The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-27

Simon. or oregon. SpOOner is rather UOucuy
regarding his lack of inches.
The serious effect of the drought is shown by
the wool traffic on the railroads OF New south
Wales for the current year. which is only $4,000
bales, compared with $4,000 bales in 1901.
Somebody down in Tennessee apparently
thinks that Secretary Root is Chinaman. A
man in Knoxville sent him letter the other
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Col Henry D. Capers, of South Carolina, holds
probably the Oldest Confederate commission
issued to any veteran now living. 1t was issued
by Jefferson Davis on his Inauguration day, Feb
ruary 18th, 1861.
David Mclean Parry of indianapolis, presi-
| dent of the National Association OF Manufao-
| turers. was born on farm near Pittsburg He
rises at $50 A. M and is at his Office desk at $40
| every morning.
Come on Boys" Vassile Verestchagins paint
| ing of the battle of San Juan Hill showing Pres
ident Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders, sold
| at auction last week to CASTOR A. Bronder of
Brooklyn, for $4,000
More than fifty girls are studying scientific
farming in the Minneapolis College of Agricul-
| ture. The course they take includes botany,
chemistry, physics and geology, requiring in the
| first two years two terms of each.
The Arctic fox shows the greatest change of
any animal in the color of its coat throughout
the year. In the summer its coat is dark blue
and it gradually lightens until snow begins to
fall, by which time it is pure white.
The yield of American corn per acre is 26.S
bushels, as compared with average yield of
1877 bushels in 1901, with 253 bushels In 1900 and
1899, and 10-year average of 23.4 bushels. This
indicates yield of 255O,0OO,OOO bushels.
Miss Lizzie Van Lew who showed great kind
ness to Union prisoners in Richmond, is buried
at Shockoe Hill Cemetery there. and boulder
of granite from the Massachusetts State House
| grounds has been placed over her grave.
By the will of the late William Pitts, of Taun-
ton, Mass. $50 600 is bequeathed for the erection
| of chapels and conducting missionary work in
| order to spread the Episcopal faith among the
negroes of Georgia and other Southern States.
Chancellor E. B. Andrews, of the University
| of Nebraska, is one of the few men who ever re-
| fused raise of pay. His salary is $1,000 An
| offer was made to raise it TO $1,000. He refused,
| saying the University needed to practice econ
| omy.
| President Roosevelt has been formally inform
| ed of his election as member of the Brother
| hood of Locomotive Firemen. The President
! has received his card of membership, which is
| deliberately engraved and inclosed in a sealskin
| case.
| The postal business of the United States is
| rapidly growing. The receipts for this year
were in 1882 having increased from 1000, 600 to
1921. 100000. The deficiency last year, about ST.,
| 100000 was less than any year since 1885,
| The best record of ong-sustained speed on the
| Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg was made
| last Monday by the Pennsylvania New York
| Chicago special in run from Crestline, o., to
| Fort Wayne. The distance of 13l miles was
made in 123 minutes, including four full stops
| Baker Allenberg and John Yeager. of Brad
| ford county, Pa, purchased 5,000acre tract of
! timber land on Gladys Fork, near Parsons, w.
| Va for $4,000 fourteen years ago. They have
| just disposed of their holdings, with the excep-
| ton of 500 acres, to a party of capitalists for
| $4,000.
| Last year was the biggest sardine season ever
| known in the history of the American industry.
| The pendulum has swung back this year. how
| ever, for the SardineS-Or, to be more frank, the
| little menhaden or herring-are so scarce down
| East that only few of the canneries are doing
| business
Rev. DIR. E. H. Mills, corresponding secretary
| of the Methodist Episcopal Thank Offering Fund,
is completing his final report and says that every
dollar of the called for three years ago
has been raised in cash and pledges. More than
half million for educational purposes has been
received within forty five days.
grove of handsome pine trees borders the
| highway near the town of Eusts, Me- forming
one of the natural beauties of the place. 1t
trees and offered the town authorities $4,000 for
| them. enough to pay the entire municipal debt,
but the town preferred keeping the trees.
