The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-11-07

ground, especially in places where coal is ex-
pensive, but water power plentiful.
Over 100000 pieces of mail matter, covering
$486 in money and 81, 49S 600 checks and drafts
reached the dead-letter Office during the year.
The growth of the nails is more rapid in chill
dren than in adults, and Sowest in the aged. 1t
goes on more rapidly in summer than IN winter
Rev. B. NJ. Alden, the Oldest Methodist minis
ter in the United States, whose home is at Strea-
tor, ILL.,, celebrated his 9th birthday on Novem-
Der 9th.
Rev. E. o. Tilburn, of Tonawanda, N Y, has
hit upon the novel scheme to swell his congre-
CATION by giving trading stamps to people who
attend his church.
Burglars, unable to break through the iron
door of cigar shop in Berlin, avenged them
selves by posting up notice: There is moth
ing here worth stealing"
Such has been the improvement in engine
boilers and fire boxes that the power derived
from pound of coal today is nearly three times |
as great as it was so years ago.
A curious characteristic peculiar to the Cali
Iornla redwood tree is That II the head is cut on
by lightning new one will gradually grow out
in place as shapely as the first
Mrs. Arabella Elliott, of Kokomo Ind is suing
her husband for divorce on the ground that for
two years of her married life she has had prac-
tlcally nothing to eat but beans.
The people of Lincoln, N eb. boast of having the
largest creamery in the world, not only in capac-
ty for buttermaking. but in the size of the plant
and the floor space of the building.
Kansas manufactures binding Irvine at her
State penitentiary as check on the binding
Irvine trust, which has often advanced the price |
of Irvine so per cent. at harvest time.
The number of Catholics among Americans is
19,5O0,OOO They are ministered to by cardinal, |
II archbishops 81 bishops, 5apostolic curates and
1880 priests in nearly II, 600 churches.
Rev. John ]. Glennon, archbishop of st. Louis, |
Mo-, has started a crusade among the Catholic |
churches OF that city and vicinity against euchre
parties and festivals for the raising of church |
funds.
Messba range, in the Lake Superior region, about
so miles from Duluth, were 100000 tons, or 80 |
per cent. of the total production of the United |
States.
Arsenic in appreciate amount has been found
by Gabriel Bertrand in all parts of the hens egg.
This confirms the new belief that arsenic is in |
all living cells and probably serves a special
function.
Why do mosquitoes bite human beings2 Ac-
cording to DR.. Santos Fernandez, of Cuba, it is |
because the females cannot form their eggs
without sucking some warm blood. If they fail |
to get it they lay no eggs.
Hundreds of electricians are at this moment |
striving to construct lamps in which nothing is |
consumed save the electrical energy applied to
and the GOODNESS of the moon.
John 7. Knox, of Los Angeles, CAL. and A. 7. |
Sullenger, of McLeansboro, Ill., are said to be |
the only survivors of the volunteer army that |
served in the Black Hawk War. The former has |
passed his 9Sd birthday and the latter is nearing |
the 90 mark.
and Travelled with it around the country during |
the Henry Clay campaign, died recently at his |
home IN Brooklyn, IN his nlnetieth year Zoo He is
paign songs.
Today American dried fruits canned meats |
and vegetables office furniture, typewriters, |
cash registers and many articles of ironware |
used in the construction of buildings, etc. are |
well established and of constant demand in
European markets.
Miss Caroline L. Greiseim, a clerk in the Civil |
Service Department at Washington, has had a |
unique duty cut out for her. She has been de-
tailed to make tour of inspection of the post
offices of the country and interpret the civil
service regulations.
immigration statistics continue to surpass all
records and total of more than million i'm
migrants during the present fiscal year seems
now assured. The total last year was 857,O46,
which was 68.054 in excess of the number of |
arrivals in any previous year.
The Austrian marriage laws are very severe.
They prohibit batWsr ana and
marriage between a Protestant woman and |
man who said he had no particular creed has just |
been annulled by the Supreme Court.
