The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-15

Five yards in four years is the rate at which
the water pouring over the falls OF Niagara
wears away the rock beneath.
Thirty million stamps bearing King Edwards
portrait were placed on sale in the postofhces
throughout England on New Years day.
Since its doors were thrown open, on October
1st 1897, there have been daily average OF
200 visitors to the Congressional Library.
By the census of 1900 only two states had more
foreign born than native-born male residents
of voting age-Minnesota and South Dakota.
There were 1855 ice-making establishments in |
operation in the United States in 1900, as com
pared with 222 in 1880, an increase OF 2of.l per
cent
Rear-Admirals w. T. Sampson and B. J. Crom-
last Saturday, having reached the age limit OF
62 years.
OF the 119 counties in Kentucky 81 receive
more money from the state than they pay
into the treasury, while only IS pay net rev.
enue to the state.
Bynew processes alcoholi is now manufacturer
from fruit, grain, beets and even WOOD, at 10
cents gallon. Its heating power IS equal 10
two gallons of petroleum
From Slavery" translated into French, German
and Hindoostanee, is now to be put into
Finnish, and into Spanish for Cuba.
Harry r. Fisher of st. Louis owns chair
supposed to have been made in 1909 by Abraham
Lincolns mother, and used by the President
when he was a boy The chair is entirely of
hickory
Ina New York court passenger was recently
awarded 800 as compensatory damages Tor
wrongful election from a car: The passenger
refused to pay fare after rendering transfer
which the conductor would not accept.
Daniel Fl. Scott, OF Black River. N. Y. aged
III his son, aged so, and his grandson, aged %
were all initiated into the Masonic order the
1iv.rrl acf uyQp 10 @
TO be without precedent.
A deaf mute is suing street railroad company
in New York for the loss of two of his fingers,
loss which he alleges impairs his conversational
powers. The defendant replies that under the
modern system of talking for mutes one hand
is enough
John Peterson. a well known colored cook, was
found dead on the floor of the colored Masonic
Lodge in Winchester, Va.,a few days ago. Peter
son died in the same room in which the late
President Mckinley was made Mason during
the Civil War.
Edward Kent, of Colorado whom President
Roosevelt has appointed chief Justice of Ari-
IONA, is a son of the famous old Wing candidate
for Governor of Maine, whose campaign called
forth the stirring political cry, Hell bent for
Governor Kent!"
FIX. Smith. whom the Republicans of Clear
field, Pa, have nominated for borough treas
urer has no legs. Damon Harvey the candidate
for squire, is also cripple Thomas B. Reilly,
whom the Democrats named for tax collector,
is paralyZed on one side.
Recently Mrs. SCRABBLE, a Bohemian widow
living in Nebraska, sold a farm for s2,7O0, and
being distrustful of banks, put the money into
tin can and buried it under the floor of her
chicken house. A few days ago she discovered
her money had been stolen.
Mrs. Edwin f. Holmes is the widow of Dick
Holmes, the once famous silver mine owner of
Utah. while she herself is called the Diamond
Queen" of the West Her fortune is estimated
high in the millions. Mrs. Holmes is in Wash
ington for the winter season.
William c. Brown who has been elected third
ce-president of the New York Central Rail
road, and placed in full charge of the operating
and mechanical departments of the road, has
risen from the ranks, having started as section
hand on the Milwaukee and st. Paul.
= According to the Treasury Bureau of Statis-
tics "the people of the United States are send
| ing out of the country more than $1000,000 a
week in payment for coffee consumed in this
country all of which could be readily produced
| in Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines"
Postmaster General Payne has issued gem
eral order directing that all mail matter sent
| out by Mrs. Ida s. Mckinley, widow of President
Mckinley, under her autograph, be conveyed
| free of postage. This is in accordance with the
act of Congress approved January I'D last.
Tortured by pain because he did not know his
arm was broken. Thomas Maher, IL years old,
sat in school at Montclair, Nj, for seven hours.
Finally he tainted, and DR.. Synnott, WHO was
cred the cause of the boys excruciating pain.
