The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-10

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 The late Joseph Park of New York city left an estate of about $6,00O,OOO He began life working as a grocer's clerk.
 Andrew Carnegie had offered the city of Cleveland s25O,OOO for the establish rnent of seven branch libraries in Cleve- land, providing the city gives the sites and arranges for an annual appropria- tion of $25,000 a year. The library board accepted the offer.
 The credit for making the most inter- esting archaeological discovery in Egypt last season is given to an American, Theodore M. Davis, whose work resulted in the discovery of the tomb of the Pharaohs of the eighteenth dynasty. In the tomb was the chariot in which the pharaoh rode at Thebes.
 Tn the republic of Paraguay the gov ernment has ordered that the carnival festivals shall be postponed until after the elections for senators and deputies. Despite this precaution there has been some trouble, especially in the town of Villa Conception, where some foreign residents were ill-treated in the electoral excitement.
 Returns on pig iron production as of April reported in yesterdays Iron Age shows that the weekly output at that date was 21.s43 tons above the weekly output month ago, and 39,152 above year ago. The country has now an out put of pig iron unprecedented, and will probably continue to show some fur tfler expansion.
 Dr. Eliot Bishop of Gloucester, Eng land, has just completed forty years episcopal service, having been conse- crated bishop of Gloucester and Bristol on Lady Day, 1863. To mark the event the venerable prelate, who was born in 1s19, was called to receive an address signed by about 1000 clergy and church officers of the diocese.
 The growing importance of the Puget Sound customs districts is shown by the official returns therefrom. In the year that has just closed all the customs districts of the United States showed a decline of exports of grain and grain products except the Pacific coast ports, the shipments from Puget Sound ports increasing 45 per cent.
 The 10 per cent. advance in wages made by many of the railroads will not restore the wages of railroad officers other than general officers to the figures of 1892 and 1893, and this is true as well of other classes of railroad employees. The wages of most of the various class es of employees will be higher, however, 1rnder the advance than they have ever been before.
 [ A clever calculator estimates that there are in use by telegraph, telephone and trolley companies in this country 15,o0O,00O poles. The poles, most of which ere cedar of one sort or another, are long enough to reach three times around the world. It would require 250,000 flat cars to haul them by railway and the trains with their engines would cover 1,750 miles of track.
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 The latest estimate places the tota number of apple trees of bearing age il the United States at something ovel 200,0OO,0O0.. This is nearly three trees to every person. These trees yield more than 75,OO0,00O bushels. Not all of thes' apples are consumed at home, for il years of full crop more than S,O00,OOo g abroad. Yet the apples kept at hom are more than two bushels to ever.