The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-03

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There were SO glassmaking plants in operation |
n Ohio during the past year. employing .Has
lands and paying 50, 463,9A in wages, exclusive
If salaries paid office help.
DR.. T. G. Simpson, of West Fairlee. Vt, owns
he musket from which was fired the first shot
1t the battle of Bunker Hill. 1t belonged 10 mis-
grandfather, Major John Simpson.
Owing to the increased cost of living the Board
Of Education at Schenectady, N. T., adopted
new schedule of teachers salaries, Daseo on
length of service and giving an average increase
Of $50 teacher year.
Local inspectors of the wheeling division of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have con-
demned $500 box cars, flats, etc.. as lightweignt
or lie BIT capacity. The condemned cars will be
burned and the iron sold as scrap.
The average expenditure for pupil in the
public schools of this country last year was
sol IA or AT cents day of the average scnool
wear New York bad the highest expenditure,
$4I .68 per pupil, and North Carolina the lowest,
$4.56.
When Henry MARI, of Columbus, Ind, goes to
his barn lot and steps upon neatly carve1 &c o
Deople on ali four sides of him. for he is the
center of population man of the whole United
States.
Mrs Mary Mansfield, of Paterson, N. j.. IN
suit for divorce, alleges that her husband, after
an accident in which her front teeth were
her. and finally one night pulled out her false
teeth and threw them In stove.
Rev.-J. w. McGarvey, president of the Ken
lucky University, has one OF tne largesI anu
most valuable collections of biblical curios pos
s msde the nS COLLECTION during his many trips
abroad and especially in the Holy Land.
Tho friends of the late Col. Charles A. Russell,
long a representative from the Third Congress
sional District of Connecticut, are quietly rals-
The plan is to raise $25,O 600 for his family, and
the fund is already Waking good progress.
Mrs Anna Thornton. of Louisville, has been
drawing four pensions from the government as
the widow of four soldiers serving In the war
of the Rebellion. She has made no concealment
of the facts and no fraud is charged against her.
as each pension was granted in accordance with
law.
w. d. Crawford, Is years old, of New Jersey,
has band of trained rats Each has an apart
ment in a cage. At the boys call each rat will
nation. They form in line and go through mill
tary evolutions in sharp time. Then sham
battle follows.
The matchmaking industries of Michigan are
numbering and farming. 1T one has capltal ne
can do we'll in Michigan as a farmer II witnout
capital land can be obtained from the state
for a trife but it takes years of hard labor TO
clear it of timber, etc., and only the strongest
can stand the toll.
The Cheney family. silk manufacturers at
South Manchester, Conn.,, recently learned LnaI
Seth" Leslie Cheney was aoout cS 10 s CSeney
his brother, was sent to prevent tne natcn u y
possible, but instead he has married a sister OF
his brothers bride.
"Charlien Tillman (colored), while walking
along the gangway above one OF the great Va u,s
into the vat 1t was filled with boiling liquid.
Two workmen managed to grasp MS nanos an9
pull him out, but he was unconscious, ana mao
really been cooked alive.
left Seaton. coal operator located near Shell
bina, Mo-, has opened two minesLone Ior union
can take their choice. Eleven men nave COM
menced work in the nonunion mine and 10 have
gone to work in the other. The same scale OF
paw is in effect at both mines.
The ssold log scEoolhouse" at Camp Run. West
r e to By the Oldest sc5ooSouse in h
country. 1t is very primitive in all its appoint
ments. but the teacher, Miss Celia ]. Miller who
is only l6 years old, has enlisted the nelp OF tn'
| ssbiQ boys" to make some improvements.
device to prevent snoring is a small cal
| fitted over the chin and held in place Dy Dan9
| around the head fastened to the chin cap witt
| elastic rubber bands. This allows perfect free
! dom of the lower jaw, wnlle at tne SAINT tlne o.,
| prevents its owner dropping down after tint
subject is asleep and thus prevents snoring.
