The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-08
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Thomas A. Edison has taken out nearly 800
patents on his various inventions.
During the past 10 years the number of women
has been growing more rapidly than men.
Three thousand newspapers and 600 letters
are received by King Edward every day.
AT Dalton. Southern California, salt is SO
plentiful that it is obtained by ploughing.
The electric power transmitted 200 miles from
the Yuba, California, has proved perfectly re-
liable.
The total vote of Arizona at the last general
election was 1920, of New Mexico 9,442 and OF
Oklahoma Is,
The Emperor of China and the viceroy of In
dia between them govern more than half the
population of the world.
The most extensive cemetery in the world is
that at Rome, in which over six million human
beings have been inferred.
Of 6165 persons treated since 1886 at the Pas
teur Institute, in Paris, after being bitten by
mad dogs, only lG5 have died.
patients. They cheerfully accept whatever
sums the patients choose to give them.
The amount of gold in the. Treasury January
81 1901 was S545 S76 ,305, the highest point ever
reached in the history of the Government.
An Austin (Tex) dispatch says that ex-Gov-
ernor Hogg foots up the total value of his hold
ings in the Texas oil field at more than $S0,OO0,-
600.
After July /. 1902, the only kind of pistol that
can be sold lawfully in South Carolina will be %
inches long and weighing not less than three
pounds.
In the United States the number of miles of
railway in proportion to the number of inhabi-
tants is nearly double that of any European
country.
Enough timber is destroyed by fire in this
country every year to supply all the pulp mills
though these can turn out 2,5OOOOO tons OF paper
in year.
James c. Needham, a member of the House of
Representatives. was born at Carson City, New.
in an emigrant wagon, his parents being en-
route across the plains to California.
Moses Chamberlain, of Milton, Pa, now so
years old, is a brother of man who was fatally
wounded in the battle of Germantown, between
the Continental forces and the British.
President Roosevelt has accepted an invita-
ton of the Grand Lodge of Masons. of Pennsyl-
vania, to attend the 150th anniversary of George
Washington's initiation into the Masonic order.
Mr. Robert Chapman, one of the Plymouth
brethren, is preaching in Devonshire, England,
at the age of 100 years. He has preached for 70
years without a break. He once was London
lawyer. .4
In Brooklyn, N, Y, the labor unions are build
ing SlOO.UUO nome tnaC Will DC PROVIDED WIN
everything, ranging from gymnasium and
clubroom to ballroom, dining rooms and a
kitchen.
James Shaw, a farmer living at New Windsor,
Ct, whose own dog killed several of his own
sheep, has succeeded in collecting the value of
the sheep from the town because he pays taxes
on the dog.
movement has been started among the mem
bers of the insular police force of Porto Rico
xufi has IFS DnrDOSQ the erection of l.
ument to the late President Mckinley at Guam
lea or Ponce.
David Nation, the husband of Carrie Nation,
the saloon smasher, is leading gay life at Mt.
Giead, Ohio where ne is living Win daughter;
Artemus Ward.
In recent book of travels in China special
point is made of the general honesty of the
people as illustrated by the numerous stalls and
shops that left to look after themselves with
out danger of theft. -
The Toronto Mail makes claim that 'if the
teetotalers were counted it would probably be
found that, in proportion to population they
are more numerous in Canada than anywhere
else in the civilized world"
Canada's entire surplus crop of hay and oats
was marketed last year to the British govern
ment for the use of the army. in South Africa.
An extra feet of steamers will soon begin trans
porting this forage to the seat of war; fs
rode when he was in Chicago attending the
peace Jubilee celebration. in 1898, and which
played conspicuous part in the Mckinley me-
mortal services, has been destroyed by fire
During the last 50 years the suicidal tendency
in England has grown into formidable disease.
The growth. too, has been continuous. Suicide
has steadily increased 200 per cent. Unhappily.
too. the growth has been most rapid in recent
years. w
Representative Henry ID. Flood, of Virginia.
has introduced a bill for q national park at
Appomattox, Va. and the erection of peace
monument at that point. The bill is in line with
action proposed by the Confederate Veterans
Association.
Lieutenant General Miles has written to
George ID. Washburn. of Boston. declaring that
tion TO the effect that he will be candidate for
the Presidency. and states he has no ambition
in that direction.
In the original part of the town Of IrvIngton,
a suburb of Indianapolis. there are provisions
in the titles 10 realty under which the land
would revert II used for saloon purposes In
dlanapols wants TO annex the town. but the
suburbanites object.
when Admiral schley visited Knoxville, Tenn
this week he was presented with gold headed
hickory tree which once grew in the yard of
Admiral Farragut's home and birthplace, twelve
miles west of that city.
Alderman Michael thinner. OF Chicago, has
introduced a resolution In Councils asking his
brother aldermen 20 refrain from chewing to-
baccO during 1902. so that they may be better
equipped TO push the enforcement against
splitting on the sidewalks.
Ex-Representative Jefferson NJ. Levy, owner
of Thomas Jeffersons MONTICELLO" proposes
70 celebrate the third Presidents birthday there
on April 18th with speeches and festivities. Ex-
President Cleveland, ex-senator Hill and other
prominent Democrats will be invited.
william ]. Holland. director of the Carnegie
Museum in Pittsburg. has been engaged for
over eighteen years in the collection of moths.
In the collection brought together under his
supervision there are some 10000 specimens,
representing about 5000 different species.
Herbert L. Cromwell, of Bath. Me-. has in
vented a telegraphic typewriter which, 1t is
claimed, will revolutionize the whole Geographic
idea. II is to send messages upon a typewriter,
form on similar machine at the receiving office.
The bones of Gen. Nathaniel Greene have
rested in a zinc box in a vault of the Southern
Bank for 10 months, since they were discovered
in the Colonial Cemetery by committee headed
by Col. Asa Bird Gardiner, of New Y ork, repre-
senting the Rhode Island Society of the Gin
cinnati.
Thomas NJ. Patterson. the new Senator from
Colorado at one time was circus manager. be-
ing associated with two other young men from
in County Carlow, ireland, in 1910, and moved
with his parents to Crawfordsville when he was
l3 years OLD. sf-e
In the presence of the chief officials of the
Treasury Department, February LIST, Senator
Dolliver and nearly all of Iowas delegation in
Shaw, of Iowa, took the oath of office as Secre-
tary of the Treasury, succeeding Lyman J.
Gage resigned.
Jacob Spawn. of Lexington, Ill.,, citizen of
that State since 1926, celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday anniversary few days ago. He
built the first house in Lexington, in 1886; acted
as the host of Lincoln and Douglas and has
voted at 20 Presidential elections His first bal