The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-30
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


From 2O-year-old mulberry tree sls pounds
of leaves have been picked in year.
The average cost of labor in the production
and preparation of coffee is ~ cents pound.
The United States now holds second rank
among the worlds exporters Of boots and shoes.
The production of beer is now more than half
a barrel for every man, woman and child in the
United States.
There are 5,l47 national banks in the United
States, with authorized capital stock aggregate
ing s768.OoO,OOO
Wages of 100000 men have been reduced by
the United States Steel Corporation and subsi-
dairy companies.
cotton picker machine has been invented,
which, it is claimed, will save one-third of the
crop and the wages of 2S men.
There is a point near the famous Stony Cave
In the Catskill Mountains, where ice may be
found on any day of the year.
The longest telephone wire span in the world
is 1900 feet from pole to pole. spanning the Sus-
quehanna river near Lancaster, Pa.
Mrs. B. M. Butler Stevens. q sister of the late
Gen. D. F. Butler, has just observed her 96th
birthday at Nottingham. New Hampshire.
Two weeks before his death the late ex-Gov-
ernor Bushnell, Of Ohio. divided $75O,0OO among
members of his family as New Years gift.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided
that white woman married to a negro has no
dover right in his estate. the marriage having
/. been illegal.
During the recent cold weather the Chesa-
peake bay was frozen over from shore to shore
at Poplar Island, with ice in some places nine
inches thick
Now that cotton presses reduce the size of a
bale until it weighs As pounds to the square
foot, one ship will carry the product of 10000
acres of average cotton land.
Mrs. Andrew B. Carter, of WATERFOWL. N. T.,
owns the pair of spectacles worn and owned by
President Lincoln at the time he was shot by
John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre, Washing
ton.
Sneezing has been said by at least one great
medical authority to be evidence of robust
constitution. In proof of this declaration he
declared that people in feeble health never do
sneeze.
A beehive coke oven, in full blast during the
Worlds Fair, will be one of the exhibits pre-
sented by Kentucky. The Blue Grass State has
5000 square feet of floor space in the Palace of
Mines and Metallurgy.
1T. Clary chief master alarms on the United
States battleship Nevada who wears stripes on
his sleeves denoting twenty-eight years of naval
service, recently completed his one hundredth
| trip around the world.
Frederick Lodge, Patriotic Order Sons of
America, has petitioned the representatives
| from Frederick county in the General Assembly
! to endeavor to have passed a compulsory edu-
cation law for Maryland.
London appendicitis assurance company
now issues special policies guaranteeing to
holders all the medical, surgical and nursing
| expenses up to the amount insured incurred
in an attack of this malady.
| Modern agricultural implements are used
| throughout New Zealand. especially in the
South Island, in preparing the soil, planting and
sowing seed. cultivating during growth, and
harvesting and gathering crops.
John p Jones, former Senator of Nevada, ex-
poets to divide the remainder of his days about
| equally between the Pacific coast, New York
| and Washington. The only man now in the
Senate who was sworn in when he was, in 1878
/
| is Mr.. Allison.
Grover Cleveland has lived in the time of more
administrations than any other citizen who has
ever been President, beginning with that OF
Martin Van Buren, and coming down to that OF
Theodore Roosevelt-in all eighteen, exclusive
| of his own two.
Judge Hal T. Davis, who made the speech al
! the Chicago convention of 1896 nominating
William ]. Bryan for President, is dead at his
home in Greensboro Co No -rrcc ses szca-r- ri5
and formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia.
Carts. wagons, drays trucks, etc.. are not en-
| ployed largely in Syria and Palestine. On the
farms wagon of any description is hardly evel
seen. Grain is brought in on the backs Of
camels and donkeys. Delivery wagons are un
| known in Syrian cities.
Jafet Lindeberg, one of the three men who
discovered gold in Nome, Alaska, who -four
| years ago was humble herder of reindeer, and
| who today may be worth from S., 100000 to 800,
100000, is in Washington, registered at the New
Willard, with his bride.
A Lank Center, MINI. manufacturing concern
has received an order from the Russian govern
ment for 1000 wagons to be shipped for the most
|
there with consignments of wheat and meats
recently bought in that city.
How to raise chickens will be taught at the
| University of Missouri. The curators have de.
cided to offer full course in poultry raising
The poultry business has become one of the
leading Industries in Missouri, theannual income
being estimated at over s10,O0O,0OO.
The failure of the fruit crop in Great Britain
caused a great demand upon the United States
| and Canada for apples Prices rule high, the
! importers quotations to the trade ranging from
$485 to $7.25 per barrel for the best grades and
from $500 to $3.50 for ordinary grades.
Thomas w. Hardwick, of the Tenth Georgia
district, is the pygmy of the House, standing
| but feet inch in his high-heeled shoes, and
| weighing but 107 pounds. When seated in the
| House his toes just touch the floor and his head
| is barely visible above the desk in front.
The American farm wagon is used in Cuba to
very limited extent. The two-wheeled cart
has been used there from time immemorial, and
its popularity and adaptability, both on farms
and in cities, as a means of transferring freight
seems in no immediate danger of decreasing.
Colombia, exclusive of Panama, is as large as
the two states of California and Texas combined.
Three high mountain ranges cross the republic
from north to south, making high table-lands
between, where the days the year round are
scarcely hotter than those of a temperate zone.
The income of the Emperor of Russia is $685.
600 per day the Sultan of Turkey, $4,000; EN-
peror of Austria, 5000; German Emperor,
$1,000; King of Italy, $500; King of England,
S6,40O; King of Belgium, $500; President of
France, 5000; President of the United States
$3.50.
The Germans are beginning to grasp the idea
of combinations and trusts. Two of the big
banks have just combined, the united capital
aggregating ST. 900, the second strongest ag-
gregation of banking capital in the world, only
exceeded by the Bank of England. The union
is for 80 years.
In furniture. roll-top desks and bookcases are
still the prominent items in the imports from
the United States to Edinburgh. The desks are
sold largely, Notwithstanding that the local
office-furniture manufacturers have copied
them closely and made special efforts to keep
out the foreign article.
"Uncle Moses" Downing. pastor of the Chris
tian Church at Bloomfield, Davis county, Ia, has
inst married his one thousandth couple It is