Secretary Hitchcocks recent order that In
dams must support themselves has driven
| number of dignifed savages to the desperate
issue of going to work. Quite lot of them
along the State lines of Nebraska and South
! Dakota have accepted positions" involving
manual labor on the railroad tracks in that sec
| ton.
William Taylor died at the home of his father.
| John w. Taylor, of Shamokin, Pa, on the Goth
| inst The latter says his son was the youngest
soldier on the Northern side in the Civil War,
having enlisted at the age of IL years, months
and days as a drummer boy in the Eighty
fourth Regiment, formed at Huntingdon, Pa,
| August 18th, 1861.
| dispatch from Reading, Pa, dated Decem-
| Der goth, says: During the past week, ending
| with this evening the Reading Company brought
down from the mines 2SS $50 tons of anthracite
! coal. This was transported in about 1900 cars.
The colleries are being worked to their utmost,
and it is said that the product will hardly be in
creased during the winter.
Experiments on the value of salt in the food
| of sheep have been recently made in France
| OF three lots of sheep one had no salt, second
had half an ounce daily and third had three
| gained more flesh and had better wool than those
without it, and the sheep getting half an ounce
did better than those getting more
Great Britain is only half as big as Sumatra
| and double the size of Newfoundland. 1t stands
Islands ISLAM England. without Wales, is almost
identical in point of size with Roumania. 1t is
less than as Dig s as FRANCE or Ger b
| one-sixteenth hundredth part of the surface of
the globe.
| Only one characteristic distinguishes the little
| village of Strong, Me-, from the thousands of
| others that are scattered all over New England
| That is the peculiar industry which serves to
| support the entire community. Strong is ia
NOUS for nothing but toothpicks. but it is known
| in the trade as the place from which come the
majority of the toothpicks that are used in the
| United States.
| Metallic calcium now costs about $4,000 a
| pound But new process of reducing it from
chloride of lime has been discovered by Bel
| gian chemist which will bring the cost down to
! perhaps 81 a pound. The metal is soft as butter
! and rapidly oxdzes into lime If left in the open
| air 1t is therefore of no use for construction
| purposes, but is valuable agent in certain
| chemical processes.
| No public document bearing King Edwards
signature is ever carried by postmen though the
| Kings private letters are usually entrusted to
the ordinary post. Wherever the King may be
two Kings messengers or more leave London
every day bearing official papers that His Males
| ty must deal with Immediately. Thus, the King
is kept busy and sometimes overworked, even
| on his holiday trips.
They have a Sunday closing ordinance in Jop-
| lin, Mo-, and under its provisions only necessa-
ries may be sold. A grocer was accused of sell
| ing plug tobacco on Sunday, but his attorney
raised the point that chewing tobacco is a neces-
sity. Judge Brown, before whom the case was
tried, took the same view and discharged the ao-
cused. Then he took fresh chew of plug and
called the next case.
Dutch fishermen make astonishing catches by
means of very simple expedlent. Ihey put a
| number of live worms and insects into bottle
partly filled with water, which is then secure
! iy corked. The bottle is dropped into the
water, and the fisherman sinks his line along
| side 1t appears that the wriggling con-
| tents of the bottle so tempt the fish that they
| fall easy victims to the baited hooks
Walter N Gilmore, of San Francisco, had con-
sumption. but thought his lease of life was not
nearly run out. Some of his friends were frank
enough to express contrary opinion, where
| unon Mr. Gilmore offered to bet $500 that he
| could wheel a barrow to Omaha before the grim
messenger overlook him. The bet was made and
| he Started. At last accounts he had reached
| Pueblo Col. in good shape. When he started he
weighed Ill pounds; at Pueblo he tipped the
beam at 1856 and was still taking on flesh.
A dispatch from Tekamah, Neb., says that one
! of 1.-THE Rev. Morrill, Twins eccentric evangel
! lists, is dead. 1.-The Rev. Morrill, Twins" were