The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-12


Florence Cowie. of Syracuse, N. Y. has tn,
| credit of being the first woman to have charge
| of a horse show, having been chosen for TIT
post in the coming agricultural fair in that city
There are now but II survivors of the Maryland
Society of the California Pioneers. In 1887. wheI
the society was organized, it had - members
/ The society held areunion in baltimore recently
TIL Iiir..yIs Oe-,s~..y, Jeiiet, m, ha
! advanced the wages of all common laborers ant
part of the skilled laborers on the Joliet plant
| The increase amounts to an average OF about i
per cent.
Traditions are common in Western Kansas o
trees suddenly dying without apparent ca,is
Many are said never to have leaved again afte
| this experience.
The design of the Presidents flag is to b,
| changed 1t now bears the coat-of- arms of thu
United States on blue field. In the new flag i
stars will surround the eagle and asunburst will
radiate from the stars.
The 10-hour law. as applied to street railwa,
employees. was declared CONSTITUTIONAL by TN
Rhode Island Supreme Court. 1t was also de
clared illegal for the company to contract with
men for more than 10 hours work.
The name of the Austrian Emperor recently
figured in the will of one of his poor but loya
subjects The sum left to His Majesty amount
ed to So, and the Emperor accepted it as al
acknowledgement of a singular display of 10y
atty.
The census statistics show that the total value
of pens and pencils manufactured in the United
States in year 81 222 l48, and this despite
the fact that modern inventiveness has giveI
the world writing machines of numerous vari
cites.
The members of the famous class of 10 o.
Bowdoin College. to whom Thomas b. Reed gave
! a dinner at Portland, Me-, few days ago, seen
to bear charmed lives. Of the So who were
graduated AZ years ago nearly 40 are still in the
flesh
James N. Rogers, prominent in Baptist circles
in Salinas, CAL. has, after much study and cor
respondence with learned Mosems. embraced
Mohammedism. He says he expects nothing
but ostracsm as a consequence of his change o
faith.
Charles Payne, of Wichita, Kan. recently pre-
sented to the Geological Garden of st. Louis
pure white quail. caught recently in Southern
Oklahoma. He expresses the opinion that o.
every 100000 quails not more than one is al
albino.
chased tract of land in Stone county, Mo..apG
obtained an abstract of title, dated June IS, 1893
lidity of the title, signed by Daniel Webster ant
Rufus Choate.
The total emigration of Swedes to Americs
during the pas. so years has exceeded $4,000
while about $4,000 Swedes have gone to Other
CO.. ltries. Of the emigrants to the United
native country.
The Treasury Department puts the number
of Chinese in the United States at 100000. If
this be true, two-thirds of them are here in
evasion of the exclusion laws. for there are
registered as arriving legitimately on our shores
but $1,000 Chinese.
A curiosity in the shape of miniature book
has been issued by Birmingham (England)
manufacturer. The book, which is dictionary
is only * inches by X inches in size, but is so
clearly printed that with the aid of lens pro-
vided, every word is legible.
A church for organized labor in which de-
nomination will be considered is to be establish
ed in Marion Ind. Any person who worships
God can become member. The money for the
pastors salary and for maintaining the church
will be contributed by organized labor.
Dairymen hate thunder. Tt turns their milk
sour in a few hours. The reason is that cleo
tricity changes the sugar in milk to Tactic acid.
The caseine, or cheesy part of the milk being
insoluable in presence of an acid, is then pre-
cipitated into curds, and so the milk sours.
C, M. Schwab, president of the United States
Steel Corporation, has purchased site of 20
acres of land in Altoona and will erect home
for tWS Se edegy mn %bPeb
begin at once, will be the finest residence in the
city.
RI Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, bishop of Sioux
Falls S. D., when he returns to the United States
will be the bearer of a letter from the Pope to
President Roosevelt, and will take with him the
Pontiff's gift to the President, which consists of
a view of Rome from the Vatican studio, done in
mosaic.
Bill Seward, of Island Falls, Me-, is a we'll
known guide who knew President Roosevelt
when the President was, to use the words of the
guide, "a sickly boy who trudged with me years
ago." The guide says that young Mr. Roosevelt
had as lad great courage and energy, although
he was weak and slender.
Gen. Daniel Butterfeld's widow was left
100000 by Frederick P. James, her first hus-
life, and 10 heirs the other half. Natural growth
has increased that number to 103 and complica-
lions over dividing their share has brought the
case into the New York courts.
A joint debate between girls representing the
Bridgeport and Derby (Ct.) High Schools took
that the young women argued with great skill.
Bridgeport. which championed the negative end
of the resolution that ambition had done more
harm than good, won the debate.
Miss Florence NJ. Sumner of Chicago, has ac-
quired considerable distinction as dog fancier
and has been very successful in raising English
settlers, many of which have carried off high
honors at bench shows throughout the country.
Miss Sumner has been professionally engaged in
breeding dogs for about five years.
King Edward is a great lover of dogs, and has
had many favorites The present chosen and
constant canine companion of His Majesty is
an Irish terrier named Jack He came into the
Kings possession in November last and now
lives with His Majesty, travels with him and
lies beside the Kings chair all day.
Mrs. Helen Clarke Balmer of Edgewater, Chi
cago, is probably the first woman who was ever
graduated from a university in the same year
with her son. Mrs. Balmer has just completed
a three-year course in literature at the North
western University, while her elder son. Edwin
G. Balmer, took the full course, completing it in
three years.
So complete are the postal arrangements of
London that there is not house more than 200
yards from letterbox or 400 from a pOstOfice
and money order Office There are over 10000
pillar boxes eve call them letterboxes,) which
are cleared every hour from 10 in the morning
till in the evening, and there are IL deliveries
day in the city.
AS one has to go abroad to get the news, it is
interesting to learn from London paper that
American fashionable women are wearing belts
ornamented with Chinese hieroglyphics in sill
yer, and that one woman was chagrined to learn
from Chinese diplomat that the hieroglyphics
she wore read, MAY all my enemies die by tor
ture," and May have 80 sons"
Samuel Gompers, the labor leader, is master
of five languages. At convention of the
American Federation of Labor some years ago
delegates made speeches in Italian, in French,
in German and in Spanish. Mr. Gompers was
at home with them all. He made notes on their
and, when necessary, interrupted
them on obscure points in their own tongue.
The boy who wants to do things must not only
be around when things are happening. but he
must make things happen. And the only force
that will make things happen is thought. The
product of thought is IDEAS and the market value
of good idea is a fortune. Honest work Is
worth good salary, but honest work plus good
ideas is worth an interest in the business.
curious custom obtains among the peasantry
of the Isle of Man. The Sunday following the
funeral of a relative is called mourning Sun
day, and as many of the dead persons relations
as are available meet together and go to church.
So far well and good, but the extraordinary part
of it is that throughout the entire time they re-
main seated, and do not enter at all into any out
ward participation in the service.
Mrs. Ellen Sergeant, well-to-do woman of
who died recently, left among her
effects bracelet containing lock of hair of
George Washington. The souvenir was be-
Queathed to the Society of George Washington.
at Valley Forge. The lock of hair
was given by Washington to Mrs. Sergeant's
grandmother in return for an act of kindness
by her while the General was at Valley Forge
DIR. Hepworth, who died few days ago. was u
preacher in Boston at the time of Lincolns as
by John Wilkes Booth. At once a
hue and cry arose against Edwin Booth, and MIR.
Hepworth. with voice and pen. denounced any
such acclaim, stating on his personal knowledge
hat Edwin Booth was loyal man, an excellent
citizen and an ardent admirer of Lincoln, for
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