The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-24

just celebrated his ninety-first birthday at hi
home, in the village of Tyndall, S. d.
The wasp is an insect highwayman. Wasp
have often been observed to rob bees Will,
those industrious workers laden with the fruit
of an expedition are returning to the hive.
The oldest house in England stands near st
Adams Abbey, in HertfOrdshre, about 20 mile
from London. This house is said to be more
than 600 years old, and is still fit for habitation
President Stuyvesant Fish. of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad has bought 10000 acres of lant
near Jackson, MISS and will establish there
model farm on which he expects white farmer
to settle.
The Board of Directors of the Charleston Elk
position has decided that it would be inexpe
dent to continue the fair longer than the time
originally set. andeit will accordingly be CLOSED
on the LIST of June.
Smallpox in the United States, as officially re
ported from December 20. 1901, to March q. 1902
reaches total of 204, 1874 cases, with 708 deaths
The total for the same period in 1901 was II, 49
cases, with 149 deaths.
The statement is made on authority of deal
er in animals that most snake charmers are
morphine fiends. By the absorption of thi
poison they become impervious to the poison o.
all but the most deadly variety of snakes.
DR.. F. E. Clark reports a Christian Endeavol
Society at Malmberjet, So miles north of the
Arctic Circle. where for two weeks in Decem
ton by the light from an oil lamp at midday.
H. C. Thurston, who was the tallest man il
the Confederate. Army. is living at Mount
Vernon, Tex. Although feet tx inches il
height, and naturally mark for sharpshooters
he was wounded only once in all the campaigns
Emperor William directed, before Prince
Henry of Prussia went to the United States
that a complete collection of newspaper clip
pings be preserved in the archives of the Hob
enzollern family perpetuating the history of the
trip.
A French entomologist, NJ. Dagan, has tried
several hundred SPECIES of insects as food, bott
raw and cooked in various ways, and has fur.
Their made himself an authority by collecting
travellers experiences. Spiders, which he has
eaten, he does not recommend.
George r. Mckenzie, sewing machine man
ufacturer, built two Presbyterian churches il
jersey City, and gave them to the congregation
on the agreement that no musical instruments
should ever be heard within their walls. The
prohibition was fatal to both churches.
A writer in the Lancet says that children
should be taught to use the nasal douche when
they are taught to use the tooth brush. If the
organ were daily cleansed, he says. with slight.
ly astringent douche, such as a weak solution OF
sea salt, colds and germ diseases would be much
less frequent.
It has come to pass that advertising is recog-
nized as science. It's Importance as modern
commercial factor is such that the University
of Chicago includes advertising in the list OF
economic subjects for its lecture courses, along
with banking and the management of railroads
and other great industries.
is an established fact. The wateris decomposed
by electricity into its constituent gases, hydro
gen and oxygen. When these gases are re-
united the act Of combination causes the evo-
luton of intense heat The well-known lime
light is an example of this.
Within a few years the accuracy in the pro-
duction of both fiat and round surfaces has been
so increased that the speed of engines has been
multiplied by three, With the accurate bear
ings of the present the tripled speed gives less
trouble from heating and cutting than did the
slow speed of former years.
Stations for the artificial Matching and rear
ing of clans and Holsters in large numbers have
been established at several points along the At
far as to make it clear that the business of clam
farming or the raising of CLAIMS for the market
offers large pecuniary returns.
John P. JONES' who has represented Nevada
in the United States Senate since 1873, stated
last week that he would retire at the end of his
present term, on March 4, 1903. Senator Jones
was elected as Republican, but acted with the
Silver men from 1896 until 1900, when he re-
turned to the Republican ranks.
The President has signed the Oleomargarine
bill. This new law provides for a tax of 10 cents
9. pound on oleomargarine, and further yearly
product, a license fee of $500 to be paid by
makers of renovated butter and a license fee of
$50 year to be paid by makers of process butter.
The most phenomenal case of nerve ever
known on the American continent is reported
from Wichita Kan. A rug peddler called sew
eral times at house and found the people away
from home. At last he wrote and pinned this
note on the door: fundamentally remain at
home tomorrow forenoon. want TO sell you q
rug"
E. X. Lambert, woodsman residing at Elan,
WASH. will have unique curiosity at the
st. Louis Exposition. 1t will be collection
of the English alphabet, formed from the actual
growth shapes he could find in the woods. 1t
comprises roots and limbs of various kinds of
trees, each letter being substantial and accu-
rate reproduction.
1t is not uncommon for a japanese girl to
bear the name of a flower. On the other hand,
however, many girls in Japan bear the name of
SSJ This results probably from the custom
common among some people of naming child
from the first object that strikes the eye after
the little one has come into the world.
Trustees of the Confederate Memorial Asso-
citation have definitely determined upon Rich
mond, Va, as the location of the proposed Con-
federate museum. One hundred thousand dol
lars was donated by the late Charles Broadway
Rouss, of New York; toward the founding of a
battle abbey in the South, provided a like sum
could be raised by popular subscription.
A stubborn fact standing against all That may
be said about the condition of the wage earners
is found in the official report from the Superin-
tendent of the State Banking Department at
Albany, showing that the savings banks of New
York city alone have resources on hand to the
amount of $500, 900, 600 and that they handled in
deposits and payments in 1901 the enormous ag-
gregate of $360, PA, 0S3
Southern papers are pointing to an incident at
the burial of Wade Hampton as proof of the
strong affection which oftimes existed between
the
car" was driven by a negro IS years old. who
was born on the Hampton plantation. played
with the General when they were both children.
was his body servant many years and still lives
on the Hampton place.
In its eighty-sixth annual report the Ameri-
can Bible Society tells of having distributed go
600 copies in English and 10000 copies in Spanish
of President Roosevelts address on the Bible.
The total issues of the year. both home and
abroad, show an increase OF l69.665 copies over
published by the Society for the last So years of
its existence now approaches the q I0OOD0O mark.
Eggs that are selected and packed for storage
arc bringing the best prices. They are put
away in fine cork and used in August when the
supply of fresh eggs Is short New fork's
leading hotels give fresh" eggs then. when
there are not enough in the market to supply
one house. II used as soon as taken out of
storage these eggs have no material defect. Hoo
tells buy one days supply at time, and keep
none over "A hours
Dennis Flynn, delegate to Congress from Okla
homa, is putting in giant ticks for the admission
of his territory to statehood. When that event
shall have happened denny" will claim the
credit of having hailed from more states than
any other man in Congress- He was 6orn IN
Pennsylvania. removed to New York, admitted
ae tas sf m hopes
resent in the United States Senate after u De-
comes state.