The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-11


ploy $1,000 children under l6 years of age.
At the present time the Order of Railway
Conductors has a membership of more than
27,000
New York bricklayers received 50 cents day
for IA hours labor in 1T76. They. now receive
$3.50 for eight hours.
professional forger has been employed by
one of the Chicago banks as an expert in the
detection of bogus paper.
About $40, 100000 crossties are now laid on the
American railroads, and 90,000,00O new ties are
required annually for renewals.
wood being worth So as fuel, the wood of the
Lombardy poplar is worth only $2.40.
Jonathan Parker, who was one of the pail
bearers at the funeral of Gen. William Henry
Harrison, is still living in kockport, Ind
One of the greatest drawbacks in Mexico is the
scarcity of fuel. Hopes are placed in the proba-
BILE discovery of oil in paying quantities.
In some German cities it is customary to fee
street car conductors, who are thus enabled to
add from 81 to So a month to their income.
been in charge of the Menasha (Wis.l postoffce,
is the only deaf mute postmaster in the world.
The camping grounds for civic and military
organizations at the ST. Louis Worlds Fair have
been laid out to accommodate 10000 to 1000 men.
Agricultural statistics show that the average
yield of wheat per acre in the United States is
little less than Is bushels, and that of Indian
corn little less than 81 bushels.
The average hay crop of the year is placed by
the Department of Agriculture at Las tons per
acre. Oregon shows up with the largest crop
and Pennsylvania with the smallest.
Mrs Thomas A. Hendricks, widow of the for
where her husband spent his last years to make
way for building improvements in indianapolis.
Prizes are being offered in certain counties of
North Dakota for the best samples of grains,
vegetables ard other products for exhibition in
the North Dakota sections at the Worlds Fair,
st. Louis.
man claims that he has made the discovery
that if grain of any sort is soaked and matted
and then ground and fed to stock there is a great
saving in the amount of grain required to pro-
duce pound OF meat.
of bird life in Missouri bring to light the sur
prising fact that within the last fifteen years in
sectivorous birds have decreased 62 per cent. and
game birds so per cent.
The Leonard Family Association, of New Eng
land, is to erect 100000 monument at Taunton.
Mass to the memory of Henry and James Leon
ard, colonial ironmasters, the founders of the
family in this country.
Miss Matte McClave, who has taught in Indi-
diana schools for As successive years, and has
among her present pupils grandchildren of some
of those she taught in her youth, is about to re-
sign and give up the work.
The exporting of American shoes is of COM
eaported only soo worth tho Of n Boots ana
shoes but for the fiscal year 1891 it sent abroad
s5,5OOOOO worth of boots and shoes.
A scheme for the manufacture of paper but
tons is being putforward in San Francisco. These
buttons, say the promoters of the scheme, will
be cheaper than the bone and metal ones, quite
as serviceable and of as good an appearance.
The adoption in Mexico of American styles in
clothing has been very marked in recent years.
Well-to-do Mexicans are discarding the old
"charro" suits, high sombreros and pointed
shoes for American style clothing, hats and
shoes. ~
tits twenty-five years since Mrs. Jennie Drink
water Conklin gave the name of ''Shut-ins" to
the suffering sisterhOod, and out of a sympa-
thetic desire to cheer the afflicted ones bound in
the fellowship of suffering has grown the Shut
in" Society. 4,
The validity of the law providing that school
districts shall pay the parents of pupils 10 cents
day for the transportation Of such pupils to
school where they live more than three miles
from school building is to be tested in the Kansas
Supreme Court.
a
subject of Interpretations correspondent notes
that Gov. Bell of Texas began a Thanksgiving
proclamation thus Now is the winter of our
discomfort made glorious summer in the
words of Holy Writ"
P. d. Harrison, of Manchester, N. H., has
been for three years gathering data for his
tory of the Stars and Stripes. The volume will
consist of all important first raisings of our
national emblem during war and peace in this
and foreign countries.
Armstrong Cornsilk, who has been granted a
pension by the North Carolina Pension Board
is the only Indian thus provided for by the
State. Cornsilk is Cherokee. He served in
the Sixty-nnth North Carolina Regiment from
April, 1862, to the close of the war.
Less than 10 per cent. of Manitoba's land has
been taken up; the neighboring territory of As
sinibola has nearly 6OOOOOOO acres, mostly suita-
Rockies, is 500 by 300 miles in extent, and Sas-
katchewan is another empire in area.
President Merrill, of Fisk University, points
out that the wel-educated and,competent negro
doctor has an amazing opportunity among the
100000 of his race. President Merrill knows of
twelve negro doctors in Nashville alone all doing
well, and six of them amassing property.
Dr. W. t. Harris, United States Commissioner
of Education. firmly believes that success comes
to-or at least is deserved by-those who are
'early to bed and early to rise." Foryears it has
been his custom to retire aboutthe time chickens
Andrew Carnegie, according to his own COM
putation, made to friend in London, has re-
Gently given away nearly 1000 per annum.
He averages about eight libraries day, giving
an average of $4,000 to each. Apparently he
does not anticipate cessation of his daily dona-
lions.
The latest invention is a brick-l laying machine.
1t does the work of six or seven skilled brick
layers, and costs $500. The inventor is a Cana
dian. The new machine is adapted only to plain
work, and can lay from 1900 to 1900 bricks
day Two men and d lad are required to oper
ate it.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the millionaire inven-
tor, it is said keeps half dozen mechanical
craftsmen busy on drawings of his inventions.
When in New York city Mr.. Vanderbilt spends
most of his time with these craftsmen in his
Office. on the seventeenth floor of a business
block on Broadway.
Mrs. Alice B. Gossage, of Rapid City, s. D., is
a type of Western energy and pluck. She can
edit and print newspaper, and has frequently
shouldered the work of the Rapid City Daily
Journal, which her husband edits. She is an
expert typesetter. and as writer has crisp,
epigrammatic style.
The Downs (KansasJ School Board, fearful lest
any of its schoolma'ms should set bad example
to the pupils, embodies this provision in its con-
tracts with teachers: mo teacher shall engage
in dancing or card playing during the continu-
ance of this contract, nor attend any formal
party during the school week."
The average farmer is in the habit of feeding
his animals by measure, and in some cases-the
majority, perhaps-little effort is made to have
the measure of standard dimensions. While it is
admitted that in the feeding of horses one gets
to know readily the requirements of each ami
NAL, it is by no means safe to feed cows the same
way.
A San Francisco rabbi gives new interpreta-
ton of the design of the American flag. To an
audience of immigrants. largely Russian, the
other day, he said: do you know why the stars
and stripes are in the flagI will tell you why.
They show that America has stars for those who
behave themselves and stripes for those who do
not"
Gen. Benjamin F. Buffers grandson, Butler
Ames, will probably perpetuate the family ira
ditions by membership in Congress from Mas
district. He is a West Point gradu-
ate, and has been prominent in the Bay State
militia, having been an officer in the Sixth Mas
which went with the Miles expedi-
tion to Porto Rico.
In a will dated March 4, 1897, Francis A. Brooks,
a Boston attorney, offered prize of $4,000 for
the ablest argument in support of the PROPOSE
ton that Congress had no power to furnish or
provide for the people circulating medium, at
their own expense, or to borrow money to be
repaid by taxation for the purpose of maintain
ing the so-called parity of silver and gold coin.
Mrs. Cook, wife of the British Governor of