The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-09-13
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Half million miles is the latest estimate of
the worlds railways.
Hundreds of women and girl workers in Chi
cago are joining the labor unions
Ducks, when migrating, rarely fly lower than
coo feet, and more usually l,4OO feet
New England makes nearly 60 per cent. of the
boots and shoes made in this country.
The value of King Edwards china at Buck
ingham Palace and Windsor is said to exceed
$20O0,000.
Alaska has paid its cost 20 times: It was
bought for $500 600 and has supplied $l5OOOOOOO
in furs, fish and gold.
One of the hard things to understand is how
such nice grandmothers as everybody has ever
could have been mothers-in-law.
Emerald and beryl are precisely the same sub
stance. except for coloring matter. Amethyst
and rock crystal are likewise Identical.
The Department of Agriculture is distribu-
ting pamphlets about the common house-1y and
experimenting the study of that insect.
The human body of average weight contains
three pounds ID ounces of calcium, which at
present market rates is worth $200an ounce.
Alfred d. Jones, Omaha's first postmaster,and
gust 30th at his home in that city, aged 81 years.
What is to be the largest cotton mill in the
world is to be located soon near Kansas City.
Mo. The investment will reach about SO 600 600.
1t is said that more babies have been named
after President Roosevelt than after any other
Chief Magistrate save Washington and Jeffer-
son.
The stairway leading to the tower of the
Philadelphia City Hall contains sos steps. and is
said to be the tallest continuous stairway in the
world.
Rev. Oliver Dyer. at present visiting Boston,
is the only surviving member of the original
stenographic team in the United States Senate.
in 1913.
Four railway lines now connect Mexico with
the United States. In 1880 there was only one
railway in Mexico leading from the capital to
Vera Cruz.
prisons of Austria Germany, England and the
United States, declares the latter to be the
worst in the world.
1t is claimed that wages for farm laborers in
Southern Indiana have doubled during the past
two or three years, since the organization of
Only one marble statue of the human figure
with eyeglasses is known. 1t is one of the gems
of the Vatican. the sleeping Ariadne," and
was discovered in 1903.
Apropos the candidacy of Thomas Taggart
for the senatorship from Indiana, if he should
be chosen he will be the first red-headed man In
the Senate in many years.
The Chicago Housewife Association has APP
pointed a standing arbitration committee to
which is to be submitted all questions of dispute
between mistresses and servants.
Charles F. Klein, of st. Louis, has much of the
furniture in bis house made of horns of differ
m ms VIII q ri nv
years. residence in Western Texas.
Henri Houriett Swiss matchmaker, has re-
Gently completed a watch made entirely out of
the ivory taken from billiard ball-wOrks and
case complete. 1t keeps good time
John Bierson. of swedesboro. N. j.. who was
a member of the New Jersey Senate during
President Lincoln's term, is 90 years old and has
lived in his present home for 60 years.
The great growth of the demand for automo,
worth of French machines have just been con-
tracted for by a firm in New York city.
A firm is doing business in Washington street,
Buffalo, under the name of English and Irish.
Still more odd is the fact that English is an
Irishman and Irish is of English parentage.
1t is reckoned that the United States Govern
ment owns enough arid land west of the Rocky
Mountains, if irrigated, to provide homes for
the total present population of the country.
John t. Stewart is one of the richest farmers
in Kansas On arriving in that state five years
ago he borrowed $50 from friend to pay rental
on piece of land, and today he is worth $780,
600.
The postal laws provide that post-ofice boxes
shall not be rented to minors or persons of I'M
sound mind and that mail shall not be placed in
boxes so rented if the parents or guardians OBJ
ject.
The estate of the late Pierre Lorilard, like
that of most other reported multimillionaires,
does not inventory as well as expected. The
final report of his executors places its value at
S1,797,925. ~
In subscribing to the plans and specifications
for the Worlds Fair art palace in st. Louis,
which will cost S945,0O0, the contractor had to
sign his name 2,400 times. 1t was practically
days work.
Paul Landau. the noted traveller and writer,
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