The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-06
1rEMs on GENERAL 1NrEREsT.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An English woman few years ago invented
button hook for gloves which is now worth So
900 year to her.
The sheep that has no wool comes from Bar
bados. How it got there nobody knows. but it
is supposed to have come from Africa originally
Inda's cigarette trade has increased 90 per
cent. in four years. The amount Of cigarette
tobacco imported last year was 2.2lO,2OO pounds.
By Cape Horn the distance between New York
and San Francisco is about 1880 miles. The
| Panama Canal will reduce this to something less
than 5000.
| During the session of Congress which closed
| on March 4th, President Roosevelt signed 1872
measures passed by the Senate and House Of
| Representatives.
| Over one-fortieth of Chinas population of
100000 is slaves. Every family of means
keeps its girl slaves, it being cheaper to buy
| them than to hire them.
rural route carrier at Rockport. NO., when
asked to define his district wrote: my route
begins at the livery stable and runs all around
and ends at the postofHce."
| Owls are not really wise. and the reason that
| they seem SO is because they never move their
| eyes. This they cannot do as their eyeballs are
fixed immovably in the sockets.
| A darning machine, one which will in ten
minutes cover hole that an industrious woman
| could hardly fill in an hour. is a recently in
vented piece of labor saving apparatus.
Starfsh are the principal enemies of oyster
L. Nnnn ,cosOx 90
the United States that they do damage to the
| extent of S25O,OOO annually to American oyster
beds.
fir tree has been cut in Oregon recently
| which made nine sawlogs averaging IA feet in
| length, scaling ,4s3 feet board measure. The
product of this one tree will bring more than
| $1,000
Mrs. Lucinda b. Simmons is dead at East
Orange, J. Her father Wheat Beals, of Yer
mont, built the first railroad track in the United
States. and her grandfather was member of
/ the Boston tea party.
Rev. W Stanley Emery, rector of Trinity Epis-
copal Church, Concord. N. H., asserts that New
Hampshire is the greatest divorce community
in the United States if not in the world, leaving
Japan out of consideration.
Parsons.
markable young man, veritable giant for his
age His name is Arnold, and he is not yet IS
years of age. He stands seven feet even in his
stocking feet and wears a No. ID shoe.
Since March IA, 1900, when the national bank
ing act was so amended as to permit the organi-
zation of national banks with a minimum capt.
tai of S25 600 instead of $50 OOO 2.41 banks with
s139, 800, 800 capital, have been organized.
Governor Sparks, of Nevada, and some other
wealthy men intend to establish an oasis in
Death Valley, rs miles south of Goldfeld, for
the benefit of travellers. Artesian wells will
transform it, and it is to be stocked with game.
Miss Kate e. Mcwilliams, of Brooklyn, has
broken the record for school teaching. Resign
ing from her work recently. she has to her credit
10 consecutive years of service in the Brooklyn
public schools, 4s being in one school as prin-
cpal.
During heavy spring storm John McGovern,
of St. Louis, was Instantly killed by an electrified
door-knob, as he started to open the door OF MS
home after eating dinner. A charged wlre'
broken by the storm, had fallen across the KNOB
outside
A bill providing that mo textbook, which con-
tains mutilated version of the national anthem,
The Star Spangled Banner shall be used or
circulated in any public school in the State OF
New York" was presented to the Legislature
| few days ago.
We have 1900 postoffices and 100000 miles of
| postal routes with yearly travel over them
amounting to 500 100000 miles, The service costs
over $50, 900 year. The receipts now almost
| equal the expenditures, and have doubled in
| the last ten years.
There is no trouble in London over whether
| street car will stop or where it will stop. At
certain points along the streets are posts painted
| white. The cars stop at these posts. They do
| not run past them or slow down when they
reach them-they stop.
| New York man has been granted verdict
for $4 500 against railroad company for loss OF
light and air, the United States Supreme Court
| having decided that the rights possessed by him
through the purchase of the ground on which he
| lives extend from the earth to the sky.
| r. M. Cockrell, Jr., son of former Senator
| Cockrell il the inventor of sugarcane cutter
| that promises to revolutionize the sugar-plant-
| ing industry of the South and at the same time
| TO make its inventor millionaire. His machine
will do the work of more than 100 men.
Spanish contemporary says that In 1904
nearly 1900 bulls were killed In bullhghts in
spain. The bulls killed about 10000 horses. The
| best and most valuable bulls for the arena are
raised on the vast estates Of the Duke of Vera
| qua. in Andalusia, who has made fortune out
| of this business.
At stylish country houses in England good
deal of the time Of the ladies is taken up with
changing their dresses. Smart gowns are worn
for breakfast, to be replaced shortly after by
serviceable tweed or frieze for going out. Tea
| gowns are worn for tea and low dresses, with
diamonds, for dinner.
E.W. Hartman. the great railroad operator,is
small man. very slightly built. narrow-chested.
delicate in appearance. At his desk he is a reg
ular whirlwind for energy. He goes through his
correspondence and through the hundred re-
ports that reach him at pace that is not rival
ed in any Office on Wall street.-The region Of
speed.
Because the town of westboro. Mass, voted
for license at the recent local election. Harry
W. Rutland. proprietor Of the United Shear
Company, has given out a statementthat he will
leave the place and remove his business. He
cherishes the firmest scruples against liquor,
and is unwilling to live and do business where 1t
is sold.
Mr. aud Mrs. G. E. Bailey, of San Francisco,
while travelling in their automobile in Santa
Barbara county, suddenly came upon thous-
and wild cattle in the road. They forced their
way through, crowding the cattle to right and
left, but for time they and the herders ex-
pected to see the auto upset and wrecked by the
excited animals.
It is the intention of the Florida East Coast
Railroad to build an extension from Miami,
Florida. to Key West, distance of 1875 miles, by
trestling, bridging and filling in the shadows
and channels between the keys. The construc-
ton of this road is entirely possible and, when
flushed will enable trains to run within So
miles of Havana.
The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Philadelphia has mailed four checks of $4,000
each to the guardians of the children of ].
Samuel McCue, who was recently hanged at
Charlottesville, Va, for the murder of his wife.
These checks cover $4,000 on McCue's life, and
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