The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-26
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The German Emperor owns 359 carriages for
the use of himself and his court.

The German Emperor owns S5s carriages for
the use of himself and his court.
Nobody knows why horse arises from the
earth on its forelegs first, and COW on its hind
legs.
During the past IL months 2S,6OOOO0 hogs
ssquealed their last squeal in Western packing
houses.
All birds act as weathercocks when they are
percned on trees or bushes, as they almost IN
variably face the wind.
:, Mrs. Esther Morris. the first woman justice of
the peace in the United States, died at her home
In Cheyenne, Wyo., recently.
The hardest wood in the world is not ebony,
but cocus, which is much used for making flutes
and other similar Instruments.
Tammany spent 100000 during the recent
canvass on autographs, posters, banners, sand
witch signs and handbills alone.
Palladium is employed in the making of astro-
nomical instruments at a cost of $3.50 pound,
being more precious than gold.
The Agricultural Department now requires a
larger appropriation for its administration than
any other department, except the Treasury.
SmOkeless powder when blown into tissue at
close quarters causes less pain and suppuration
than black powder and the grains are more
easily removed.
A plumber who was arrested In Rome for
stealing jewelry confessed that he swallowed
diamonds and other stones valued at SIS eco, and
sold the mountings.
John Young, of Atlantic City. has been served
with court order, restraining him from recon-
structing wooden pier to replace one destroyed
by fire. He must use steel.
Banana bread Is now on sale in some places.
1t is made of bananas dried and ground down
into flour, and is considered % times as nutri-
tive as ordinary white bread made of wheat.
The Municipal Consumption Hospital of New
York City has proved so efficacious that four
buildings will be added to it and the appropria-
ton for its support increased by $4S 600 annually.
The average number of inmates in Bellevue
Hospital, New York, is equal to that of good
sized tOwn-that Is, it is from 1900 10 3,0O0-and
of these good many are unable to help them
selves.
The postal receipts for March, 1902 as com
pared with March, 1901, for the so largest post
offices in the country show a net increase of 10
per cent. The total receipts of the 80 offices
Mr.. Edward G. Simmons of st. Louis, Mo-.
Trust. with capital of $500 900, is a native
of Frederick county, Nd. He moved West,
with his parents, 80 years ago.
In Santa Clara, CAL, there is a church con-
structed from the wood of a single oak tree.
The building is 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep,
yet when its construction was completed l,2O0
feet of lumber remained unused.
The Australian ballot law was adopted in
Colorado before that State gave the suffrage to
women. This law provides that the voting
booths shall be so constructed that 1.-THE voters
legs may be seen below the knees"
President Roosevelts retriever Sailor Boy has
been received from the training kennels at La
fayette. Ind. He comes from the Chesapeake
mi lu a 06 IA na6 Of Ha has,
erful limbs and is seal brown in color.
owner of the, famous international Doll Col
lection, which has earned nearly $4,000 for
charity, has just received, from the Queen of
Roumania, doll with which the Queen once
played.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, widow of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, is reported to have applied to
the Librarian of Congress for the registration
and cOpyrighting of her name. The words
Copyright 1902" will have to appear on her
visiting cards.
Henry H. Edes, at a recent meeting of the
Colonial Society Of Massachusetts, read paper
not George Washington, was the first person to
receive from Harvard College the degree of
doctor of laws.
At Sunday school in North Wales a little
girl named NJ. A. Pritchard during the year
IyUI ra to memSFy and repeated 296
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and had previously learned by heart the whole
book of Proverbs.
Chinese spades from British horseshoes sounds
like an absurd statement, but the fact is that
shiploads of old horseshoes leave London for
China. All these come back to London in the
form of spades, having been so transformed by
the ingehius natives.
new material for skin grating was used in
New Jersey hospital not long ago. 1t was the
delicate inner skin of an eggshell. man was
badly scalded, and in the operation of grating,
which was found necessary, the eggskin was
tried and is thought to be success.
There are two Republicans in the Arkansas
Legislature, none in the Florida Legislature,tive
in the Georgia Legislature, none in the Missis-
sippi Legislature. one in the South Carolina
Legislature, none in the Texas Legislature and
none in the Legislature of Louisiana.
1.-The fetal valuation of the late Philip d. Ar
'mour's estate in Chicago and New York has
been arrived at. 1t amounts to $14, 75l Jos and
to large extent consists of personal property.
In addition to the above-named sum there is
some real estate in Illinois and elsewhere.
bill now before the Massachusetts, Legsla-
ture requires the licensing of cats. The fee is
fixed at so cents, and it is provided that anyone
of the act shall be fined S. onehaf to go to the
informer and one-half to the city or town treas
ury.
The tunnel for the New York subway, which
is a disagreement and inconvenience to the city
at the present, is half cut. Only 10 months
more will be required for the excavation. The
cost so far has been $13, 100000. More than 81,
250,000 has been spent in removing and changing
sewers
Among large frogs Canada probably has the
honor of owning the largest. 1t was grown on
a small farm near Fredericton, N. b. Just be-
fore its death it was weighed, and found to tip
the scale at 4S pounds. Its length was 30 inches
and height Is inches. 1t measured IL inches
across the back.
Germany is undoubtedly the best-educated
nation of Europe.; yet its teachers in many
parts of the country are very poorly paid. Re-
Gently several men teachers in Frankfurt ap-
piled for situations as policemen, owing to their
remuneration being smaller than that of the
average police officer.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral in London,
now in course of erection, is 26O feet long and
156 feet wide. Apart from the site it has al
ready cost $750.000 The material used is red
brick, with Portland stone courses. and its ORR
entail decorative features suggest mosque
rather than cathedr 4.
The House of Representatives has passed a
bill providing for the establishment of a public
park in Arizona. to be known as the Fortified
Natural Forest Park. 1t was stated that these
petriied trees are among the wonders OF the
world and are in danger of destruction by van
dals unless some action is taken by Congress.
Representative Lacey, of Iowa. sent packet
OF SeeuS 10 II TuIdl COuSblcucAO. INC LLaAhSu
velope, as usual bearing the words, $500 penalty
for private use." The recipient OF the seeds
was in great distress in mind. Il can not put
the seeds to public use," he wrote, desparingly,
land can not afford to pay $500 for using them
myself"
negro criminal condemned to hang in North
Carolina sold his body for SO, which he invested
in ginger cakes. The cakes he finished the night
before his execution was to occur. The next
day the sentence was committed to life i'm
prisoument. One man then wished he had
saved his SO and another that he had made his
cakes last longer.
William C. Whitney has concluded to decline
the honor of having his head reproduced on the
seal of the town of Washington, Mass. Mr..
Whitney has suggested the head of Washington,
and his suggestion has been adopted. The select
men of the town sought to honor Mr.. Whitney
in this way because of the real estate boom he
gave TO the locality.
While Miller w. Dadds, baggage master at the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station at Whining
ton, DEL, was eating founder for his dinner
his teeth struck hard substance within the
fish, He examined the fish and was surprised
to find four large pearls within it. He submit
ted them to q jeweler for examination and
learned that they are worth about $lOO.
John Wesley Elkins, who confessed to the
murder of his father and stepmother when he
was IL years DID, is to be released from the State
prison in Iowa. after IL years and three months
Of what is admitted to have been illegal incar-
eeration. 1t is now understood that the i'm
1risonmanf was without warrant of law. as the