The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-12
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
cows hide produces 81 pounds of leather,
and that of a horse about Is pounds.
More than quarter of the population Of this
country live in cities of 5000 inhabitants and
over.
AT the height of one mile the average velocity
of the wind is four times as great as at the
earth's surface.
ever made President Roosevelt cry Enough y
in walking bout.
Thirty-seven artists have entered the compe-
titiou for designing the $250000 Grant statue for
Washington, d. G.
Voting machines may be used at future cleo
lions in New York City. 1t will cost the city
about $6OO,OOO to introduce them.
President Roosevelt has accepted the invita-
ton to deliver the memorial address at the
National cemetery, at Arlington, on May 30.
Rev. E. H. Mcdonald, of Bethany Baptist
Church, Syracuse, N. Y, says that OF the $500
negroes in that city only 200 arc church mem
bers.
st. Joseph MOI negroes are so superstitious
that the street railway company there found it
necessary to take of car No. IL from one of its
lines.
DIR. D. NJ. Foster, one of the few survivors of
the band of men who built the first railroad
west of the Alleganies about 1880, is still living
Pope Leo probably figures as legatee in more
wills than any other living person. Last year
he was named in ZOO wills, the legacies aggre-
eating about 100000.
The historic oak, under which John Wesley,
the first Methodist in America, preached has
been sacrificed to make room for trolley car
track at Savannah, Ga.
Judge william Cole Tacott, of Valparaiso,
Ind, recently completed his own funeral ora
ton. 1t is in verse and is to be read by Judge
William johnson at his burial.
Mrs. Sally Bunnell of Provo, Utah, has 2l9 liv-
ing descendants. She is 81 years old. and has Z
children, 70 grandchildren. 1876 great grandchil-
dren and great great-grandchildren.
Daniel Wells, the wealthiest man in wiscon-
sin, who died last week. erected an Office build
ing in Milwaukee of pure white glazed terra
Gotta. the only one in the United States.
The Union Veterans of German birth are to
raise fund for monument to General Fried
rich Wilhelm Won Steuben, of the American
Revolution, to be erected in Washington, ID. G.
NJ J. Brookins and Miss sallie Thomas, of Lee
county. Va, after courtship of thirty years,
eloped to Bristol, few nights ago and were
married. The groom is n and the bride 70 years
of age.
January ana OCTOBER IN the same year always
begin with the same day of the week. The case
is the same with April and July, with September
and December, and with February, March and
November.
Miss Catharine Miller, known as kitty" Mil
Ter, died recently at Perth, village in the OF
tawa Valley Canada, and thus ended her wait of
90 years for her lover, who Tilted her on her
wedding day.
Congressman Loud. of California, has the dis
tinction of having received the sword of General
Pemberton at Vicksburg in the hot July of 1868.
He was at the time member of the Second
Massachusetts, Cavalry.
A Kentucky minister intends to make CAM
paign for Congress in his shirt sleeves and bare
footed. The idea that Congress is first-cass
museum for freaks has gained alarming Roadway
since Wheeler made his speech.
The mileage of street railways in New York
City has increased from 132 in 1864 to l,l42 miles
in 1901. The total Of passengers in the former
year only 50.830,173 against the enormous
total of LIZA 600 for last year.
The largest fir tree in the State OF Washing
ton has been cut down near Arlington, in Sno-
homish county: The tree was Is feet through at
the base and 200 feet high. One 20-foot section
will require two fiat cars to haul it.
Four of the Oldest men in the Senate sit side
by side in seats-ll. IL, IL and Ain the front
row of the Democratic side of the chamber
Mr.. Pettus and Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, and
Mr.. Cockrell and Mr.. Vest, of Missouri.
Outside of the business of supplying New
York City with milk. the farmers of New York
state have an Investment of $43,450,O 600 in cows,
and corresponding amount in dairy farms and
fixtures, the total being not less than $780, 600 600.
In the thirty-odd thousand of dead letters
forwarded to Washington from New Y ork were
2U,OOO arguments to voters" sent out by the
campaign managers of the late election, but
Improperly addressed or delivered to men who
had died.
rla Forr,
reasoned that the oat crop would be small He
mortgaged his farm, went to Chicago with $685.,
600, speculated in oats. and went back to Cham
payne with $4,000. He and his family are go
ing to Europe.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr, began to earn money
when he was six years old. His father offered
him fee of cent for every fence post in need
of repairs the boy could find on the big country
netted him ID cents.
In Japan a doctor never thinks of asking poor
patients for fee. A proverb among the medi-
cal fraternity of Japan runs: when the twin
enemies. poverty and disease. invade home, he
who takes aught from that home, even though
it be given to him, is robber."
It is said that in France sS.OOOOOO picture post
cards pass through the postoffice annually. That
country takes the lead of all Others, Austria
Hungary coming next, with 100000. The to-
tai in circulation throughout the world in one
year is said by experts to be 2,36OOOO,OO
The combined age of four brothers of the
Bastien family of Galena, III is 343 years; of
the four brothers and two sisters, sos years, the
youngest of them being N and the Oldest 93
years old. They are all in good health and live
within radius of two miles of each other.
The youngest governor in the Union is the
newly inaugurated executive of the State of
Washington, William McCroskey, aged 28, who
recently succeeded Ex-Governor Rogers. Mr..
McCroskey, who is a native of Tennessee, is
son of the Rev. Scion McCroskey, Methodist
clergyman.
More people have succumbed to the wiles of
Cupid during the past four years in New Jersey
thar ever before. This is shown by the fact
that 81 TAG people were married during that time,
according to the Bureau of Vital Statistics. 1t
is computed that the marriages of 1888 couples
cost $2,9o5,OO0
DIR. James NJ Ludlow. now pastor of the Mum
Avenue Presbyterian Church, East Orange. N.
J.. received Theodore Roosevelt on confession
of faith into the Collegiate Reformed Dutch
Church, Forty-eghth street and Fifth avenue,
New York city, on December 2, 1874, during his
pastorate there.
The Germans keep war fund of $500 1000 in
gold carefully preserved in vault, which is
ton of the treasure has just taken place. The
gold has been lying there since 1874. The walls
of the vault are several yards thick and three
heavy doors lead into it.
Under favorable conditions of peace the NOR
tality among soldiers is practically the least
known, with a death rate of only in every 1000.
Compared with a soldiers life the placid days of
clergyman are full of danger, for his death
rate is II in 1000, more than twice as great as
that of his militant brother.
David Harum" has taken hold upon the read
ing public in England and on the continent.
The requests from abroad for the book came in
so fast that an edition of 100000 copies was
printed to supply the demand. This, with the
regular home demand brings the sales up to
March l, 1902, to the remarkable total of $4,000
copies.
President Roosevelt has received through the
German Embassy another remembrance from
Prince Henry. This is porcelain reproduction
of the German navy, the whole being under glass
and surrounded by massive gold frame. This
great feet floats. as it were, on the sea, and each
miniature war ship is complete in every detail.
The coloring is exquisite.