The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-19
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Eleven Thousand automobiles were SOLO III
this country during the six months ended Win
November last.
= In Europe there are companies which rent
pillows to railway passengers. The charge IS ~
cents pillow for the trip.
The Treasury Department estimates that 1t
will cost $6O5 PSF 600 to run the government for
1904 and s6sl.5O2O 900 for 1905.
In servia there is soldier for every % in
habitants; in the United States there Is one
soldier for every 1900 inhabitants.
One of the great railroads of the world will be
built in China from Canton to Hankow, 500 miles.
through densely populated district.
Paper dywheels are coming into use. The
tensile strength of paper is enormous, hence
its advantage over iron for this purpose.
Bethany Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia,
has five associate pastors. The membership
is now BIO, with Sabbath school of $685..
During the late cold weather the Chesapeake
Bay was frozen over from shore to shore at
Poplar Island with ice in some places nine inches
thick.
OF the sore, 023 592 wages paid by railways of
the United States per cent. goes to general
officers Is per cent. to other officers and SO per
cent. to the other employees.
A 10O-ton electric travelling crane lifts an 60
ton locomotive in the repair shops of the Lake
Shore Railroad at Collinwood o., said to be the
largest locomotive repair shops in the world.
Ohio has come to the front with new injunc-
ton. 1t was granted to man to prevent his
wife from going on a strike and now she has got
to do all the homework or be in contempt of
court.
Rev. C. J. X. Jones, of the Unitarian Church,
Los Angeles. CAL, has resigned and proposes to
devote his attention to the study of the insect
pests that destroy fruit trees of the Pacific
Slope.
The Rev. DIR. Edwin Robbie has been pastor of
the Greenwald IN. H.) Congregational Church
for ffty-two years, and is still healthy and ac-
tive in the work of the ministry. He is now 70
| years old.
The thrifty Oregonians are now making cigars
| of fresh-cured beet leaves. With its extensive
| cabbage patches and its large beet gardens the
United States is prepared to supply the world
with tobacco"
| The oil from the germ of kernel of corn is
worth five cents pound, while the starch with
which the kernel is filled is worth but one and
| one-half cents a pound: The muscle-forming
protein is in the hull
Just previous to the Civil War bushel of corn
represented more than four and one-half hours
! of human labor at cost of 25X cents, while
| today Al minutes of labor produce the same
amount for 1OK cents.
Rebecca Mayo, over 80 years of age, of New
Berne, Va, and Esther S. Duncan, of Plymouth
| Union, Va, are widows of Revolutionary SOL
diers. Mrs. Mayo married her husband when
he was n years of age.
About 1,138 trains arrive in Chicago daily.
These trains. which are upon twenty-three
railways, carry 100000 passengers. The rail-
road has been one of the strongest factors in
making Chicago what it is today.
Marvin Shearer. a one armed man of Akron,
| O.. has made one of the most remarkable clocks
in the world. 1t records hours in different
cities, registers changes in temperature and
humidity and shows historical pictures.
The deposits of New York savings banks
passed the billion dollar mark in 1901. They
were January l, 1904, $l.13l, PSI ,942. For five
years their average increase has been at the al
most incredible rate of s63,OOO,OOO per year.
In Dresden, Germany, there is government
school for horseshoers. No one is allowed to
shoe horse in that section of Germany with
out diploma, which he has to obtain from this
school, Every pupil must study for five months.
Utah's mines-silver, copper, lead and gold
yielded ores to the value of $34 100000 in 1903,
and the dividends paid by Utah mines during
| that year reached s4,7590OO. The Colorado
mines even exceeded that figure by something
like S230OOO.
Hrpan hat 2 81 any 4satc
city, containing 10000 Russians, besides the SOL
diers, and 10000 Chinese. 1t will be the great
-four milling city Of that region.
Miss Lillian s. Newmark, who was recently
| admitted to the bar in New York, has selected
| that dry branch called realty for her speciality.
Real estate law has always possessed fascination
for her. she says. Her first fee, amounting to
$780, was collected for settling up an estate.
| 1t is estimated by the United States Treasury
| Department that the amount of money now in
| circulation for each man, woman and child in
! this country is about $3O.21. This amount has
never been higher. and no other country, with
the exception of France, has as great a per
/ capita circulation.
The electric railroads last year carried three
times the population of the world. The cars
ran three times the distance between the earth
| and sum- The capital invested is twice as much
rs the United States bonded debt, and the gross
! earnings are $250OOO,OO0. Taxes were paid
amounting to $1S,OO00OO
| The presence of sugar in beets was discovered
in 1747 by Marggraf German chemist. who
advised that they be cultivated for their sugar,
| but it was 80 years before satisfactory results
| were obtained. Now the output of beet sugar
is more than 100000 tons year, while that of
| cane sugar is about 100000 tons.
Mrs. Sarah c. Bilger. known among Mormons
| as saint Sarah," has just died at Plymouth
| Utah. at the age of 9S. She was one of the ear
| Hest converts of Joseph Smith, and was
| one of his closest friends until his death.
| Twice, in the early and troublous days of Nor
monism, she helped to save the founders life.
An American firm has a concession for ex-
porting mahogany logs from Honduras and
many trees are being carried away. For every
tree that is felled the government of Honduras
requires that three others be planted, thus pre-
serving the woods. The adoption of such a
course by the United States Government might
help to preserve our rapidly disappearing for
ests. III
A conductor on a street car in Portland, Ore.
reduced noisy man on his car to state of de-
cency in about the cleverest manner which has
yet been reported. The conductor grasped him
firmly by the ear, and the man collapsed in
heap. The conductors other hand was on some
part of the electric arrangements of the car,
and he passed heavy shock into the car of the
joyful one.
mans honest estimate of himself ought to
be worth considering. The trouble is most men
are not honest in Judging of their own qualities;
If they were there would not be so many mis-
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acknowledge the existence of error. If a man
is on such good terms with himself that he sees
nothing to correct, he is hopelessy lost to all
improvement.
The Benedict Arnold house, Revolutionary
War landmark at New Haven. is being torn
down. The front doors and some of the colonial
windows have been given to the New Haven
Colony Historical Society for preservation. For
many years the old house where General Ar
mold lived when an apothecary before the war
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