The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-29
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
During the last fiscal year in every 4Ol rail-
way employees was killed and in every "a lh-
jured.
Massachusetts is so per LOCO; among the native
born it is IL.
Some Chicago burglars used an acid test IN
order to take only real silver from house they
had broken into.
In the first half of 1903 five railways went into
the hands of receivers, but they aggregated put
rs miles of track.
One out of two workingmen in England who
reaches the age of Go dies pauper ana is Durleu
at the poorhouse.
Nearly one-half of the mortality in the Uni
ted States is from diseases OF the lungs anu 20
per cent. of it preventable
A bacteriologist in the Marine Hospital 1 Ser .he
vice has discovered parasite when Is tne
natural enemy of the mosquito.
DIN. Parry. president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, in an ADDRESS at Onau
tauqua, n. Y. branded organized LABOR as hoo'
The Duke of Northumberland is the only man
in ali England who can leave his own door ana
ride 100 miles in straight line on his own iaho'
John r. Zimmerman, who has been employed
at the United States Capitol for nearly 1O years
and was well known in Western Maryland Is
dead.
In the ranks of swindlers, Whitaker Wright,
the English confidence manipulator deserves
the halo. His victims were Dled 10 the tune VI
some $25,0O0,000.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet. of New York. though
very wealthy woman,iS much averSe TO eXtraVa-
gance and positively shudders at anything that
savors of ostentatlon
A ,o, ,,,,+s in his whole lifetime in a certain
pursuit, and is then surprised and panied When
he finds his sons showing tendency to follow
in their fathers footsteps
An ingenious matchmaker in Paris, France,
has invented union watch tnat goes OILY for
eight hours day. is intended, IL seems lor
the use of walking delegates.
Everything is the other way around IN CHINA
In that country they behead their reformers:
| In this country it is the reformers that are out
after the heads of the offceholders.
The Scenic aud Historical Society of New
York has awarded Nancy Rose gold medal for
the lighthouse at Stony Point, on the Hudson
river
F.W. MacMonies, the American sculptor. has
received the contract for designing and model
ing the heroic statue of General Mcclellan
which will be added to the collection IN WASH
ingtoH's parks.
In the little town of Fairfield, Franklin coun-
". I..a
to mark the birthplace of the only native Yer
monter who ever sat in the Presidential chair
Chester Alan Arthur.
Because of threats and demands of labor or
CARNATIONS, it is said that the railroads OF this
country considering plan TO estaonsh u
general employment bureau, which will engage
all the minor employees.
James ]. Hill, who built successful railroads
in the Northwest when everyone said ne
couldn't make them pay, has had q personal
representative in China looking up the chances
for new railroads there.
Mrs. Amasa Berger. the woman engineer
has secured license to operate stationary en-
zine in the District of Columbia. she IS the
| first woman who ever took the engineers ex-
animation in Washington.
Eagles have been noticed flying at height OF
| 5000 feet and storks and buzzards at ZUUU 1eeG;
| A lark will rise to the same height. ana SO VIII
| crows AS rule however, birds do not fly at
| a greater height than LOU feet
| voung Vanderbilt, who has just returned
| from abroad with his wife, paid 5000 to get his
clothes through the custom house. And there
| are some folks who still insist that the customs
| tax is a tax on the poor people.
IlWhile chopping wood near Augsburg. Ger
many, a boy named Wilhelm Behe caught his
ak against a wire clothesline. At the same mo
| ment a flash of hot lightning struck the line,
| passed down the Ratchet and killed him.
The estate of the late Daniel Wells Jr., of
| Milwaukee, has been inventoried at about $l0,-
U man during his life few supposed he was worth
| more than quarter of the sum named.
| at l05 Hudson street, Hoboken. has had her
| name legally changed to Cora Folerie Garfield
because, she says, the name OF the dead Presi-
| dent reminds her of good and great man.
| IT has been estimated by an expert in the en-
| ploy of the government that agricultural ma
| oLi rnduonc the number of men emDlOyou
| to do given amount to one-th1rd, while manu-
| featuring machinery reduces the number to
| one-fftieth.
For high-grade work requiring precision and
| excellence there is to be found in nearly every
machine shop in Germany group of American
tools-a silent tribute to the remarkable posi-
| ton held in the world today by the American
machine tools work.
Dence, has occasionally to repress the usually
ger came up to him and cried George I'll bet
| Won don't know me-" You win" said the AID
| miral, and passed on his way.
Prof. Mark v. Singerand, of the Cornell Col
| lege of Agriculture, has published letter ask
ing that everyone send him bugs, dead or allve
| He even desires such common specimens as
| cockroaches, potato bugs and caterpillars. He
will make series of experiments.
Elias Crane Winans, a veteran of the Civil
| War, died at Elizabeth, N. j., recently. Accord
| ing to the history of the Ninth New Jersey
| t.
| the Neuse river in 1862 in the face of a shower
| of lead, four bullets piercing him.
In an open letter to the candidates for office.
| State Chairman ]. Taylor Ellyson, OF virginia,
| calls their attention to the provisions OF the
Barksdale pure election bill, passed at the re-
cent session of the General Assembly, regarding
the spending of money at elections.
| The base of nutrition in all living beings is
oxygen. water, salts, carbon and nitrogen. Fors-
| ter tried to feed dogs organic substances de-
prived of nearly all their mineral matter. Death
| from starvation occurred sooner than II the
| dogs had been completely without food.
memorial to the Confederate dead is to be
| erected at Little Rock, Ark. The monument
| will be 80 feet high and will stand on base of
| Arkansas granite IL feet deep and feet 61nches
| WIDE 1t will have pedestal OF French stone
modelled after the Rochambeau monument, in
Washington.
Physicians are puzzled over the case of Miss
Laura Williams, telegraph operator at Potts
vile, Pa, who was shocked by lightning and
lost her voice while sending message during
an electrical storm All efforts to restore her
vocal organs to normal condition have thus
far proved unavail1ng.
Roy Schnell, Pennsylvania barber, has shay
ed thirty men in thirty minutes on wager.
The best BARRIERS record made previous to this
was twenty-nine in thirty minutes. The men
were all neatly shaved, and at times a crowd of
100 cheered loudly as Schnell manipulated his
razor with great skill.
Among working women, Miss Alice Dunlap,
of Peru, Ind, occupies unique position. For
thirty years she has been manager of the same
telegraph station at Peru. Previously she was
employed for five years in railroad dispatch
office. In her career Miss Dunlap has sent and
received 100000 messages.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Snyder, of Yellow Creek.
Calhoun county, w. Va, though married 22
years ago, are the parents of Is children. Ten
times has the stork visited their home. On
eight occasions has Mrs Snyder been the mother
of twins and at two other times single child
was born to her. AL are living.
Edward A. Bond. New York State engineer
and surveyor, recently went to Oyster Bay to
give President Roosevelt parrot. The bird, it
talks much but never improperly. Mr.. Roose-
welt accepted the bird, and it will be forwarded