The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14


Oil from the cotton seed, sunfower SEED, olives
or peanuts contains the fat elements of meat as
we'll as its other food qualities.
The total number of farms in Alabama is given
at 2 220, of which 129, 1877 are operated by white
farmers and 940s3 by colored farmers.
DIR. N, c. Morse, president of the Iowa Associa-
tion of Railway Surgeons, is the heaviest physi-
clan in America, weighing 325 pounds.
The sale of fine shoes of American manufacture
in Canada has trebled in five years. 1t is estima-
ted that il will this year amount to 100000.
America sent to England 4O5, 7O3 head of cattle
In 190l-55, 494 more than in the previous wear,
while Canada, with 1921, sent 16,62S fewer than
in 1900.
Congressman Heatwole. of Minnesota. has a
trout brook on his farm, and is the only private
owner in the United States of white trout with
gold spots.
Among the curios of Windsor Castle is chair
made entirely out of the trunk of the famous
elm by which the Duke of Wellington stood at
the battle of Waterloo.
A New York physician has discovered that
lying is caused by indigestion. Scripture should
therefore be amended to read: IAN men are
more or less dyspeptlc."
Since the telegraph system of Great Britain
has been nationalized wages of telegraphers
have been reduced 20 per cent and the rates to
the public have been reduced one half.
Mrs. Katharine Taws. of PHILADELPHIA. recent
~ celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her
birth. For over 70 years she has not eaten meat.
and says she suffers no inconvenience thereby.
The plague is still raging in the East to such
an extent that it causes tens of thousands of
deaths every month in India. Medical science
seems to be at loss in coping with this horror.
womans work in Germany is nearly always
paid One-third to one-h half lower than PANS
uArr 70 nv 10
the men. owing to insufficient training Oh the
women.
David Mclean Perry, of indianapolis. presi-
dent of the National Association of 9anutac-
turers, was born on farm near Pittsnrg. He
rises at $50 A. NJ. and is at his Office disk at 0.45
every morning.
Evidently Friday is to be the greatday in Eng,
land for state events. The first cotrt was held
on Friday, the Kings birthday is d be ceieora-
ted on Friday and the coronation procession Is
to be on Friday.
The railway interest employs more men and
distributes more money than AM other interest
except agriculture. One from each 10 able
bodied men is employed directly or indirectly
by the railways.
Washington hotels are said 70 be the only ones
in this country that serve four regular meals
every "a hours-breakfast, luncheon, dinner and
supper-the latter being served in some casesas
late as midnight.
j. Pierpont Morgan smokes large cigars as
rule. but since his visit to Jekyl Island ne mas
added to his possessions style of cigar that Is at
once novelty and wonder. 1t bears his initials
and is eight inches long.
1t is a standing source of regret to Senator
Teller that he cannot tell story acceptaoly
He hears lot of them In the committee rooms
and Hobbies. but cannot master the knack OF re-
failing the simplest yarn.
Recent storms have done much damage to the
hoo ff.t1 Cnrfh linn m
Chickamauga battlefield, but it is not beyond
repair. The monument consists of large
bronze palmetto tree on marble base
In Texas and Louisiana there are now more
than 100 canals and pumping stations, each capa-
BILE of flooding 1000 acres of rice These are
owned by irrigation companies, which supply
the water as needed to the rice farmers.
Prof. W. J. MCGEE, of the Government Geo
logical Survey, declares that the Great Salt Lake
of Utah may disappear entirely in the near
for irrigating the lands around the lake.
T. Spencer Smith, native of Worcester coun-
ty Nd and the only brother of Governor Smith,
of Maryland, has been resident of Louisiana
thirty years or more and is cotton planter. He
is a member of the Louisiana Legislature.
Officials of the Coal Creek Coal Company, in
whose mine in Tennessee over 200 men were re-
Gently killed by an explosion. have been indicted
for criminal misdemeanor in not obey1ng the
law requiring daily inspection of the mine.
The farms of North Dakota, June1. 1900. accor-
ding to census bulletin, numbered 1882, val
ued at $198 $50, 700, of which 10 per cent repre-
sents the value of buildings and 81 per cent the
land and improvements other than pullolngs.
: Col b. F. Hawkes. who made speech at the
decorating of the statue of Gen. u ). Grant IN
the rotunda of the Capitol, is one OF the three
living comrades of the General in his cadet days
at West Point. Generals Dana and Longstreet
are the other two.
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University,
has been studying the almost total absence OF
cause, being newer to civilization the race has
not run through so many different and crucial
experiences as the white race.
A Japanese auction is a most solemn affair.
The public do not call out their bids, but write
their names, together with the amount they are
willing to pay, on slip of paper and put it in a
box These are looked through and the article
awarded to the person who has made the biggest
offer.
A good deal of feeling has arisen over the erec-
ton of memorial arch at Richmond in honor OF
Jefferson Davis Mrs. Davis has opposed the
arch on the ground that such a structure was
associated with a triumph and was inapt as a
memorial of the chief champion OF the Lost
Cause.
One hundred thousand dollars is being spent
in the construction of tunnel for telephone
wires between Minneapolis and st. Paul. The
object of the tunnel is to protect 1nter-urban
service from interruption by storms and to in
crease the capacity for communication between
the cities.
The Buffalo Park Department has big job on
its hands to restore to its former condition that
part of Delaware Park which was included in
the Pan-Amercan Exposition grounds. ProDa,
bly, a number of years must elapse before al
trace of the havoc worked by the Exposltlon
will have entirely disappeared.
Shelby Cullom has his little weaknesses, one
-. 10 haO Or1c aTrU0
on his feet. The other, afternoon he was seen
climbing stairway in the Capitol Building, ana
friend asked why he did not take the elevator
Because am in a hurry" said the Illinois SEN
ator, skipping up stairs with his 70 years.
Joint debate between girls representing the
bridgeport and the Derby Comm High Schools
took place the other night, and the accounts
state that the young women argued with great
skill. bridgeport, which champiOned the mega
tive end of the resolution that ambition had
done more harm than good, won the debate.
Crematory companies would do we'll to note
the statement of chemist who has determined.
by painstaking analyses, that human body OF
average size contains POUNDS ana 70 ounces % 81
calcium. The current quotation of calcium IS
$500 an ounce, which would give us each value
in the retort of $4,000, one fourth our weight
in gold.
In the city of Hot Springs, Ark, running is a
misdemeanor. Any person going raster than
walk is arrested and fined. This law is In the
interest of invalds who throng the streets and
suffer relapse from the excitement caused by
the undue haste of stranger. One who runs is
supposed to be thief, murderer or escaped
lunatic.
Thomas Ford, one of the most familiar figures
connected with the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad offices, in New York city. un-
doubtedly holds the worlds record as railroad
man who has never ridden mile on his or any
other road, and who has never asked for or re-
ceived pass from his company, or taken vaca-
ton in "A years.
Butler Hospital for the Insane, at Providence,
r. l., in order to remove the stigma which at
taches to patients admitted to an institution