The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-26


the federal authorities during the Civil War.
The amount of heat produced by an average
man in days work is sufficient to raise sixty
three pounds of water from freezing to boiling
point.
Russia and France each furnish Great Britain
annually more than 100000 pounds of butter,
while the United States furnished $1,250,0OO
worth.
w. NJ. Porter, young minister of the Indiana
Methodist Church, has disappeared from Indi-
annapolis, and it is reported that he has enlisted
in the navy.
In considering the practical side Of the vege-
tartan question it should be remembered thatat
least seven-tenths of the population of the
globe never eat flesh meat.
Only IL per cent. of the deaths from apoplexy,
softening of the brain and paralysis occur under
As years; SO per cent occur between 45 and 60;
IS per cent. occur above 60.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, has appointed
commission of five to secure statue of Frances
e. willard, the temperance lecturer. and erect
it in Statuary Hall, Washington.
King Victor Emmanuel is said to be the keen
est lover of horsefesh in royal Europe. He
that number of carriage horses for the royal
use.
Wages in the United States on the average are
more than twice those in Belgium three times
those of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and
Spain, and one and half those in England and
Scotland.
The largest single engine used at the st. Louis
Exposition will be an 5000 horsepower steam
turbine-the largest yet in use. The largest
steam engine in the Paris Exposition was 1900
horsepower.
The London Engineer says that the production
of potatoes in Germany will be even more i'm
portant in the future on account of the increas-
ing consumption of potato alcohol for automo-
bile purposes.
1t is said that the first book ever printed in
Philadelphia had to be recalled because it re-
ferred to William Penn as Lord Penn, 'a"high-
sounding title' that was very offensive to the
settlers in 1856.
The president of the ChicagoQll. )City Railway
Company says that the company pays cents OF
every for labor and invites inspection of their
books. He refuses an advance in wages, which
is now "a cents an hour.
Senator Martin, for the District of Columbia
Committee, few days ago reported favorably
his bill to provide for the construction of me-
mortal bridge across the Potomac river from
Washington to Arlington.
Ex-Governor Horace Boies, of Iowa, once the
popular idol of the Democrats of that State, is
living retired life on his farm of 1850 acres
near Eldora, Ia land is said to have aged rapidly
since the death of his son.
Should the Michigan Centralan Grand Trunk
Railroads bridge the Detroit river, the cantali-
yer structure planned will be five miles longin-
Guiding two-mle approaches on either side.
The cost will approximate $10,OO0,OOO.
King Alfonso. of Spain, is giving his subjects
lessons in agriculture. He wants to show them
that by the application of modern methods land
which for centuries has been held to be barren
can be made to yield profitable crops.
French physician, who believes in the sum
cure for most diseases, has had some houses
built for his patients. The houses are made on
pivot one wall being glass so that by turning
the house the patient may be in the sun all day.
Georgia's new vagrancy law makes it lawful
to put to work on the highways any adult who
cannot show he has regular employment. AS
result of the enforcement of this law the high
ways of that State are being put in the finest
sort of condition.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
sustained the validity of the Kansas act pre-
scribing eight hours as a lawful days work on
all public works and prescribing penalties for
contractors who permit or require their work
men to work longer.
Last year there were 5Ol56 applications for
patents at the Patent Office in Washington. OF
these 29S92 were granted. The receipts of the
office were a million and half dollars. The
patent office is the only Government bureau that
is operated at profit.
1t is reported that about six hundred of the
immigrants landed in New York during the past
six months, have become public charges. 1t is
a great thing to be an asylum for the lame and
lazy of all Europe, and Europe ought to appre-
ciate our philanthropy.
That Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was phil
atelist of many years standing has just come to
light by the discovery of a stamp room in her
old home at Woodclf, N. J. In the recess of
one of the rooms more than $4,000 stamps were
found hung On the walls.
The creed of Herbert Spencers parents diff
fered. On Sunday mornings he would go to the
Wesleyan chapel with his mother who was de-
vout Methodist; while in the evening he would
go to the meeting house with his father, who
was an equally earnest Quaker.
Miss Mary E. Jenkins has just been elected
president of the Syracuse IN. " Herald Pub
fishing Company. She is a thorough business
woman, well acquainted with all the details
of the newspaper business, with which she has
been connected for a number of years.
All new schools in Switzerland have portion
of the ground floor appropriated for baths.
Each class battles about once a fortnight, sum-
mer and winter. Soap is used and warm bath
is followed by cooler one. Sick children and
those having skin diseases are excluded.
Contractors are rapidly cutting the timber
from the forests of the Adirondacks which were
fire-swept last Spring. As the wood was only
charred it can be used for lumber if cut before
it decays. In year after the trees are cut the
second growth will have covered the clearings
Col. John Hurst, 81 years of age, and Mrs Liz
zie Elliott aged 65 were recently married in
Louisville. Two married women, daughters of
the bride and groom acted as matrons of honor,
their husbands being the grooms attendants.
Two little granddaughter of the bride acted as
flower girls
Representative N. d. Sperry, of the Second
Connecticut district is the father of the House
in point of years. He was 70 years old at his
last birthday, and yet his step is as elastic and
his mind as bright as when he first entered poll
tics, away back in the eos. He is one of the |
founders Of the Republican party.
Gen. Edward F. Jones, formerly lieutenant /
governor of New York, keenly feeling his own
misfortune in that respect, has made offer,
through the Board of Education of his home
-Binghampton-to aid any pupils in the
public schools of that city whose eyes are affect
ed and who need attention of an oculist.
A company in West Warren, Massachusetts,, |
has begun the manufacture of leather railroad |
ties. Old shoes and scrap leather of any de- |
scription are ground into fine mass and then |
pressed into the desired shape by hydraulic |
pressure. The company claims that leather
tie will last four times as long as the ordinary
one of chestnut
Morris Bailey, for thirty-eight years practic-