The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Anere are IN AlSace-LOrralne thirty
five champagne factories OF these
Metz has fifteen.
A strip of land one-half inch wide
and sixty-five feet long has just been
sold in New York city.
In Wood Green, England, there is
living woman 105 years Of age who
can read without glasses.
During the last fiscal year 3,117, 301,-
535 fishes and fish eggs were distribute
ed by the bureau of fisheries.
Horses for breeding purposes are
still admitted free of duty into the
United States under the new tariff.
A big Pennsylvania anthracite min
ing company is turning its accumula-
lions of coal dust for years into
briquets.
An international congress will be
held at Stockholm this year in an en-
deavor to obtain a fair estimate of
the iron supply of the world.
Great trouble is experienced in OBJ
tanning domestic servants In any part
of South Australia The wages Of
fered are up to FL 5s. week.
Experts who have examined the re-
Gently discovered deposit Of 18th
ographic stone in Greece declare that
at least 35,000,0OO cubic feet Of the
choicest quality flags are in sight.
Denmark was in line with other ma
tons last year in Nshowing heavier
public expenditures than receipts.
The deficit was $4,065, 900. For 1909-10
the deficit is estimated at $10,000,000.
The proposal is once more made
that the Bank of England shall issue
one pound notes, and among inanciers
there is likely to arise keen controver-
sy as to the probable effects of such
an issue.
The latest German mineral discover
les are located in Alsace, close to the
French boundary, and the potassium
deposits there will probably extend
across into France, as has been the
case with the salt wells.
From an insignificant island with a
few thousand inhabitants, devoting
themselves almost exclusively to fish
ing, Newfoundland is waking up and
becoming an important mining, lum-
bering and papermaking section.
Although pardoned after serving fif-
teen years in the Atlanta penitentiary,
Thomas Taylor declined to leave the
prison. He had been in charge Of the
prison drug store, and, no successor
being available, he has now been hired
to remain on salary.
In Some English coal mines the men
want payment for their time going
from the mine entrance to where they
work, often long distance. Instead
of granting this, several mine owners
are constructing underground electric
railways to transport the miners.
London seems to have possessed
roller skating rink over quarters
Of a century ago, for in 1923 mention
can be found of the invention of a
skate 'for rendering the amusement
independent of frost" which was be-
ing practically exhibited at the old
tennis court in Windmill street."
The smallest building used for bust
ness purposes in the Los Angeles
downtown district is at West Fourth
street and Central place. 1t has a
frontage OF two feet and nine inches
and depth Of thirty feet, Twenty
dollars is the monthly rental, The
building is occupied as shoe shop.
1t is estimated that by the middle of
the, present year the population Of
greater London will number 100000
people, of whom 4,S73.000 will dwell
within the county of London proper
and 2,627,000 outside. Upon conserv-
alive estimate an annual addition Of
100000 may be expected to this popu-
lation. g.iixl5
Although Henry Hill at the London
institution short time ago would not
allow ants any higher quality than
that Of instinct" Lord Avebury sees
no reason to alter the conclusions at
which he arrived thirty years ago aft
er many careful experiments. He still
believes that these insects have ''the
gift Of reason"
There is now living near Manchester.
England, family of eight sisters and
a brother whose combined ages are
GOT years. The members of the fam
lily, named Stevenson, are: Caroline,
.seventy-seven; Jane, seventy-four;
Margaret, seventy-two; Ann, sixty
nine; Robert, sixty-seven; Betsy, sixty
five; Alice, sixty-three; Emma, sixty
one; Sarah, fifty-nine.
A part Of the historic palace of the
doges is being made ready for the
Duke Of the Abruzzi, who has been APP
pointed director general Of the Third
naval division, with headquarters at
Venice. The Venice newspapers ex-
tend to him welcome as the defender
of the Queen of the Sea-" made wor-
thy by his own exploits to rank with
the Venetian naval heroes.
So voluminous a report was made
by a congressional committee upon a
new gun that the president patheticai-
ly said: III should want new lease Of
life to read this through. Why can't
an investigating committee show a
grain of common sense? If send a
man to buy horse for me expect
him to tell me that horses points, not
how many hairs he has in his tail"
What is said to be the biggest craw-
Ash ever caught was captured on the
Ellie Kran reef, sixty miles off the
Mexican coast, by Captain r. L. Ed
mondson of the schooner Henrietta G..