The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The board of aldermen of New York city on
uesdayappropriated $25O,OOO to BUY coai Ior 1ne
poor
Except school taxes there is no State tax levied
in New Jersey other than that derived from cor
porations.
John Mitchell will write book on Capital
and Labor" to be based on the great anthracite
strike in Pennsylvania.
The bituminous coal miners contributed So
100000 to aid the striking miners. Assessments
ceased on November 18th
Canada's shipments of apples this year are are
over three times what they were last year and
about double what they were in lSOO.
This year the Harvard catalogue shows total
of POI students in all departments of the uni
versity, an increase of l2O over year ago.
Four crops of corn are produced yearly in
Cuba. The first crop is planted IN OecGmDer
and the fourth crop is harvested IN Decemoer'
Frederick X. Lands. the newly elected mem
Der of the Eleventh Indiana District, Will De Ine
Youngest member of the next House OF Repre-
sentatives.
John S. Bilby of Mitman, Mo-, is said to be
the largest individual landowner in the united
States. He owns about 10000 acres located in
seven states.
Fx-secretary John D. Long has been made a
member of the Mayfower Descendants. ne Is
descended from Mary Chiffon, VINO nrsI se1 Aoo'
on Plymouth Rock.
Miss Mary Andrews, of Hamilton. o. has been
Installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church at Kansas City. She is the only woman
preacher in Missouri
Col Henry d. Capers, a brother OF Gen. ELI
son Capers. now Episcopal bishop OF south gar Ear
DINA. is the Oldest living confederate anu lniS
is shown by his commission
The progress in the scientific treatment of
beets in Germany has resulted in raising tne
nercentaqe of raw sugar extracted from tue
root from 5H in 1910 to 10 IN lSOi.
In view of the scare as to the permanencyy of
typewritten records the Italian Minister OF JUS
will be accepted as legal in Italy.
Marion Julia and Myrtle Anna Hartney, the
| six-fingered and six-toed twins of Mr.. and Mrs.
| ID. W. Hartney of Chicago, are causing much
curiosity. They are two months Old
Railroad men say that 10000 homeseekers. with
their families, have settled TINS year IN aoano,
| Washington and Oregon The Canadian Pacific
has carried over 100000 people to Manitoba.
hill was introduced in the House of Repre-
| sentatives on Tuesday making October 2lst the
| anniversary of the discovery of America legal
public holiday, to be known as Columbus Day.
DR.. Daniel Elmer Salmon. Chief of the Blu
reau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural
Department, has held that Office since 1884, and
has been in that Department of the Govern
ment since 1879.
Mrs Margaret Mccoy who was known the
Mother of Methodism in the West" has just
died at Omaha, Neb. Her mother, an earnest
| Methodist. was driven from France by the reign
of terror in Robespierre's time.
Great Britain is still the greatest tea drinking
country. The consumption is five pounds per
| head of the population. In Switzerland 1t 1s
| estimated at one and a half pounds per head
and in the United States about one pound per
head.
A unique feature of the wedding in Grace
| Church, Chicago of Miss Cecilia Trude, daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. s. Trude, to Mr.. Harold
wilkins was the presence of the brides great
grandfather. escorted by great-grandson,
lad of A.
orr futile, a hunter of Eastport, Long Island,
| has made new record for killing the largest
number of ducks at one shot. having secured 30
| at a single discharge. The ducks were closely
huddled in an airhole in the ice. When he fired
| only few escaped.
An indianapolis doctor is authority for story
| of a family named Tinsley, whose members, as
well as their ancestors. have never been able to
| laugh since clergyman cursed Ilnsley Tor III
timed merriment at the hanging of thief in
Oliver Cromwell'S day.
Out from Rock Springs Wyo., a few miles on
| the road TO Browns Park. a big cottonwood tree
stood till few weeks ago with an antler of an
elk imbedded in the trunk. The wood had
grown around the antlers and the tale of how
| dublcE CdluO OuOlO 10 AOoO'
John Martin, of Platte county, Mo-, is looking
for the man who can exhibit taller corn than
| which he recently exhibited measured II feet,
grown from seed which he procured in Mexico,
and Mr.. Martin claims the belt
Upton Miller, retired farmer, 10 years old,
living at Mount Morris, ILL.,. has made two arti-
Giles of inlaid furniture. bureau and wash
stand, the first contaioing over 5000 pieces of
wood, the other over 5000 pieces, which he in
tends to exhibit at the worlds Fair.
In the past decade the Methodists in Ireland
have increased 11.27 per cent, their number now
| being $1,000. The Roman Catholics have de-
| clined 81 per cent. There are I'll ,03l widows in
the island, as compared to SS,034 widowers and
one widow to everv three married women
Jesse Thomas, of Wayne, Ind, prefers his
| handsaw to the office of local constable. He
was elected by the Republicans by large ma
| jority over his Democratic opponent, but he
says there is more money in working at his trade
| than in serving writs, and he will not qualify.
The exodus of Scandinavian emigrants to the
United States continues to be the greatest in 20
| years. The hard times at home and the more
stringent laws for the CONSUMPTION of soldiers,
| together with the reported prosperity in Ameri-
ca, are responsible for the universal movement
The fruit brick is the latest form of preserve
| It is rectangular or disk shaped and done up in
| oiled tissue paper. The consistency is that of
| small gumdrop, and, being composed largely of
| sugar, the flavor is retained admirably. These
| bricks will soon be on the market from Califor-
| mia.
Col. r. H. Pratt, head of the government In
| dian school at Carlisle, Pa, reports that the en-
| rolment of Indian students there this year has
| reached the high-water mark of lob. The stu
| dents are encouraged to earn money by hiring
out during vacation, and they made nearly $685.
! 000 that way last year.
Two Kansas editors are in hot water about
| typographical errors. One of them published
an elaborate theatrical notice of performance
| in an account of wedding, characterized the
| bridegroom as "a gentleman of stealing quail
ties" instead of sterling qualities"
| John Wood, farmer living near the Cambria
| Steel Company's plant. near Johnstown. Pa, is
said to have been unusually successful in hatch
ing and breeding turkeys as the result of dis
| covery that the ground near the company's
| waste gas pipe is always warm and that trenches
dug there made good breeding places.
I The weather bureau of the United States is
sued bulletin in 1900 from which one may learn
that the number of lightning strokes in 1899
causing damage in the United States was 5,527
value of property destroyed, 3d. l652O; number
of deaths, 592; persons injured, 800; number of
stock killed in fields, 4,25l; value, s129,155.
Thomas Twining Laing, of Rochester who
died few days ago in his ninety-ffth year, was
a picturesque character. He was friend and
admirer of Red Jacket the famous Indian chief.
1t was Mr.. Laing who introduced the Marquis
de Lafayette to Red Jacket when the MARQUIS
visited Buffalo during his tour of the country.
Never in the history of the Central West has
the demand for labor been greater nor has
such a scarcity of wage earners existed. AS a
result industries suffering, in that they can
not operate to capacities warranted by cond-
tions Manufacturers are offering the greatest
inducements to labor in the history of their
operation.
Chief Rogers, of the Department of Education,
reports that one of the most interesting exhibits
of the University of Illinois at the Worlds Fair
will be dynamometer car, an invention of the
mechanical department of the university. The