The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

physician in Switzerland who has been
studying the recurrence of contagious diseases
reports the cases of three persons VINO nave
been attacked seven times each Dy measles.
The owners of a number of skyscrapers in
New York city have been forced TO purchase
ground adjoining them to prevent their light
and air being cut off by other tall buildings.
A rattlespake that is five or six feet in length
will Weld tablespoonful of venom two or three
times month. 1t takes its poison sacs at least
a week to fill again after they nave peen emptleo.
The British government is purchasing 100000
horses and mules in this country to restock farms
in the Transvaal. Another purchase of equal
size will be made when this shipment is COM
pleted
A German scientist has discovered 100000
bacteria on half pound of cherries: Bread
leads to consumption, fruit is full OF bacteria
and water is swarming with germs And yet we
must live.
It is said upon reliable authority that when j.
P. Morgan and King Edward went into pleas
ant little game of bridge at Ambassador Choates
recent affair, the band began to play "God save
the King"
Allen Farm. once the home of Ethan Allen,
the hero of Ticonderoga. will soon be trans
formed by its present owner, w; j. Patton, into
a public park ard presented to the city OF Bur
lington, VT.
Christian Heinrich. OF Washington. is laying
posed of dwarf trees, shrubbery and the more
hardy tropical plants. 1t will be the first of its
kind in the country.
Silas w Bond. of Iowa Falls, has cast his bal
lot for IS presidential candidates. record held
by comparatively few men. MIR. Bonds hrst
vote was in Wayne county, Indiana, when he
voted for Henry Clay.
Eight per cent. of the population of this coun-
try is still illterate. In Germany only one per
cent. of iliterates exists and in Bavaria, Baden,
Wurtemberg and Scandinavia there are no to-
tally uneducated people.
Rev. H. NJ. Wharton, D. D., of Virginia. is pre-
pairing book of war songs and poems and re-
quests anyone who has poem or as0ng written
during the years of the Civil war va to kindly send
The day after the wedding both the man and
the woman are in the position of the woman
who has returned home from the drygoods
store and who has more time and cooler judg-
ment for the inspection OF her bargain.
1t is possible that Florida phosphate will meet
serious competitor in the recently discovered
deposits on Ocean Island, northeast of the Solo
mon Islands. which seem to be superior in quality
to either Florida or Christmas Island phosphate.
1t was woman who invented the tack puller,
which is now so widely used in this country.
The tack &C pner Is sP b tse bdng
pet to the floor can be easily and speedily pulled
out.
The demand for pens and pencils continues
large in spite of the fact that the typewriting
machine has come into universal use: Statls s
tics show that one gold pen, 10 steel pens and
Is lead pencils are made year for every family
of five persons.
Senator Foraker has introduced a bill in the
U. S. Senate directing the Secretary of War to
mark with marble slabs the graves OF Confed.
crate soldiers who died in Northern prisons or
hospitals during the Civil War. The Dill appro-
pirates 100000.
The crons in the Northern district Of swc -aen
and in part of Dalecarla have failed entirely
owing to the cold, wet summer COLLECTIONS
are being made in cities and towns by banks.
corporations and private individuals for the
relief of the sufferers.
The management of the Norfolk, Portsmouth
and Newport News Company's street railways
has issued notice that in future no unmarried
men will be employed on the lines and that all
seeking employment must be married and at
least thirty years OF age
BW Loring, first lieutenant, United States
Navy, retired died December 9th, at his nome
in 0swego, NY He witnessed the assa a matt
of President Lincoln and was one OF the nrst TO
reach the stricken man and help carry him TO
the house where he died.
A curious medical device has been introduced
in the Paris Hospitals 1t is a little apparatus
which is put under the arms OF fever patient,
reaching dangerous height it rings bell, sum
moning doctor and nurse
The Postofice Department has commenced to
issue the stamps bearing the Martha Washing
ton portrait They will replace the present oSo
of them will be distributed to the postofticeS OF
the country within year.
In proportion to its population Nebraska has
fewer illiterates than any other State in the
Union, with the States of Iowa, oregon, ONO
and Kansas following it closely in their respec-
tive order. Massachusetts, which ranked hrst |
ten years ago, now ranks ninth.
There is in Buffalo young Irishman who pos
sesses such keen sense of smell that he draws
a large salary from the Buffalo Gas Company as
leak in the City Hall that other men had unsuc- |
cessfully sought for eight years.
Washington correspondent says that "Irri-
CATION Bill' Reeder, of Kansas, who halls from
the @ county brought gn WIN bob MN mas
raised by irrigation. The blade of grass will be
placed in the National Museum.
White river, Ark, is said to be the crookedest |
stream in the United States If not in the world.
1t travels 1000 miles in traversing distance OF
300, zigzagging, winding, twisting, curving bend
ing its may, torturOus, tortlve way through the
beautiful Ozark Mountains, the Alps of Amer
lea.
Miners wages in silver mines in the United
States range from $3.50 to So in gold per day of
eight hours. while in Mexico miners wages are
70 cents in silver per day OF ii hours, which at
the present rate of exchange lSl.4O premluml
makes the Mexican labor cost Bin cents in gold |
per day.
at Pittsburg, Pa, is more than $4,000, 100000.
The production of steel at Pittsburg in 1901, |
equaled half that of England, was more than |
that of Germany, twice that of France, five |
times that of Russia or Belgium and rs times |
that of Spain.
Sidney Clark, venerable resident of Back |
River Falls, Wis, enjoys the unique distinction
of being the inventor of the paper collar. He |
made a fortune out of his invention and subSe- |
quent improvements on it by combining paper |
and cloth in a collar He is hale and hearty in |
his ninety-third year.
The most crooked railway in the world. it is
said, is one from Boswell to Friedens, Somerset |
miles. The road doubles on itself four times, |
and at one point. after making loop Of about
five miles, the road comes back to within 800 |
feet of itself on grade 81 feet lower.
The present methods of sending small sums
of money through the mail entirely made
uuate to the mail order business of the country. |
Investigation shows that in every 600 money |
orders only $50 of them for So or less, and it
is estimated that money orders are used for only |
10 per cent. of the transmissions of small sums
through the mails.
The yield of wheat, oats and barley in the
Northwest territories of Canada-Manitoba and
year 1t is estimated that there will be $780,
600 bushels of wheat, 80 100000 bushels of oats
and 100000 bushels of barley. This will tax
the capacity of the railroads, and the freight
managers are now arranging to accommodate
the traffic.
A marble box containing autographs and
trinkets contributed by the Roosevelt children
and issues of the local daily papers containing
copies of the Presidents message has been
placed under the floor in the main lobby OF the
remodeled White House. A mason covered the
receptacle with slab bearing the dates in brass
figures, "l792- 1902" surrounded by an eclipse OF
brass stars.
General Charles Dick and two other Ohio poll
ticians recently went hunting and bagged 167
quail in three days. The game law of Ohio al
lows but eighteen quail to be killed in one day
by one man, and the State game warden has
figured that the Dick party killed an average of
Is SO quail per man per day. The penalty for
killing more than the stipulated number per
day is a fine of from $25 to $500.
Since the House of the Fifty-seventh Congress
came into existence in March, 1901, IL members
have died. three have resigned and two have
been unseated as a result of contests, making
total of II changes in less than two years. This,
according to those intrusted with the compila-
tion of data of this character, is the greatest
number of changes during one session of Con-
gress in the history of that legislative body.
Gen. Basil Duke is supposed to be about the
mo ah ind ma in a