Ohio having paid the last of her debts there
are now six states without outstanding obliga- |
Jersey, West Virginia and Ohio. The debts of |
Delaware. Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, South |
Dakota and Wyoming are only nominal.
The Smithsonian Institution has received from
President Roosevelt small stuffed mouse, which |
the President captured on his last Western trip |
and stuffed and mounted himself. The mouse |
is of an uncommon species, and is regarded |
valuable addition to the institutions exhibits.
The school authorities of New York are max
ing this fall new and altogether sensible use
where there is no suitable place for neighbor- |
hood gathering of an evening, the public school
house has been made available for that purpose.
Ross L. Clark, president of the Rice Belt Rail
way Company, which runs through the rice pro-
ducing section of Texas is the youngest railroad
president in the United States. He is but 30
years old. He began his career as a cowboy and
subsequently became manager of rich planta-
ton.
In 1900 Germany imported for her linen indus
tries 81 600 tons of flax. valued at 100000
fully 80 per cent. of which came from Russia
Russia is in the front rank of fax-producing ma
tions and for several years she has supplied
nearly so per cent. of the fax tow consumed by
all nations.
Consumption occurred rarely, if at all, among
negroes in slavery, but now after little more
than quarter OF century of freedom, it causes
more deaths among them than all the other con-
tagious diseases combined. The negro rate from
consumption is more than three times that of
the whites.
According to statistics recently gathered,
about 30 100000 people are living in prohibition
territory in this country. This is more than
| one-third of the entire population. In Maine,
| Kansas and North Dakota they have prohibition
by state law, and in IS other states they have it
| by local option.
Acting Secretary Moore, of the Department of
| Agriculture, has completed the estimates of ap-
| preparations needed for the next fiscal year,
| aggregating $6,009,SS0. exclusive of $720000 for
a Of oyer the
| tons for the current year.
After years of study devoted to the topic Prof.
| Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, stated that with
| out doubt bird migration is the greatest mystery
| in the entire animal kingdom-"a mystery" he
added, that can be no more explained by the
| modern man of science than by the simple
minded savage of antiquity"
Prof. Irwin Rautenstrauch, of Washington
| University. who formerly lived in Sedalia. Kan,
| has asked the courts to change his name. No
| body in the country has ever been able to pro-
nounce it right and the Professor has got tired
| of being called "Rottenstraw,' which was con-
| ferred upon him in his school days.
Jacob B. Getter. John W. Taylor, James D.
/ Harris and William Williams members of
| Lincoln Post, No. 140, G.. A. r., of Shamokin, Pa.
| The first enlisted when Lincoln called for 1900
| volunteers. Williams enlisted in May. 1851;
| Taylor in August of the same year, and Harris
in 1862. All served until the end of the war.
/
! A large meteor which fell at Mendon. Michi-
| gan, the other night destroyed portion of the
bridge over the St. Joe river. 1t buried itself in
| the earth and made hole nearly twenty feet
| deep. 1t gave forth a screeching sound as it
| passed through the sky and struck the earth
| with report that was heard for long distance.
| ]. II. Alderman, State Superintendent of Pub
| lie Instruction in Oregon. urges that the ele-
| ments of scientific farming be taught in the pub
| lie schools. He does not contemplate thorough
| agricultural training, but rather that pupils be
| taught such facts and principles should be
understood by everyone living in an agricultural
| country.
! Henry A. Garfield of Cleveland, who will ac-
cept the chair of politics at Princeton UNIVERSE
ty, and expects to begin work about February,
| 1904, it is said, has law practice in Cleveland
worth $4,000 year. He is member of the firm
| of Garfield, Garfield s. Howe. The Garfelds
| DANES r. and Harry are sons of the late Presi-
dent Garfield.
The lowest salaried employee in Indiana, and
doubtless in the country, is Ivan Newlin, who
| lives in IrvingtOn, suburb of indianapolis. He
has been engaged by the town board to turn on
and of an electric light at an obscure crossing,