The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-07-13
ITEMS OF GENERAL 1NTnRnsT.
Every inch of the human skin contains 1880

rate Of $7,OOO,OOO q day.
There are 1888 national banks in this country
with an aggregate capital Of sSOS, o2S.65S.
with an increase Of 100000 in a year. New
York city,s funded debt is now 347l, 606 .eO5.
A Boston preacher informed his congregation
that in eight years the reign of the devil win
come to an end.
Because his wife refused to reconsider her die
charge Of the cook Benjamin Walters of Madi-
son, ILL.,, committed suicide.
President Fallieres, of France, is exceedingly
thrifty. He spends as little as possible Of his
liberal allowance of 100000 per annum
Twenty million dollars is the estimated value
of the debris left by the San Francisco catastro-
phe. It's weight is given at 100000 tons.
A woman at Paris, ILL.,, attempted suicide be-
cause her son-in-law bought some furniture
without asking her advice on the matter.
A livery firm In New York is suing Mrs. Doro-
thy Auerbach. who, 1t is stated, agreed to pay
500 for finding horse to match her furs.
Tho three largest German cities are Berlin.
with a population of over 100000; Hamburg,
with $4,000. and Munich with about $4,000.
One apple stump of an Oregon farmer has been
successfully grated with % varieties Of fruit,
including peaches, plums, prunes and even some
nuts.
Claude Palmer, after stealing gold watch in
New London, Conn.,, hit upon the expedent Of
hiding the goods under setting hen, where 1t
was found.
Penniless and down with tuberculosis. George
e. Spencer Of Omaha, wired to an uncle In Butte
whom he had never seen and was Immediately
given $500.
The startling calculation Is made that the
worlds Methodists are now 90 numerous that BY
joining hands they could girdle the earth. They
number 100000.
Contagious diseases. owing to American SAM
tation, have no place in the city of Manila these
days. The health department shows clean
sheet on this score.
Twelve thousand dressmakers are on strike ct
Vienna. and it is understood that the married men
of the Australian capital are subscribing liber-
ally to the strike fund.
At Pottstown, Pa. recently on re-opening an
old local copper ore shaft, filled up thirtyt three
years ago. workmen found lot Of perfectly pre-
served potatoes 90 feet down.
A cow belonging 70 Henry WllBOus Willow
Wood. KY, swallowed two sticks of dynamite,
and residents Of that section are giving hers
wide berth pending developments.
Wisconsin sent nearly 100000 men to the Civil
War out of population of about 100000. almost
one-seventh of the entire people of the State.
or these over 1900 died. or about one-eighth.
The best way Of cleaning artificial flowers is to
wipe them as carefully as possible with a soft
flannel and then dip in gasoline. Ribbons and
dress goods should be sponged with the same.
John R. Booth, the leading lumberman in
Canada, is 80 years old and owns 4,25O square
miles of timber land. His mills employ 1900 to
l,oOO men during the summer. or saving season.
Complying with an order Of court to pay his
wife 50, Joseph Fox, car conductor OF New
York, rendered her 800 pennies, which she re-
fused, but the court decided that they were legal
tsnder.
While Frank Stirner of Kalamazoo. was trim
ming spruce tree it was struck by lightning.
aud he was found in the tree chattering like
monkey and clinging to the branches. He may
recover.
If the leaf of cigar has a greasy appearance
or shows green blotches, or is of o pale. sickly
yellow, the wrapper is made of inferior tobacco;
the wrapper ia a certain criterion Of the cigars
contents.
Most Of the stone marbles used by boys are
made in Germany. The refuse only Of the mar
BILE and agate Quarries is employed. and this is
treated in such way that there is practically
no waste.
The effort to purchase the John Howard Paine
ATT urvn tor okH onf m
Long Island, has failed and it is likely to be TO-
moved to new site and completely remodeled
for dwelling-house.
Middleton Island. in the Gulf of Alaska. near
longitude 146 and not far from the entrance to
Prince william Sound. is becoming known as
garden spot. Last winter there was no snow,
and grass was green every month.
Asparagus was originally wild sea-coast weed
Of Great Britain and Russia. and is now so plen-
tiful on the Russian steppes that the cattle eat
it like grass. In some parts of southern Europe
the seeds are dried and used as a substitute for
coffee.
The officers of the imperial Chinese telegraph
administration have been notified that It has
been decided to infiict the penalty Of decapita-
ton upon any telegraph employee who may in
future be found guilty of revealing to outsiders
the contents Of official kilograms.
P. ". DeGraw, fourth assistant postmaster
general. having examined the records of all the
rural carriers in the country, awards the palm
to Maine woman, who has made her trips "in
the face of rain and snow storms which kept the
entire community within DOORS"
After having lived comfortably all their lives.
Mrs. Melinda Overton. 90 years old. and her
brother, Charles Ellis, 81 years old. have gone
over the hills to the poorhouse in Sullivan
county, New York. The Overtons were the
first settlers Of the town Of Rockland.
A London doctor. lecturing, said 1t was useless
TO tell dyspeptic woman not to drink tea. The
only thing to do was to give her some harmless
STUFF in bottle to be taken every three hours,
with strict instructions that she was not TO have
any tea for four hours before or four hours after
each dose.
Children in Italy arc not allowed to rub their
eyes. When an infant bursts into tears no effort
| is made to repress the emotion. but the young
ster is allowed to have its cry out It is asserted
| that this beauties the eyes and makes them
clear, while rubbing the eyes Injuries them In
many ways.
There are all sorts of queens, but the poultry
queen OF Iowa u 1oiu W DC AEus ~ We ~OSsnoOhl
who owns and operates q 270-acre farm. She
| says she has made success Of her business be-
cause she has learned everything there is to
learn about It, and intends to.write book on
/ the subject.
Hollins Randolph. who has been chosen to read
| the Declaration of Independence at jamestown
| Exposition on July 4th, is an Atlanta attorney,
and the MISREPRESENTATION Of Thomas Jeffer-
| SON. Mr.. Randolph Is a native Of Virginia and
| graduate of the University Of Virginia of the
| class of 1895.
Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Texas, Arkansas,
Southeastern Kansas and Southern Missouri
combined received an investment Of about 3d.
100000 In farm property last year from new set
| tiers. These new settlers numbered about Q
quarter Of million. and they took up about
| 100000 acres of land.
Citizens Of New Berlin, o., are devising ways
| and means to raise money to erect in that vil-
lage q monument to the memory Of the late
| President Mckinley. The monument will stand
in the public square where, as young man. Nc
KinIey delivered his first political speech on the
evening of September I'd. 1867.