The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-24


The irish parliamentary fund for the
year 1903 amounted to $63,045.
France produces more than twice as
many potatoes as the United States.
Polite Cinnamon consider it breach
of etiquette to wear spectacles in com.
pany.
The American Federation Of Labor
has 2,312,00o 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 $5000,O00
year to the florists for their produce.
out Of which $1,5Oo,0oO goes to the for
eigner.
In the window of Dunmow eng
land hosteliy appears the notice, 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 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 window was
broken.
The daily wage for skilled labor in
Italy is: For machinists, 90 to 20 cents;
masons. so to SO cents; carpenters, SO
to 70 cents, and cotton workers. 80 to
80 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 Cos trade unions in
Great Britain had membership of
1,604,S12 and funds amounting to e.
016,40S. The income for the year was
e. AL ,427 and the expenditure f2O5S,-
$50.
A 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 IL 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, in recog-
milton of his having brought honor to
the city by establishing world records
In weight lifting.
Lloyd Conway of Baltimore has is
sued challenge for a talking contest,
open to the world He says he is the
champion talker, and he insists that he
can speak 65,040 words in an hour. He
Is Il 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 stand
up
A small boy whose father and moth
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Kerchew, were stay
ing with him at Chicago hotel be-
came lost. When found, he had forgot
ten his name, but remembered it when
he heard a man sneeze and was re-
stored to his parents.
The last survivor of little band of
bnffaloes the only animals of that va
riety at large in Colorado, has been
slain by pothunter despite the heavy
penalty fixed by the legislature. The
band had been hidden in Lost park,
Park county, for several years