|
nade a snecial effort on Christmas day to flint
| fine poor children who would be forgotten D.
| santa Claus, and several hundred boys and girl
Know That 7taepp6Ren s. RIkns Of Yves
Virginia, has cleaned up between $7000.000 an
fsinS na sae ns5 rev tb years. ne i rapid
| The sale alone of the West Virginia Central t
the Wabash meant several millions in his pocket
| Half million dollars is the reward that Mrs
G. A. White. president of the Chicago Home fo
| Friendless Dogs and Cats, is to receive fo
| her kindness to four-footed waits. A news
| paper account of her benevolence reached
| bachelor uncle Capt H. Launder of Washing
| ton. and he has named her as his sole benefi
ciary.
John Budna citizen of Polish birth, living al
Marlborough, Ulster county, N. Y, has just be-
come the happy father of his twenty-first child
bouncing boy weighing 16 pounds. All of the
children are living. In honor of his latest olive
branch the father, who is prosperous farmer
had celebration, including handsome display
of fireworks.
Nothing gives Pope Leo XIII more pleasure
than visit from someone living in his native
village, Carpineto. He knows everybody there
personally and has done much for the place,
He has now commissioned Monsignor Adami to
convert the house in which he was born into a
Pope Leo Museum.
Mrs. Mckinley broke her custom of remain
ing at home day after day and spent Christmas
with her sister. Mrs. M @ Barber. The dinner was
home of Mrs. Mckinley when she was Miss Ida
Saxton. This was the first holiday Mrs. McKin-
ley has spent under any roof but her own since
Senator Hoar was showing some Massachu-
sets visitors about Washington one day and
was pointing out magnificent old residence
lawyer of his time. why" was asked was
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practice and his practices"
Twelve men have tried 17-year-ol boy at
New Haven, Conn.,, on charge of stealing three
strawberries, and deliberated an hour before
finding him not guilty. Joseph Carroll with
two other boys, was charged with eating three
strawberries while trespassing. They were
fined $40 each in the lower court. The other
boys paid their fines, but Carroll appealed.
Electricity is taking the place of gas and ether
in dental extraction. The current, witch is of
the form called high frequency. is applied to
the jaw where the operator desires to render it
insensible by means of a heat apparatus, and
the patient feels nothing more than slight
heati1g of the affected part. This method is
much safer than gas, cocaine and other anaes-
thetics
A geological survey report on Crater Lake, in
Oregon, proclaims as untrue the assertion, COM
monty made, that this remarkable body of water
is bottomless. 1t took a line 1000 feet long,
however. to reach the bottom in the deepest
part, making this probably the deepest fresh
water in the United States. This lake was
formed in former geological age by the col
lapse of volcano.
A Selinsgrove (Pa.l telegram to the New York
World says: Lynn Smith, of this city, MEM
Der of the world-famed Smith family, together
with Others of that name, is making preliminary
arrangements to obtain space at the Worlds
Fair at st. Louis for the erection of building
to be used as headquarters for the Smith dele
cation. He estimates that there are about TO-
100000 Smiths in the world"
1t is discovered that nearly % women are
serving as rural delivery mail-carriers. No
women are appointed as mail carriers in the
cities and the Postoffce Department is opposed
to women doing such work anywhere, it being
deemed too severe for them. The appoint
ments in the rural free delivery service would
not have been made if it had been known that
the candidates were women.
A staircase that can be folded up is the gen.
sral title of novelty for carriages and steam
boats. 1t is composed of folding steps with
landrails, of any desired length, which makes
iscent and descent easy. The device can be |
,asily arranged to serve as plank to walk from |
)ne place to another on the same elevation. It |
8 the kind of thing that would be OF great use |
n the event of fire, and it has the advantage Of |
olding into small compass.
This is how to carry out musical tea,n the |
atest device among society neODla for Killing