The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-09

fill across the Hinchman place.
The traction company and William
Dickerson have reached an agreement
over the latters cherry tree thai en-
croached upon the public road. For &
time it looked as if the controversy
over the tree wonld halt the trolley
work at Denville, but with the trouble
adjusted the track laying will proceed
There are 200 species of moss fount
in the British isles.
Sugar is round in the sap of nearly
200 plants and stress.
Haiti is the American home of AT
rican serpent worship.
Australia has but single beast Of
prey, the dingo, or wild dog.
Sugar to the value of $375,O0O,O00 i;
consumed in this country in one year
A league has been formed in Han
over for the abolition of church bells
and clapping hands in theaters.
New York city ranks high as lover
Of dogs. The sales of CANNES for the
last year amounted to about $4,000.
South Africa now has a regular sea.
side resort at Durham, resembling those
of Europe. The season is in December
and January.
A French physician claims to have
found many disease germs in medi-
cines, particularly in pills, many of
which do not contain antiscptics.
Pigs blood medically prepared is OF
the highest value in the cure of incipi-
ent tuberculosis. according to an an.
nouncement by Chicago doctor.
BY the use of improved methods the
percentage of sugar in beet crops has
been increased on the average within
a decade from 1850 per cent to 1875.
A former head hunter from the saw.
age Filipino tribe of Pingulanes has
been brought to Chicago by Dr. Fay
G. Cole of the Field museum, who has
returned from two years anthropo-
logical expedition.
Lack of a proper apprenticeship sys.
tenn for training boys fourteen to TWEEN.
ty years of>age in the different trades
is widely held in England to be re
sponsible in large degree for the
casual labor" lack of employment and
poverty of thousands.
Switzerland protects one of its great.
est natural resources by law forbid.
ding the transmission into foreign
countries of electricity generated by
water power except upon a permit
granted by the federal council, revoca.
bic if necessary for the public good.
Mr.. ]. C. S. Mummery. in recent
speech before. the British Royal Pho
tographic society, said that painting
was the art least affected by the ad-
vent of photography. In only one di-
rection-the inferior kind of portrait
painting-had the camera done any
material damage to the painter.
Sir William Wallace, the British resi-
dent general of northern Nigeria, has
reported to the home government that
cannibal tribes owning hundreds OF
thousands of horses in Nigeria are be
Ing subdued by peaceful means and
that their country contains perhaps the
richest tin and copper fields in the
world.
According to tine tentative program
for the Henry Hudson celebration, the
exercises for the first day win take
place on Sept. %, but as the most i'm
portant Jewish holiday, the day OF
atonement, viii be observed on that
date the Jews of New York hope tC
have the date changed so that they
may take part in the celebration.
Professor John Garstang, speaking
in London OF the result of excavations
which he had carried out in Asia
Minor during the last two years, said
that one of the sculptures was inter
esting TO Scotsmen. it being the frs
representation of a man playing tht
bagpipes. accompanied by a person
who was obviously playing the banjo
General Booth in the course of re
cent speech remarked people ash
what win become of the Salvation
Army when am dead. My reply is
Don't worry; the general isn't dea(
\ yet have determined to live as Ions
as possibly can. Arrangements hav,
been made that as one general step
off the stage of action another vii
step on"
There has been secured by New
York state pulp company an option o.
100000 cords of sunken pine pilinl
now lying submerged in the Rideal
n river and lakes back of Kingston, Ont
The piling was sunk about eighty year
ago, when the Rideau river was cen
ter of commercial activity. The pilin
viii be converted by chemical process
into the finest grades of stationery.
The Rev. DIR. John H. DeForest,
veteran congregational missionary a
Sendai, japan, has been decorated b,
the imperial government with the on
der OF the Rising Sun, the distinction
having been conferred in recognition
of his services in dispelling anti7Japa
nese misconceptions among Americans
DIR. DeForest has been doing missio
work In Japan for thirty-tve years.