The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-06

superintendent Baker. of the Antisaloon
League of Ohio, reports that there are now as
many churches as saloons in the Buckeye State,
although the saloons are far ahead in the cities.
The new Minnesota capitol, which is soon to-
be completed at a cost of $4.500000, will be one
of the most sumptuous public buildings in the
world. 1t will be constructed entirely of Georgia
marble.
The number of persons carried daily by the
elevated trains in New York now averages
about 100000. They travel on the average about
four miles, so that the average fare is about
cent mile.
In recent comparative test between Scotch
and American Ayrshires, the Scotch averaged
one pound more of milk per day, but the Ameri-
cans excelled in butter yield, the average being
2.l6 pounds per day.
The Independent American Mechanics Asso-
citation is the name of new society that has
been formed in Petersburg, Ind. The purpose
of the society is to put end to all strikes and
to prevent boycotts.
In parts of Canada seed mixtures composed of
two bushels of OATS one bushel of barley one
half bushe of peas seeded at the rate of three
bushels per acre give, as rule, better yields
than smaller amounts.
Amos Martin. of Princeton, Pa, has Just
passed his one hundred and sixth birthday and
is one of the few survivors of the battle of
Waterloo. He was piper in Highland regi-
ment during the battle.
1t is reported that a number of Americans
are negotiating for the purchase of Sulgrave,
near Helmdon, England, for the purpose Of
transferring it to America.
Kansas will need nearly 1000 more harvest
hands this year. than have ever been required
since the establishment of the State free en-
ployment bureau. Wages will range from $l.50
to $3.50 day, including board.
The Baptists of the United States, according
to the latest official returns number 1880, 462.
served by $4,000 ministers. The gains last year
were 1916 churches 64S ministers and 81, 1899 mem
bers
A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander
in-chief of the Confederate armies, will be
soon as it can be prepared. The Virginia Legis-
lature passed bill making $4,000 available for
the work.
At the tenth annual convention of the Savings
Bank Association of Pennsylvania the report
presented showed that in ten years the total of
amounts-due to depositors had increased from
something over 1929, 100000 to an aggregate of
much more than $1,OOO,0OO,OO0.
The harvest of this year in the Argentine Re-
public is unprecedented. Exact data cannot be
obtained, but the best estimates show that the
crop of corn (maize) will be approximately $780,
600 tons. of which 100000 win be retained for
home consumption and for seed.
He L
exchange my freedom, home life and content of
heart for the wealth of Morgan or Carnegie. !"
said John d: Long, former Secretary of the
Navy, at the Rockland (Maine) Commercial Club
banquet, at which he was the guest of honor.
A storm which prevailed in Springfield I'll
last week blew down the famous elm planted by
President Lincoln the day after his first cleo
ton to the Presidency. It stood in front of the
Lincoln homestead and part of the roof of the
old house was crushed in by the fall of the tree.
The use of the toothbrush is almost universal.
although other methods OF cleaning the teeth
rne vermiform APP
pendix.
For year the use of PHOSPHORUS matches
has been prohibited in Sweden. The new law
has resulted in the invention of match by the
engineers Landin and fernandez which has been
named the "repsticken," or scratch match. 1t
less poisonous than safety match.
Lecturing at the Royal Institution on the re-
tardation of the earth's motion, Prof. George
H. Darwin said the time would come when the
length of day would be prolonged to IS of the
present days-"a very leisurely age to live in,''
round the earth would occupy 55 days.
King Edward speaks German and French al
most as well as he does English. 1t used to be
said of the late Queen Victoria that it was hard
to say whether she thought more easily in Ger
man or English. The same could be said of the
as he speaks French like Frenchman.
Bertillon, the Frenchman who devised tho
system of measuring criminals, has rendered
great service to humanity. Since his plan has
been followed in France 10000 people who have
committed crimes and who were cOncealing
their identity have been brought to justice and
not mistake is known to have been made.
Rev. G. NJ. Sheldon is at the head of a move
ment to establish in Topeka, Kan, life insur-
ance company that will only issue policies on
the lives of Christians and total abstainers All
the churches of the United States are to be
asked to assist the organization Rates will be
from 10 to 20 per cent. lower than in other COM
panieS.
William Mackabee will celebrate his Tooth
birthday next September in the naval home in
Philadelphia. He is the oldest living veteran of
the American Navy. Mr.. Mackabee was born
in Baltimore in 1903 and joined the frigate Con-
stitution in 1877. He served nearly continuously
in the navy until compelled by old age to go to
the naval home.
The strip of land forty feet wide between the
graveyard of Trinity Church, New York city,
and an alley has been sold for $55 1882 each Broad
way front foot. The plot upon which Trinity
itself, is now considered to be worth SOL 100000.
while the total value of lower Broadway prop
erty in use by Trinity parish is s35,OOO,OOO.
The story is told that Clark. the copper king,
refused the sale of his copper mines to an Eng
lish syndicate for $s0,OOO,0O0. When asked why
u
good one. Perhaps it was. But, then, that is
such great amount of money that did not
know how should invest it if had it in my
hands. am too old now to face such task"
BENJAMIN Day and David Sanderson, engi-
called a the SBrokers' Expressn ore Miionaires,
Cannon Ball." which daily leaves Morristown,
N. j., at S.22 A. NJ. for New York were presented
recently with handsome watches at the Morris
town Club. The two men have run this train
ever since it was put in commission, 20 years
ago.
The Rev. DIR. Edward Fawcett, the newly
elected Protestant Episcopal bishop, of Quincy,
Mass, is one of the youngest men ever elected
has been priest of the church only five and
one-half years, having gone over from the
New Hartford, Ia, November l. 1865, and is not
yet IS years old.
An official estimate of the forest area of the
United States puts it at 700,000,000 acres. Had
the forests been intelligently managed the
amount of merchantable timber in them would
be 10 times as great. The science of forestry is
now taught in more than 40 schools. Yale and
Cornell universities and the special college at
Biltmore, n. C., have advanced classes and give
degrees in forestry.
Judge Walter Clark whom William Jennings
Bryan has selected as the man most likely to be
successful as the next Democratic Presidential
candidate, is the chief justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina and has held that posi-
lima, is 81 years old, is graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, has been lawyer since
1865 and has been judge since 1885.
One of the most enthusiastic baseball cranks
in the country is blind man, James Judge, of
Minneapolis, a master steamfitter, successful
contractor and mechanical inventor of pro-
nounced ability. He has been totally sightless
for 40 years, but he never allows business to in
terfere when he wishes to "see" q contest on
the diamond. Mr.. Judge is always accompanied
by someone who tells him of the various plays.
In the quiet little town of Fort Branch, a few
miles north of Evansville, Ind, lives Elijah
Lincoln. first cousin of the immortal Presi-
dent He is loved by his townsmen because of
his broad character, his kindness to everybody
and his resemblance to his illustrious cousin in
many ways. Lincoln stands feet inches in
height. is very erect and muscular, and as he
anonymously remarks, it would have been no
trouble whatever for his wife Ito have gone
with handsomer man,
Charles Theinert, fairly well-to-do Long
Island farmer, wants wife, but imposes GER
tain conditions on candidates for corner in his
affections. For instance, the lady must be a
good housekeeper not over 30 years of age. He
is willing to buy his wife two gowns every year,
to cost not more than $50 each, with shoes. hats,
etc., to correspond. The future Mrs. Theinert
must agree to forego hight eeled slippers open
work stockings, cigarettes and poodle dogs, the
would-be bridegroom thinking such frlvolltles
are not suited TO q farmers wife.