The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-26
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chief gold fields of the country.
Over 100000 pairs of blankets are
woven in Great Britain annually.
On the basis Of real estate assess
ments the public parks of New York
city are worth $1,200,000,000.
OF all places of Importance Sydney,
New South Wales, is farthest from
London as the crow flies, 1920 miles.
Experiments with steam raising by
means of peat have been made by the
Swedish railways, but they have turn
ed out failure.
Aloyse busch, barber-dentist of
Wunzenau, Germany. recently cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of his
entry into the double profession. He
has extracted no fewer than $1,000
teeth, all of which he has preserved.
By the old method of salvage the
rents and breaks in the hull of the
vessel were closed and the water
pumped out By the latest system the
ship is rid of water by pumping air
into the holds, which floats the vessel.
The total quantity of radium which
has thus far been recovered for scien.
tific use throughout the world is esti-
mated not to exceed one-fourth of a
pound. The total stock in the London
hospital is but sixteen and one-quarter
milligrams.
In the vicinity of Conception and
Talcahuano, Chile, there are more than
S0,000O00 cubic meters of soft coal Of
fair quality within an area of $4,000
square meters. or about 307 square
miles. The vein is 3.5 meters, or about
11.5 feet, thick.
Or. Ponza, director of the lunatic
asylum at Alessandria, Italy, has cured
many of his insane patients by confn-
ing them in rooms of some uniform
color. Patients suffering from acute
melancholia have become cheerful aft
er confinement In a red room.
To the formidable array of poisonous
substances found in tobacco, among
them carbon monoxide, prussic acid
nicotine, pyfdine, sulphureted hydro
gen, carbolie acid, a new one has late
ly been added, which is under suspi-
cion Of being dangerous sulphocya-
hide of ammonia
A grim argument in favor of letting
well enough alone is found in a recent
New York case Not content with a
verdict of murder in the second de
gree, the lawyer for the convicted man
secured a new trial, at which the pris-
oner was found guilty in the first de-
gree and sentenced to death.
The first real road in Korea, except
that connecting Seoul and Chemulpo;
connects the towns Of Kunsan and
Chonji. This policy of building high
ways is being pursued all over the
country, and an expenditure of sew
eral million dollars viii within very
short time make itself felt in increas-
ed traffic and business.
Cairo, with about 100000 inhabit-
ants, has 124 pharmacies mentioned in
the Indicateur Egyptien The proper
tion, however, is no criterion, as three
quarters of the native population are
poor and scarcely count as customers,
and the pharmacies, being all crowded
into the European and semi-European
quarters, are sufficiently numerous for
the amount of business.
The names Of at least eight of the
American states will soon become fa-
miliar to the inhabitants of the Lee
want, for, according to Consul General
Harris at Smyrna, an American mer-
chant has purchased that number of
steamboats, from a Turkish company
to trade in the Mediterranean, and he
has changed the Turkish names to
those of American states.
When Bryan Mullanphy Of Joplin.
Mo-, died in 1851 he left one-third Of
his large fortune to be devoted to help
ing immigrants passing through st.
Louis 'on their way to the vest
The fund has grown to about $1,000
600, and the trustees have nothing to
do but draw their salaries. The SUI
preme court has denied the right to
divert the fund to other public pur-