The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-17
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An average Of % tons of oil is rendered from
q large whale.
Kansas has 600 more miles of railroad than
the State of New York.
In February last the fire losses In the United
States and Canada aggregated $2i,UiuoU.
Statistics show that one out of every p Danish
emigrants to the United States becomes a MOT
mon.
Although ordinary wood alcohol is a poison
Ohio is the only state to prohibit its SAFE on that
account.
The Agricultural Department is propagating
the Iadybug, to be used in destroying tne San
Jose scale These bugs have been imported from
China.
What is said to be the largest steel safe in the
world is nearing completion for a life insurance
company at Hartford. 1t is to cost $lS5,OOO. IL
weighs 1900 pounds.
Alison S. Sherman, the oldest surviving mayor
of Chicago celebrated his ninety first plrtnoag
the other day. OF the % mayors OF chicago
only seven are living.
A deaf mute of Blackburn, England, has
used threatening deaf and dumb" language
toward his father and brother
At the Congregational convention of New
Jersey Rev. Robert Mourse. of Falls Churcn, va,
defended the theatre. He said life is made up
of work and play and that play is the dominating
factor in life.
Professor Hodge, of Clarke University, est-
mates that toads are worth $19.S8 cents each for
their work as destroyers of cutworms. HE
| thinks the propagation or toads Wouiu solVe INC
gypsy moth problem
DIR. Charles f. Rand, who is accepted as being
| Rrof the Civil War. is still
| living in Washington, ID. @. He was also the
| first soldier to win the Congressional medal OF
| honor for distinguished gaiiantry IN action'
There is a revival of interest in old fashioned
| cameo jewelry this year. One of the large man
ufacturing jewelry houses in New York says
| thatit has done more work altering ana restor-
/ ing old cameo jewelry this winter tnan IL mas
for 20 years.
Col Ernest c. Stahl, of Trenton, N. j., is
| known to secret society people all over the land
/ He belongs to 28 different organizations and has
/ travelled from one end of the country to the
! other on business connected with one or the
| other of them.
Most of the Japanese houses are of one gen.
| eral shape and two stories high. They are put
! together by curious method of mortising, at
| which these people are adopts, not one nail be-
| ing used throughout the construction OF the
| whole building.
During the past year 1900 shade trees have
! been planted in Kansas City, mostly at public
| expense. At its latest meeting the Public Inn
provement Committee of the City Council au-
thorized the planting of 3,S20 trees along the
various streets.
Agents for American agricultural machines
| sold in Constantinople last year $40 reaperS and
mowers, 2 binders, rakes and thresher. No
effort is made to sell binders, because they are
| considered too complicated for satisfactory use
| by the Turkish peasants.
One of the Peculiar People" in Holland re-
Gently broke his arm. He declined to call in
doctor, and wrapped leaf out Of a Bible round
the small toe of his left foot. He declares that
| this gave him instant relief. He still walks
| about with broken arm.
The cheapest grade of Spanish olive oil goes
| largely to Russia, where the demand for it is
| created by the religion of the country which
requires that olive oil shall be burned in the
lamps used for illuminating the images of saints
in nearly every Russian house.
Veterans on both sides of the Civil War are
| deeply interested in preventing the destruction
| of two historic buildings in st. Louis. In one
Julia Dent became the wife of Ulysses S. Grant.
| and in the other the Inflated Sarah Knox Tay-
| lor was made the bride of jefferson Davis.
John Hays. a close friend of President Nc
Kinley, has just died in Cleveland at the age of
| 81. He opened the first copper mines in the
Lake Superior district, and interested the Han
Lakes La xess. He was a Pennsyivanian by birth.
The smallest engine ever made has been COM
| pleted. 1t is a horizontal engine. and can stand
| on a Decent piece. One has to look through a
microscope to see plainly it's various parts. 1t
runs accurately as the best engine ever built.
| 1t is made of gold, silver, copper and steel.
Another effort will be made to secure from
| Congress an appropriation sufficient to exter-
| inmate the water hyacinth, which has of late
| years spread so rapidly in Louisiana, Mississippi
| and Florida streams as to seriously harass and
| injure the logging, timber and oyster business.
The Yellow river is styled the Sorrow of
| China" During the last century it has changed
| its course % times, and now flows into the sea
| through a mouth 900 miles distant from that of
100 years ago. 1t is estimated that its floods IN
| the present century have cost China ii ,OOOUOO
lives
For the first time in the history of the Congre-
| gational Church the degree of bachelor of divin-
| ity has been conferred on woman. Miss Flor
| ence A. Fensham, of Constantinople, Turkey,
| has been honored with that title at the annual
convocation of the Chicago Theological Sem
| mary. -, ,,,,,,,s nm ,ssno,,o toT nro
crastination. Franz Rosner 100 years OF age.
was married on his deathbed to Anna Renner,
aged 90 years, at Oberpolitz. The groom died
| two DAYS later. The two had been in love for
seventy five years, but had kept putting off the
wedding day.
Representative Kahn, of California, who was
foremost in the California delegation in pressing
| the Chinese Exclusion Bill, has, by previous
arrangement, taken possession of the pen used
by President Roosevelt in signing the bill, and
will forward it to IKE Golden Gate Museum in
San Francisco.
Camping in the Rocky Mountains is TO be one
of the inducements offered Colorado and Utah
tourists this year: The idea was suggested by
the inability of the Colorado resort hotels to
care for the business, and the popularity of
some experiments made in that direction by
tourists last year.
from the chair of Latin in the University of Vir-
ginia after forty years of continuous service.
When his commanding general ordered him to
burn the town of Chambersburg. Pa, during the
Civil War, he declined to make war on helpless
women and children.
Aself-supporting community of consumptives
is established near Denver, Col, backed by Den
yer business men and 20 local physicians The
members of this community live in tents and
engage in light remunerative occupation which
keeps the enterprise going and provides health
full employment Tor the a1flcted.
Senator Hanna has put ping pong set in the
big In MS mouse on halaye ba
any other public man in Washington with the
exception of the President, and the game is open
to all corners as means of amusement while
waiting their turns with the Senator.
At the death of aged Gottleib Heyler, of near
Liberty, Toga county, Pa, his old clock. that
had not been running for more than eleven
years, slowly struck five times. The old man
had premonition of death two months ago. AT
that time he sold all his property and stopped
newspaper that he had taken for twenty four
years.
p H. Anderson. because he could not obtain
a certificate to teach school in Kansas, went to
Chicago, graduated from training school for
missionaries, went to Alaska, found a mine
containing millions, came back, married class
mate, gave a fortune to his alma mater and is
now on his way to Sweden TO visit relatives he
has never seen.
The application for seats along the route of the
coronation procession in London has begun in
earnest. The prices offered range as high as rs
guneas for single seat and 500 guineas for a
window to accommodate 20 people. 1t is estima-
ted that the omission of Regent street from the
route will mean loss of 100000 as seat hire to
people having premises there.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has ship
ped Is 600 young locust trees TO Newton Hamil-
ton to be set out on the Ingram farm, in Wayne
township, Pa. These trees will be planted eight