The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-10-12
IrEMs OF eENERAI. INTEREsr.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The army of American tourists in Europe last
season is estimated at 100000
Misery loves company. That is why some
bachelors and spinsters marry.
Needles were first made in 1916, when the max
ing of ten was a good days work.
The jaws Of the wasp are so powerful that the
insect can cut its way through shells.
In ten years John D. Rockefeller has derived
s1O4, $50. 600 in dividends from Standard Oil.
In all races the mans brain averages 10 per
cent. heavier than the brain of the woman.
Sporting men have figured out that race-track
bettors spend $9OO.OOOOO0 year In this country.
The $1,OOOO0O branch of Standard Oil in In
diana made profit in one year Of over SIS 100000.
It costs over $1,000 to fire a single shot from
one of the largest guns used in the French Army.
1t scares a woman almost to death to think
how scared she would be to have strange man
speak to her.
The Lena is the straightest of all the great
rivers. For 800 miles it runs in almost direct
line to the sea.
Glass bathtubs are coming into general use In
Germany. They are cheaper and more slightly
than those of porcelain.
An average of 800 persons are killed in the
United States each year by lightning. This
means one in every 100000.
Julius Haas, of Alton, ILL.,, who is very deaf.
blows horn as he walks through the streets to
prevent people from colliding with him.
Miss E. Bond, of McHenry, Miss. who has been
asleep two weeks. has lost no weight. Her
breathing is regular and her pulse is normal.
A food at Two Harbors. Mimi. carried three
story barn down the river with COW on the first
floor. The COW was found unhurt on the top
floor.
A Michigan dog. caught in trap set for wolves,
tied to a tree, gnawed the sapling down after
hours of work, and dragged the trap home, a dis
lance of several miles.
The Liquor Dealers Association of Illinois
adopted resolutions asking that law be enact
ed providing for the registry Of drunkards by
authorities in each city.
On the I'd instant Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. ]. Bryan,
at Lincoln, Neb.. celebrated the twenty-third
anniversary of their marriage by giving dinner
to neighoors and friends.
In the Wenatchee Valley, in the State of
Washington, orchard land is worth from $500
to s., 900 an acre. The orchardsare irrigated and
the trees bear every year.
a man at Fort Scott, Kan, answering an adj
vertisement for cook, wrote that he was will
ing to wear womans clothes and take female
name in order to get the job.
There are in Holland many societies of from
10 to 80 members whose object is to get goods at
wholesale rates. The usual method is to adver-
tise in the newspapers and receive bids.
In case in the Circuit Court in Carrollton,
Mo-, it was necessary for the plaintiff to bring
into court $1,000 in gold. The sight of so much
of the yellow metal caused excitement.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad Company
is about to erect what is said to be the largest
grain elevator in the world at Mission River. 1t
will have a capacity of 100000 bushels.
At Keokuk, Iowa. at one point the President
directed the seating of the crowd, and cried in
strong voice "Give that man front seat. A
man that carries baby is a good fellowI"
The long-service record of so years has been
achieved by Anna Gabrieli, who has died at Bot
zen Austria, aged SO, after serving since her 18th
year three generations of the same family.
Rev. DIR. James Park, of the First Presbyterian
Church of Knoxville, TEMP. has celebrated his
s5th birthday. He has been preaching since
1S47 and lives in the house in which he was born.
Thomas Hill. Lawrenceville IN. J) farmer
has trained bull to run treadmill, which
pumps water, churns butter, and does all of that
kind of work. The bull, Hill says, beats wind
mill or gasoline engine.
John Fitzpatrick, tax collector of New Or
leans, whose clerk defaulted to the State to the
extent of $116.19O.OS, mortgaged his home and all
his property and paid in the amount of the de-
falcation in week after it was ascertained.
Frank B. Kellogg, the special attorney for the
government in the Standard Oil prosecution. is
one of the most prominent lawyers in the North
west. His present home is in st. Paul. H, be-
gan life as farmers boy in New York Stare.
Thomas Morrison. at one time partner with
Gen. o. S. Grant in peddling frewood in st.
Louis, died there recently, aged So years. He
was the founder of the st. Louis Provident As
ISOLATION, and was the city's oldest pLilan-
thropist.
A good way to send few choice cut flowers to
distance is to cut Sits in potatoes and insert
the flower stems, taking care that they are firmly
fastened in. An ordinary potato will keep most
flowers fresh for two weeks in armoderate tenn
perature.
A cane has been presented to the Governor of
Virginia that is souvenir of two battle-felds.
The cane is of hickory and was cut from the
famous field of Charlottesville, and the handle
is deer foot, the animal being killed in the
Wilderness.
A goat walked into a cashiers office in Wichi-
ia, Kan, and seized check, which it was eat
ing when the cashier threw it on its back and
choked it until the animal could hardly breathe.
When the goat was released the check had dis
appeared down its throat.
A London letter says that large shipments of
Jersey and Guernsey cattle are being made to
the United States. Competition among buyers
has been keen, calves bringing $3.50, cows over
$500, and one bull 5000, bought by Percival
Roberts, of Philadelphia.
The young shad are coming down the Susque
hanna river in such quantities that many owners
of fish baskets have removed the first tiers of
laths to avoid killing them. They are in schools
OF from six TO eight inches deep, and nsnermen
say they never saw so many.
B. +. Ferrill, farmer. near Danville. KY,
narrowly escaped death after he had sucked a
mouthful of bees into his windpipe while remov-
ing honey from beehive. Ferrill was using
large wooden pipe, blowing smoke into the bee
hive to keep the bees from singing him.
The Primitive Baptists of Georgia have split
on the use of organs in churches. In one dis
trict four churches were recently expelled for
using such instruments. Another point of con-
tention is taking out insurance policies of any
kind, the anti-organists condemning such things,
too.
The State of Washington produced 10000, 000,
600 shingles in 1905 fiscal year, 6SK per cent of
the total output of the United States. Wash
ington has 450 mills with daily output of $780,
600, or IS per cent. more than 1905. In no other
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