The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-11
IrEMs OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Germany has on an average 500 orchard trees
A person can now go from New York to Seat
tie, on Puget Sound, in four days
The fiscal year of the o. s. Government closed
July Sd, with surplus of about So5VVV,VVo'
In California great cry is going up for hands
to harvest the big grain and fruit crops TINS year.
A popular man has little to say about what ne
has done and nothing at all about wnat ne 10
going to- do.
An electrical typesctting machine will, says
its inventor revolutionize the mecnanlcai WorA
on newspaper.
The executive Office of the United States calls
for only $4,000 year, while England gives Inc
royal family $4,OOO,OOO
An English miller has successfully tested 1 tae
vitality of some wheat when was grown III 100
and carefully preserved slnce'
Abraham Lincoln the Oldest male survivor p,es o.
the Lincolns from which descenoeu lho ii
dent is living at Lacy Springs, va.
The navy which gives England the supremacy
of the seas costs $l55 100000 year, or HUE
more than the United States pays year IN pen
sions.
Right Rev. Thomas NJ. Clark, bishop OF Rnode
Island. celebrated on July 4th the ninety-nrsI
anniversary of his birth at his summer honio Ia
Middletown, X. l.
The cost of railways has been calculated at
So per inch and $1950OO per mile III IS sala .haS
British railways are three tlihes as ooSis ."
those of America.
Massachusetts, is free from the repeated muir
der trial farces of New YORK Inere y OILY S Act
appeal possible there-from the jury 'eiui0'
straight to the highest court.
Tho last Compress created II 3l6 new offices at
an annual compensation of 1897 ,639 1t ABOLISH
ed 18i5 Offices The net increase is $500, with an
aggregate of $6,9S6, l5S in salaries
for nth fe t YEAR in ending this f MONTH
will total $50 900. Two-thirds of the immigrants
are from Russia. Italy and Austro- Hungary.
Two of the honor men at West Point this year
are Ulysses s. Grant, grandson of the great
commander, and Douglas Macarthur. son of
the commander of the Department of the East.
The importations of opium that is prepared
for smoking is double that used by physicians
and morphine habitues. The amount is more
than half million pounds and the value $780,
600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
given notice to the War Department of its readi-
ness to begin the construction of the bridge
over the Potomac to replace the famous Long
Bridge
Medals are to be given to the members of
Connecticut's three regiments of volunteers
who enlisted for three months under President
Lincoln's first call for troops to put down the
rebellion.
Since 1862 over $27, 600 has been expended
in the construction of 1900 miles of levees
along the Mississippi, and of that amount the
| United States government has contributed over
| $12,0O0,000.
The number of persons carried daily by the
| elevated trains in New York now averages
| about 100000. They travel on the average about
! four miles. so that the average fare is about a
| cent q mile.
| There are two Republicans in the Arkansas
Legislature, one in Florida. three in Alabama.
| four in Georgia, none in South Carolina and
Mississippi. Louisiana has one anti-organiza
| ton Democrat.
| Food eaten without appetite always causes
| gastric disturbances, because unless the secre-
| tory glands of the stomach are stimulated by q
| desire for food, no digestive juices are exuded
/ into the stomach.
The immense quantity of oak slaves used in
| the wine districts of Spain all come from the
| United States, and most of them from New Or
| leans. One cooperage concern in Andalusis
| buys IT'S 900 slaves year.
A statute of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander
| in chief of the Confederate armies, will be
| placed in Statuary Hail. at Washington, just az
| soon as it can be prepared. The Virginia Legis
lature passed bill making $4,000 available fol
the work.
| According to the Chicago law directory fol
1903 Just issued, there are ATOP attorneys in thai
city. In the last year 120 attorneys left the city
| twenty ceased the practice of law and thirty
two died. The increase in the number of law
yerS was $40.