The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-15

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courage.
The employment of about $4,000 men for ten
years will be required in the building of the
Nicaragua Canal. The mere statement of this
fact eloquently describes the vastness of the
enterprise.
In proportion to its size Switzerland has more
hotels than any other country in the world
No fewer than 1,500 hostolries are on the list,
and the receipts of the hotelkeepers amount to
$25, 100000 year.
The Berberich family, three miles from
Petersburg, Virginia, was poisoned last Satur-
day by eating cabbage on which paris green had
been used. They have been extremely i'll, but
all have recovered. '>~,s-
James Eads How, a wealthy young man of st.
life of tramping and toll. He refuses to use
any of his Inherited money and insists upon
working for food and shelter.
Oscar E. Heard has just closed a l6-year term
as States Attorney of Stephenson county, III.
In that time he has secured the conviction of
2241 criminals among the number being three
murderers, two of whom were hanged.
Mrs. U. S. Grant gave luncheon on Monday
in Washington in honor of Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison. In the evening Justice Harlan enter
tanned a company of distinguished men at
dinner in honor of the former President.
Judgment was entered on Monday against
New York city for SSlS.O.4. as case of patent
litigation which has continued % years. With
interest and costs, the whole charge to the
city will be somewhat more than Sl,OOO,OOO.
The Japanese Government is considering the
advisabiity of inhicting capital punishment by
the subject in an air. tight chamber and then
exhaust the air from the box by means of a
pump.
At Santa Maria, on the Island of Luzon, over
1000 insurrectionists have come in and sworn
allegiance to the United States. 1t is said that
this was due to the reelection OF Mr.. McKin-
ley. and there is reason for believing the state
ment to be true.
The late Robert Arlington, an eccentric
gentleman, of Leeds, England, who lived in a
misery manner in order to be able to devote
his wealth to foreign missions, has left the Lon
don Missionary Society over two hundred and
fifty thousand pounds.
The Council of st. Joseph. Mo-, is considering
the advisability of increasing the cost of bill
by that means the practice whereby the walls
and fences of the city are covered with I'M
slightly posters may be discouraged.
The Abbeville u.s. CO. Ethiopian, a newspaper
for coored people, declares that 1.-THE greatest
blow the negro has ever received, and the one
w %ss g 1s hi @
him of the right of franchise, for which he was
in no way qualified"
Heavy cars each holding 60 passengers,
travelled easily 81 miles in one hour over the
Albany and Hudson Electric Railway at the
formal opening recently. The road is interest
ing in that it is the longest third rail- road in
the world, and although an experiment, it
seems to be perfect success.
Anthony Laird, of Woonsocket. r. l.. is nine
months old and weighs So pounds. His waist
measure is 2SX inches, and it required 1Oh
inches of the tape to go around the knee. When
Anthony was born he weighed l4A pounds, and
in four days he was three pounds heavier.
Since that time he has grown very fast
A New Jersey woman has invented rapid
clothes sprinkler, consisting of two sections of
tin, which fit tightly together and the surfaces
of which are perforated with small holes. This
is left resting in bowl of water while ironing
is going on. When it is desired to sprinkle the
clothes the sprinkler is seized and shaken over
the linen.
1t is common fallacy that impure water be-
comes sterilized at a temperature of 81 degrees.
One of the most curious facts about bacteria is
tinSuisb the life of innumerable hordes. and
while a very moderate increase in the tempera-
ture around them will have the same effect.
they are absolutely uninjured by any degree OF
cold.
Among the unusual spectacles witnessed on
the transport Sherman when that vessel recent
ly landed in San Francisco was the march of the
''one-legged Brigade" as it was called aboard
ship The brigade" consisted of five soldiers,
each of whom had lost leg. They messed to-
gether and slept together, and when the troops
landed they marched down the gang plank to-
gether.
Harry West known as kid" West, who, on
August /, left New York on wager that he
would walk to San Francisco in l35 days. arrived
there six days ahead of time. West claims to
have wagered 5000 with Charles Morton: of
Kansas City, that he would start from New
York city without cent, walk to San
Francisco, and get there broke in the time
specified.
Representative Sibley's bill proposes an
amendment to the Constitution to the effect
that the President shall hold his office six years
and be ineligible for re election; that the Vice
President shall hold his Office for seven years,
and that ex-Presidents shall become United
States Senators-at-large during good behavior.
although having no vote. 1t is said the bill will
never pass.
William Richardson, the successor to General
Wheeler in Congress, was once sentenced to
hang as Confederate spy. He was soldier at
the age of II, was captured, escaped and was
making his way back to the Confederacy, when
he was found by the Union troops in the com
pany of notorious spy, and was sentenced to
be hanged with the spy. An unexpected at
tack on his captors by General Forrest resulted
in his rescue.
The President wrote his last message with his
own hand. AS usual, he had memoranda fur
nsbed from the several executive departments
He did not, however, clap the manuscript into
his message, as most of his predecessors have
done with lew ensures ana i l
by his Cabinet Ministers and other officers of
the Government.
Thomas Gather, of Hancock, Nd, killed a
large hog few days ago that had been fed on
refuse from a railroad dining car. While max
ing sausage from the meat a hard substance
stopped the grinder. When removed it proved
to be solitaire diamond ring. 1t was sent to
Baltimore for inspection and came back with
the information that the diamond Twas worth at
least 5000. The ring was mutilated, but the
stone was unframed.
A Washington letter says Senator Teler's
whiskers are now perfectly white. A few years
ago they were glossy brown. He has grown
old rapidly during the last two years, but is
still vigorous and takes his usual interest in
legislation. Notwithstanding Mr.. Teller's earn
est advocacy of the free coinage of silver, he
is one of the few men able to look upon both
sides of question, and there is no fairer or
more judicial man in Congress.
recent examination of the records of nearly
400 West Point cadets for the past ten years
show that outside the sons of army officers of
which there we're 65. 149 were sons of farmers.
1l5 sons of merchants, 100 sons of lawyers, 81
sons of manufacturers. 81 sons of mechanics, 20
sons of insurance agents. 10 sons of real estate
agents, II sons of clergymen, Is sons of editors,