The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-25

A popular man has little to say about what he
as done and nothing at all about what ne Is
DING to do.
The first life insurance company was started
D London in 1898 and another in 400. Neither
ras successful.
Balloonists who assembled about 10000 feet ~
Europe the other day found temperature Oh
Z degrees below zero.
A wise man doesn't argue with a woman be
ause he expects it to do any good, but because
affords her pleasure.
At Troy linen shirt is made in six and nan
minutes the working of the button-nole occu-
pies one-quarter of minute
seventy-seven per cent. of the women, and
out 62 per cent. of the men taking the ClVll scr
vice examination are able to pass II.
Chicago had an attendance of 20,OOO,OOO people
at her Worlds Fair, but st. Louis counts conn-
IDENTIFY on an attendance of 40,OOO,oOo.
Arabella Huntington, widow, and II. r. Hun n
tinqton, nephew, divide the S600O0,OOO estate OF
the late Coils P. Huntington. Eacn ge's nail
The man who remembers that he cannot cool
the outside by pouring cold stun INTO ms t
will get along best in the DAYS Oh e4trene nea''
Ethuologists are of opinion that when Ameri-
ca was discovered there were not on Lne O onti-
nent of North America any more Indians than
exist now.
Somual Staley celebrated his DIST birthday at
RAYS Hill. near Hancock Nd, by cutting long
swath Of grain in the harvest field. This was MS
roth harvest.
Mrs LELAND Stanford Is said to carry larger
amount of insurance than any other woman IN
the world Her policies amount to more tnan
million dollars
---.f.le fndiana Legislature has made it mis-
demeanor for railroad to permit men in the
operating departments to work more than 10
hours continuously.
Among civilized nations four per cent. of the
men and one per cent Of the women are c eIoa
from color blindness.
Alfred H. Smith, the new general manager of
the New York Central Railway, began his career
as a messenger boy in the Cleveland Office of the
Lake Shore, at salary of "a week.
It is stated that wholesale land frauds in the
West, involving probably $4,000, 0O0, have been
discovered recently, and that United States
Senators and well known politicians are impll-
Gated.
Mrs. Margareta Danielson, of Cambridge. Mimi,
is 1872 years old. She is the mother of two Swe-
dish Baptist ministers and ascribes her long life
to her strict adherence to the tenets of the
church.
The pension agencies of the country will dis
burse $l3,3O5, GOO to veterans and tnelr depeaa-
ed at third of the pension agencies of the
country.
Peter C. Bouck, inventor of the block system
of railroad signals used in the United States,
died at his home in Brooklyn last week. OF pneu-
monia. He was born in Schoharie, N. T., 70
years ago.
According to the Accident Bulletin published
by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the
last quarter of 1902 the number killed by rail
ways in three months was 93S and the number
injured II, 1897.
Governor Lanham, of Texas, has issued a
proclamation Offering reward of $4,000 ITO
any person or persons who shall discover and
furnish O practical remedy Tor the destruction
of the cotton boil weevil."
George A. Wyman, of San Francisco, has just
reached New York from his home city on
motorcycle, making the trip in 30 days. He is
the first man TO cross the American Continent
on power-propelled road vehicle.
1t is estimated by the Treasury Department
that the exports of the United States for the
current year will reach the great total of 81 500
OOOOOO The imports will be about 81 600 900 900,
half of it raw material for manufactures.
The mines of the BLACK Hills district, South
Dakota, for the year just closed produced So
1865, 1892, which is nearly $1.000000 increase over
the previous year. The average value of the
ore handled in the district per ton was $4.44.
The keeper at the Philadelphia Zoo informed
a reporter of the Ledger that the animal that
that the only animal overcome by the heat dur
ing the recent hot spell was the royal Bengal
tiger.
The Cape Cod Pilgrim Association has been
formed at Provincetown, Mass. to place suit
able monument on High Pole Hill, the highest
point in the town, to commemorate the arrival
of the Mayfiower in the harbor on November
IL, 1920.
The most widely separated points between
which telegram can be sent are BRITISH Colum-
In doing SO.
The magnificent new Lasalle Street Station of
the Lake Shore, Rock Island and Nickel Plate
Railroads at Chicago, just completed at cost of
about s., OOO, 600, was opened for business last
Sunday night, all trains after midnight using
the new terminal
Capt. Henry A. Tayloe died July 16th at his
home, near Montgomery, Ala, in his Goth year.
He was for many years prominent in Alabama
affairs. Capt. Tayloe was born in Washington,
ID. O., in 1908, and often visited Jefferson at his
home in Monticello.
George A. Cooke, who organized a glee club
and travelled with it around the country during
the Henry Clay campaign, died recently at his
home in Brooklyn, in his ninetieth year. He is
said to have been the author of nearly a hun
dred campaign songs.
While arguing a case in the United States
court in Wheeling, w. Va, ex-Judge Blizzard
was suddenly stricken dumb. He was in the
midst of heated address. He had been promi-
governor next year.
Carrie Nation started crusade in St. Paul
last week and dashed into saloon, where she
at once began to tell the people about their
awful lives. The bartender quietly reached for
a seltzer syphon and pressed the button. Mrs.
woman on farm in Atchison county. Mo-.
never wanted to send any telephone messages,
but she got her moneys worth. A lineman on
an inspecting tour found her sitting in rock
ing chair knitting with the receiver tied to her
ear, enjoying all the conversation along the
line.
Ground has been broken in Paterson, NJ. for
the Cay nursery which Mrs. Garrett A. Hobart,
wife of the late Vice President, build. Mrs.
Hobart is building the nursery in memory Of
her daughter Miss Fanny Hobart. who died
some years ago, while Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart were
in Italy.
The use of the toothbrush is almost universal
although other methods of cleaning the teeth
have been suggested by dentists. The bristles
have certain disadvantages. Any bristle de-
tached from the brush may do harm 1t may get
into the larynx, or even into the vermiform
appendix.
The Howard county (MoO court has effectual-
ly put an end to all Uncle Toms Cabin" shows
in that county. In rearranging the license rate
for circuses and shows it was decided to levy
Howard was the largest slave-holding county in
that State.
The Kuhn, Loeb-Speyer syndicate of New
York, which underworld the $60,0O0000 Penn
sylvania stock issue, has been dissolved. Mem
bers of the syndicate received checks for their
share of the profits last Saturday. The syndi-
cate was not called upon to advance any money
in the deal.
One million immigrants to the shores of the
United States in 1904 These are the figures,
absolutely without Observation-Disclosures as
they may be-that are indicated by the statistics
for the fiscal year of 1903 just made public by
Frank p. Sargent, Commissioners eneral of
Major Justus Scheibert, another one of the
few remaining Germans who achieved distinc-
ton as officers on the Confederate side in the
American Civil War, is gone. He was close
friend of Heros Won Borcke, another German
who fought under Robert E. Lee, and who like
wise died recently.
Undertakers test bodies to see If life is ex-
tinct by raising blister with match. If the
blister is dry the body is dead If it fills with
water life is not yet extinct. If the cut made
for the embalming syringe bleeds the body is
alive. The only absolute certain sign, however,
IS beginning decomposition.
The Christian Endeavorers of America have
quilt 20 churches in destitute portions of the |
Unlted States Twenty-one of these have been |
quilt by the Christian Missionary League of the |