The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-11-03
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Miss e. Mae Dawson isl young woman nomi-
nee for the Office OF county attorney In Ne
braska.
On each day in the year there il an average Of
q aliens debarred from entering the port OF
New York.
More than 1900 people were imprisoned in
England last year for debt. Most were victims
of the instalment plan.
The average size of laborer's family in Eng
land and the United States is three persons; in
Germany, five persons.
In South Carolina it is misdemeanor for the
conductor of a trolley car to refuse to separate
negroes and white people.
A friend of Mr.. Bryan says that the Nebraskan
would rather occupy position where he could
say what he thinks than be chosen President.
A trolley company in Vermont whose cars fail
to come to full stop and display signal at
grade railroad crossing is subject to fine of $25
for each omission.
The Australian mound bird builds the biggest
nest in the world. 1t sometimes makes mounds
$50 feet in circumference in which it buries its
eggs five feet deep.
Apropos OF the clamor for old-age pensions at
Washington, it has cropped out that there are
1900 unpaid grocers' accounts against Govern
ment clerks there.
The Sultan Of Turkey will not have his tenn
perature taken, as he is afraid of having the
thermometer put in his mouth or under his arm
lest the instrument explode.
1t appears from loaves of bread found in bake
ovens in the ruins of the city of Pompeii that
the bakers of that city made their bread into
forms that were circular ana fiat.
A man has been doing good business in Lon
don peddling 'bright green American tree frogs"
at 65 cents each. When the color wears of they
are found to be ordinary English frogs.
AS far back as 1868 it was decided in the case
of Bon vs. Smith, in the reign of Elizabeth. that
q woman by marriage loses her former name,
and legally receives the name of her husband.
A $75,OO0OOO electric trolley system. with
double tracks between New York and Pittsburg,
is project of Joseph Ramsay, Jr.. and asso-
ciates. Their ultimate aim is to extend to
Chicago. s~
An effort is being made by the citizens of
Spencer, Mass, to get possession of the birth
place of Elias Howe. inventor of the sewing ma
chine, in that city for the use of historic build
ing for the town.
There is an altar Society in Brooklyn com
posed of night policemen. The members con-
tribute a certain amount every month which
pays for lights and flowers on an altar of per-
petual alteration.
Fewer widows are sought in matrimony by
-Englishmen than formerly, according to official
statistics. In 1870 the percentage was 2l.l 1000
marriages; now the widows led to the altar
number only 12.5 a 1000.
Cloth is now being successfully made from
wood. Strips of fine-grained wood are boiled
and crushed between rollers and the filaments
are spun into threads, from which cloth can be
woven in the usual way.
A curious barometer used in Germany and
Switzerland consists of a Jar of water with a
frog and little stepladder in it. When the frog
comes out of the water and sits on the steps it is
said infallibly to foretell rain.
The women of Sumatra wear costly dresses,
many of them being made of pure gold and silver.
After the metal is mined and smelted it is form
ed into fine wire which is woven into cloth
and afterward used for dresses.
Only short time ago the woman whose inven-
tive brain gave the ice-cream freezer to de-
lighted humanity died at an advanced age in
Philadelphia. This was Mrs. Nancy N. johnson,
and her device was patented in 1S43.
W. Morgan Shuster the young Washington
lawyer, who has been appointed by the Presi
dent a member of the Philippine Commission, is
just past 20 years of age. His appointment car
ries with it a salary of $4,000 year.
By order of the Minister of Railways all the
women who have hitherto sold the tickets at
Prussian railway stations have been replaced
1 by men. The women are said to have been too
nervous, irritable and prone to get into dis.
putes.
An official report of the State of Illinois is to
the effect that the production of mineral wealth
in that State last year aggregated a total of
$57 $4,000, Of which $39, 900 was coal. Clay
mines and limestone come next to coal in i'm
portance.
George H. Deffenbacher. who has been dele
gated by the Grand Duke of Baden to study
malarial germs and mosquitoes in North and
Central America, arrived in this country re.
Gently, and has gone to Mexico to start his in
vestigations.
Alfred Moseley, the British philanthropist,
to the United States to study American school
methods, has reached New York. The teachers
will arrive in groups of FIVE, the first five reach
ing New York in few days.
woman has been arrested in Paris carrying
in her arms four year-old child which had been
trained to snatch watches and scarfpins as its
mother carried it through the streets. The in
FAINT was seen to grab two watches and seven
pins in less than half an hour.
A lady in Berkeley, CAL, Mrs. Bossen, built a
house for herself with her own hands, and, in
consequence, she has had numerous offers of
marriage. Carpenters get much more for their
work than stenographers, and no doubt many
men would like to have their wives learn the
trade.
People marvel at the mechanism of the human
body, with its 24S bones and 60 arteries. But
man is simple in this respect compared with the
carp. That remarkable fish moves no fewer
than 1886 bones and muscles every time it
breathes. 1t has 800 VEINS to say nothing of it's
80 muscles.
Gilbert Mcdonald, blind since his birth, is as
sistant telegraph operator at the railroad sta
ton in Muncie, Ill. He uses the typewriting
machine when receiving messages, and can send
40 words minute. For 10 years he has been the
bread-winner for his widowed mother and three
younger sisters.
Norris Brown, the Republican nominee for
United States Senator from Nebraska, is recog-
nized as one of the best lawyers west of the
Mississippi. He is comparatively young man,
and when boy had to ride eight miles to attend
public school, and he worked his way through
the Iowa State University.
An English bread-making competition has re-
Gently been in progress in London. 1t aroused
the interest of 1000 bakers in England, ireland,
Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands,
who made entries in the several classes. The
requisite weight of the loaf was TX pounds cold,
and various prizes were offered.
The ancient poets used TO sing of the dense
forests of Sicily. Today the mountains are bare.
The question of reforesting is a difficult one.
Attempts at starting new growth are frustrated
by the peasants, who tear down fences and drive
in their goats. Only under military protection
could new forest trees be grown.
Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for
Governor of New York, says: men and wo-
men are after all. much more imuortant and