The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-25

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The bartenders of Chicago have organized
total abstinence society. From figures pre-
fully one-third of the bartenders and saloon
owners of the city are abstainers. In many of
the large saloons the proprietors will not employ
a man who drinks
The industrial agent of the Hartman system
of railways says that tract OF land of about
100000 acres has been bought in Southwestern
Texas for the Beers; about 10000 of whom will
at att first to raising rice and tobacco, to which
crops that region is peculiarly adapted.
It is seldom that one meets a person of nearly
90 years who is capable of filling the important
position of cashier of large bank. Azel Will
lard, of Detroit. Mich, father of George w.
Willard, one Of Detroit's foremost merchants,
has just passed his eighty eighth birthday at his
desk, discharging his regular duties as cashier.
Platinum. which is indispensable in some in
struments of precision and is useful in the arts
particularly. because when embedded in glass it
does not Il than y % s the
worlds platinum about $500 pounds) comes
from the Ural Mountains, which enables Russia
to control the price.
The Kansas Utopian Association is an illegal
organization. says the supreme IRENE Court Of that
the case of lodge-keeper from Brown county.
stripped Of its subterfuge and pretense, It is
decision will result in the closing Of 200 lodges
with 5000 members.
The gross receipts of the postal service for the
quarter ended December 81, 1902 were $35, 223,-
094. and the expenditures $3466 400. The re-
ceipts showed an increase of $3,00O,0O0 over the
same quarter year previous, but owing to
liberal appropriations and extensions of service
the surplus was $350.000 less than the CORES
pondinR quarter in 1901.
Prof Dyar of the department of biology of
the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington. D. c.,
reports that 1858 butterflies will be needed to COM
plete the government exhibit of lepidoptera at
the Worlds Fair, st. Louis. The required speci-
mems are of the European variety and can be
secured in one purchase from the Dresden col
lectors. The exhibit will be complete within
three months.
An expert in vital statistics says that the child
born today has a reasonable expectation of four
years longer life than the child born 80 years
state of things is the school nurse" who goes
from school to school treating incipient all
ments. So successful has been the work of a
single nurse in the New FORK schools this win
ter that IL more have been appointed.
A single vote was sufficient to elect G. P. Jen-
nings Mayor of Mutual. Ohio. in the late cleo
by the new municipal code. Mayor was to be
elected at this time, and no candidate appeared.
One voter seemed to comprehend the situation,
lot. This undoubtedly elected Jennings. as no
one else received any votes for the offce.
The Hotel Savoy, in New York, plumes itself
upon the possession of the largest mirror in the
world. Only two steamships Of the ocean-one
of them the Friesland. in which it came have
room in their holds to stow away such large
and is nearly half ' an inch thick h To get this
perfect plate five different glasses had to be cast.
Il was made at the st. Gabian glass works, in
Paris.