The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-23
ITEMS OF Generals INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Fear is said to be responsible for 90 per cent.
Of disease contracted.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Walsh. of Brooklyn, has
given nearly $4,000 to Catholic charities.
What was probably the first public library in
the United States was started In Charleston, s.
G., In 1749.
Since the close of the Civil War the State of
Louisiana has spent more than 3O,OOO,OOO on
levees.
Somewhere in the world there are 100000
big copper pennies. but nobody appears to
know where they are.
Montgomery, Ala. claims to be the most
American city. All its inhabitants except per
cent were born in this country.
There is no work in the Chinese language that
conveys an intimation of what we term public
spirit, nor is there synonym for patriotism.
There are now but IL survivors of the Mary
land Society of the California Pioneers. In 1887
when the society was organized, it had 80 mem
bers.
The total cost of the federal census of 1900,
completed to July LIST, when the permanent
Census Bureau succeeded to the work, was $l2-
OO0,OO0
Potatoes form the worlds greatest single
crop. 4,O0O,000000 bushels being produced an
nually, equal in bulk to the entire wheat and
corn crops.
debted for half our mental traits; to our grand
parents. one fourth to our great grandparents,
one-eighth, and so forth.
Missouri has 200 more convicts in its peniten-
tiary than Ohio has in its state prison, while the
Ohio officials pay S127, 600 more yearly for main
tenance than does Missouri.
The bands of elk that wintered in Jackson
Hole country. Wyoming, four years ago, were
estimated to number less than 10000, according
to the estimate of the ranchers.
Charles T. Yerkes is credited with saying that
the age of 40 and that business man is not ripe
until he is 10 years older than that.
Perry Rodgers, of Bardstown, KY. has in his
possession the bugle that called the Continen-
tai army to battle in many of the principal en-
gagements for American independence.
Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, has
organized religious services for each OF the
parks of the city. On late Sunday 5000 peo-
pie, it is estimated, were in attendance
Both eyes of wolf in a menagerie at Lyons
have been operated on for cataract. After the
operation the animals eyelids were sewn to-
gether to prevent it opening them for several
hours.
English is more and more taking the place of
French as The language of Russian court circles.
The Czarina speaks English constantly, and the
Gar also likes to express himself in the same
tongue.
General Booth has just acquired 10000 acres
of land in Western Australia, where he will es-
tabish great Salvation Army agriculture and
industrial colony. which he will populate from
the London slums.
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canning factories at Quimper, Brittany, led to a
strike and ultimately to a riot, in which the
workmen marched to the factories and smashed
the new appliances.
The Prince of Wales has become, by virtue of
his appointment as general supernumerary to
establishment. higher in the army than he is in
the navy-the service to which he is bred and to
which he is devotedly attached
The death of Royal E. Robbins. practically
the founder of the American Waltham Watch
Company, ends the career of man who for
years employed thousands of men and never
once was threatened with strike.
queer story among commercial men reports
the Standard Oil Company to be back OF plan
to consolidate all the confectionery plants of
the East into big trust. It is said that several
plants have already been purchased.
ple-mannered of millionaires. He always dress
es in the Quietest manner, and his whole man.
ner of life shows the influence of the economic
habits to which his father trained him.
The white sands" of Southern New Mexico
lie in the San Augustin plain and are sheet of
pure gypsum GO miles long and to ~ broad;
The white ''sand" of gypsum raised by the wind
resembles line of breakers in the distance.
The English cotton manufacturers. who have
for so long time depended on the United States
for their raw material, have raised guarantee
fund of 900 for the purpose of promoting the
cultivation of cotton within the British Empire.
Thirty-five men are continually employed in
painting the famous Forth Bridge in Scotland.
They commenced operations at the south end of
the bridge and proceed steadily to paint their
way northward. their labOrious journey occupy
ing three years then they begin again.
Mrs. Sarah Mackey, of Porterfeld. Pa. is
slowly dying, the result of sneeZing. She
sneezed 500 times in one hour by actual count
way from so to 200. Her case is puZzing phYsi-
clans, all their efforts proving unavailing.
Mrs. Frank Bats has sued Mr.. J. ]. Hartford
in the Henry (Ky) Circuit Court for $1,000
damages for personal injury alleged to have
been inflicted upon plaintiff by defendant on
the occasion of his shaking hands with her, by
reason of his squeezing her hand too hard.
Some idea of the enormous amounts that have
been handled by the various mints and assay
offices is shown by the statement that So l33, 104,
023.S5 represents the total amount of coinage OF
the various minis of the United States from
the establishment of the Philadelphia mint to
the end of June, 1901.
An Atlanta. Ca. bank has opened a depart
ment exclusively for its women clients. Inc
presented to her in brand new currency. De-
positors in the women's department are fur
nished with dainty combination check and pass
books bound in Russian leather.
Striking proof of the efficacy of vaccination
comes from Porto Rico. Up to 1899 there was
an annual death rate from smallpox OF over 800
In that year, in four months, 100000 vaccina-
tions were made. Since then the mortality
from smallpox has been but two per annum in
population of about million.
The school trustees of Summit Hill. Pa, have
elected as school director Jack Bonner, whose
claim to publicity heretofore has been only as
a middleweight prize-fghter. He has many ad-
mirers in the town, and the school trustees de-
clare he will make most satisfactory director
of the educational affairs of the district.
Joseph Gatewood, of Caroline county, Va,
has two valuable setter dogs which he claims
are of as much service to him in the tobacco
fields as two boys would be. He has trained the
dogs to start at the end of tobacco row and
go through to the other end, picking off the de-
structive tobacco worms from the leaves.
The reported discovery of beds of nitrate of
SOFA near LoVeiOck, humDoioI county, NeV..
may prove of considerable Importance. Chill
at present furnishes the worlds supply, and the
use of the mineral for agricultural purposes is
increasing, due to the results that have been
CLEANED from mixing brains with the SOIL"
The Mayor of Steubenville, o., has adopted q
unique method of settling what he calls "petty
clotheslinen quarrels between women. He has
established a fighting room.' in which he locks
the women who quarrel over backyard fences.
After an hours abuse of each other they run
down. Then they invariably become reconciled.
The last of the Lafayette flower girls of
Morristown, N. j., is dead. She was Mrs. Mary
L. Morrow, 80 years old, and she well remem-
in 1926. She was then 10. With 80 other girls.
she was selected to carry flowers for the festi-
val, and her companions made her their queen.
peculiar visiting card. the fashion of which