The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-08

All the blood in a mans body passes through
his heart once in every two minutes.
The comet of 1913 was the only one during the
last century visible in broad daylight.
Many a mans unpopularity is due to an at
tempt to wear misht mantle of greatness.
In Germany 435 piano factories make $4,000 in
struments annually. Half of them, or about
$6,OOOOO0 worth, are sold abroad, principally in
England.
Joseph Saxton aged 70 years. the last surviving
uncle of Mrs. Mckinley, died on Monday. He
was one of the best known residents of Canton,
Ohio.
The bricklayer in New York city gets 65 cents
an hour during an eight-hour day; ironworkers
get 80 cents; marbesetters and stonecutters get
56S cents an hour.
The railways of the United States kill and in
and injured on both sides during the Boer War
which lasted three years.
Probably the youngest preacher in this conn
try is Rev. Edward Hersey Brewster, pastor of
BETHANY Free Baptist Church at Whitman, Mass.
He is only Is years of age.
A statement just issued by the United States
Postoffce Department shows that 81 women are
employed as regular carriers in the rural free
delivery service and 800 are on the substitute
list.
Out of every one million persons who are born
in the same year $4,000 live for 20 years. 10000
for 50 years and 8S4l for 80 years 25 for 81 years.
1l9 for 49, "a for &c. % for 10O for 101, for 102
for 103 years.
Last year 6O,0OOOO0 barrels of kerosene were
produced in the United States, and it is reckon
ed that the proceeds from the sale of this and
the various by-products from crude petroleum
aggregated nearly 1--WE hundred million dollars
Joseph snyder, AN aunlete or w, VINO lives In
Aetna; NJ y challenges any man of 70 or over
to walk from 10 to 80 miles, Mr.. Snyder says:
I'll walk him either with or without canes,
though prefer to carry one just for company"
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
prepared a preliminary report of the Internal
Revenue Bureaus operations for the fiscal year
ended June Both last. 1t shows the receipts
from all sources of internal revenue aggregated
$3.50, FAC, 3S2.57.
Six thousand more aliens entered the United
States through the port of New York last month
total for July this year was 1900, compared
with $4,000 for July, 1902, and $4,000 in the same
month in 1901.
Probably the largest can factory in the world
is that of the Standard Oil Company at Long
Island City, at which 10000 five-gallon cans are
made from Welsh tin each day for the export
kerosene trade. Three men have made 2400O
cans in one day.
Granny" Eagle, believed to be the Oldest
woman in Allegany county, died last Saturday.
Her alleged age is 125 years Four generations
husband, Robert Eagle, who is 80 years old, and
ID children survive.
Charles Frink, a farmer of Knox, New York,
lies at the point of death as the result of stroke
of lightning sustained while haying. The light
ming tore every article of clothing from his
body. His team of horses was killed and the
load of hay burned.
The Minetonka built at Cleveland for the sea-
coast trade, being longer than the locks in the
Welland Canal, was drydocked at the head of
the st. Lawrence system and cut in two. The
rear half steamed through the canal, while the
forward half was towed.
Only three of the fifteen members of the ia
nous Electoral Commission of 1877 survive-ex-
Senator Edmunds. Senator Hoar and General
Eppa H4nton OF virginia AL OF the t I'VE JUS
mission long since passed away.
The number of claims for pensions filed for
injuries in our To-day war with Spain is now
10000, and at the present rate there will soon be
half as many claims as there were men in the
war, although but 20, 900 went to Cuba and but
two or three regiments to Porto Rico.
United States Attorney General P. G. Knox is
to become aSummer resident of Chester county,
Pennsylvania. He has just purchased the farm
of the late E. J. Matthews. in Tredyffrin town
ship, and may occupy it during the remainder
of the present summer with his family.
In England where automatic coupling of cars
is yet unknown, 10000 railway employees are
killed or injured in 10 years in making couplings,
as shown by reports of the Board of Trade.
