The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-11-24
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
1t is now estimated that the Boer war will
cost Great Britain $5OO,OOO,OOO in cash.
The wheat yields in many instances in the
Northwest are reaching 30 to 40 bushels per acre.
Within eleven years the DeBeers mines have
Welded diamonds to the value of over $l6O,OOO-
BOO.
Thirty six per cent. of the area of the State
of Washington is covered with merchantaDle
timber.
Between January 1st and October oath of the
present year the Klondike produced a total OF
SIG, 0O0,0 600 in gold.
A vast bed of sulphur has lately been discover
ed in the region eastward of the Caspian Sea,
which is said to be one of the richest In the world
There is a blacksmith in Gardiner. Maine. who
has not lost days work from sickness since ne
began his apprenticeship, nearly third OF
century ago.
Septimus Winner, who wrote "Listen to the
Nocking Bird" has entered upon his seventy
first year. He is still writing songs at his home
in Philadelphia.
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt will cease to be
from that date until March 4th he will play the
unaccustomed role of private citizen.
The numerous Smith family will have six mem
beers in the next Federal House of Representa-,
tives. Three of them come from Michigan ana
one each from Kentucky, Iowa and limos.
Havana has been free from yellow fever dur
ing TIE present year. despite the fact that IL was
three centuries. So much for the Americaniza-
tion of Cuba.
Last Monday was the one hundredth anniyer-
sary of the meeting of the first Congress whlcn
assembled in Washington after the capital OF
the republic was transferred to that city from
Philadelphia.
Portable school houses are being used in the
copgested districts of Boston. In time the con
gestion will be relieved, and the authorities will
have no costly buildings on valuable sites thrown
on their hands.
The population of Rhode Island is 1856 as
against ofs 1000 ss,oroesa of " hhD or -
per cent. The population of Illinois is vi ,550
as against 1926 5l in 1890 increase of 995, l99
or 20 per cent.
The dogwood tree was at one time considered
worthless. but it has recently been found that
piano keys made out of this wood take fine
ebony stain and polish and are as durable as the
genuine article.
Two prisoners who escaped from the Vermont
House of Correction last week took with them
the bloodhound kept at the institution for the
purpose of trailing fugitiyes. They killed the
dog in the woods nearby.
Governor Roosevelt was thought as a boy to
be of weak constitution. He early devoted
much attention to exercise and spent all the
time that he could in the open air. To this he
attributes his present health and endurance.
The British census will be taken on the last
day of March, 1901. Ten years ago, when the last
census took place. the population of the United
Kingdom was 81, 49,, 922 The Registrar General
estimates the present population at 4O,@l,47l.
Among the exhibits at the Woman Suffrage
Bazar which is to be held in New York next
month, will be crazy quilt made by Susan D..
ANTHONY when She was fourteen years old, and
and doll dressed by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
Harry PAYNE Whitney and Herman B. Duryea
have purchased from Norvin 7. Harris of Louis
VILE KY. the famous hunting dog Toney Boy.
The price paid is said to be Sl,5OO, the highest
ever given in Kentucky for dog OF that class
Patrician, thoroughbred stallion by imported
ST. Blaise, the Derby winner, for which Charles
Reed paid $l60 600, broke his leg while his owner
was out exercising him last week, and had to be
shot. He was owned by w. Sproule, of Jamaica.
l.. i.
The tramp question in the United States has
been a most serious one ever since the intro
duction of railroads. 1t is estimated that no
less than 10000 are carried nightly on trains and
that 10000 more are waiting to steal ride at the
same time.
At a recent Cabinet meeting Secretary Gage
announced that his estimates complete would
show an excess of receipts over expenditures
for the present fiscal year OF SSOOOOOG1 ana an
excess of receipts for the fiscal year ending July
], 1902 of $3O00O,OOO.
The Cook County Rough Riders, which were
organized for political purposes just Defore
Governor Roosevelt's visit to Chicago, have be-
come so pleased with military life that they have
decided to make their regiment permanent and
join the Illinois State Guard
Chicago is not only the greatest cattle, sheep
in fhn We
creation as a horse market. During the nine
full months of the present calendar year l47, O0G
horses were received and sold there, breaking all
former records by nearly 10000
Secretary of the Navy Long was in Denver on
election day and had an opportunity to observe
women voting. There was nothing to jar the
most sensitive spectator, he says. On the con-
trary, the tendency was to elevate and broaden,
rather than to degrade or impair.
The report of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs says that there is over $l0,0OO,0OO year
spent by the Government IN malnta5plpffs tfitie
any withdrawing Government support.
According to the report of the Texas State
Railroad Commission, there was paid in that
State during the year ended June SO, by the rail
way companies, 81 ,018,637 for damages to various
persons. In the previous year the aggregate
paid out for the same object was $685., 739.
Messrs Rennous, Kleinle s. Co.. of Baltimore,
have just accepted what is said to be the largest
United States The contract comes from the
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company and calls for
$4,000 of different kinds. valued at 100000.
AS New York understands it. the next Penn
sylvania Legislature will be asked to authorize
an increase in the Pennsylvania Railroads capt.
talization to $250,000,000. This means an in
crease of 100000000, of which $50 600 will be
Immediately issued and sold to stockholders at
par.
Cardinal Gibbons has sent check for 81 500 to
Bishop Nicholas M. Gallagher, of Galveston,
Texas. 1t was the amount received from the
special collections taken in all the Catholic
churches of the Archdiocese of Baltimore Sun
day, October 18th. for the benefitof the Galveston
sufferers.
Official statistics show that the late Paris Ex-
position was a gigantic success from the point
of view of attendance, which was double that of
the Exposition of 1899, when there % 121 975
paid admissions. When the gates of the EXPOSE
ton of 1900 closed more than 100000 persons
had passed through.
The annual report of Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue Wilson for the fiscal year ended
June 60 1900, shows collection exceeded but
once in the history of the bureau. The receipts
estimated amount and $21 49,, 534 more than dur
ing the previous year.
F.W. Vaille, director general of posts of the
Philippine Islands, in his annual report to the
Postmaster eneral, shows a surplus of $19,628
to the credit of the Philippine postal service.
expenditures sos, go, making both years of the
departments existence show surplus.
Few people are so kind to the autograph fiends
as is President Mckinley. 1t is said that in odd
moments, when he has pen in his hand, he will
sit down and write his signature on special cards
to the number of fifty at time which, on ap.
plications being received for his autograph, are
straightway forwarded to the petitioners.
Mrs. Avery, of New Carlisle, Ind, died at a
hospital in that city, on the 10th inst. Seven
days before the habit of constantly walking and
talking developed and grew upon her to such an
extent that she was practically uncomfortable
The ceaseless walking and talking continued
until she became so exhausted that death
resulted.
More women voted on November 9th for a
President than ever before in the history of
this country. 1t is estimated that S5 900 of them
voted in Colorado. 81 900 in Utah. ii 800 in Idaho