The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-29

Bradley W. Palmer, one of Boston'5 lawyers,
has in process of construction unique summer
residence made entirely of cobblestones found
On his estate.
memory that people who know long pieces OF
verse by heart frequently cannot remember
their telephone number.
Asbestos towels are among the curiosities of
the day. When dirty it is only necessary to
throw them into red hot fre, and after rev
minutes draw them out fresh and clean.
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton had the first ice
cream in the city of Washington; She used to
tell with amusement of the delight with which
President Andrew Jackson first tasted it.
John S. Mosby, who won fame as commander
of the guerrilla band in the service of the Con.
federacy during the Civil War. is now q special
employee in the Department of the Interior.
J. Pierpont Morgan, while a student at the
English High School in Boston, took the mathe-
mates prize for three years in succession. since
then he has taken nearly everything else on
earth.
Rev. Dr. ]. W. McGarvey. president of the
Bible College of Kentucky University, has re-
signed from the Broadway Christian Church be-
cause it was decided to install an organ in the
church.
Representative H. S. Irwin, of the First Con-
gressional district of Kentucky, was defeated. it
is claimed, for Congress in the recent election
principally because he went to sleep and snored
during sessions
Last year we imported nearly 100000 bushels
of potatoes, this quantity being exceeded only
twice in our history. In the previous fiscal year
the crop in this country was much larger and
we imported only 372,OOO bushels.
1t has been estimated that flash of lightning
occupies less than one-millionth part of Sec
ond AS one-tenth of second is needed for the
full effect fany light upon the eye. we get only
a very faint idea of the brilliancy of the flash.
Appropos of Lord Kelvin's assertion that in
400 years the coal of the world will be used up,
M. Cartleux. chief engineer of the Northern
Railway of France, says that in 10 years, be-
tween petroleum and alcohol, coal mining will
not pay.
An idea as to the financial growth of the
country can be gotten from the fact that in the
year 1850 it required only nine clerks to perform
all the work in the office of the Treasurer OF the
United States. The present number on the cler-
ical force is 425.
President F. ]. Kimball, of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, says that land had been pur-
chased and the plans were being prepared for a
new depot at Roanoke, Va. but that the build
ing will not be put up until the cows are kept
of the streets
A thirty-ton granite monument has been
erected over the grave OF John sherman adt IN fhe
massive block mounted on nodded base and a
plain sub-base, and bears the simple inscription,
John SHERMAN.
Charles j. Swanson, a Minneapolis manufac-
turer, on his silver wedding anniversary, cele-
brated several days ago, gave to each OF his
nine EMPLOYEES who had been with him for 20
years deed for 40 acres of improved land in
Anoka county, Mimi.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone declares it is not her in
tention to REIN burse all the persons who con-
tributed toward her release from the brigands
1t is her purpose, she says, to repay such per-
SONS who embarrassed themselves financially by
giving toward her ransom.
has only sixty-five n-English-speaking resi-
dents Georgia only 200; Tennessee, 200: and
Arkansas Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama
less than 1000 each. Minnesota, where Scandi-
nayians are numerous has 75,OOO.
Machinery for a train that may revolutionize
the railway transportation of the world is being
built at the General Electric Works, at Lynn.
Mass 1t is soon to be tried in Illinois, where
the track is almost completed. The engineers
estimate that the train will make 90 to 100 miles
an hour.
In Corsica bread is made from chestnuts, with
out admikture of any other substance. 1t has
ful. sweet in flavor, agreeable to eat and easily
digestible. 1t keeps more than 10 days, and con-
stitutes the chief food of the Corsican noun
taineers.
Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd, colored, widow of
Haywood Shepherd, keeper OF the station gate
q
Washington few days ago. Shepherd was the
first man killed by John Brown and his men.
His refusal to give up the keys resulted in his
being shot.
At the rate advances are being made the rail-
roads of the country will clear in the aggregate
about $70,0000 600 annually over and above the
increase in wages. The latter will amount in
round figures to S50.O00,000 and the advance in
freight rates will bring in about $40 adj
ditiOnal revenue.
representative of the German government
has been sent to Canada to ascertain what trees
can be profitably transplanted into Germany.
He has already decided that white pine, red
cherry spruce and black walnut would flourish
on German soil, and experiments are to be made
with those trees.
Joshua Swartwort, of Middletown, N. j., the
last surviving slave of the old Orange county
families, is dead at the home of his daughter in
that city at the age of 102. He prided himself
that his parents were owned by George Wash
ington and that he was born on the estate at
Mount Vernon, Va.
Vanity keeps up the numerous clipping bu-
reaus of New York. One bureau has large
number of women subscribers mostly society
leaders. But men are far more eager to read
about themselves and their doings than women.
AS rule, the less worth the subject the more
ticked with little notice.
Three hundred and sixty-ive tons represented
the entire amount of anthracite coal marketed
in this country in 1920. In 1899 the country pro-
duced over 80, 000, 900 long tons of Pennsylvania
anthracite. Before the year 1920 hard coal was
practically unknown, except in few CRATES in
the houses of people of means.
Twelve years ago ,when Robert E. Pattison ran
on the Democratic ticket for Governor of Penn
sylvania, he received just one majority over the
Republican in the Bryn Mawr election district
of Lower Merton. Mr.. Pattson's majority over
Judge Pennypacker in the same district in the
late election was only one vote.
year cost $50,000.0 00 Not many years ago French
manufacturers supplied American women with
high-priced corsets, but the American factories
centage of foreign-made corsets sold in this
country at present is very insignificant.
A queer case came up before Brooklyn mag
istrate the other day. A deaf and dumb boy
was arrested, charged with stealing gosling
from neighbor. He wrote his answer to the
charge and declared that he had a chicken which
had sat on an egg in the neighbours yard and had
Matched the gosling. He therefore considered
that he had some claim to the gosling.
For the amount of meat used the sausage is
the most profitable legacy of the hog. Fully so
different kinds of this suspected article are
manufactured to suit the taste of many peo-
pies for Italians, witha dominating measure of
garlic for Germans, hard and fatty for French
men, dry and we'll laTded for Americans, we'll
spiced and all of these in several grades.
A friend once wrote to Mark Twain asking his
opinion on a certain matter and received no re-
ply. He waited a few days and then wrote
again His second letter was also ignored. FL
nally he sent a third note, incosing a sheet of
paper and two-cent stamp. By return post he
received postal card on which was the follow
ing: Paper and stamp received. Please send
envelope"
Advance sheets of Poor's Manual, the great
authority on railroads, show that on June 30,
1902 there were 1885, 600 miles of railways in this
country. about $500 miles of new line having
been built last year. The total receipts from all
roads were $l.612. 100000, and the net earnings
were almost 5000, 600 There are over 1900
engines 200 mail and passenger cars and 400
600 freight cars in use.
Announcement in the British Medical Jour
nal that the average income OF physicians is
$500 year has caused much controversy. Its
maintained that only small number can earn
so much, even after years of arduous work. In
this country some average incomes are estl-
mated thus: Surgeons, 81 900; physicians, 81 $50;
lawyers, $3.50; journalists, $1,000; clergymen,
$500; artists $3.50; authors, $500; nurses. $500.
In great metropolitan hotels, where hundreds
of guests have to be called at any hour OF the
night to catch trains, etc., the work of calling
each one just at the proper time is quite re-
sponsibility. An automatic call system has just
been put into New York hotel. A clock in the
Office is so arranged that it can be set to ring
call at any specified time in any room; and IL
does not go to sleep or forget, as cal-boys some
times do.
AS compared with its population. the groduo-