The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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year 1903 amounted to $63,045.
France produces more than twice as
many potatoes as the United States.
Polite Cinnamon consider 1t breach
of etiquette to wear spectacles in COM
pany.
The American Federation of Labor
has 2.312.OOO members. taxpayers and
voters.
A correspondent says the last was
the worst Christmas that makers of
dolls and toys in Germany ever expert
enced.
The British people pay $5.o00.oOO a
year to the florists for their produce,
out of which $1,50O,0O goes to the for
eigner.
In the window of Dunmow eng
land) hosiery appears the notice. 1.-The
Encyclopaedia Britannica at your serv-
ice Within
Colorado Springs has no saloons or
low resorts. In the deed to every piece
of property is included a clause which |
forever prohibits the sale of liquor.
A Methodist church in Kansas was |
moved distance of forty-two miles to
a new location. The moving required
eight days, and not a window was
| broken.
The daily wage for skilled labor in
! Italy is: For ma chinists, 90 to 20 cents;
masons, 80 to 90 cents; carpenters, 90
| to 20 cents, and cotton workers, 80 to
| so cents.
The fishermen near the Marconi wire
! less telegraph station in England have
petitioned parliament to take it away
because it, they allege, produces the
deluges descending upon them.
Tho pianist Paderewski in order to
show his disapproval of the Prussian
governments Polish policy has forbid
den his new opera, "Manru,' to be pro-
ruced in the German theater of Posen.
On Dec. 81 the 600 trade unions in
Great Britain had a membership of
1,GO4.S12 and funds amounting to f5,-
O16,4OS. The income for the year was
f2,441 ,427 and the expenditure f2,O5S,-
$50.
petition signed by between 10000
and 10000 persons is to be presented to
the Edinburgh magistrates asking that
the hour for closing the public houses
be II p. M, as at present, and not 10
p. m.
) A company has been organized in
Chicago which contracts to bury people
and let them pay on the installment
plan. The installments must all be
paid before the funeral occurs, how
ever.
The corporation of Vienna has voted
the golden Salvador medal to Herr
Turk, the Austrian Sandow. i'll recog-
milton of his having brought honor to
the city by esta blishing world records
in weight lifting.
Lloyd Conway of Baltimore has is
sued a challenge for talking contest,
! open to the world. He says he is the
7 champion talker, and he insists that he
, can speak 65,O40 words in an hour. He
is clerk in a railroad office.
Citizens of Manchester, England, are
complaining bitterly and writing to the
papers because the conductors on the
tram cars squeeze twenty persons into
seats constructed for eighteen" and
worse still, "allow some people to stani
up"
A small boy whose father and moth
err Mr.. and Mrs. Kerchew. were stay
ing with him at a Chicago hotel be
came lost When found, he had forgot
ten his name, but remembered it whel
he heard a man sneeZe and was re
stored to his parents.
Ii The last survivor of a little band o
buffaloes, the only animals of that va
riety at large in Colorado, has beer
slain by pothunter despite the heav.
penalty fixed by the Legislature. Tn
band had been hidden in Lost park
Park county, for several years.
Joseph Wlodarczyk pronounced Vlo
darksick), Russian. went into tn
common pleas court at Newark. n. j
the other day and got permission from
the judge to drop from his name tn
four letters C, z, and k. Now hi
name is spelled W-l-o-d-a-r, and he call
himself VloGar
n The Colorado promotion and public
\ ity committee has opened headQuarter
III at S13 Seventeenth street. Denver, an
announces that from now on ever
energy will be bent on making Colors
do, it's wonders. it's opportunities, it
n resources and riches known all owe
the world" A branch office is estal
lished at the chamber of commerce {
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Whereas in 1876 it was estimate
n, that 40 per cent of the cotton crop
- the south was produced by whites an
- GO per cent by negroes, it is now CLAIM
Gil ed that the whites produce 60 per ce,
rs. and the blacks but 40 per cent Thi
in southern men say, indicates that IL
90 south must look to foreign immigra tic
&c to supply it with labor if it's cote
- crop is to be increased.
@ Statistics compiled by the zemtv'
~ of forty-nine provinces of Europea
as Russia showed that SOL 900 peasa