The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Half the people living in New York move one
or more times year

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Half the people living in New York move one
or more times year
The first complete sewing machine was pat
ented by Elias Howe, Jr. In 1876.
The United States weather Bureau employs
], 400 trained observers at $50 stations.
Germany has barred out American potatoes
and all kinds of American preserved meat
The Texas Legislature has passed law pro-
viding for the determination of prairie dogs.
you may be able to say something more aggra-
waiting than If you had spoken at nrst.
Owing to inability to procure farm hands most
of the corn raised in the eastern part of Kan
sas last summer is still standing in the fieids.
The first sleeping car seen in Cuba is now on
exhibition at Havana. The .'dormitorio" is for
use on the recently completed line TO Santiago
Rev. E. H. Wallace. pastor of the Montours-
vile (Pa) Methodist Church. has displaced his
gentlemen ushers with six young ladles IN
white.
The number of deaths each year in London
was $50 years ago, 81 per thousand. In 1870 1t
was 20 per thousand and it now is about is per
thousand.
honest employees during 1907 in the Unlteo
States and Canada reached the enormous amount
of S6,933,5l6.
That the farmers of Nebraska are getting lar
ger dividends than the Steel Trust is proved by
Professor DAVIDSON of the State u University In
pamphlet just issued.
census recently completed shows that there
are 1882 children of school age in Boston, and
that II ,532 of them are pupils in the public
schools and 1901 in private schools.
Senator Hanna was rendered a public recep-
ton the other day by the residents of Salem, Co
lumbia county. o., which place the Senator left
so years ago to make his home in Cleveland.
Cornelius HILL chief of the Oneida Indians.
last survivor of the famous Six Nations of New
York State, will be ordained at Green Bay. Wis.,,
nriast &c x:-aasaa .i-' = $1,000 sssA''
The Maryland School for the Blind has issued
the first general dictionary ever published for
the use of the blind. The work comprises IS
Volumes and contains definitions of 10000
words.
Rev. DIR. Chauncey Hobart, of Red Wing,
MIMI, is called the pioneer preacher of old
Methodism." Mr.. Hobart is now 90 years of age
He has been Methodist preacher in Minnesota
since 1849.
President Roosevelt is to deliver an address at
the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
on June 18th, only IL days after the date set for
his return to Washington from his present
Western tour.
A New Jersey minister has fixed the end of
the world in 1915. That is unless circumstances
oyer which he has no control change the sched-
ule, as such circumstances have been known to
do before with similar prophecies.
Rev. James Stafford, of Hazleton, Ind, has
perfected a stopper to make bottles non-refilla-
Bic. James Pepper whisky distiiler Of Louis
vile. KY, has offered him $1000,0O0 for the de-
vice, and the minister is thinking about it.
At the reception following the wedding of
Captain Albert George Jenkins and Miss Laura
Eackus in PhGnixville, Pa. the bride intro
cake with the sabre of her soldier husband.
With her spring clothes, Miss Alice Roosevelt
has brought forth her toy cane, which she
adopted last spring. She carries it to teas, out
driving, and. in fact everywhere, and is con-
spicuous figure in the striking gowns she now
wears
Essen. Germany, has population of 100000.
80 per cent. of whom are supported by the
Krupps, the great German ironmakers and gum
makers. The workmen employed number So
600, the greatest number employed by any indi-
vidual.
When George A. Flagg was serving as librarian
of the Sunday school of the First Presbyterian
Church of Yonkers little chap came to him
and said "Mr. Flagg, will you please let me
have a Sunday school book without too much
A notable parrot. the property of a resident
age of As years. This birds claim to distinction
lay in the fact that, though educated on ship
board, it was never known to utter vulgar or
profane word.
Charlemange Tower, American ambassador to
Germany. has equipped his new Berlin residence
of the natives. In the way of splendor and
luxury there is nothing in the German capital
to compare with it.
In Lynn Mass 24.OOO,OOO pairs of shoes were
made last year; in Brockton. 100000 pairs,
cities, therefore, turned out enough shoes to
supply one pair for two-third6 of the popula-
ton of the country.
A Chelsea (England) hospital is mourning the
loss of bequest of $4,000 through legal infor-
mality. The testator signed his will in his bed
room, and the witnesses thoughtlessy carried it
into another room before signing it, thus making
Us iee Ssfy fegn by negro VINO unrortu-
nately died before imparting the secret to any
one.., In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the art of
needle making was rediscOvered by German,
who impaired it to an Englshman.
For catching eight trout less than six inches
in size in McMichael's creek, near the Pennsyl-
vana village of that name, Rodman Wister, q
prominent Philadelphia. was arrested by Spec
ial State Fish Warden James little. Wister
paid SO for each trout, or SS5, with the costs.
The last of the Eskimos. Meme Peary Wallace,
one of the family of six Lieutenant Peary
brought from the Arctic regions several years
ago, is i'll in the Fordham Hospital. New York,
from the same disease which carried off all the
rest of his family-consumption Meme is IL
years old.
Capt. Henry Marmaduke a son of former
Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri. is now a
man without a country. He gave up his United
States citizenship to take part in recent revo-
luton in South America, which failed, so now
he is not citizen of any land. He is in bust
ness in st. Louis.
There is alive in France today woman who
has been asleep for the last twenty years. Re-
Gently an abscess appeared on one arm and this
the incision, and for the first time in twenty
years was observed to move, making a slight
twitch of the arm.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, though in
her seventy eighth year, has just returned to
her home at Ell Mora, N. j.. from journey to
companied by any of her family in a tourist
party of 400, and had not moments trouble,
even from seasickness.
Prof. Stephen NJ Babcock of the chair of ag-
ricultural chemistry in the Wisconsin Univer-
sity, who announced before meeting of the
University Science Club, as a result of 20 years
of research, theory of atomic energy that is
revolutionary to the scientific world, was the in
ventor of the Babcock milk test.
The greatest dam ever built for the produc-
lion or power is Inat puiiddng at Spier r a on
long and 156 feet high. Ten steel tubes having
a diameter of IL feet will lead water to 81 inch
turbines, each coupled to 5000 horsepower
generator The cost will be $2,00O,00O.
At a recent reception given to Prof. Herman
V. Hiprecht of the University of Pennsylva-
MA the noted Assyrioiogist, his wife wore the
Jerusalem cross, one of the numerous decora-
tons bestowed upon the Professor. 1t is said
that this is the only medal in the world given to
a man that may properly be worn by his wife.
Cynthia Highbaugh, negress of Hammonds-
Vile. KY, has just celebrated the one hundred
and tenth anniversary of her birth. In many
respects she is remarkable old woman. She
has never seen railroad train, was never away
from her immediate neighborhood, and can do
as much work as woman of three-score years.
The church social, according to Bishop Fallows,
of Chicago, is great big matrimonial agency in
disguise. "Three- fourths of the marriages of
today are the outcome of introductiOns at
church socials. The other fourth are the result