The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-10
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A German has invented an electric sand pump
for cleaning stone buildings.
The tongue of 7O-foot whale has been known
to yield as much as a ton OF oil.
Chemical vinegar. catsup and table sauces con-
tain no vegetable matter whatever.
The comet of 1913 was the only one during the
last century visible in broad daylight.
An ordinary oak tree raises 100 to $50 tons of
moisture from the earth during single season.
During the calendar year 1902 the coinage at
the minis of the country aggregated s's,4co,elo.
dollar man resting his feet on hundred-do
desk.
Very few peoples noses are set properly on
their faces. Ninety-nine out of every hundred
turn to the right.
Wire screens are now placed in the tramway
cars at New Orleans to separate negroes from
white passengers.
somali husbands always carry whip during
the first fortnight of their honeymoon to keep
their wives in order.
child young girl or woman aD can ar d be
and the law is strictly enforced.
A bee. unladen, will fly forty miles an hour
but one coming home laden with money does not
travel faster than IL miles an hour.
Two hundred and fifty notice boards are to be
erected in the streets of Edinburg requesting
citizens not to spit on the pavement.
saronv has one of the best-regulated systems
of forestry in the world, the net profits from
the forests amounting annually to over $2,OOOOOO.
Secretary Hay is building in Washington roo
room apartment house with restaurant, plan
ned to excel anything of the sort in that city's
history.
Automatic machines supplying hot milk have
squares at Stockholm by the Swedish Temper
ance Society.
Railway mssgs tRh pted eoSS.sad def
more than two ffths of the entire railway mile
age of the world.
J. F. Stevens, the general manager of the
Great Northern Railroad, says the Canadian
Northwest will soon produce 1000, 600 600 bushel
of wheat per year.
Uncle Sam wound up the year with $685., 900
worth of gold coin and bullion in his Golfers. the
largest stock of gold ever in the treasury of this
or any other country.
The Illinois State Federation of Labor will
make fight to have the legislature pass meas
ures looking toward taking convicts out of COM
petition with free labor.
Stockholders of the Consolidated Tobacco
Company received as a New Years present a
cash dividend of $6,000,000. This amount is 20
per ceuU. VI INC CaPiIoA cCOSA'
Marion Julia and Myrtle Anna Hartney, the
six-fingered and six-toed twins of MIR. and Mrs.
d. w. Hartney, of Chicago, are causing much
curiosity. They are two months old.
One million five hundred thousand dollars was
paid in strike benefits to the coal miners. Fully
l45,CO men were involved, but only 80 per cent.
of this number were reduced to absolute want
The eggs of the lobster are attached to her by
minute appendages called swimmersets and are
orrfo nv hQP frnD nf a Ua0 inf
the following summer, when they are Matched
out
Governor Davis. of Arkansas, among his holt
day-season pardons, freed every boy under Is
years of age from the penitentiary, and will
fight for separate prison for youthful offend
erS.
Among the many interesting exhibits from
Mississippi at the Worlds Fair, st. Louis, will
be an immense panel made from specimens of
So different varieties of wood grown in that
state.
There are only three states in the Union that
have no State debtmWest t Virginia; New Jersey
in which the little mountain state is proud to be
found.
The Ohio Fuel Supply Company, of GAINESVILLE,
has drilled the largest gas well ever struck in
Ohio. The new well is in the Homer field, in
Licking county, and has daily capacity or
100000 cubic feet.
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q woman to drive her carriage. The woman was
a consumptive patient, whom the outdoor life
has completely cured. incidentally she had be-
come an excellent driver.
State Labor Commissioner Black, of New
Haven, Ct, has had erected over the grave of
James Armour, Revolutionary soldier, buried
in the cemetery in that city, granite monu-
ment. He was great uncle of the late Philip
ID. Armour.
Clara Ware, aged 10 years, is dead in Madison
and was never known to have uttered an intel
ligible word until few hours before her DEATH
when she called upon members of the family to
come to her.
The second anpusI renQ2rtQ6 the Goqmtfsiaphr
dOus Increase in the wealth of that State. The
total deposits in State banks alone is now nearly
1888 600 900. an increase in the past ten years of
over $23OOO,O0O.
The French industry of raising flowers for
the manufacture of perfume has been greatly
injured by the chemical odors and artificial
ethereal oils produced in Germany, as the latter
sell at a lower price and are hardly distinguish
able from the genuine.
A proposal has been made in Paris to present
piece of sculpture to President Roosevelt in
recognition of his services to the cause of inter-
national arbitration. The funds will probably
be raised by private subscription among Euro
pean advocates of peace.
Figures compiled by Frederick Hobart of the
Engineering and Mining Journal show that dur
ing the past year there were mined in the Uni
ted States 295 900 tons of COAL an increase of
100000 tons over 1901; and of this amount,
only A. 800, 600 tons were anthracite.
William Mills, of Buffalo, N. Y. has left $10-
600 to his coachman. While he lived he gave the
coachman over $150,000. The beneficiary had
promised to take good care of two old horses
that were favorites of the dead millionaire
The coachman says he is now worth $15O,000
James w. Grover, so years old, who has been
in the employ of the United States Government
ever since May, 1861, has retired from the Office
of superintendent of the United States store
house. at the foot of Grand street, Jersey City,
Mr.. Grover was appointed by President Lincoln.
The Studebaker Manufacturing Company has
presented to the Young Mems Christian ASCOT
alton of South Bend, Ind. 100000. to be used
for the construction of 4 building as memorial
to the five original Studebaker brothers, the
last one of whom, "Clem" Studebaker, died last
year.
More than S6,000,000 in Christmas money was
ent abroad this year, beating all records. Near
ly complete returns from money-order Offices
show these figures. The records indicate an in
crease of so per cent in the money sent to
Great Britain and of 33H per cent to other
countries.
The American Missionary Association will is
invitation and appeal to the CoDgrega-
tional churches Sabbath schools and Endeavor
societies of the country, requesting an obser-
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