The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-11-12
ITEMS OF GENERAL rNrERnsr.


An automobile hearse.is the latest in the line
of adapting the gasoline motor to every day
uses.
The number of sick and wounded soldiers un-
der treatment in Japan toward the end of Sep
TENDER was 1900.
Mrs. Sarah Mclaughlin, IS years old, does
good days work every day at Lynn, Mass, in
binding shoes on her machine.
Greenwich, Ind, boasts of having one of the
strangest freaks in the country. 1t is tree
growing sturdily on the top of its court house
tower.
Exclusive of agricultural workers there are
over 6,OOe 900 laboring men in the United States
Nearly 100000 of the number are members Of
labor organizations.
Five women at Washington d. c., are still
drawing pensions as widows of soldiers who
served in the War of the Revolution, which
ended 100 years ago.
Two million bricks will be used in the new
Rockefeller building in Cleveland 10000 square
feet of glass will be put into windows, and the
steel alone will cost $4,000.
James Bellows McGregor, of Worthwhile, N.
H.. who recently celebrated his one hundred
ana LnlrO DlrJuudys Is UctlctCu W Oc onO SaNSSS
Mason in the United States.
Rev. H. g. Brunson of Lafayette, Iowa, has
been preaching for IS years. He is hale and
hearty, although over 90 years of age, and con-
tinues to preach long and vigorous sermons.
A recent mechanical wonder is a Geographic
instrument which sends 1000 words minute
over lines thousand miles in length. hu-
man operator can transmit 80 words minute.
In China spurious coin may be lawfully manu-
featured when it is intended to be placed In the
collins of the dead. The Chinese believe that
those bad coins make the dead just as happy as
good coins would.
English potato growers are discouraged be-
cause OF the damage done this year and last by
rot" All the finer varieties have shown them
selves peculiarly liable to disease. The coarser
sorts are immune.
The Lewis and Clark centennial will COM
memorate the acquisition of the only territory
possessed by the United States the title to which
was obtained by discovery. 1t will be held at
Portland, Oregon.
When W. Murray Crane, now United States
Senator from Massachusetts,, was II years old,
he left the public schools to take place in the
paper mill of his father, beginning at the lowest
place-that of ragpicker.
An interesting exhibit at the st. Louis Expo
sition is a locomotive that has run 50 miles an
hour in railroad yard tests, and another locomo-
tive that pulls train weighing 400 tons at
speed of 90 miles an hour.
Rev. A. C. Difendorfer, pastor of Grace N.
E. Church, Piainfeld, N. j., has arranged for
all aged and infirm members of his congrega-
ton to be brought to church in automobiles and
carriages, as well as trolley cars.
Mrs. Johanna Wood, mother of IL children,
was the only candidate for constable in Hugo,
Col The Republicans nominated her, and the
Democrats decided they could not put up
better candidate, so they Endorsed her nomina-
ton.
The eldest children of two Japanese families
cannot marry, for the eldest child must always
live at home, and so keep the family home from
passing into strange hands. If man marries
Japanese heress he has to take her family name
If he is poor himself.
The nine sons and seven grandsons of Hiram
Baker. of Des Moines Iowa, voted for Roose-
velt at the recent election. Mr.. Baker voted
for every Republican candidate for President
from the time of John c. Fremont. in 1856, until
the time of his death. short time ago.
After walking from Terre Haute, Ind. to
Knoxville Tenn, and despairing Of success, 7.
e. Leroy, tramp, was offered and accepted
$l64OOO for one-fourth interest In patent TO
tie the ends of steel rails together. The New
York Central Railroad is the purchaser
The name of the lawmaking power in the
United States is the Congress; in England. the
Parliament; in France, the Assembly; in Ger
many, the Reichstag; in Holland, the states
General in Spain, the Cortes; in Greece, the
Boule. and in Denmark, the Landsthing.
Two hundred thousand head of lambs will be
fed on peas in the San Luis Valley, COL, the
coming winter. An immense acreage OF peas
has been grown and the crop will be fed. with
out harvesting, to lambs, which will be sent into
| the valley from Northern New Mexico and Utahs
Great interest has been aroused In Pueblo,
COL. over the announcement that gold mine
| has been discovered almost within the city
limits. Pueblo is noted as great manufacture
| ing city, being called the "PIttsburg of the
West" and now is bidding for fame in the NIL
ming world.
The development of the dairy industry in the
| United States is scarcely realized by business
| men. In 1898 the butter haul over the Minnea-
| polls and st. Louis railroad was 100000 pounds.
Last year it was nearly 100000, the gain COM
| ing wholly from developments Of creameries
along that railroad.
| About 1000 acres of valuable fruit land has
been brought under water by the construction
of the De Weese dam, in the Wet Mountain VAL
ley, near Westcliffe Col. The reservoir is one
| Of the largest in the Centennial State and its
| waters will render valuable much land In Lin
coin Park, near Canon City.
DIR. George F. Reinhardt. professor of hygiene
at the University of California, is making Wig
orous fight as to the indifference Of American
men and women as to the health of the men and
women they marry. From such unions, he says.
result unhappiness and offspring with shapeless
bodies and dimly-lighted brains.
Last year 1.Oee.OOO harvesting machines were
sold in the United States, and Of this number
5000 were binders. They wentto every wheat
| producing country in the world, for the sun
never sets on American farm machines. But
most of them are being used in the United States.
Our agricultural expansion has followed the
path Of farm machines.
John s. and Martha Gentry. husband and wife,
quarrel ed over the slavery question at St.Joseph
| Mo-, Just before the war. He enlisted In the
/ Confederate army, she went to California, and
/ in 1874 obtained a divorce. The other day they
| met by chance on ferryboat on San Francisco
bay, and on September 80 they were remarked.
Both are over 70 years old.
A.. Liese, of Fresno county, CAL, put up his
| ranch for a rattle. He sold tickets to the amount
| of $500. w. G. Wilkinson held the winning
number, but Liese refused to surrender the
ranch, saying that Wilkinson had no rights in
| law, as rafting is gambling. But Wilkinson has
found an old statute which provides for the con-
| fiscation of such property to the state.
The Western newspapers relate that boy Of
IL. who lives at Hamilton, Ont, wrote to the
| Car asking for some Russian postage stamps.
Recently he received from the Gar a complete
| collection Of postal, departmental and local
! stamps. in a magnihcently bound album. The
| collection is said to be worth several thousand
dollars. This is a good tip to stamp collectors.
The late Postmaster General Payne began
| lower in the postal service than any other en-
ploye known. His first job in the department
was an errand boy in the post-office of his native
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