The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-22


inhabitants have on an average $50 In the say
ings banks.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railway Company an
nounces that on the 1st of January 1t Will
pension 400 Of its employees who have grown ola
in faithful service.
Mrs Charles Harting of Carroll county,
Missouri, has raised two crops of potatoes and
one crop of corn on the same piece OF land our
ing the present year.
A dispatch from Rangoon, India, announces
that the Pennsylvania Steel Company has Just
completed, in the Shan Hills, the highest rail-
way bridge in the world
As compared with the first nine months of
1899 Germany's exports of leather and leather
goods for the corresponding period tnlS year
showed decrease of S6.OOO,OOO.
The Pension Appropriation bill has been COM
pleted by the House Subcommittee on Appro-
prations. 1t carries about $l45,250,0 Co., of which
about $144 600 is for pensions and the balance
for administration.
The lowest bidder for the contract Of furnish
ing seeds for Congressional distributor ourl1s
turai Department was the New York Market
Gardeners Association at slOl,s75.
1t is announced that High Knob" the high
est peak of the Catoctin range OF the Blue
Ridge Mountains, is to be sold 1t Is famous Iiio.
lookout point, from which magnificent view,
extending into four states, can be mad.
A.
Waverly. He is six feet eight inches out OF MS
boots He is one of family of TO- the tallest of
whom was seven feet eight lnc mes Inc
smallest sister is six feet eight inches tail.
Representative Burleigh, of Name has intro
duced in Congress reapportlonment Dil hx King
yiding that in redistricting members snail De
elected as far as possible from contiguous terri
town
Mr.. Joshua J. Axtell, of Pontiac, Mich, is not
lor laarn Of hn fnVUn
likewise a dentist, keeps livery stable,
breaches and INDUCES in an occasional prize
fight. He also lectures ana is now writing
novel.
During the fiscal year ended June 80 last the
value of merchandise imported by Cuba was
sri, G9l ,1SI, of which $34, COS went from the
United States. The merchandise exported was
valued at $45,22S,346, of which $36,9l2,629 came
to this country.
The remnant of the once great Penobscot
Odtown Me-, have their own form of govern
ment. At their recent election they chose
prohibitionest chief named Mitchell Attea by
During the year 1899 no less than 1907 vessels,
Suez Canal. Of these 2,726 were merchant ships.
1856 mail steamers and 145 warshfps and trans,
ports. The transit receipts OF the canal
The report of the New York Association for
is valuable, as showing the causes of poverty.
OF 5000 cases investigated. 941 were due TO lack
of work. 19S to illness, 3O7 to old age. 52l to de-
sertion by husband, 3l2 to intemperance ana 245
to shiftlessness.
The British government has suppressed the
district messenger companies and transferred
the business done by them to the postoffice on
the ground that the co are c
monopoly of the conveyance OF messages by
letter and by wire.
In Cleveland O., the other night burglar
entered a house and stole $50 from the .proprie-
tor On the bureau however; the inv s9iag
the help of Almighty God and my health; VIII
pay you in year, with interest. You have
steady job, while must steal this or starve.
A curious condition has arisen in the constit-
Of & wh So + TepTe
five hundred of the electors have been DIS
franchised for nom payment OF rates OUT OF
total register in 1899 of 1907, so that, deductlng
losses from DEATH less than 300 of the electorate
are left to vote.
The terrible effect of the Galveston flood may
be illustrated by the fact that real estate in that
city is now worth only so per cent. of what it
ahead but apparently, it will be a long time be-
fore she attains that degree of prosperity winch
she had achieved before the unfortunate ca
lamity overlook her.
Reformed, Lutheran and Presby terrain clergy
of the Western Maryland Railroad at Pen Mar
last week, viewing suitable sites for taoer-
nacle which these denominations desire to nave
erected there for religious reunions and similar
gatherings in the summer time. The building
is to seat about 5000 people,
III. G. Culp. while cutting down a white oak
tree near Hancock. Nd. struck substance
that completely shattered his ak. 1t proved to
be bayonet imbedded four inches in the tree
point downwards. The tree had eeen formed
By two trees growing together at tho sFnn d
ment Of Hancock by Stonewall Jackson.
There are % counties in Montana, three of
which, Chotau and Dawson on the Canadlan
border and Custer county on the North Dakota
border. make up one half of the area OF the
State. Chotau casts 100 votes, Dawson 5OO ana
Custer l400. OF more than $4,000 electors in
Montana less than $500 are to be found in the
counties covering one half OF the state.
One of the recent inventions tried on the
British soldiers in South Africa is called '.solid
beer" 1t is a jelly made from malt and hops,
from which beer can be made anywhere and
fermented. 1t is said to make excellent beer
and to work equally well IN not or coio cliuates,
the process being very simple, and the military
authorities have reported favorably upon IL.
One of the curious and suggestive details in
the latest report of the Swiss inspectors relates
to the attitude of the operatives in certain
factory in regard to an improved ventllatng
apparatus They objected to it because 1t
would breed rheumatism. Two years later the
same laborers refused to go to another bulldlng
because it lacked that ventilating apparatus.
Presentations are being made for the building
of new town in Somerset county, Pa, near
Pennsylvania capitalists, seconded by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company. Iney nave
already purchased about 10y acres OF land IN
Somerset county, Pa, and Garrett county. Nd,
and several factories are projected. it is pro-
posed to name the town Unamls
The farmers of the San Joaquin Valley in
California, utilize the largest machines in the
world for harvesting and threshing their wheat
crops. These machines are combined harvest
ers that cut, thresh, clean, sack and dump the
grain on the ground ready to be stored me
traction engines which operate them are Oh DU
Vest sR'VVV "'''' "i' common
Articles of incorporation have been filed at
Madison, Wis, for a lawyers home for the care
of INDECENT, homeless and aged lawyers ana
their wives. The home will be especially for
Wisconsin lawyers, but attorneys in nee1 from
any part of the country will be welcomed within
its doors There is no capital stock and as soon
as officers are elected. popular subscriptions for
the establishment of the INSTITUTION Will DE
started
An enterprisng farmer in Switzerland has
broken away from all the old customs that have
dominated Swiss farming. He has turned the
force of convenient stream into power, and
generates an electric current strong enough to
run planning machine, fruit crusher, thrash
ing machine and pump. The peasants come
from miles around to gaze In astonishment at
farmhouse and stable brilliantly Illuminated
with electric lamps.
The packing firm of Armour Co.. of Chicago
has decided no longer to suffer the exactions OF
the Salt Trust. The stockyards concern has
bought salt mine of its own, and will proceed
Immediately to dig the saline mineral for use in
its vast industries. The mine which Armour u
Co. propose to work is in the Grant salt beds
north Of Detroit, Mich. The packers will be
able to cut their salt bill $l.55 barrel, or,
roughly estimated, $4,000 year.
Besides the rattlesnakes the New Mexico
end of the Rocky Mountains is blessed with the
tarantua the scorpion and the centipede.
Then there's the gila monster and many
poisonous lizards Of all these the centipede is,
perhaps. the most to be feared, because it is the
most plentiful, and has a habit of living among
the ceiling rafters of old abode houses: At
night, when man is sleeping, it drops, and If it
strikes his body it leaves wound that takes
months to heal.
How quickly the huge herds of Buffalo on the
American plains were swept from the face of
the earth A recent careful count by a compe-
tent person places the whole number of animals
of the kind living today at only 1,024. DR..
William T. Hornaday says in his book concern
ing the buffalo that it would have been as easy
TO count the number of leaves in the forest as to