The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-30
ITEMS OF GENERAL 1NrEREsr.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Ohio collects over 100000 in licenses from
10, 739 saloons.
Farm laborers in Montana have formed union
and demanded $3.50 day of nine hours.
Carpenters in Australia work 10 to II hours a
day for an average weekly wage amounting to -
and IS.
Great Britain spends s112, 500 600 a year in the
support of the poor. This does not include pri-
vate charities.
1t is said that the children of labor engaged
in the various occupations of the United states
number 1,750OO0.
California produces more dollars worth Of
oranges than of gold-Oranges over $lS,UOO,UOU
and gold $17,OOO,OOO.
Gov. Bailey, of Kansas. is quoted as saying he
will appoint no one to office who has not some
thing laid away for rainy day.
Kilkenny Castle is one of the oldest inhabited
houses in the world, many of the rooms Delng
much as they were 500 years ago.
clever calculator estimates that there are
ia use by telegraph, telephone and trolley COM
panies in this country 100000 poles.
1t is stated that on January /, 1903. there were
1,1N bituminous coal mines in operation in Penn
isSSania' as compared WIN $40 On De'''' o.
speed of 81 miles an hour for Is miles has
been attained on the Midland Railway of Eng
land with their new compound locomotives with
a 350-ton load.
The last census gave the value of poultry
raised in the United States during the year 1899,
as S136 1891. ST; of eggs produced in the same
year, $14l, 1851
The recently appointed board on the national
trophy rifle contests recommends that the
schoolchildren throughout the United States be
given small arms practice.
According to late report of the secretary of
the Presbyterian Board of Church Erection fif-
teen church buildings are erected in the United
States every day in the year.
From facts gathered in the last six months the
remarkable condition is revealed of the exist
ence of more child labor in New York than in
all the states of the South combined.
Charles Stevens, secretary of the Antivacci-
pox He had frequently denounced vaccination
as inefficaeious and barbarous practice.
are somewhat over 1900 girls in the Pennsyl-
vania mills between the ages of IS and 16. OF
this number approximately 1000 work at night.
Rev. Frank P. Bachelor of the South Con-
gregational Church, Hockanum. Ct. has resign
ed his pastorate because leading members of
bacco.
Since 1862 over So, 900 900 have been expended
in the construction of 1900 miles of levees along
the Mississippi and of that amount the United
States Government has contributed over $12,-
100000.
Medals are to be given to the members of Con-
necticut's three regiments of volunteers who
enlisted for three months under President Lin
coins first call for troops to put down the re-
bellion.
The proportion of university students in
creases in the United States at the rate of per
cent. per annum; in Germany the rate is per
cent, while in Great Britain the proportion is
stationary.
Every spring it has been percaution of Flori-
da to declare quarantine against CUBA through
fear of yellow fever. This year no quarantine
will be enforced until cases of yellow fever oc-
cur in Cuba.
The expectation of oil of roses from Rou-
mania amounted last year to 1852 pounds, rep
resenting value of over 100000. Large guam
titles were shipped to Germany, France and
Great Britain.
1t is said that the profitable hen eats is times
her Weight Worth Of
food. Feed plenty of wheat, oats, grit, clover
and bone and less corn.
Governor Bailey. the bachelor executive of
Kansas. has decided to grant the wishes of The
Woman's Christian. Temperance Union, and use
water instead of wine in christening the battle
ship named after his state.
Because Prof. John Wilson Dodge, instructor
in music at Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wis, wrote a comic opera, which, with its is
shOrt-skirted chorus girls, made hit in his home
city, he has been asked to resign.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet, of New York, is doing
what she can to break up the cruel and ugly
custom of docking horses tails by setting the
fool IF hon oiro no
and square on her pair OF roam carriage horses
The Canadian Pacific Railway announces that
it will spend 81 100000 to destroy the United
Brotherhood of Railway Employees. The brother
hood appeals to unions and union men every
where to assist financially in fighting this cor
poration.
A Milwaukee woman has just named her thir-
teenth child Theodore Re, Roosevelt Henry Clay
VALENTINES Day the Pfeslaent ana Inc the P9st
Bear Tracks, outside the civilized tribes of the
Indian Territory, is the only Indian legislator
in the world. He is a member of the Legisla-
ture of South Dakota and resides at Hot Springs.
Bear Tracks is an Ogalallah Sioux, and is an ex-
pert barber by trade.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition. will have
a representative refrigerating exhibit. The
various uses to which mercantile refrigerators
are applied will be exhibited: There will be a
skating rink, and at certain hxed hours during
1.-THE time has come, in my opinion" says
Bishop Burgess, of Long Island, when the
church should be particular what money it re-
ceives. Money obtained by fostering the gam
bling instinct in young Pensioners is something
which every rector should refuse"
When called for sentence for the murder of
Joseph Cullen, a Nanticoke (Pa) union miner,
James Sweeney asked to be sentenced to the
gallows. He said he would rather die than go
to the penitentiary. Judge Wheaton imposed
sentence of 20 years imprisonment at hard Ia
Dor.
After 40 years former First Sergeant John Fo-
garty, late of the First United States Cavalry,
has decided to have extracted part of an arrow
which was shot into him by an Apache on the
edge of Death Valley, CAL, in $780, Fogarty is
attached to the Army Medical Museum at Wash
ington.
During 1902 over g. 1000 workmen were in re-
ceipt of State aid in Germany. Old age pen
sions to the amount of $30250,60O were distribu-
ted among 100000 men; $26, 100000 were paid to
the victims of accidents, and S52,5OO,000 were
disbursed to nearly 10000 persons on account
of Illness
All the private papers of ex-President Harri-
SON. including some unfinished manuscripts,
have been turned over to the Hon. John L. Crit
fifth who is to write his life. Mr.. Griffith was
closely associated with General Harrison po-
litically, and dominated him for the United
States Senate.
In spite of the fact that the German govern
ment is offering high prizes for the killing of
venomous serpents their number seems to be
growing every year. In the district of Koslin
alone there were killed last year A, 600 common
vipers, for which the government paid 10000
marks as premium.
The school children of Kansas City who open
ed accounts in a savings bank three years ago
now have total deposit of $17,358. There are
1464 accounts in the school savings bank, hence
the average deposit is S11.81. In the school year
i,,ofo 10 mini
in the two preceding years.
According to a recent decision in condemna-
ton suit brought by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company before Judge Kohlsaat, of Chicago,
Roosevelt heirs including the President and
VIM. E. and James @. Roosevelt, his cousins, re-
ceiye q verdict of $42,425 The decision marked
the close of litigation which had lasted Is
years.
1t will be surprise to many to know that the
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