The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-04
ITEMS on GENERAL rNTRRnsT.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
New York city completes 40 new buildings
each dag, averaging $4,000 each.
New York city has added q, 400 families to its
population in the last three years.
There are still 100000 miles of territory on
this globe which have not been explored.
With an increase of $27,OOO,OOO in year, New
York city's funded debt is now S474,625.sO5.
The jamestown Exposition police will consist
of 100 men known as the Powhatan Guards.
A 5OO-mile canal, projected to drain the great
swamps Of Florida. would claim 100000 acres Of
land.
1t is said that Lake Erie produces more fish to
the square mile than any other body of water in
the world.
The floor area Of st. Peters, Rome, is 20, $50
square feet, being the greatest floor area of any
cathedral in the world.
New York city has acquired the reputation of
having the most discourteous railway employees
of all cities in the world.
Owing to the unusual activity in railroad build
ing, it is estimated that in Ontario alone 100000
ties Will be cut this year.
Booker T. Washington, the founder of the
Tuskegee School, is opposed to colored people
having their own newspapers.
There are So widows in Bowdoinham, Me-,
village of 1900 inhabitants. The youngest is 20.
the Oldest widow is 90 years old.
In South Australia it costs the railway COM
panies $4,000 year to remove the vegetation
that grows on the permanent ways.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, has q Pres
byterian churches, and atleast three of the con-
gregations are almost two hundred years old.
Three to four times the total forest produc-
ton of wood is consumed every year, according
to a statement of the United States Forest Ser
vice.
A Lockport IN. ~ thief climbed to the top of
an electric powor pole and tried to remove
section of wire with saw. He is now saying
nothing permanently.
An example of the efficiency of agricultural
colleges is afforded at Fort Collins. Col. where
$4,000 was paid out last year to the students for
working at the school.
The late DIR. James Gale, the famous blind
medical electrician, is said once to have taken a
fee of a5O,OOO ($25OOOW the largest ever paid for
medical electrical attendance.
Paul o. Stensland, bank wrecker, who is serv-
ing a term in Joliet Penitentiary, will earn
$4,000 in the coming year signing releases as
trustee of 1000 pieces of real estate.
Omaha, Neb., has passed an ordinance rcquir-
ing all single persons between rs and 40 years of
age to marry within sixty days or pay a heavy
fine. Only widowers and widows are exempted.
Mrs. Perry Belmont is building 100000 house
in Washington and she is only one of the many
women who have decided that it is worth while
to have winter home in the capital of the ma
ton.
Prof. Irving Fisher. of Yale, after systematic
endurance tests by two sets of athletes, one meat
eaters and the other vegetarians. has come to
the conclusion that to be strong you must eat no
meat.
The imports of the United States from Spain
for the calendar year 1906 amounted to $11,442.-
600, an increase of 800 1905, and exports
amounted to 900, an increase of $l,3S6,40O
on 1905.
The Canadian immigration Department ex-
poets 100000 immigrants this year. Over 200,-
600 arrived last year. Every berth on steamships
scheduled to leave England up to July 1st has
been taken.
bingham, Mass, has the Oldest church ediice
now in use in America-the First Unitarian
church. The building is Us years old. John B.
Lewis has been sexton and bell ringer at the
church for more than so years.
A jeweler, no matter how dishonest, would not
steal the jewels in a watch, for they are value
less they cost only 10 cents apiece. In antique
watches the jewels were often costly. In mod
ern watches they are never worth more than SIS
gross.
James J. Hill never locks his Office desk and
allows none of his immediate employees to lock
theirs. Not long ago an employee who violated
the rule found that locksmith had opened the
offending desk before his arrival the next
morning. .-
There died in Montgomery, Ala, few di
ago the daughter of George Washington's sect
tary. Her name was Miss Anne Frobel, and 81
was 90 years old. Miss Frobel was cousin
Frederick Frobel, the founder of the kindergal
ten educational system.
Granite is the bedrock of the world. 1t is the
lowest rock in the earth's crust and shows no
signs Of animal life. 1t is from two to ten times
as thick as all the other layers of rock combined.
No evidences of life of either animal or vegeta-
BILE are apparent in granite.
Since 1899 Professor Halsted. of New Jersey,
has been giving some attention to seedless toma-
toes. At the very start the fruit was large and
was called the Giant. The variety seems to be
well fixed and the flavor Is excellent. The fruits.
however are Incoming smaller
The Bishop of Oporto is the only bearded
Catholic bishop in the world. He had to obtain
express permission from the Pope to wear his
hirsute adornment, and his unprecedented re-
quest was granted in recognition of his great
services on behalf of the church in Africa.
President Roosevelt declines to become execn-
torof the will of Capt. James H. Hooker, Of Iron
dequoit, N. Y, in which $250,000 is left to the
United States Government. The President was
named as executor, and the money was to be used
to establish military academy at Galesburg,
Illinois.
Thomas H. Clay. a grandson of Henry Clay,
has just died at Lexington, Ky. He was 65 years
old, and for many years was one of the editors
of the Youths Companion, in Boston. He had de-
voted much of his time in late years to writing,
and had nearly completed biography of his
grandfather.
An eminent Spanish scientist has made the re-
cent discovery that the sunfower yields splen-
did febrifuge that can be used as substitute
for quinine. Accordingly, the sunfower should
not only, by it's growing, exert great fever-dis-
polling effect, but also yield product which Is
used advantageously in all fevers.
Prelates and bishops are certainly what insur-
ance men call good risks no matter what the
form of their faith. Still active are the Metho-
dist Bishop Bowman at 90. the Episcopal Bishop
Huntington at SO, the Catholic Archbishop VIII
liams at IS, the Catholic Bishop McQuaid at "a,
and the Methodist Bishop Andrews at 81.
How the world will write when its supply OF
cedar wood for lead pencils is exhausted is
problem not yet solved. Red cedar is used al
most etirely for pencils because of its peculiar
qualities, for which no equally good substitute
has ever been found. 1t has soft. straight grain.
and when grown under best conditions is free
from defects.
Mrs. Anna F. Coston has on Staten Island, New
York, the oldest laboratory and factory known.
tt IA where the distress signals, her own inven-