The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-15

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTER EST
India exported 19212.15 bushels of wheat dur-
ing the last season.
A goldfish farm is conducted by William
Shoup, in Waldron, Ind. His profits are about
S2O,OOO a year.
The twenty second child was born to the
family of John Rudney, of West Marlborough.
N. Y, on Monday last.
So far this year the contracts let for the con-
struction of new railroads aggregate 16 3l6 miles
against 6,O26 miles built in 1902.
Mrs. Elizabeth Calpinger died in West Vir
ginia the other ay,leaving l6 children 81 grand
children and SO great grandchildren.
Former Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada.bas
just purchased gold mine in Mexico which he
says is one of the richest in the world.
Nearly all the safety matches which are safe
against friction on sandpaper, stone, wood or
brick ignite readily on quick rub on glass.
An oil gusher of the highest known grade of
oil, both for lubricating and Illuminating has
been struck in the Valdez district of Alaska.
There are 227 lead-pencil factories in Ger
many, which employ 2,S13 persons and export
each year l,6l4 tons of pencils worth $2,00O,O0O.
Women exhibitors work will be placed side
by side with that of men at the st. Louis Exhi-
Dltlon. IL VIII also be judged by the same juries
The young man who courts success should get
busy. Success comes to men who do things
1t does not chase after the idler or the dreamer.
There are probably so women in the United
States who earn their living as commercial trav-
elers One of them receives yearly salary of
$1,000
Gold crosses and diplomas were presented by
the German Empress last year to 176 women
servants who had been 40 years with the same
family.
:, As result of one weeks idleness of II Fall
wages to the 1900 operatives affected was not
less than 100000.
L. o. Emerson, the composer of "A Life on
t6pdfaf songs, cefebfhted ms eTgnry rffrd pIrrn=
day in Boston lasr week.
A Socialist paper published in Kansas has half
million circulation; another in Missouri, So
00O; and a magazine now printed in Canada cir
culates more than 100000 copies.
Sultans are expensive pets. The Sultan of
Turkey costs his country, $5.OOO,OOO annually.
We pay our President only $4,000 and he is
worth couple of million sultans.
There has recently arrived in Germany the
hide Of an elephant that was IS feet Inches
high, this being over three feet above the lar
gest elephant ever known hitherto.
George B. Young the St. Paul attorney re-
tanned by the Northern Securities Company in
the merger trial, received fee of $100000 He
was special counsel for the company.
The latest indignities that microbes have been
subjected to is firing them from a gun. This
was done by government officials and it was
found that the bugs were not injured.
The white muscardine fungus which causes
the most contagious and fatal disease OF chlnch
bugs is being distributed from the Ohio agri-
cultural experiment station at Wooster.
Kansas rural free delivery carriers are form
ing organizations throughout the State, the
chief objects for which the carriers are work
ing being increased salaries and better roads.
1t is usually imagined that the incandescent
electric light gives out very little heat AS
matter of fact only six per cent. of its energy
goes to make light, while ninety-four goes into
heat.
son has been born to Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop
Rutherford. Mrs. Rutherford was Miss Alice
Morton, daughter of former Vice-President
Morton. The child is the first grandson of the
Mortons.
Those Illinois farmers who are going to use
shotguns for the purpose of protecting them
selves against automobiles may not know that
it takes good deal of practice to be a good
wing shot.
Eaton Stone, aged 81 years, once famous
bareback rider and the first performer to throw
a somersault upon a running horse. is dead at
his home in Nutley, N. j., after an illness of
over year.
The pastors of the 10 colored churches of
Jackson, Tenn, with a membership OF 1900,
have formed union for the betterment of their
race and placing the churches on higher plane
of Christianity.
1t is stated that at the Minnesota experiment
station, the potato and tomato vines have been
so grated on each other that hybrid vine has
produced good potatoes under ground and good
tomatoes above.
A $4,000 house was sold in Philadelphia for %
Nolan, of Chester. The house was raffied off by
St.Gabriel's Catholic Church at 25 cents ticket,
and she was lucky.
The electronometer is so aeutely sensitive
that it will detect in one minute an amount OF
matter which must -acelgD'5sste 1t" auect the
most sensitive chemical balance.
Mrs Robins N. washburn. who lives at San
Diego, Cal, is the widow of Israel Washburn,
Jr., who was Names war governor and who
named the Republican party. One of Mrs.
Washburn's best friends was Hannibal Hamlin.
Mrs. Martha L. Calder who was the oldest
woman in Lancaster, Pa, is dead, aged 80 years.
She was the daughter of Lewis Leland, soldier
of the Revolution, the builder of the first steam
boats made in Boston, and merchant in New
York.
For quick first aid' in removing a grease
spot try dry cornstarch. Often it will do the
work acceptably, and is always safe to expert
ment with, even on the most delicate fabrics.
Dust off the first application and repeat once or
twice.
J. Hamilton Lewis, the former representa-
tive from the State of Washington, has sailed
for Europe to promote the Trans-Alaskan-Si-
berian Railroad, which, it is predicted, will be
run under Boring Strait and unite Paris and
New York by rail-
The most valuable mahogany log ever import
ed through the gulf port was landed at Pense-
cola recently, en- route to Louisville. The log
is only thirty four feet in length and twenty
seven inches in thickness yet its value is $2,SOO
1t was purchased in Africa.
The subscription list of the Chicago centen-
NAL celebration to commemorate the permanent
settlement of the city has reached $1,000 The
committeeman organized to canvass the various
lines of business report that the entire SlOO,0cO
required will be raised by September LIST.
Many English doctors are now convinced that
the eating of pigs flesh in different forms is
greatly responsible for the increase of cancer.
They point out that it is most common among
the poor, whose chief meat is that of pigs.while
the disease is extremely rare among the Jews.
Six elderly brothers who reside in different
parts of the country, are having a reunion at
Lee near Winstead, ct. They are William
Henry Baldwin, aged Is /; Horace F. Baldwin,;
Russell p. Baldwin, 6S James s. Baldwin, "a;
Edward II. Baldwin, 81 and Frank Q. Baldwin,56.
Seven religious bodies own property in New
York city in excess of Sl,OO0000 The figures
are Protestant Episcopalians, 81, 3035OO; Ro-
man Catholics, $33, l66,600; PresbyteriaDs, Sill
$4,000; Jews, Sill 1886, 500 Methodists, S4,9l,500;
Reformed Dutch, 600, and Baptists, S3,47l,-
900.
Argentina exports more than 100000 pounds
of butter annually, nearly all of it to Great
Britain. 1t brings 16 cents pound at the cream
cries and the exporter gets an average OF "a
cents pound. Butter from no other country,
except Denmark, brings as good price the
COWS are Durham crosses.
Mrs Mabel Mckinley Baer, wife of DR.. Her.
mannus Baer, and the favorlte niece of the late
President Mckinley, announces that she has
retired from the stage and will sing no moro in
public. She has Cancelled all engagements. She
made her debut on the vaudeville stage in San
Francisco three weeks ago.
Judge William Penn Lyon, 1.-The grand old
man. of Wisconsin, former chief justice, Civil
War colonel, statesman, and institutional man
aper is going to California, where he will reside
the remaining years OF LIE 1irc. nc Is Of years
old and has been part of most of the history
of the State of Wisconsin.
The chiefs of the several departments of the
St. Louis Exposition, few months ago, were
wondering if all the space would be taken. To-
day they are puzzing their brains to know how
they can take care of the different demands, as