The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-31

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Within the last 10 years more new meth
DDS have been devised for dealing with COLI
sumption than with any other human ailment.
The first cargo of wheat from the United
States to England since the British Government
imposed duty on wheat imported paid $4,000.
On health grounds an order forbdding the
sssea ~ Tho r,-efaot of Finistnro
The wholesale price of a pair of shoes repre-
sents about % per cent. in wages, 65 per cent.
material and IL per cent. minor expenses and
profits.
Four railway lines now connect Mexico with
the United States. In 1880 there was only one
railway in Mexico, leading from the capital to
Vera Cruz.
The late Amos J. Cummings was the champion
of the birds in Congress, and some OF his most
brilliant speeches were made in behalf of his
feathered friends.
Kansas permits the sale of spirits for me-
chanical purposes, and one applicant writes
that he needs -four gallons mechanically-goi
to have barn raiSin'."
J.P Miller. deputy sheriff of Stewart county,
Tenn, and his brother, G. j. Miller were charged
with making and passing counterfeit money.
The former admitted his guilt.
The Wyoming National Bank, of Warsaw. N.
Y, claims the Youngest bank president in the
country. He is Wolcott j. Humphrey, "A years
old, and graduated from Williams College in
1900.
Salt Lake City is about to lose one of its land
marks. The old SchoOlhouSe in which the chill
dren of Brigham Young were educated is to be
torn down to make room for some modern struc-
turc.
Since the illness of young Theodore Roosevelt
the practice of going without hats at the GrOton
(Mass.) school has been abolished. unless the
parents consent and certificate OF permission
is obtained.
Four hundred Masons from all parts Of the
State gathered at Austin, Minn., the other night
to witness the initiation of six brothers Charles
James, Andrew, William, David and George
Aultfather.
r. T. Oliverson, of Arlington. Kan, has start
ed for London to attend the coronation; Mr..
Oliverson was member of the children's chorus
who sang "God Save Our Maiden Queen" at
Queen Victoria's coronation.
Miss Helen Gould has opened her annual sew
ing school for poor girls of Irvington, in Lynd-
hurst, her country seat: More than 125 girls
have Joined the class. and Miss Gould has hired
six experienced teachers from New York.
Chicago's population this year, by the city d.
rectory census. will approximate 2,l49OO0. BY
the census of 1900 the population was 2.0l0,000 a
calculation which has generally been accepted
by those best posted as to the city's growth.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South elected Rev. DR.. 4. e.
Haas and Rev. A. Coke Smith as bishops, and
approved of plan to raise $5,000.000 as an en-
dowment fund for superannuated preachers.
None can tell where the diamond goes to in
combustion. Burn it, and it leaves no ash; the
flame is exterior. like that of cork, and when
it has bazed itself out there remains not even
so much as would dust the antennae of butter
fly.
The entire congregation of st. Mary's German
xol.s Iw1
special prayers for rain on Sunday, 18th inst.
Next morning dark clouds gathered and before
rain there for about month.
A wealthy woman, Mrs. Silva recently died in
Lisbon and left her entire property to rooster.
She was fervent Spiritualist and imagined
that the soul of her dead husband had entered
the rooster. The heir had the wealthy rooster
killed, thus becoming himself next of kim
The final census report on the manufacture of
ice in the United States shows that the total
manufacture for the 1877 establishments report
ing throughout the country during the census
year. 1900 4294 439 tons, valued at $l3 3O3 S74.
Pennsylvania led the States in ice manufacture
with ,0l8 tons.
An invention, which is likely to revolutionize
the matchmaking industry. has been perfected
by Swiss matchmaker. 1t is a watch which
goes by electricity and its special feature is its
accuracy. 1t was severely tested by, experts.
and it was found that it gained only seven
tenths of a second i'll five weeks.
Though not preacher, Congressman Gambler,
of Mississippi, takes active interest in religious
matters, and while at home during the summer
always holds revival meetings in the country
places. where it is difficult to secure the services
of men of ability and note. He has spoken
from several Washington pulpits.