Court, is said to be contemplating retirement
from the bench soon. He will have served 10
years on the Supreme Bench on the 10th of next
October having been appointed in lS92 by Presi-
dent Harrison. He was 70 years old last MONTH
John: Barlow. of Oak Ridge, N Y, celebrated
his one hundred and seventh birthday on Sat
urday. He declares that he has never been
Obliged to consult a dentist or a physician, and
has, liuuOr smoked tobacco
life. He has two sons who are great grand
fathers
Charles c. Jones of Montezuma, N. Y, is the
biggest Justice of the peace in the United
States. He is feet / inch tall and he weighs
476 pounds. His waist measure is 81 inches, his
chest Ga, and he wears "a inch collar He is an
active business man and is quick in manner and
movement.
Lawrence Gildersleeve, the son of a coal mer-
chant at Huntington, l.. l., whose neck was
broken in a football rush last Thanksgiving day,
and who, it was thought, was fatally injured, is
said to be on the road to complete recovery:
men falling on him.
Z Carl Schurz, who took part in the revolution
in 1S4S and had to flee from Germany in conse-
quence, is on Mayor Lows committee to re-
ceive Prince Henry. Mr.. Schurz was long ago
granted amnesty by Germany and, in fact, has
visited his mother country, where he was re-
ceived by men of distinction.
Gertrude Cutchin, of Lebanon, Mo-, who be-
lieves that her solution of the problem of tri-
secting the triangle has furnished her with the
KEY to perpetual motion, is Is years old, is
high school girl, and has received letters of con-
graduation on her accomplishments from pro-
fessors in German universities
st. Patricks Catholic Church. of Carlisle, Pa,
was 122 years old last Sunday. The parish is the
Oldest west of the Susquehanna, and was organ
lied three years after the Declaration of indie
pendence by Rev. Charles Sewall, a Jesuit from
Conewago, who has the historic honor of being
the first resident pastor of Baltimore.
A Cleveland man who had stolen five cents
worth of coal was arrested the other day and
fined SIS and costs. He refused to pay on the
ground that it was unjust, and when his wife
paid it he refused to leave the Jail. The turn
key was obliged to eject him, and he vowed
he would return at first opportunity.
LYMAN d, Gage, who has Just relinquished the
Secretarysbip of the Treasury, served longer at
the head of that department than any of the
secretaries, except Alexander Hamilton and AL
bert Gallatin. He served for nearly five years,
while Galatians record was nearly IL, and Ham
ilton's about five years and four months.
Governor odell of New York does not go in
for athletics quite as much as did his prede-
cessor, Mr.. Roosevelt but could make it inter-
estng for most persons at any kind of sport.
He holds good seat on a horse, can play ball,
the men who play with him beat him at billiards.
The number of students enrolled this year at
the Auburn IN. W Theological Seminary. a
Presbyterian institution, is only ~, contrasted
with 81 in $780, los in 1899 and l23 in 1897. Presi
dent George b. Stewart gives as the two chief
causes 1.-The loss of prestige in the ministry and
the increase of materialism in society and the
church."
Miss Kate Shelley was unanimously elected
bill clerk of the Iowa State Senate when that |
body convened at Des Moines. Her election was
an honor bestowed on account of her heroic act
on July g. 1881, when she saved a passenger train
from destruction in Honey creek, near Boone,
during flood Miss Shelley is 81 years old, and
a native of Ireland
Joseph Letter has an elaborate scheme on
hand of founding an industrial city in Franklin
county, Illinois. He has bought 5000 acres of
land. Two coal shafts will be sunk with an es-
timated daily capacity of $4,000 bushels. A
thousand coke ovens will be built. railroad
~ miles long will be built to the mills. Eventu-
ally $500 men will be employed.
A little black-and- tan dog recently gleefully
scampered around the marble room of the q.
s. Senate and sought to play with staid and dig
nifed lawmakers. How the dog got in is a mys-
terry. No dogs are allowed in the Capitol Build
ing A policeman caught the black and tan and
held him at the guardroom all day for an owner,
and was then turned over to the captor.