The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-09
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The demand for gutta percha is sixty times
that of the supply.


that Of the supply.
Only one out of every 1000 married couples,
live to celebrate their golden wedding.
Amy Gistrap. who lives in Mason county, Mo-,
is 100 years old, and saysshe was never angry in
her life.
A cotton picker machine has been invented.
which. it is claimed, will save one-third of the
crop and the wages of % men.
The number Of cigars made in the United
States in November, according to the Internal
Revenue Bureau, was 57S, 1910.
Goose quill pens and drying powders are still
used in English law courts and the House of
Lords and in the French Chamber of Deputies.
Almost 300 men were killed in the anthracite
mines of Pennsylvania during 1908, according to
the records kept by the State mine inspectors.
Three judges of the Supreme Court of New
York decided that to eat in the modern quick
lunch restaurant with ones hat on was quite
proper.
A bill was introduced in the Minnesota Legis-
lature making it unlawful for any person to kiss
another unless he be able to produce clean bill
of health.
A New York mother was given lease for
fiat by representing that her nine children"were
in the cemetery where they had been playing
all morning.
Official returns just publised show that 1856
lives were lost last year through the street traffic
in New York city. Ninety persons were killed
by motor cars.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to carry larger
amount of insurance than any other woman in
the world. Her policies amount to more than
million dollars.
The annual loss from the burning of build
ings in the United States is about $1S5 000not
including cost of insurance and the appliances
for fire-protection.
The State Board of Health of Indiana, has is
sued orders forbidding the unemployment of
$50 teachers in the public schools who are afict-
ed with tuberculosis.
One hundred and sixty pounds per acre of
nitrate of soda and muriate of potash, equal
parts materially increased the yield of oats in
some Kentucky tests.
Doctors in Vienna have certified that six
year-old girl, who has just died, was born with
out brain. She had never learned to eat or to
move without assistance.
Widow Carrie D. A. Sphinx, r. oldest teacherof
dancing in Providence, r. l., was married in
Brooklyn by the Rev. Francis Il. Mason to j.
Homer Altimus, 80, a medium"
recent census of China shows that that
country crowded with "teeming Millions"
has 1O8 to the square mile, Belgium has 22O,
Great Britain 100 and Germany 105.
A court in Berlin decided in favor of a wife
suing for divorce on the strength of the fact
that her husband wears wig, and that she did
not know Of it at the time of the ceremony.
Second Assistant Postmaster General Shalen-
berger, in his annual report, says nearly 16,OOO-
100000 pieces of mail matter were handled, and
that its transportation cost more than $63,OOOOOO
Senator Quay at 20 years of age is full of vigor,
and he often takes six mile walk before break
fast. He declares that at the close of his term
as United States Senator he will retire to pri-
vate life.
1t is well known fact that pearls are pro-
duced by grain of sand or some other foreign
substance falling into the open oyster and be-
ing covered by the same substance as the in
terror of the shell.
Howard Cooper johnson has brought suit
against the Pennsylvania Railroad to recover
two cents. an alleged overcharge in fare from
Baltimore to Broad street, he being compelled
to alight at West Philadelphia.
A strange coincidence is the appointment by
Postmaster General Payne of namesake, Hen
ry G. Payne. to position in the Zion City Qll)
Postofice. The latter is not relative to the
Postmaster General, and is Doweite.
William Barnes, ST., of Albany, recalls the
fact that New York's first Republican State
Convention met at Saratoga, August 16, 1854.
Next years win be the semi centennial conven-
ton, and he thinks Saratoga should get it.
Twelve years ago less than a dozen trolley
roads in the country had so miles of track; to-
day there are over 100 that have that length of
line, while 20 have hundred miles or more. In
the same length of time the number of passen-
gers has increased to nearly 5,0O0,0O0000.
A manufacturer of st. Louis has opened
new kind of school as an annex to his factory.
In this school his own employees will be taught
to do better work. They will receive their
wages while they are in the school as regu-
larly as though they were in the factory.
Harry F. Edsall. of Hammonton, N. j., has
what he thinks is the only educated rooster in
New Jersey. "George'' is his name, and he is of
the Barred Plymouth Rock breed. The rooster
will come at the call of bis name from any one
of the family as far as he can hear them call.
Reed Knox, who has been acting as confidential
clerk for his father, the United States Attorney
General, has resigned from the Department of
Justice, and will devote his time to the Knox
farm of 300 acres. at Valley Forge. Father and
II, 1z1~r1
ed cattle.
Notwithstanding the difficulty in its produc-
ton (many tons of ore being required for one
gram) radium industry has already developed
in Germany and France. and, although one gram
is sold at little less than $1,000. the manufac-
turers are said to have orders for several hum
dred grams.
General Young, the chief of staff of the army,
began his military career in the Twelfth Penn
sylvania Infantry in 1851. When he retires this
January he will be succeeded by another former
private soldier-General Chaffee. General Chat
fee enlisted as private in the Sixth Cavalry in
1861, and will not retire until 1905.
Rev. G. F. Briscoe, a clergyman of st. Benet's
Kentish Town, England, receives but a pittance
whereby he might maintain the dignity of his
position he was obliged to take in washing and
dig graves. For pursuing these unclerical oc-
equations he has been censured by his ecclesi-
astical superiors.
unique spot in Europe is the village of AL
tenberg, on whose border three countries meet.
1t is ruled by no monarch, has no soldiers, no
police and no taxes. Its inhabitants speak
curious jargon of French and German combined
and spend their days in cultivating the land or
working in the valuable calamine mine of which
the village boasts.
Rev. John A. Danner. minister of the Re-
formed Church in Reading, Pa. is in trouble
with his Chassis. The Reformed Church, it ap-
pears, wishes its clergy to busy themselves with
spiritual things and not with secular things.
Mr.. Banner has been hustling real estate man
for three years past; he has something to do
with stocking mill; he has engaged moreover,
in the manufacture of matches.
TT il doubtful if there is q public man in the