The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-01
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Out of single pound Of cotton Alto miles of
bread have been spun.
Los Angeles, CAL, may now be reached from
New York in ninety hours.
At the State fair in Syracuse. N. Y, recently,
there was race between two hooks OF geese,
driven by women.
There are about 100000 farms in the United
States. of which 100000 produce corn The
average cost of producing an acre OF corn Is
$5.73.
II il claimed that wages for farm laborers in
Indiana have doubled the past two or
three years, since the organization OF farm
union.
Only one marble statue of the human figure
with eyeglasses is known: It Is one Of the gems ems
was discovered In 1903.
Vice President Levi p. Morton, devotes most of
her time and income to caring for the unfortu-
nate children of New York city.
A Woodworking machine at st. Augustine,
Fla, is driven by water flowing from an artesian
we'll. This is the only instance known of power
being derived from flowing well.
A regiment of 1000 men could readily find
shelter under regular banyan tree. In INDIA
there is one of these trees which has 400 main
trunks and over 5000 smaller ones.
The total enrolment in Yale University. for
the present year is approximately, 2.7S5, which
is an increase of 100 over last year and the lar
gest in the history of the university.
Typewriting and mat weaving have been sue,
cessfully taught to the blind, and 1T Is believed
that they could even learn to make lace, and
thus gain new means of livelihood.
In fasting feats the sect of jams. in India, is
far ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from 81 to Az
days are very common and once year they are
said to abstain from food for 70 days.
The great growth of the demand for automo.
biles is illustrated by. the fact that $l.OOOOOO
worth of French machines have just been con-
tracted for by firm in New York city.
The Holy Ghost plant, a product of Mexico,
Central and South America, is so called because
of the shape of the flower, which has the ap-
pearance of dove with expanded wings.
Bishop Hall, of Vermont. has authorized a
prayer for the use in the churches of the do
cese in behalf of the State Legislature, as none
is provided for that body in the Prayer Book.
It is said that in one day recently Howard
Frothingham, representing the associated banks
on the floor of the New York Exchange. loaned
S13,000.000 at an average interest OF IN per
cent.
In England during the past month Ill sos work
people, mostly miners, suffered reduct1ons IN
wages, while only 953 obtained advances. Most
of the changes were effected by Cancellation
boards.
Several women in Texas are making a success
of ranching One of them is Mrs. Pauline Whit
man. who owns ranch of 100000 acres in the
Panhandle. There she raises 1900 cattle an
nually.
The first annual meeting of the trustees OF
the Mckinley National Memorial Association
will be held at Canton, Ohio, today, when the
site of the proposed monument will probably
be chosen.
Miss Mary Andrews, daughter of ex-Sherii
Robert N. Andrews. of Hamilton, Ohio, has
been elected pastor of the Universalist Church
at Kansas City, NO.. the first woman pastor the
city has ever had.
The head and antlers of magnificent speci-
men of the extinct great Irish deer have been
found in bog near Limerick. The horns meas,
is the finest ever discovered.
The late Mr.. william Marsh, of Cape Town
made a bequest to the South African Wesleyan
Church Of 100000 for the purpose of establish
ing the Marsh Memorial Homes for the desti-
tute white children of South Africa.
Burton Smith of Portland, Maine, a United
States Deputy Marshal, owns the only complete
collection of autograph letters written. by the
monwealth, in 1920, to the present day.
A Rochester woman, named Miss French, who
died few weeks ago. at the age of ~, held pat
ents for So inventions, among which were q
burglar-prOOf lock and steam sterilzer, q car
coupler and funnel with sieve attachment.
After 40 years experience as gambler, Peter
F. Delacy. the noted New York sport. advises
everybody to leave games of chance alone. He
says he can count on the fingers of one hand
known h 0Qmh-
ling.
The Superintendent of Public Schools in
Missouri has ordered that the first Friday in
November shall be celebrated as Eugene Field
Day" by the pupils under his charge. He char
acterizes Field as 1.-THE patron saint of all child
hood"
Jonathan Roberts, of Richmond, Ind, is nine
ty-one years old and has lived all his life on the
ground where stood the house in which he was
born. Within 100 feet of his home is a log cabin
built in 1872 for a schoolhouse-the first in that
region of Indiana.
A cylindrical pillow of papers placed under
the neck is helpful to inducing slumber. The
pillow thus checks the flow of blood to the
head. The Chinese and Japanese use this
method to WOO the god of slumber, and nearly
always with success.
gas engine, when coupled to a dynamo, pro.
duces three times as much light in fncandescent
lamps and about IL times as much in arc lamps
as the same amount of gas would produce If
burned directly at gas jets.
Grace Collins, aged 10, is the oreadwinner OF
of boot-blacking parlor, which is said to be
one of the best in Des Moines, Ia. and she has
the management of from 10 to 10 boys, some
younger, some older, than herself.
The mucilage on the back of postage stamps
is nothing but dextrin dissolved in water, with a
oil al
finest mucilage in the world, for when it is once
set paper or cloth gummed with it will tear any
where else rather than at the joint.
Rev. DIR. James s. Stone, of Chicago, who has
just returned from Europe, says that it Eng
land were Republic and President Roosevelt
dent of the Island Kingdom because of his
present great popularity over there.
Reeves E. Selmes, late law clerk in the finance
department, New York, held that position so
long that he was walking encyclopedia of
of municipal law, and he could at moments
notice recall decisions of the Court of Appeals
covering period of so years or more.
In the Circuit Court at Evergreen, Florida,
Albert Brown, colored, has been found guilty
of killing Levi Brown, in 1871, and sentenced to
prison for life. Although it is 81 years since
the crime was committed three e-witnesses to
the killing swore that Brown inflicted the fatal
knife wound.
1t is stated that San Diego, in Southern Cali
fornia, is fast becoming the. Buddhistic center
of America. In one house there has been erect
ed a shrine to Buddha, and the owner, woman
of means, has brought a Buddhist priest from
India, who gathers large congregation together
every week.
Chicago is to have milk trust, capitalized at
5000 900, If the plans of certain promoters are
carried out. large grocery house, bakery, a
central meat market and storage warehouses,
from which all the cafes will draw their sup
plies at wholesale prices, is one feature of the
combination scheme.
Capt, W. L. Rice, who has been mayor of Bris-
tol, Tenn, ever since that place became city,
resigned the other day, pleading that, being 20
years of age he was getting too old to properly
fill the place. In response to general desire
among the citizens he has just withdrawn his
and will serve out his term.
John w. Street. of Mount Vernon, ILL.,, who
was arrested at Evansville, Ind, for the nom
payment of his board bill, made a plea that he
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