The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-25
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Plants with white blossoms have a larger pro-
portion Of fragrant flowers than any other.
OF the rs men who have been President of the
United States, 10 have today no descendants.
Within 20 years the South has increased its
railway mileage l62 per cent. and its exports 70
per cent.
Teodor Machnow. q Russian giant now in Ber.
lin. Is eight feet and eight inches tall and still
growing. He Is % years old.
A hurricane is a wind that blows at II miles an
hour or more. Such wind exerts pressure or
nearly IL pounds to the square foot.
The damage to the cotton crop from the leaf
worm, which in some seasons exceeded $2O,0O0,-
BOO, is now prevented by insecticides.
During the past year California produced
twice as much gold as Alaska and Colorado pro-
duced more than three times as much.
One hundred pressed steel cars are to be de-
every day during the current half year.
Joseph Downey, a Chicago contractor, has just
from tour around the world, which
he made at cost of 5000 to win $40 bet.
The average yield of cotton is 1881 pounds per
acre; and the average price sos cents pound.
making the crop worth at the railway $500 an
acre.
In a trial at Atlanta, the fact was elected that
at one drug store in that city more than 1900
for cocaine had been filled within
two months.
J.W. Curtis. of Chicago, has a clock 400 years
old, which keeps good time. and with pipe
organ attachment that plays as well today as the
day it was made.
South Dakota farmers are endeavoring to or
ganize combination, composed of all the far
mers in the United States, to control the prices
of their products.
Mrs. George A. Graves, of Ogden, Utah, re-
Gently received q check from the United States
Government, being her share OF claim that
had been pending los years.
The exports of this country for February
were valued at $125 5O2 105 which sum is $l2 0O0,
900 in excess of any preceding February, ac-
cording to the Bureau of Statistics.
ty and thirty a man loses on an average only
5k days year from illness but between fifty
and sixty he loses twenty days yearly.
The Oldest man in California has added two
years to his century. He has been smoker for
IS and moderate drinker for 20 years, but
never touched modern breakfast foods.
California prunes are slowly driving out the
imported varieties. California now has over
90. 600 acres of prune trees, and Idaho, Oregon
and Washington have about $4,000 more.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana, is said to be
a great admirer of a rug for which he paid $780,
600 in Europe, but he admits being unable to
tell 1.-THE right side' of it to save his life.
A farmer of South Dakota has discovered that
a sprinkling of hops in the brine when bacon
and hams are put to pickle adds greatly to the
flavor of both and enables them to keep longer.
For every 10000 inhabitants of Germany 100
acres of potatoes are planted. as against liz acres
in Austria, SO acres in France, 80 acres IN the
United States and 81 acres in Great Britain and
Ireland.
Mrs. Sarah R. Bolton, of Cleveland. will short
ly make tour of the larger cities to plead the
cause of the waif cat and tramp dog. waging
active war against pounds and setting up homes
of refuge.
Thomas F. Folger. for 40 years driver of the
prison van at Boston, died the other day, leav-
ing handsome fortune. He was great reader.
but never in the course OF his life was ne known
to buy newspaper.
The Thomas Jefferson bronze medals, designed
under the direction of the Thomas JEFFERSON
Memorial Association, and intended TO De given
to subscribers to the memorial fund, are being
coined at the Philadelphia mint.
A New Jersey minister has fixed the end of the
world in 1915. That is, unless circumstances
over which he has no control change the sched-
ule, as such circumstances have been known
to do before with similar prophecies.
A few years ago quartz mines that would not
yield $50 to the ton were despised and rejected
as improbable. Now, with improved methods
of extracting ore containing as low as 50 per
ton pays fair dividends to the stockholders.
Ex-senator Kellogg, OF Louisiana, and Judge
Weldon of the Court of Claims, Washington, are
the only survivors of the Illinois Electors who
in 1850 were chosen to cast the vote of that State
for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
A Milwaukee woman has just named her thir-
teenth child Theodore Roosevelt Henry Clay
Payne Bradenburg. The youth was born on It.
Valentines Day. The President and the POST
master General sent photographs on learning of
the honor.
This country invented the parlor. sleeping and
dining cars the pressed steel freight car, many
OF the best features OF me modern iocomotlve,
of related devices, and it runs the fastest long
distance trains.
and reversed and no authority gives less than 9
mile or mile and half as the required space
to stop its progress.
Mrs. Lydia Dyer Briggs. who is the seventh
lineal descendant of Mary Dyer, the Quaker,
who was hanged on Boston Commons in 1861 for
returning after she had been banished from the
colony, has just celebrated her ninety-seventh
birthday in Rutland, vt.
The Rev. E. c. Wheeler, a Congregational
minister of Rockland. Mass, has created SEN
sation in his flock by declaring that dancing is
too good a recreation to be turned over to the
devil, and advising his hearers to cultivate the
terpsichorean art assiduously.
The latest explosive shell has the greater part
of its interior filled with lead. which, when fired,
is melted by burning composition, so that
when the shell bursts the molten lead is scatter
ed to a considerable distance, and the smallest
particle causes nasty wound.
In recognition of the passage in his last regu-
lar message to Congress recommending kind
ness to the cavalry and artillery horses and con-
sideratiOn for their services, President Roose-
welt has been elected an honorary member of
the Washington Humane Society.
Mrs. Sarah g. Milliken and William Bassett
were married few days ago in Brookline, Mass.
The marriage was the fourth in the life of the
bride and the third in the life of the bridegroom.
Moreover, it is said that the bride received her
first proposal of marriage from her last husband.
spices of the American Federation of Labor,
has been organized at Abeline, Kan. County or
will follow, covering the entire
State, before harvest time. The object will be
to secure uniform wages and better grain prices.
Acting on the suggestion of the ladies of the
church, Judge o. B. French and Messrs. Hitch
cock Brown, Dean and Griffin, all we'll known
citizens of West Hartland, Conn.,, laid aside bust
ness one day last week, dOnned Overalls and
painted the interior of the Methodist Church in
that village.
The bartenders of Chicago have organized
total abstinence society. From figures pre-
sented at the first meeting it was shown that
fully one-third of the bartenders and saloon
owners of the city are abstainers. In many of
the large saloons the proprietors will not employ
q man who drinks.
The industrial agent of the Hartman system
of railways says that tract of land of about
200, 900 acres has been bought in Southwestern
Texas for the Beers. about 10000 of whom will
soon settle there. They will give their attention
at first to raising rice and tobacco, to which
crops that region is peculiarly adapted.
It is seldom that one meets person of nearly
30 years who is capable of filling the important
position of cashier of a large bank. Azel Will
lard, of Detroit. Mich, father of George w.
willard, one of Detroit's foremost merchants,
has just passed his eighty eighth birthday at his
desk, discharging his regular duties as cashier.
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