The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-11

are too indefinitely remote to merit attention.
In the vast majority of instances there is no real
foundation for the stories of premature burial
or intended burial.
The school children of Kansas City who OPEN
ed accounts in savings bank three years ago
now have total deposit Of $17,35s. There are
1,464 accounts in the school savings bank, hence
the average deposit is $11.81. In the school year
just closed the pupils saved more money than
in the two preceding years.
The vomiting of fishes from volcanoes is no
new experience, and it seems more startling
in the interval between two eruptions-often a
century or more-the craters become filled with
fsh-stocked lakes. and the next eruption blows
out the water and its contents.
Thomas E. White, the Boston mulatto whom
DIR. Sargent, of Harvard University, regards as
possessing the finest physical development he
has ever seen, is five feet three inches tall and
weighs III pounds. During recent examina-
leg-lift, doing so with perfect ease.
The number of crimes increases necessarily
as civilization advances, because new laws are
made constituting new crimes. While the num-
Der of violations of law increases the number
that the increase in the criminal statistics is al
most entirely in the newer and lighter offenses.
Elkhart, Ind, furnishes in Miss Jemima Nc
Coy an instance of eyesight restored after years
of blindness. Miss Mccoy, SO years old, and
blind from her birth, now sees as the result of a
on her eyes. A growth back of each pupil had
excluded the sight. The optic nerves were
sound.
In gorge of rock little more than 200 feet
wide the United States government has decided
under the Hansbrough- Newlands act, at the
Tonic Basin site, that will create in the valleys
largest artificial lake in the world. It will irri
gate 100000 acres.
NH Generalization, &c rro.,~oocoo ..-o..:s.z
whereas ministers of the gospel are by their
profession dedicated to God and the care of
souls, and ought not to be diverted from the
great duties of their functions, therefore no
minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomi
nation whatever, shall be eligible to seat in
either House of the Legislature.
Artificial teeth and "uppers" for boots and
shoes are among the new uses to which paper is
ness firm in Boston is considering proposition
to take up the work of manufacturing paper
hats. By and by high hat dress suit and shoes
rivaling patent leather, all made of paper, may
be considered quite the proper thing.
Marshall Field is ready to spend s5,OOO,OOO on
the building and appointments of the new Field
Columbian Museum in Grant Park, on the
Chicago lake front. The South Park Commits
instead of the 81, 100000 which Mr.. Field origin,
ally intended to expend on the museum, the |
sum would be five times that amount.
The United States holds the lead in competing
with foreign and domestic manufacture of ma
ehinery in France, but much more remains to |
be gained than has already been won. uni |
yersal and uniform complaint made by United |
States consuls is that manufacturers will not |
consider the needs. habits prejudices of the |
people they attempt to make their customers.
The Mexican Postal Department has taken a |
new and novel means of Informing the public
of the bulletins given out by the Weather Blu
reau. Every letter which passes through the
office is now stamped with the weather indica-
tons for the next "a hours. This stamping is
done at the same time that the postage stamps
on the letters are cancelled and the receiving
stamp affixed
One of the Oldest families in the world, not in
point of pedigree but of longevity, is said to
i've in Bell county, KY. Lewis Green is 93 years
1f age; his wife, Virginia Green. is 81 years old.
They were married 70 years ago and went to
i've on farm at the mouth of Binghams Creek,
n bend of the Cumberland river: They are
'till living in the same house to which they went
IS bridegroom and bride three-quarters of a
century ago. |