This offsetts in way the mortality of passen-
gers, which is very much smaller than on our
railroads.
German trade with the United States last year
was enormous, according to Consul General
Mason, who reports that the value of German
exports to the United States during n the fiscal
year ended July LIST last was ,625, or
net increase of $18,064,56l over the preceding
fiscal year.
The percentage of women workers in Ger
many has rapidly increased of late years. owing
to the enormous number of men REQUIRED in the
army. 1t is estimated that there are more than
100000 German women who earn their own
living, an increase of more than 100000 within
the last IL years.
By means of his wireless telephone, Frederick
Collins successfully transmitted a speech be-
tween Hartford, Conn.,, and East Hartford, with
the Connecticut river intervening. Previous
experiments by the inventor have been made
from one Hudson river ferry-boat to another,
and they have been fairly successful.
The best calculation that can be made shows
that the average number of children to the
white native family century ago in the United
States was more than six in 1880 it had fallen
to less than FIVE; in 1860 to less than four; in
1872 to less than three; in 1900 among the up
per classes" in Boston, to less than two.
Hugh B. Stultz, a Louisville carpenter, is
suffering from fractured rib, as q result of
peculiar accident. He was sitting on his porch,
and sneezed violently. He felt a strange pain
IN MS leIL S10e. ana In0 seemed 10 yield TO
tie touch, so he became alarmed. Upon exami-
nation it was found that the rib was fractured.
Living in Matamoras, Pa, are two daughters
of a member of Washington's army who par
ticipated in the battle of Monmouth-Mrs.
Phoebe Gainford. aged 9S years, and Mrs. Lucin-
daughters of Jacob Rockwell, who served in the
Seventh Connecticut Regiment of the Cont
mental Army.
check for 800 has been received from Presi-
dent Roosevelt for Theodore Roosevelt Signet,
the boy born to Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Sig
net. Of McKeesport. Pa, some weeks ago and
which is Mr. Signet's twentieth child. The
money has been put in bank to the credit of the
youugster, the interest to accumulate until he
is q years old.
The heirs of E. B. Gonzales, who about thirty
years ago conducted large grocery business in
East Orange, N. j., have just received check
from a conscience-st stricken woman who says she
has not enjoyed night of sound sleep since she
ran up the bill of groceries twenty-seven years
ago and decamped without paying it. The debt
amounted to $50.
S. q. Younger, of Okeene, Blaine county, Ok,
claims to be the youngest member of the Uni
ted States Army in the Civil War. He was born
ger was in General Grants army in the march
through the Wilderness. He was discharged at
Columbus, o., in 1865, after being in the service
2 years II months and days.
New York is to have beer queen" A brew
cry worth $5,0O0000, producing 100000 barrels of
beer annually and yielding $4,000 in profit is to
be owned and managed by a woman. After
years of litigation Mrs. Josephine Schmidt has
been awarded full possession of the immense
property left by her husband, and she will per-
sonally conduct the business.
The United States Government Building at
the Worlds Fair now in progress of erection on
the high plateau which will contain it and the
respective buildings devoted to the states of
the Union, will be the largest ever erected at
any exposition. The apex of the dome will be
surmounted by a quadriga, the topmost point of
which is It's feet above ground.
Governor Lanham of Texas, himself strong
prohibitionist, is much interested in the tenn
perance wave which is sweeping over the Lone
Star State. Already 40 counties have voted
total prohibition, so Others are dry in spots and
in only 81 is liquor sold unrestrictedly. The
last mentioned are mostly border and panhandle
counties, but sparsely populated.
The wife of a Shropshire farmer some months
ago told her husband that she had been swallow
ing needles, etc. She was taken to the mfr
mary, where an operation was performed In
her stomach were found needles. pins nails
three or four inches long, a button hook, safety
pin and other artices-120 in all. She died, and
a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane
was returned.
Chain Tin Sin, of San Francisco, who return
ed to China with his family, was one of San
Francisco's interesting characters. He landed
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