The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05

The United States has 1900 postofices; Ger
many is next, with 1858, and Great Britain
third, with 22,4OO.
In Name Kansas and North Dakota they have
prohibition by State law; in SO other States they
have it by local option.
Mrs. E. P. Tilton and Miss Emeline Perrin, of
Adore, Ia. twins, recently celebrated their
ninety-second birthday.
The United States now has three cities of
more than a million inhabitants, but the fourth,
st. Louis, has about 6OO,0OO.
There are ,oS3, Arb Odd Fellows in the United
States and Canada, 94l, 221 Free -masons and OPS,
OBS of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
A sensitive dog will follow the track of man
who Is wearing his masters boots and will reject
the track of its master If he has on strange
boots.
In six years the Westinghouse Electrical Com
pany has earned net. $11 81 1913. Its gross sales
last year footed $23, 500 592 and its fixed assets
$l3,577,OO
In 1880 the South had but 2O5O0 miles of rail-
way. In 1900 there were over $4,000 miles. rep
resenting new influx Of capital to the amount
of $l,50O,OOO,OOO.
The experiments of Muller prove that if mi
crobes be placed in a gun barrel the wound
made by bullet fired from it would be infected
by the microbes.
statute of Col. Josias r. King. of st. Paul.
said to be the first volunteer in the Civil War.
will surmOunt the monument to be erected in
Summit Park, st. Paul.
The smallest typewriter ever manufactured
was made in America fourteen years ago. 1t
was four inches by three inches and weighed
four and half ounces.
in the Senate who has never been shaved His
beard began to grow when he was 16 and has
been growing for GO years.
William Milliken, ST., editor and proprietor of
the Fayette (Ohio) Herald, recently celebrated
his 9th birthday. For 40 years he has been at
the head of that newspaper.
New York has two hundred and fifty hotels,
London more than five hundred. But New
York's hotels will hold nearly as many people
as London's greater number.
George vanderbilt's estate, Biltmore, is al
under one ownership in North Carolina Never
theless he is still adding to it.
The people of Lincoln, Neb, boast of having
the largest creamery in the world, not only in
capacity for buttermaking, but in the size of the
plant and the floor space of the building.
Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallen-
berger, in his annual report, says nearly 16,000,
100000 pieces of mail were handled, and that its
transportation cost more than $63,O0OOOO.
Rev. Mr.. Cook of Concordia, Kan, has bought
space in one of the papers published there,
making years contract at regular advertising
rates, and will print his sermons weekly.
White farm labor is producing an increasing
proportion of cotton. and the dictum that the
negro is absolutely indispensable for cotton Gull
ture is fast becoming wornout tradition.
Australia has. as the result of last years
drouth, bought since January 100000 bushels
of wheat or its equivalent in flour, from the Pa
cific Coast, and 100000 bushels from New York.
There is preacher in Emporia, Kan, who is
probably listening sharply for a call now. He
asked the women in his congregation on recent
Sunday to please remove what they call their
hats"
The average peasant of Macedonia has a net
yearly income of only about $50, of which about
SIT goes on taxes. 1t is a common incident for
villagers to cut down their fruit trees to avoid
the tax on them.
Wages in Russian factories are cents an
hour and upward. There are thousands who
who do not receive 90 cents day for 10, IL and
more hours work.
Charles Taylor. the oldest trainer and driver
of trotting horses in the country, is nearly 81
wears old. but is still vigorous. He lives at
White River junction, VT, where he is looking
after horses on farm.
William r, Smith. superintendent of the Ma
tional Botanical Gardens at Washington. has a
library composed of books written by and re-
lating to Robert Burns, and they going to
Pittsburg when he dies.
It has been estimated by an expert in the en-
ploy of the Government that agricultural ma
chinery reduces the number of men employed
to one-third, while manufacturing machinery
reduces the number to one hftieth.
The coal-handling machinery at Boston
wharf recently lowered the worlds record by
raising coal from steamer 80 feet to storage
pockets at the rate of 800 tons an hour. The
capacity of the shovel was two tons.
The twin tunnel under the Capitol at Wash
ington which the Pennsylvania Railway has
been given permission to bore, will be 5000 feet
long, cost $800,000, and electricity is to be ex-
clusively used for hauling trains through it.
Helen Douglass, widow of Frederick Doug
lass the well known cOlored orator, died in
Washington on Tuesday, aged s. years. She was
the second wife of Douglass, and was a white
woman. She was native of Honeoye, N. Y.
In 60 years the annual per capita consumption
of whisky has gradually decreased from two
and half to one and fourth gallons. In 40
years the consumption of beer has increased
from less than to more than II gallons per
capita.
Postage is cheap in all countries in these times
but in none, perhaps, quite as cheap as in
Japan. A letter can be sent from one end to the
other of the Land of the Rising Sun for the fee
farthing.
Father J. P. Lynch, pastor of ST. Patrick's
Church, Gainesville, Fla, is endeavoring to di-
vert Irish immigration to the South. He has
about 1000 acres of fine farming land in Alachua
county, Fla, and wants to settle it with colony
of immigrants from the Green Isle
A French physician, DIR. Marechat advocates
the passing of law making the wearing of a
punishable by three months imprisonment if
she be of age and fine of $40 to $500 imposed
on her parents or guardians If she be under age.
Phineas G. Wright, of Putnam, Ct, one of the
wealthiest residents of that town, is now pre-
pairing his own tomb. He drew plans for 1t, and
Is seeing that his contractor is carrying them
out. He was born in 1929, in New Hampshire,
and boasts that his first dollar was made carry
ing the bod.
The annual report of Director Roberts, of the
United States Mint Bureau, shows that the coin
age minis at Philadelphia, New. Orleans and San
and that the output was greater in the number
of pieces than in any previous year, aggregat-
ing $2O5, 81, 4S2.
Commissioner of STRENGTHENING Wickes, of
Baltimore, received report from the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station showing that
street sweepings from the streets of Baltimore
have value of $1.35 ton. These sweepings,
samples of which were examined at the station,
are now sold to the Park Board.
William S. futile is making arrangements to
raise Benedict Arnold's flagship, the Royal
Savage. from Lake Champlain, where it was
scuttled in the War of 1872 in the battle of
Plattsburg. Among the relics supposed to be
aboard the craft are Benedict Arnold's uniform
and valuable government papers.
The manufacture of toys in Germany is an
which gives employment to fully 3d.
600 people, 1t has become centered chiefly in
the cities of Nuremberg and Sonneberg, which
have become famous for the quantity of their
products. They supply fully so per cent. of all
the toys exported from the Empire.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Brigham
addressed the National Grange at
Rochester, of which he was master for nine
years. He urged farmers to take a firm stand
against the tyranny of organized labor and or
ganized capital. Both, he said, raised problems
which the agricultural class alone could solve.
Alfred C. Thomson, recently pastor of the
First Free Baptist Church of Worcester, Mass.
asks his friends and the public. latter much
prayer and study of the Divine Word" kindly
to omit the Rev. and d. d. Il have decided"
he SAYS Ito discard all titles that are now affixed
to my name, believing them to be unscriptural."
No more cents are to be made by the United
States Mint for at least a year unless special
order shall be issued from headquarters at
This order is due to the enormous
production in the last five years. 5000 0O0. 1923
pennies having been shipped from the Philadel-
phia's mint, which is the only one that coins
these epecies to various parts of the country.