The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-29
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

largest springs OF Lne WOTiu.
The crops raised in Iowa this season will bring
in $102 for every man, woman and chilo III the
State.
In 1890 the mineral production of the United
States amounted to S6l9,O00OOO, and in 1899 $500,
100000.
Illinois beet-sugar output last year was val.
ued at $250,000. About five thousand acres were
cultivated.
In Bohemia SO mobiles own the bulk of the
country None of their estates are less than
1900 acres.
Over 400 species of trees are known in the
Philippine Islands; of these about fifty nave
commercial value.
The State of Ohio expends $14 eco 600 annually
on It's 100000 school children. OF this fund
Cincinnati pays Sl,OOO,OOO.
Nearly two-thirds of the letters carried by the
worlds postals services are written, sent to ana
read by English-speaking people.
shipment of 100000 young peach trees from
Georgia. nurseries. bound for Cape Colony and
Natal. South Africa, will be made soon.
In guessing contest at junction City, Kan,
a smart Young woman named in advance every
state carried by Mckinley, even Nebraska.
The Empress of China is said to carry with
her 1900 dresses when she travels These I'LL 60O
boxes, and are taken care of by 2CO coolies.
The area of the United States is 1901 900
square miles; that of China is 42lS ~ OF when
China proper has an area OF l,S3bo4l square
miles.
There is talk in Kansas of appointing rabbit
commissioner for the State, the reason being
that 10000 pounds of jack rabbit meat goes 10
waste annually in tho State.
Professor Young estimates that train run
ming from the earth to the sun, at 40 miles an
hour, would take about go years Tor the trip,
and the fare would be &20U,UUU.
The annual meeting of the International
Packing Company showed that the big corpora
tion lost S343,000 as the result of keen competi-
ton at Chicago in the past year.
DIR. Norburne Jenkins writes to the papers to
say that too many children are wearing glasses.
His view is that time would correct majority
of the defects if given chance.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas. chairman of the
Democratic National Committee. says that there
is no Foundation for the report that he contem-
plates resignng the craftsmanship.
The State Supreme Court will be asked to de-
eide who is to be Mayor of Worcester, Mass,
in 1901. recount shows that William A. Lytle:
the Republican candidate, has plurality OF
one vote.
Mrs. Mary McCue. who died recently, aged g.
wears near Bethlehem, Pa, weighed over 500
bounds For IS years she could not leave her
home. She was buried in casket26inches wide
and 20 inches deep.
The Vermont Legislature has rejected the
local option bill, which has been under CON
sideration in both houses. The vote in the Sen
ate II against IL for, ana IN the house IL was
140 against to 81 for
The census of 1900 shows that Oklahoma has
double the population of Nevada, but Nevada
has two United States Senators and one repre-
sentative in Congress- while Oklahoma has only
a delegate, without vote.
Women are seldom hermits, but the story is
told of two women, mother and daughter; who
lived in Akron, o.. life of seclusion. For is
wears no neghbor darkened their door, and they
never wandered beyond the limits of their
yard.
There has been placed on the walls of the
Federal Building. in Boston, a portrait OF Gen.
John M. Corse, the Union commander at the
battle of Altoona Pass, Georgia. where the
phrase, Hold the fort, for am coming" origi-
mated.
Mrs. De VI ct, wife of the Boer general, has an
immense amount of confidence in heahusband's
military ability catcS my
He will win back for the Free State all they
have lost"
Senator Towne's service will be one of the
shortest in the history of the Senate, the very
shortest being that OF tbe aiter WENT INTO
the Fillmore cabinet. He served from February
22d to March 4th.
There are about 100000 pupils in the schools
of the United States-as many. as Germany,
France and Italy combined and three times the
five times as many as Russia, with It's popula-
tion of lOOOOO,UOO.
A balloon fitted with automatic instruments
was sent up recently in Paris and came down
safely The instrument showed that it had risen
TO 56 600 feet, or over 10H miles. At that height
the temperature outside the balloon was luz de-
greeS below zero
The officials of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company are jubilant over the fact that the fire
in the celebrated burning mine at Summit Hill,
which started az years ago, is now under CONTROL
and it is said that the next two years will see its
eXtinguishment.
DIR. Charles F. H. Wilgohs of Akron, O., has
been celebrating his ninety seventh birthday.
The venerable physician still attends to his pa
tients even visiting them at night when called
upon to do So He was born near kiel, Ger
many, and came to this country in 1888.
CONGRESSMAN John J. Lentz, of the twelfth
Ohio district announces that he will contest the
seat in the next Congress of Emmitt Tompkins,
a a. majority mi of is votes. Mr. Lentz claims to
have evidence of the corrupt use of money.
We're Foster, who has been engaged for the
last 80 years in assisting the emigration OF nearly
%, 600 young women from the congested districts
of the west Of IRELAND and in the building ~ or
part of ireland, died in Belfast, few days
ago.
England is credited with but small produc-
ton of turkeys, and, in spite of the supplies
from the county of Norfolk and more recently
from Ireland, importations from ABROAD nave
increased enormously in late years, as the lik-
ing for turkeys is greatly on the increase in
England.
There is a girl bootblack, whose place of bust
ness is in the Central Railway Station in New
probably the only girl following that business
in the country She makes fairly good living,
her patrons being principally women passengers
on the TRAINS
CONGRESSMAN Foss, of Chicago. who recently
became the actual instead OF the acting chair chair
man of the House Committee on Naval Affairs,
is by far the youngest man in Congress at the
head of an important committee. He is only ~
years old. Mr.. FOss became MEMBER Oh Con-
gress when he was 81.
The Empire State Society Daughters of 1872
has received permission from Secretary Root
and Colonel Mills to place tablet comemora-
tive of the heroes of 1872 in the chapel OF West
gilt lettering, and will be the second placed in
the chapel by patriotic society.
Peach trees in the vicinity of St. Joseph,
Mich are threatened by more dangerous
enemy than the yellows. Local growers call it
heads invade the orchards and cover the trees
with tiny holes, the sap leaks out from the holes
and the trees die for lack of nourishment.
Frank Rockefeller is negotiating for the pur-
chase of 100000 acres of land in Kiowa and Clark
counties Kansas, with view to stocking it
with horses and high grade cattle, sheep and
hogs, for which he sees profitable future he
is to experiment with poultry and animals of
various kinds, including wild animals of the
plains.
Between the towns of Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena, Southern California, there has been con-
structed an overhead path for the exclusive use
of cyclists. The path is built of wood, varies
from three to fifty feet in height, and has an
average gradient of one in eighty. The path ac-
commodities four machines abreast and is lit
thoroughly by electric light.
Western timber is composed almost entirely
of conifers. Forests of the western coast prob
ably are the densest and heaviest on earth. They
may be compared with those of tropical regions,
such as the forests of the Amazon and Congo
basins, While the jungle of the tropics may be
denser, the trees are by no means as large nor
do they contain as much lumber.
Mr. William G. Whitney Is preparing a game
preserve to cover $4,000 acres of wild lands in
the Adirondacks, which he has owned some time.
At present he is numbering the land under the
superintendent of the Forestry commission.
After it is properly cleared up Mr.. Whitney will
stock it with DEER moose and other wild animals.
He is interested in a similar project at Aiken,
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