The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-15
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
It cost Philadelphia the snug sum of $4,000
to suppress smallpox in that city.
One per cent. of the entire population of the
country is enrolled on the list OF fourth-ciass
postmasters.
Southern California has evolved tomato tree
of which the fruit is practically the same as
that OF the plant.
John Hays. the first white man to discover the
immense copper deposits Of Michigan, still lives
In Cleveland. o., and is 81 years DID,
As soon as Prince Henry returns from the
United States he will celebrate the twenty-fifth
year of his service In the German navy
Maryland once grew the finest figs in the
world. 1t Is proposed to renew fig growing
under the auspices of the Department Of Agri-
culture.
Porto Rico. borrowing an idea from Connecti-
cloth tents, which keep off insects and temper
the wind. rain and sun.
The largest cargo of -four that ever cleared at
San Francisco was made up of $1,000 barrels.
with which the steamship Arab sailed on the
2lst ult., for Hongkong.
Nodocument has ever been handled with more
caution by the Senate employees than the petit
ton signed by 372 lepers, presented the other
day by Senator Foraker
France and Germany have Joined IN prohibiting
the killing of the birds. and even the transport
of dead quais across their respective territories
Senator Teller's speech on the Philippine ques-
ton fills twenty six pages of the Congressional
Record. and contains 5000 words. With the ex-
ception of few documents the entire speech
was extemporaneous.
From 1s4o to 1899, period of 80 years, there
was but one addition to the membership of the
Presidents Cabinet. The proposed addition of
Secretary of Commerce would bring up the
total membership to nine.
"Uncler Jarvis D. Bardwell. Of shelburn Falls.
Mass, who was 100 years old on New Years day,
celebrated his birthday anniversary by planting
q cypress, the seeds Of which were brought from
Germany for this occasion.
The trustees of wesleyan University, Middle
town, Ct, the Oldest Methodist college in the
country. have given their official sanction to
bicentennia celebration OF the birth of John
Wesley, to be held in June, 1908.
There are several states without debt. but no
American city, with the single exception OF
cation 81 Co Coneress State debts are decreasine
steadily; city debts are increasing.
The biggest hole ever dug in solid rock is the
second wheel pit of the Niagara Falls Company,
which is 463 feet inches long, 17SX inches deep
acter four times from top to bottom.
William F. Glenn, of Atlanta, Ca. in con-
consuming 70 hours In the task. The record be-
fore this feat was $500 words. The writing was
in ink and no lines crossed each other.
The Nebraska State game warden has for
hidden the farmers to fight the grasshoppers
with poison, saying that the loss of birds and
game. is too costly price to pay for the de-
struction of comparatively few insects.
For the first time since the law was passed re-
quiring street railway companies in Massachu-
setts to heat their cars, the Old Colony Street
Railway Company was fined $25 on seven COM
plants in each case. The company appealed.
The tail of fish is his sculling oar. He moves
it first on one side and then on the other, using
his fms as balances to guide his motion. If the
fish is moving fast and wants to stop he
straghtens out his fins just as the rover of a
boat does his oars.
In Georgia the local option system of regu-
lating the liquor trafic takes the county as the
unit and out of l37 counties, only % license the
sale OF liquor, ~ have adopted the South Caro-
lima dispensary system, and in 81 there Is COM
plete prohibition.
More mushrooms are grown at Kenneth Square
and Lansdale, near Philadelphia, than in any
other section of the country Tine Department
of Agriculture hopes to develop the industry in
this country so as to make importations from
France unnecessary.
Last season saw more visitors at Niagara Falls
than ever before. The superintendent of the
state reservation, in a recent report, complains
of the laxity shown in the enforcement of law
all the summer, he says.
New South Wales is now experiencing its
seventh year of almost continuous drought.
The churches appointed February 18th as day
of humiliation and prayer. The Government
proclaimed this day to be general holiday, so
all business was suspended
b. f. Stephens, prominent horticulturist of
Nebraska. has distributed free to farmers of his
state 1900 apple trees on condition that they
will be cultivated according to his direction;
Mr. Stephens will receive one-half of the yield
for certain number of years.
There are now 1000 bills awaiting consdera-
tion in the House of Representatives. The
journal clerk reports that at one session re-
Gently 1900 bills were introduced in the space
of seven minutes. Between % 900 and 90 900 bills
have been introduced at this session.
Eugene A. Philbin. former District Attorney
of New York, while in Rome was astOnished, in
view of the rumors of the failing health of the
Pope, to find him in such physical and mental
VigOr. The Pontif displayed a keen interest in
and familiarity with American affairs.
New York City average daily supply of water
for the three borOughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn
and the Bronx is $4,000 600 gallons, and the con-
sumption of Queens and Richmond brings up
the total to $50 600 gallons, larger quantity
than is used by any other two American cities.
The drapery on President McKinley's pew in
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton,
Ohio was removed the other day. Although all
pews in the church are free, the Mckinley pew
has not been occupied by anyone since the Iu-
neral 1t is to be permanently marked by a
plate.
Today smokers are numbered by millions,
fact to which the treasures of most nations
have to be devoutly thankful. 1t is estimated
1000. 900 acres of land are devoted to the cu
tivation of tobacco The world consumes each
year 600 pounds, or 2,S12 800 tons, worth
100000.
Congressman Burk has travelled all over the
world outside of the United States the greater
part of which is unknown to him. He says he
goes to foreign countries in order to get an en-
tire change from his usual surroundings. He
has never been west of Chicago or south of
Washington.
OF total number of 10000 dwelling houses
in the borroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx,
New York, only 5000 are occupied by single
family each. The total population of the two
borroughS last June was 2,050,000. and the tene-
ment population at the same time was more
than 1550,0O0.
Heat from cold water seems fabulous, but is
an established fact. The water is decomposed
by electricity into its constituent cases. hydro
gen and oxygen. When these gases are re-uni-
ted the act of combination causes the evolution
Of intense heat. The well-known lime-light is
an example of this.
It is interesting to note that John G.. Milburn,
of Buffalo, in whose house President Mckinley
was tenderly cared for after being MORALLY
wounded by the assassin Czolgolsz, is a Demo-
crat of sufficient prominence to be thought of