.
One person can use a two man saw
by stiffening it with a bow made of a
split sapling or other wood that win
counteract its tendency to buckle.
The Igorrote provinces of the Philip
pines have been combined and will be
managed by one governor and subgov-
ernors. Bontoc will be the capital.
young woman in Vienna whose
hatpin injured mans eye and caused
him to lose the sight of it offered as
compensation to marry him. The offer
was accepted.
San Diego, Cal. has a wonderful
clock. with twenty dials. which tell
simultaneously the time in all parts of
the world; also the days of the week
and the date and month.
The total duration of bright sun
shine for a week in Aberdeen, Scot
land. recently amounted to nine hours.
in an English town sixteen hours and
in London but little over a quarter
Of an hour.
The great telescope of the Paris ex-
position of 1900. which was built at a
cost of $150O0O. is now offered for sale
by the receiver of the exposition at
about one-tenth of its cost. Its hous-
ing requires building 1870 feet long.
The first fossilized peacock found on
this continent has been unearthed near
Los Angeles. Cal. Scientific men say
that this proves that peafowI existed
in America before its discovery by Co.
lumbus. something not known before.
Western Europe is beginning to ship
freight of the far east over the Sibe-
rian railway which formerly went by
water via Hamburg exclusively. An
increase of passenger traffic to Japan
and China by way of Vladivostok is
also noticeable.
IIiln(ilO GhuitN VI PiCh46lOt ~ ulCA
have been said to resemble those of
great apes. but now comes a distin-
guished French anthropologist and de-
clares that one which has recently been
discovered is almost an exact replica
of that of Bismarck.
Hamburg is the principal importing
center in Germany for grain for both
domestic consumption and for trans
shipment to Denmark. Sweden and
Norway. Cereals are also forwarded
in river barges to Bohemia and at
times are re-exported via Baltic ports
to Russia.
Mrs John Hay and Mrs. Samuel
Mather have given money to erect a
chapel on the Adebert campus of the
Western Reserve university. The
chapel is to be known as the Amasa
Stone Memorial chapel and is in mem
DRY of Alnasa Stone. the father of Mrs.
Hay and Mrs. Mather.
Three boys, the eldest of whom is
only eleven. have been rescued at sea
from a crazy boat. in which they had
started three days previously for
America from fishing village near
Brest. France. The children. who had
no idea how far off America is. had
taken very few provisions and had
been. without food for ten hours.
A Bohemian tailor at Prague has in
vented bullet proof shield for use of
the skirmishers while lying on the
ground The shield. which weighs but
five pounds. is made Of composition
of wax and felt. in which the striking
bullets are said to stick without pierre
ing. In the center of the shield is an
opening just large enough to pass the
rife muzzle through.
The Poet-Is there literary club in
this vicinity.
The Editor (reaching behind his
desk) There is. Are you literary?