The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-29
1rEMs or aENRRAL 1NrEREsr
More than 100000 men are engaged in anthr
cite coal mining.


More than 100000 men are engaged in anthra-
cite coal mining.
earth has lost a pocketbook at some stage Of
her career.
Iridium, which is the hardest of all metals. is
used in the tips of gold pens to lessen wear. Its
cost is $50 to $50 pound.
There are 6.159 establishments in the United
States, with 46,647 acres. where flowers and or
namental plants are cultivated.
David B. Hill has as the only adornment on
the walls in his law office at Albany pictures of
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Algernon Sartoris, a grandson of General
Grant, has been offered a commission as lieu
tenant in the army by President Roosevelt.
John E. Snyder and wife, of Parkersburp. W.
Va have been married Il years and have is
children. and among them are four sets of twins.
The first train on the Pennsylvania system
equipped with electric lights left Pittsburg on
the 21st inst. Storage batteries under the cars
furnish the power
An English patent medicine firm offers seat
to view the coronation procession to every one
who will find hundred purchasers for its reme-
dy for rheumatism.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor
has sold to Felix Ieman, real estate dealer In
Philadelphia. the old Mint building and grounds
The price was 100000.
Jacob vallery, of Plattsmouth, Neb., has at
tended every Democratic National Convention
since the log cabin campaign of lS4O He was
born in Rhine Falls, Bavaria, in 1913.
heavier than air. finally settle on carpets or
furnishings. The industrious housewife fills
the air with them again and again with broom
and buster. ~
Raphael Beck's painting of President McKin-
ley delivering his last speech at the Pan Ameri-
can Exposition has arrived at Washington from
Buffalo, and will be hung in the Capitol for
several weeks.
The champion organ blower, in point Of ser
vice, has been found to be 72-year-old Joshua
Savall, who without single absence has pump
ed the organ of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn
for the last ~ years. -le
United States District Judge Thomas Leopold,
Day address at Grants tomb this year He was
one of the Confederate soldiers who surrendered
to General Grant at Appomattox.
The price of platinum one of the rarer of the
precious metals, now exceeds that IT fine gold,
being $2l an ounce. In 1895 the prize was only
$40 per ounce, but owing to the gratual increase
in demand 1t has been steadily risiig.
Col. Nicholas Smith, son-in-law of Horace
Greeley and 1.-THE handsomest maDin the world y
has been evicted from New Yosk fiat with bis
two daughters for non-paymentof rent.
d. E. Reardon, Boston architect, is totally
blind. Nevertheless, he has designed many
buildings in that city, and has just completed
the plans for six-story apartment house to be
erected by the Perkins Institute for the Bilnd
The following-named states and territories in
1900 did not contain any city with a population
of $4,000 or more Arizona, idaho, Indian Terri
fGoay, mississippi Nevada New Me5icoi Mor1a
and wyoming.
Joe King, aged 49, who has spent IL years in
Jail, writes to the Anamosa DAD Prison Press
that crime is not profitable. The articles ne
stole had a value of $67, and in his L years of
imprisonment he could have made $l6,SOO at the
trade of a printer.
Boston has a fairly interesting institution
$25 100000 in deposits and surplus of nearly
$4,000, 600. Most of its savings banks are i've
cents institutions, and it has penny bank,with
deposits of $2,l0O.OOO.
record breaking sale of postage stamps is
reported by the Chicago Postofiice. The sale
was 100000 stamps, for which the purchaser
gave a check for $4,000. This is the largest in
dividual purchase of stamps in the history of
the Chicago POstofhce.
Sheriff Pearson, of Portland, Me-, the clergy
man who was elected as joke, says that when
he entered upon his duties there were III open
saloons in the city, and that now he'll give 500
to the man who can show him an open saloon
there or anywhere in the county.
The farmhouse in South Spencer, Mass,
where Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing
for sale by auction. No reason is assigned for
the sale, but it is understood that the Howe
heirs feel unable to hold the property longer.
Citizens of Albemarle county, Va, have or
ganized the Jefferson Memorial Association. for
the purpose of building public boulevard be-
President Jefferson lies buried. The road will
CO. 0S IVY D'''' '''s '-'1 % N''''N - eO'' S~''
Senator Hoar belongs to club of literary
men that meets up in the Adirondacks. In the
bygone days, when Lopgfellow and Emerson
were alive and members Of the organization, an
outing at the rendezvous was proposed. Long
fellow declined because Emerson was to carry a
gun.
The large and heretofore useless peat bogs Of
California are now planted in celery, and this
seasons crop will make 1000 carloads, all of
which is to be sent East. The peat bOgs are so
light that horses can be driven over them only
by having broad iron pads attached to their
feet.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale will be so years old
b boarded az crowded s car IA and bow gave him
seat. In thanking the lad DR.. Hale said: "Thank
you, my boy thank you. I'll do as much for
you when you are 80 If happen to be around
them"
The number of oleomargarine factories in the
United States is only "a, but their annual out
put sells for more than $30,0O0000. There go
into it % 100000 pounds of milk and cream, 50,
100000 pounds of beeffat oleo 81, 600 pounds
of neutral lard and II 100000 pounds of cotton
seed oil.
It is said that the redemption division of the
National Postoffice at Washington is nearly
swamped by the return of the leftover Pan
American postage stamps since November l.
Some 10000 packages have been received. All
records are broken as far as Chief Scott can
recollect.
Kentucky was the first State to allow women
to vote on school questions, but at the last
School Board election in Lexington 800 cOlored
women and only 200 white women registered.
This state of affairs has caused the introduce
ton in the Legislature of a law entirely dis
franchising women.
Sigmuud Zeisler's 3OO,OOO-word speech at
Wikesbarre which broke the Pennsylvania re-
cord, was not the first time this gentleman has
accomplished such feat. He once argued a
case in Chicago for ten consecutive days, four
hours day, his speech containing half as many
words as are in the Bible.
Robert Morrow. of Chester county Pa, at the
age of 70 years. tells the Oxford Press that he is
almost the last OF the Conestoga wagoners who
hauled grain and lime from the Pequea Valley
to Philadelphia and Wilmington. In those days,
he says, wheat sold there for $1.25 a bushel and
cloverseed for $2l bushel.
Alexander R. Shepherd, who for three years
was at the head of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and who spent $40,0O0,00O in
improving Washington, is returning, million
aire, from Mexico whittier he went practically
penniless in 1879. He was fortunate in mining
ventures. He is 81 years old.
After many unsuccessful experiments and
trials an alloy of aluminium has been made with
which nails, staples and tacks can be made to
compete with copper. Among other advantages
claimed for the new material is that it Is not
affected by the weather and will not deteriorate,
as in laying roofs, lining tanks, etc.
The road to education in Kansas is more or
less rocky. AT Topeka man is suing the Board
Of Education because his son is made to sit still
and behave himself while chapter is being
read from the Bible in the morning. The man
Is an infdel, and he had instructed his son to
take no part in the religious exercises.