The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-15


Nidah. Ca, has population of 1000 people. all
of whom live in tram cars. The town hall con-
sistS of two cars knocked into one, and church
has also been provided by the same device.
Rev. Wilson Carlisle, the noted London minis
church service and furnishes ali persons de.
string it with free cup of coffee as they leave
the church.
Stephen Maxwell. said to be the oldest engi-
neer in this country, celebrated his ninety-ffrst
birthday anniversary recently by taking a trip
on modern locomotive near his home, Beaver
Meadows, Pa.
Choctaw Indians are being imported to pick
cotton in Mississippi. They are quick and active
nimble of finger, and after few weeks of prac,
tice can pick as much cotton day as the best
negro pickers.
The statistics of the gross postal receipts of
the Government for October, as compared with
October, 1901, at 80 of the largest postofices in
the country, show total of $5,5S0,499, an in
crease of IL per cent
The Dairy products of Wisconsin now rival in
about S27 ,0O0,O 600 per annum. Little more than
half of the state is in farms. The average area
of q farm is III acres.
Systematic inquiries into the present condi-
ton of bird life in Missouri bring to light the
surprising fact that within the last Is years in
sectivorous birds have decreased 62 per cent. and
game birds so per cent.
Draft horses brought fancy prices at Chicago
last week-a pair of Percheron geldings sold for
$3.50 on an Eastern order, and $685. was paid for
a Clydesdale weighing 1910 lbs. In August q
Shire mare sold for $500.
At a spot indicated by water diviner an arte-
sian well was bored at Sleaford, Lincolnshire,
England, with the result that at a depth of $50
feet spring was struck that is now yielding
water
The official count of the vote of the late cleo
ton for Congress in the Twenty-nnth Pennsyl-
mia district shows that Congressman w. II. Ora
ham was defeated for reelection by George
Shiras. third, Gus. Rep0 by Is plurality.
In the stomach of a COW butchered recently
near Montrose. Pa, a good sized pocket book
with brass clasp, was found. The pocket-book
contained roll of bills and 40 cents in change,
A shingle nail and hairpin were also found.
Recent tests made by the Iowa experiment
station on the value of continental foods in the
fattening of stock are adverse to the use of such
foods. Some brands of prepared food especially
rich in protein and free from dope were fed to
advantage, however.
Rev. John Edward Herman, pastor of the
Congregational Church of Milford, N. H., read
the sermon on Sunday recently which was
preached 100 years ago by Rev. Humphreys
Moore at his installation as pastor of the
church.
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has presented a
photograph of his grandson, taken with a wild
The boar was killed by the 13-year-old Proctor
in Corbin Park, which the President visited this
summer
Carracross, on the west coast of ireland, is
composed entirely of boats. There are large
stone quarries near by, but the inhabitants
ground that an inverted fishing boat is more
comfortable.
Advices from Manila are that cholera con-
tinues to be intermittent in different parts of
the archipelago. The recorded total of cases is
10000 and of deaths $1,000. 1t is believed that
the actual number of cases exceeds the recorded
number by 20 per cent.
Pope Leo XIII has been happy in legacies. It
mas been reckoned that during his pontificate a
sum of more than So, 000, 900 has been beQueathed
10 MIN IN various ways. S6O0,OOO having come to
him In one year. and one recent bequest being
for no less than 100000.
The State of Colorado has law which arbi-
trarialy fixes the value of stock killed by the
railways and which the roads have to pay when
losses occur. This prevents working Off an old
Gamer on the roads for a choice registered cow
or SIS cayuse for 2:10 trotter.
DIR. F. F. Forwood, of Chester, Pa, who was
injured on traction car in Philadelphia, has
accepted 5000 in settlement of the case. His
eye was injured by a blow from the elbow of a
Fellow passenger who was thrown from his feet
by sudden movement of the car.
New Jersey iron works recently shipped by
rail bridge completely set up, the structure
occupying the full length of eight fiat cars The
bridge was erected before shipment, SO that
when it arrived at its destination it would be
ready to place upon the piers Immediately.
The Minnesota Harvester Company of Mime
sofa was incorporated at st. Paul few days ago,
with capital of $6,000000. Its object is said to
pc 70 nght the big harvester combination. 1t
embraces American Grass Irvine Company in
terests and number of Eastern capitalists.
curious test for deafness has been brought
before the Paris Academy of Medicine by DR..
Bonner. On applying tuning fork to the
knee or other part of the bony structure moth
ing is heard by the sound ear, but the note is
distinctly audible to an ear in which disease has
begun.
The courts have ordered that the affairs of the
company which was organized to build town
at Elizabethton, Tenn, shall be wound up to pay
the debts. EliZabethton was probably the most
skillfully doomed town in the United States and
its promoters got people all over the country to
invest largely.
Robert Bacon was as conspicuous at Harvard
a, little more than 20 years ago as he is now as
the partner of ]. Pierpont Morgan. Hand
some Bob Bacon" they called him at Cambridge.
He was Harvards football captain in 10, and
there never was finer physical specimen on
Harvard's eleven.
Maj. j. Francis O'Brien, who died at Louisville
lass week; made the gun with which the first
shot was fired on Fort Sumter He was go years
railway supplies. Maj. O'Brien was appointed
to West Point in 1857 by Jefferson Davis, then
Secretary of War.
While no special provision has been made by the
War Department this year for handling Christ
mas packages intended for U. s. soldiers serv-
ing in the Far East, yet all such packages so ad-
dressed will be forwarded to the various points
to which they may be addressed so as to be de-
livered during the holidays.
A bill has been introduced in the Georgia
Legislature providing that no child under IL
years of age shall work in any factory of any
manufacturing plant in the State. unless a
widowed mother or a totally disabled father
rely upon their support, and in no case shall a
child under 10 be employed.
Henry L. Dawes, ex-United States senator,
So@e at nS Mass @ IN IN his
cellent health. He retired from public life in
1898, after spending 30 years in Congress. He is
still chairman of the Dawes Indian Commission,
and from his home directs the affairs of the
Five Civilized Tribes.
The famous horse Ting-a-Ling. bought some
years ago from Worcester, Mass. street car COM
pany for $75 and developed into one of the best
jumpers and horse show performers in the coun-
try, died last week from injuries received in his
stable. He was % years old, had hunted with
the Wadsworth hounds in Genesee Valley, N. Y :,
and cleared gates that no other hunter would try.
The tree on which grew the first Rhode Island
greening apple is still in existence on the farm
of Thomas r. browne, at Foster, r. /. 1t was a
sapling 100 years ago, and now, though its
branches have to be propped up with poles. it is
ten feet in circumference at the base. Each
year it bears few apples, notwithstanding the
fact that it was supposed to be dying a century
ago.
Every head of clover consists of about 60
flower tubes, each of which contains an inf1ni-
tesmial quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit
a hundred different heads of clover before re-
turning to the hive, and in order to obtain the
sugar necessary for load must, therefore,
thrust their tongues into about 5000 different
flowers. Sometimes a bee will draw the sugar
from 10000 different flowers in the course of
single days work.
Carson Wallace was recently appointed teach
er of the school at Bradenville, near Latrobe,
Pa. On entering the SchoOlroOm the other
he was informed by his biggest pupil,
a burly young ruffian, that he was going to be
licked. Wallace prides himself on being an ex-
pert boxer, and in about three minutes the
school bully lay in a corner with broken jaw
and his eyes in deep mourning. Then the teach
er washed his hands at the pump and called up
the first class in history.