The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
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ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Andrew Carnegie says that bigger fortunes
viii be made in the rubber industry than in any
other during the next half-century.
Out In Colorado they still remember Governor
elect Douglas, of Massachusetts,. When young
man he conducted a little cobbler shop at Col
den.
There are 1900 hotels in the United States,
representing an invested capital of over S6.000.
100000. These establishments employ 35O0,0OO
persons.
William j. Tyndall, Congressman elect from
the Fourteenth Missouri district has just visited
city for the first time. and taken his first ride
| in an elevator
| Turk from Smyrna has applied for member
ship to the New York Stock Exchange. He is
very rich and heavy dealer in cotton in Asia
Minor and Egypt.
In London the unusual heat of the last sum-
mer gave further vogue to the straw hat and
made silk hats so unpopular that the factories
dismissed many of their workmen.
The trees Of Finland are the money bags of
| the people. peasant even makes his shoes
| from birch bark and matches his roof with
shavings. He virtually lives on wood.
There are more counties in the United States
named for Washington than for any other man.
| The capital, state and two cities exceeding
| 10000 in population, also bear his name.
The ingenuity of the farming in Japan may be
inferred from the fact that the 100000 inhabi-
tants live almost entirely on the productions of
cultivated area about one-third the size of
Illinois.
One of the largest gold nuggets ever found in
Colorado was recently picked up at Snowstorm
placer, in Park county, between Alma and Fair
play. 1t weighs 10 ounces and has a market
value of $780,
The most costly inter in the United States.
I~ploscnus $lU,vUv worth OF 9eweis
and precious stones, is worn by Bishop Horst
mann, of the Cleveland Diocese Of the Roman
Catholic Church.
The latest theory is that boys with chestnut
colored hair are the brightest and always stand
at the head of their classes. 1t is different with
girls, for with them the lighter the hair the
brighter the girl.
Howard Kennedy, Jr., was recently elected
Judge of the Fourth Judicial district of Ne
braska by probably the largest majority ever
scored against an OPPONENT. His vote is re-
corded at 81, l3l, and his majority almost l7,5OO
Sixty thousand tons of sugar beets were raised
In Colorado in 1908. Two million seven hundred
dollars was paid for the crop, of which $780,
600 was net profit to the farmer. Syrup is now
being manufactured from Colorado beet sugar
Bishop William T. Manning, of the recently
created Diocese of Harrisburg, will be one of
the youngest. if not the youngest, of the Protes-
tant Episcopal bishops. AS a preacher he has
an enviable reputation, and his personality is
pleasing.
Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of the Vice
President, and president general of the National
Society, A. A. R., has requested all chapters to
hold colonial tea on January 8, the anniver-
sary of the wedding of George and Martha
Washington.
When BENJAMIN Franklin first thought of
| starting a newspaper in Philadelphia many of
his friends advised against it. because there was
| a paper published in Boston. Some of them
| doubted that the country would be able to sup
port two newspapers.
| Under new law in Virginia which allows
| representatives of person killed to sue MS
slayer for damages. the administrators of Hoge
| Crockett, of Richmond, has secured $1,000 from
the estate Of T. L. Sayers. Sayers killed Crockett
and then disappeared.
| A modern church, built upon the site of an
| ancient one at Llanderand, Wales. had no bell.
| "A farmer offered one that was lying in one OF
his barns. 1t turr ed out to be one that had hung
| in the tower of the ancient church and had not
been rung for 300 years.
It is reported that the Standard Oil Company
has obtained control of the entire output OF the
| Ontario asbestos mines, from which comes all
| but a small percentage of the worlds supply.
This right has been acquired by virtue OF a long
| time lease or contract.
How fast is your pulse2 You will probably
overestimate it in trying to fnd out-mos1
people do. One usually counts his pulse wnlie
| talking about the matter, and excitement OF
i4OOnVessassUn -.sonaonkration aI1lckeus the
pulse from to 20 beats.
The median age of negroes is 1914 years-that
is half the negroes in the United States are be-
| low that age. The median age is four years be-
low that of the whites (23.4 years., difference
| closely connected with the high birth rate ana
high death rate of the negroes.
Gen. william j. Palmer the founder of Colo
RADIO Springs COL, besides spending $75O,OOO in
park, extending the length of the city, is COM
plotting a new equestrian and pedestrian trail to
| Crystal Park, which will open up as grand
| scenery as is to be had in the Rocky mountains.
Riverside county, California, secured highest
award for an irrigation exhibit at st. Louis
| The exhibit was relief panorama of Riverside
Valley, showing canals orchards and minia-
| ture orange grove in process of irrigation. The
| scheme of irrigation was carried out In perfect
detail.
More than 400 books have been written by me-
| groes in this country in the last 40 years, and
they are increasing so rapidly now that they
have ceased to be novelty. Negroes also edit
$50 newspapers, have 1,7OO school teachers, 1900
lawyers and $500 doctors, the most Of whom are
in the South.
Snakes may almost be said to have glass eyes,
| inasmuch as their eyes never close. They are
| without lids and each is covered with trans
| parent scale, much resembling glass. When the
reptile casts its outer skin the eye scales come
of with the rest of the transparent envelope out
of which the snake Slips
| A pendant containing lock of George Wash
| ington's hair and curl from the head of Martha
| Washington was exhibited in collection OF
| relics in the Massachusetts, building at the
| Worlds Fair. These precious mementos were
presented to john Quincy Adams by Nellie Gus
| tbs, stepdaughter of Washington.
| Exporters of gold always prefer to ship in bars
| rather than CON- simply because of the greater
| subsection of coin to abrasion in transit. They
cannot be packed as closely as bars 1t is said
that s., 100000 in American eagles may show as
| great loss as 500 from abrasion in being car
| ried from New York to Paris.
| IT'S always a safe rule to have a child medi-
| cally examined when the throat shows any white
| spots and when diphtheria is known to be preva-
| lent every child who is not feeling well should
| be seen to at once. II this rule were acted on
| much remorse would be avoided. and fewer
| deaths from dphtheria would have to be re-
corded.
| RepreaentinR Sioux Indian chieftains who
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