The venerable Senator Pettus, of Alabama, re-
marks 1.-THE secret of living long is to work. /
am 81, and happy and healthy as boy. notice
that all of my neighbors who got rich and re-
tired are dead. l never got rich, and | never
retired. tell you, young man, the most fatal
disease know of is to quit work."
During the hearing of a prosecution at Hall
fax under the factory acts the factory inspector
informed the bench that when he became fac
tory inspector he made point of endeayoring
to discover an attendant of a joiner's planning
machine who was in possession of all his fingers.
He was five years before he came across such
man.
Judge Alfred Heath, of Syracuse, Wyo., has
an English Bible printed in 1906 which contains
the Old Testament, the Apocryphan, table of
proper names. the Psalms, the Lords Prayer,
the commandments and the canticles. all set to
music 1t is Brooches Bible," of which few
copies of this edition are known to be in exist
ence.
New Jerseys history lovers will regret to
learn of the fall of an old and gnarled pear tree
which has been landmark on the Brown estate,
near Gloucester. This tree is reliably declared
to have been brought from England in flower
pot in 1878 by William and Samuel Harrison,
who planted it on farm they had secured by
royal grant,
Hon. .'Billr Brown, one of the most renowned
Populist chiefs of Kansas, has been called upon
to be a candidate for the Legislature again.
Mr.. Brown won great fame when chairman of
the Committee on Railroads in the Kansas
House of Representatives four or five years ago
by thus describing a railroad in Pratt county,
his county: 1T hain't got no terrnini at airy
end !"
1t is claimed that although women are now
successful in preserving their youth almost to
the point of annihiating old age, 1t is also true
that women's hair turns gray sooner than it
used to. 1t is said there are no old ladies in
these days. Grandmothers refuse to put on
caps and sit at home with their knitting On the
other hand. their granddaughter begin to have
gray hair before they get out of college.
An association of men interested in growing
rice and figuring on widening the market for it
has opened rice kitchens" in Washington and
in Il plumber of large cities. where free cooking
lessons are given at certain hours of the day,
and at meal times rice connections are sold to
the hungry. They have rice cream, rice salad,
rice cakes rice gravy Iiee puddlng, rice PIE ana
a number of other good things adQlterated with
rice.
Connecticut has three sobriquets. 1t has been
called the Land of Steady Habits" from the
sobriety and gravity of the people; the Free
stone State from its enormous quarres of that
description of stone, and the Nutmeg State"
communities over hundred years ago that the
chief industry of its inhabitants was the manu-
racture of nutmegs of wood to be passed Off as
genuine on upspspecting purchasers.
Mrs. Sylvia Dunhaha, whose home is in a vii
lage near Boston, counts her age by the success
sive types of vehicles she has seen perfected.
She was born in 1900. At years of age she rode
in a stage coach, at 40 she boarded a railway
train for the first time, at SO she rode on an cleo
trio car, at 100 she enjoyed an outing in an auto
mobile. at the age of 102 years she still at
tends to her household duties works In her lit
tie garden and reads an hour every day.
New Year time in China is always fruitful of
fires. 1t is the Chinese custom that all debts
must be Iiquidated by the end of the year.
Failure to do so means utter ruin of ones credit.
It frequently happens that Chinaman, seeing
disgrace staring him in the face, will set fire to
his house and thus plead to bis creditors Hoy
could ] pay? The gods have destroyed my
home. Ask the gods for the money" In this
way, if not detected, honor is saved and credit
unimpaired.
Philip Schuch, Jr., presented to President
Roosevelt the other day gold nugget. He ex-
planned that this was the rock" which was
hurled at President Roosevelt during the cam
paign of 1900, when he stopped at Victor. Colo,
on his campaigning tour. Mr.. Schuch said, as a
matter of fact, chat the hurlng Of the nugget