The Haslingden Gazette. — 1903-01-17 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HASLINGDEN AND HELMSHORE.  OLIR LOCAL OFFICE. The office of the "Haslingden Gazette" is now at 2, Princess-street, at which place advertisements and news may he left.  Vickers. Sons, and Maxim's Erith works arc to be moved to -Barrow. Sir *mile Crossley thinks it is rather a scandal that this country has lIU Minister of Commerce. Amongst the petitions filed in divorce is one by , a well-known M.l'. and author. His wife is rot unknown to literature either. Some details are published relating to the Pacific Fast Mail train run by clie Great Northern Railway of the Coifed States. Tile train, known as "The Flyer," runs from St. Paul to Seattle. a distance of 2.000 miles. at top speed. and its length is no •less than 1,014 i feet—one.fifth of a mile! Six prizes for the most regular attendance at church are given in the Keirtish village of Hernton. The offertory at Sandringham Church on Sunday. when the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Stepney, en behalf of the Gordon Boys' Home, anainistact to £l6l 10s, Mr.. Sands. who will appear in "The Wrong Mr. Wright," is cast for the part of the lady detettive. The young Princesses of Connaught (says the "World") ari charming girls, 24, sweet and simple aid unspoilt. Out tn a iota! 4,f 27 oldtuary notices in last Saturdey's "Times" -there was an average of over 72 years. Two figured over 90, eight over 80, and nine aver 70. The riss.rdur eomplainol the other day that the riff-int( of cony country. was pit, lied into Eniglaniti aml or law 4..irts were always busy trying these disreputably f.iroigners. The new Primate, sap. the " World," is pot :Hi able man in an intelliadual sense, but he has an. extensive knowledge of the world and of mett. He in not a brilliant preacher, but he In aks faiily a.gi. Brantley Workhouse is to have the eleutric light. Strawberry plants were seen in blossom the other day in art cpun garden at Throne. At Gildersome it is said that a postman is expe...ted to walk several miles a day for a wage of 6.. 9± a week. Comm ArcherMoublon, the new Archdeacon of Oxford, rowed stroke of the Oxford crew.,, the boat-race of 1872. Four hundred and fifty-three persons esrmmitted suicide last year in Vienna. line number of atin mpted suicide was 507. Disappointed love was the cause of the majority of the cases . Sir William Crooke., in his bsok on "The Wheat Problem," states that some £16.000.030 ex.rth of fixed nitrogen is annually lost to agriewkarr e lit' reckless discharge if sewage into our risrm, th,' tea It will shortly be possible to tolersraph Fashoda. Lord Melbourne used to.n onplain that Melo p, dirt to vex him, More Court scandals are reportail from Vienna, the latest being the reported ssparation of Count nod Countess Lonyay. President Roosevelt has itow offered a ..sorthern awlintment for a coloured lawyer. The latter is a very light mulatto, and a graduate of Harvard, where he played in the Pmtloll team. The Pars flower market alone absorbed in the year 1901 'ix million bunches if violets. A banquet arranged by St. Petersburg journalists to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Press has been forbidden by the police. The greatest and most moving ideas, the great revolutions. reformations. and religious revivals. come to the world through great personalities.— - Spectator. ' The German Emperor dosed the eyes of the— but we must leave the German Emperor alone. He is too great a man to bts dealt with outside a leadtug article.—'• Spectator."