The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-21
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

farm, with the help OF 10 lawyers.
In the last month foreigners around Wilkes
barre, Pa, have sent home 100000.
This year the area in Kansas In alfalfa is 742.-
600 acres, an increase of over 20 per cent. over
1905.
The estimated population of st. Louis is $780,
600, five-sixths of whom live in flats and tene-
ments.
It is estimated that South America furnishes
about 50 per cent of the worlds supply of india
rubber.
Washington now has rs public statues, New
York 70, Boston SO, Philadelphia SO and Chicago
about 20.
dog kept watch three weeks over the body
of his master. d. r. Rankin. who killed himself
near Lawton, Okla.
The average attendance at the New York pub
lie schools is now 6s5.OOO, which is about 5000
more than one year ago.
The worlds strengthening record is 1884 ami
mails in nine hours. This was done at Hawks
Bay Station, in Australia.
The public schools of Cleveland may be equip
ped with book holders which enable the scholars
to sit erect while studying.
The total value Of the crops and live stock in
Kansas this year is figured out by the Board of
Agriculture to be s4s3,e4s.6O6.
In Philadelphia, Magistrate Coward fined Samr
Semless $40 for having soaked the bodies of live
rats with coal oil and set them on fire.
Mrs. Ida Webster, of Pratt county. Kan, has
harvested 5000 bushels of wheat and 1900 bush
els of corn from her 80O-acre farm this fall.
Aaron Trexier. of Mahonoy City, Pa. and his
wife, 20 miles away. died at the same hour of
pneumonia. Neither knew that the other was i'll.
Thomas Curtis, of Kansas City, committed
suicide because, he said, he was compelled to
rise every morning at o'clock and milk dozen
COWS.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland will be one of the dele
gates to represent New Jersey at the Congress
of Mothers to meet at Washington, March 18th
to 18th.
Judge Coffee, of California, has decided that a
bequest of 81, 900 made to pet dog is invalid on
the ground that it Is impossible for dog to in
herit money.
The sum of $4,000 has been appropriated for
the coming trial of Harry K. Thaw, and it is
stated that 100000 has already been spent by
the State in this case.
Twin sisters named Moore. of Chicago. are so
much alike that DIR. Charles A. Street. dentist,
in love with one of them. was forced to identify
his sweetheart by her teeth.
Judge Field. aged o.. of Athol. Mass, 80 years
on the bench. has never missed a days sitting,
Being indisposed recently. he heard a murder
case lying in bed on his back.
Kelley and Peare, of La Grande, Ore, have
produced on their farm a potato weighing OK
pounds, foot long. and larger around than the
arm of an ordinary blacksmith.
David Cooper. aged 90. of Douglass county,
Illinois, who has been asleep for more than
week, sings hymns in his sleep and asks for some
of his children who have been dead for more than
80 years. f
Lee Graf and Miss Sara Fl. Robson, unknown
by sight to each other. courted for weeks over a
3OO-mile telephone wire between Temple, Pa,
and Pittsburg. They finally met and wedding
followed.
1t costs nearly as much to pay the salaries of
the municipal servants of New York city as it
does to support the entire army of the United
States. The salaries amount close to S70,00O,OO0
annually.
King Edward has his own distillery, where
whisky is made for consumption among mem
bers of the royal family only. No whisky is put
on the royal table that is not at least from Is to
20 years old.
Daniel Reilly, of Mansfield, Ohio, has all the
windows and doors of his house wired and con-
nected with photograph, which sings out when
connection is broken: "Get out of here, o. I'll
fill you with lead"
The four year-old daughter of John Hudson,
of Springfield, Ohio, was choking to death from
diphtheria when DIR. L. L. Lyman slit the wind
pipe rapidly with pocket knife and inserted a
tube. saving the child's life.
By way of illustrating his subject, Religious
Training" Rev. A. w. Anderson, of Hammer
ton, N. j., had piled about him the pulpit
bottles of whisky, heaps of cigars and cigarettes
and packages of playing cards.
A dog in Pittsburg jumps into autos as they
pass near the sidewalk and the drivers let him
ride. Occasionally when two cars are passing in
the same direction he jumps from one to another,
and generally without accident.
The cornea of the eye of a young man who has
lost his sight, but whose cornea was intact. was
grated on the eye of DIR. Floyd swimley, Of
Forest, Ohio, whose sight was destroyed by an
explosion, and he is able to see.
DR.. D. F. Luckey. State Veterinarian of Mis-
souri,. says that before long the leaves and stems
of alfalfa will be ground into meal and bread
made from it. Meal from the seed of the grass
would, he says, be too rich for the stomach.
Although his famous silver mine has yielded
h bod A1vor 40 %I.n
Croesus," has been so extravagant that he has
run into debt, and has been constrained to lease
his property for 10 years to an American syn
dictate.
John Schaffer's excuse for stealing a goose
from George Schrick of Bellevue, ILL.,, was that
he had spent enough money in Schrick's saloon
to entitle him to the goose for Thanksgiving
dinner. His sentence was cent fine and one
hour in jail.
Rev. Samuel Bittis, of Hazleton, Ind, had
three members of his choir arrested on the
charge of disturbing the service by chewing
gum. Three female members, also chewers.
were not arrested, but were severely rebuked
by the minister.
When DR.. ]. A. Walsh, Of Pittsburg, called on
a farmer near West Point, Ohio, to collect bill,
and dug up nail keg filed with money and paid
the bill, afterward taking the keg to the house,
to be reburied in another place.
A remarkable bird found in Mexico is the bee
martin, which has trick of ruffling up the
feathers on the top of its head into the exact
semblance of beautiful flower, and when a bee
comes along to sip honey from the supposed
flower 1t is snapped up by the bird.
Congressman John &. Andrus, of Yonkers, N
Y. is going to give each of the needy families of
his home city on Christmas Day a roast turkey
and all the fixings, together with barrel of
-four and a bag of potatoes It is expected that
more than 1900 persons will benefit through this
action.
In Central Tennessee are large tracts of cedars,
the berries of which serve to attract myriads of
robins in the winter. One small hamlet in this
region sends to market annually enough robins
to return $500 at cents dozen, equal to 10000
birds. They are killed at night by torchlight
and with sticks.
In celebrating the marriage of Stephen Siebus,
aged ~. and Mrs. Henrietta Deeper. aged IA. in