The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-09
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Pittsburg ships 100000 tons of coal annually.
The demand for American goods is increasing
throughout Canada.
Every one of the large automobile factories
is far behind its orders.
Methodism has gained in New York city near
ly AZ per cent. since 1875.
Hot water is supplied from wells direct to
houses and offices in Boise, Idaho.
People who have experienced extreme cold
say that it is very similar to extreme heat
According to Treasury Department. figures
there are 100000 Chinese in the United States.
The barking of a dog is said to be an acquired
habit and one lost If the animals are allowed to
run wild.
The State of New Jersey is about to build
sanitarium for INDECENT sufferers from con-
sumption.
The expenses of municipal government In
London last year were f3, 100000 less than those
of New York.
DC. Reid, the Wall street magnate, began life
as grocers errand boy. Sanding sugar may In
time lead to watering stock.
The revised constitution Of the Swedish Bap-
fist Church in Iowa forbids all its members from
belonging to secret societies.
Butte, Mont. is famed through the Northwest
from the fact that 1t has but single tree. More
are to be set out and cultivated
An estimate is made that the railroads of the
country this year will expend $400000,000 in
betterments, cutoffs, rolling stock, etc.
Pullman conductors at Chicago have been
given voluntary increase of from $40 to SIS q
month, according to their length of service.
Swiss ornithologists declare that cats have be-
come so numerous in Switzerland as to threaten
the determination of all the birds of the coun-
try.
There is man in Havant. England. who hav-
ing been completely bald from the day of his
birth, has now started fine growth OF hair at
the mature age of g.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale. who is spending
the summer at Matunu2k, p. L., says that one
charm of his residence there is that it is five
miles from doorbel."
FrAiGsit cars 40 feet long and capable of carry
Ing <tons, the load of three ordinary freight
trucks, will soon be running on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway.
A Cleveland scientist claims to have discov-
cred process whereby he can extract chemi-
cal gas from ordinary air which Will De both
cheap and useful as fuel.
Old as Pope Leo is he recently gave an au-
dience to woman who was his nurse girl when
he was a baby. Her name is Anna MOr0nf, and
she is nearly 100 years old.
Chicagos shipping has more than quadrupled
in the last 80 years, and today Chicago ranks
fourth among the ports of the world. London,
New York and Hamburg being alone ahead of it.
Ex-senator Cameron says he quit politics
good while ago. and he is of the opinion that
ought to quit and his friends ought to let him
quit"
The city of Chicago has determined to compel
all applicants for positions as school teachers in
the public schools TO pass Pnyslcai as wen as
an educational examination before they are Ii
censed.
Shortly after the present James Gordon Ben
nett was born lin l842) his father started the
Sunday edition of the New York Herald, at the
same time announcing flames Gordon Bennett,
Jr.," as editor.
The agricultural book of the Northwest Ter
ritories shows that in four years the production
12,S0S447 bushels, and of oats from 3,O4O,3f
bushels to 9,716,lS2 bushels.
census bulletin shows that in 1900 s. estab-
lishments reported as makers of sewing ma
chimes, with combined capital of $2O,Ol2,SOO
Only 20 of the establishments showed Value
of products exceeding 100000.
The Denver Horseshow Association has sent
President Roosevelt an invitation to attend It's
annual exhibition and to act as judge OF the
rough riding contest, which will take place on
the opening day, September lst.
A dispatch to the New York Sun states that
thousands of irregulars who fought under the
British flag in South Africa are Offering their
services to the American consul at Johannes
burg to fight in the Philippines.
novel strike occurred recently at the City
Hospital at Augusta, Ca, all the nurses and
porters and some of the doctors walking out
due to grievances against the matron. Inc
matter was quickly settled, however.
According to bulletin issued by the Census
Bureau there are AZ establishments IN the UNI
ted States in which typewriters and typewriting
supplies are manufactured. The capital en-
ployed in the business amounts to $S,4OO,43l.
What probably is the largest known tree in
the world has been discovered on the govern
ment reservation far up in the Sierras in Frenso
county, Cal. Six feet from the ground it took
line 154 feet inches long to encircle the tree,
making it over 81 feet in diameter.