The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-16
1rEMs or aENnRAL 1NrRREsT.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Ivory hunters in Africa every year kill about
10000 elephants.
DIR. kirkland reckons that in 90 days toad
will destroy s.7s0 injurious insects.
The ant which attacks the cotton boil weevil
is also said to be deadly to the centipede.
Twenty-three miles Of American railroads in
1880 expanded to over 10000 miles in 1904
It is stated that the Russian Cossacks eat
poultry in raw state and even eat candles.
Senator Hoar is still carrying the pocketknife
that he took to Washington with him in 1863.
Wages for common laborers in ireland are al
most double what they were twelve years ago.
Four hundred and sixty-four trains enter and
leave the New York Central Station every day. |
In the United States the sparrow has six
broods year; in Britain seldom more than
three.
The freight engines and cars engaged in the
traffic of this country would make string 1900
miles long.
1t is stoutly claimed that Rebecca Taylor, col
ored, who died last week at New London, Mo-,
was 14O years old.
More than s750OOO worth of artificial milk was
exported last year from Germany and France to
the United States.
The longest railroad in this country is the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy. which owns 1874
miles and operates 1871 miles.
OF each 1000 immigrants who reach America
it is said there are only seven girls who desire
employment as house servants.
An English county judge recently remarked;
| mot case comes into court but what there is
perjury on one side or the other"
DIR. Amelia wilkes Lines, who recently cele-
brated her eightieth birthday, is the Oldest prac
ticing woman doctor in the world.
The largest appropriation for good roads was
that made at the last session of the New York
legislature. 1t was million and half.
| A collection of pearls, taken from the waters
of Iowa and valued at more than $5O.0OO is ex-
hibited in the Iowa building at the Worlds Fair.
lock of hair from the head of Prince Charlie.
the Scottish Pretender. and one from his wife's
| sold at auction in London the other day for $685.
| In the South American regions. where cattle
are killed by the tens of thousands for the ex-
port of meat and hides, the bones are used as
fuel.
The United States Senate will have among it's
members at the next session five former Cabi-
net officers. Senators Knox, Teller, Alger, Proc
tor and Elkins.
OF the four great lumber districts of the
| United States, the Southern pine region stands
first. In it are 40 per cent of the saw mills and
half the lumbermen.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew is credited with
| the statement that "a man who has acquired his
business qualifications in a railroad Office will
make a success anywhere"
When the extension now planned for the
tons Capitol at Washington has been made the
edifice, including the works Of art which it con-
tains, will have cost nearly $2OOOO,0OO.
The toad is an exceedingly greedy animal,
feeds continuously throughout the night, and
| in "a hours consumes quantity of insects equal
| to about four times its stomach capacity.
A company has been organized in Chicago
which contracts to bury people and let them pay
on the instalment plan. The instalments must
| all be paid before the funeral occurs, however,
The amount of water given off by an acre of
| grass is estimated at 80 hogsheads day. About
| 800 parts by weight, of water pass through a
plant to part fixed and assimilated in its It's
| sues.
]. Pierpont Morgan started life with SIC, 5000
left to him by his father. At % he defeated Jay
| Gould and James Fisk. Jr. in a struggle for the
possession of the Allegheny and Susquehanna
Railroad.
Barney Mullen holds commission and the
government pays him a salary to free the War,
State and Navy Building and the White House
| of English sparrows. He was formerly master
alarms in the navy.
Up to the present time practically no intelli-
gent attention has been given to the Cultivation
celery, cabbage, etc.
The United States employed 1856 men in dis
tributing mail matter last year. The cost, dis
tributed among 1,4OO lines, was $63,590,000 In
1913 accidents to mail cars IS clerks were killed
and rs seriously injured.
The Kentucky Department of the Grand Army
of the Republic has adopted resolutions urging
the National Department to call on Congress to
erect at Washington monument to the mem
ory of Gen. Robert e. Lee.
Three great qualities of the Irish language,
said a delegate at the Irish Teachers Congress
lately, was that it was the language in which
they could pray the most fervently, curse the
most bitterly and court the most sweetly.
A Japanese murderer, condemned to death,
had dollar left on the eve of his execution, out
of money that had been sent him by his friends.
| The jailer advised him to spend it in one last
luxurious meal. But he sent it to the war fund.
J. Frank Hanly, Republican nominee for gov
ernor of Indiana, is a musician of some note,
and is quite skilled vocalist. He has organized
glee club to take part in his campaign meet
| ings, and he himself will be member, singing
base.
The Southern Railway has given toeall of its
telegraphers and train dispatchers an increase
in wages ranging from So to $40 month. This
increase was entirely voluntary on the part of
the railroad, as the men had not asked for an in
| crease.
| W.D. Grant, United States marshal of Alaska,
| a second cousin of Gen. U. s. Grant. attended
| the Republican National Convention in Chicago
as delegate. While in Chicago he held re-
union of the Grant family, at which Gen. F. d.
| Grant was present
| Germans claim that poker is an old German
game which for more than 100 years has been
played, and is still being played, in some dis
| tricts of Westphalia Emigrants took 1t to the
| United States, where its name of scharwenzel
was changed into poker.
| During the recent encampment Of the Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic veterans at Tifin,
the most interesting group were the Shuman
brothers, six stalwart natives of the Buckeye
State that fought in the Civil war. They marched
side by side in the big parade.
In Ceylon there Is a tree called "Eve's apple
tree" which is remarkable in that the orange red
fruit is beautiful to look upon, yet out of each
fruit piece appears to have been bitten 1t is
said that the stimulation of fruit which has been
bitten into is perfect. The fruit is poisonous.
Mr.. Gericke, German railroad official, has
patented preventive appliance against the de-
railment of railroad trains. 1t is claimed that
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