The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-27

LOCO tons of beets.
watch, which will go for Is years without being
'cwound.
A newly discovered cotton tree in Mexico
promises to rival in production the cotton plant
Of the United States.
A newly invented microscope is said to mag
area of s12 feet.
Roger williams, the "boy violinist," who died
at Oxnard. CAL, last month. was lineal descen-
dant of the founder of Rhode Island.
Many brick and stone masons in the City of
Mexico are working for 81 to $3.50 day who got
only 80 cents and Is cents few years ago.
One firm of watchmakers in Switzerland takes
from Sheffield, England. $50 tons of
steel for the manufacture of watch springs.
Thomas Taggart, chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee. has invented voting ma
chino which has been approved by the Indiana
commission.
The warden of the Illinois penitentiary wants
to supply the Chicago schools with text books at
cost. They are to be printed by convicts. The
suggestion is not meeting with favor.
During the summer season many of Boston's
street cars have university students as conduc-
tors, who employ this method of earning money
to assist them in obtaining an education.
Lynn's Mass venerable ex-mayor, P. NJ. Neal.
though 90 years Of age, has gone to North Ber-
wick, Me-. upon his annual fishing trip, a custom
he has followed for more than half century.
Deluded by the belief that prolonged fast
was the only remedy for liver trouble, a citizen.
of Lewiston, Me-, refrained from touching NOR
sci of food for 81 days. Then he ''up and died."
A needle nearly two inches long has been re-
moved from the knee of Mrs. Davis Thomas by
DIR. E. F. Apeldorn, of Berwyn, Pa. The needle
had entered her right leg about thirty years
ago.
The average cost of food per family in 1890 was
$780, In 1885, the year of lowest prices, it fell
to $29676; in 1902 it reached the highest point of
the period, being ssA6l; in 1903 it fell slightly
to $342.75.
Successful experiments have been made in
various forests of France in cutting trees by
means of electricity. A platinum wire is heated
to white heat by an electric current and used
like saw.
Cncle Sam has on his payroll about 10, 900 boys
from IA to 10 years old. who are employed as spe-
cial delivery messengers. Each boy gets cents
out of the 10 cents paid to the Government for
a special delivery stamp.
The Berlin Cremation Society has sent petit
tion containing $500 signatures to the Pope,
praying that the last rites of the Roman Catho-
lie Church shall no longer be denied to persons
wishing their remains to be cremated.
The number of employees on the pay rolls of
the railways in the United States June 30, 1903,
was 1,3l25S7, or $50 per 100 miles of line. These
figures, compared with those for 1909, show an
increase of 1892 or As per 100 miles of line.
Erasmus Hennessey. a negro. was arrested at
Mortified, Mass, recently because he insisted
on wearing tin shirt without coat. The metal
garment fits Hennessey's body closely, and is
soidered on him. He says it is comfortable and
economical 49, tfl
This is how Judge Parker became famous, ac
cording to the Illustrated London Nescs: when
he learned that the gold standard was not in the
party platform he telegraphed in the most in
cisive terms that, If he were elected President,
he would put it there"
The Secretary of State has announced shat the
population of Michigan, as shown by the State
census taken in June, is 2,5300l6. an increase of
100 034 or AZ per cent. since 1900 There are $780,
TAG families in the State, with an average mem
bership of 4.29 persons. M
1t is just one hundred years since Commodore
Decatur sailed on his famous expedition to the
Mediterranean. The old homestead in the out
skirts Of Philadelphia where the "Bayard of the
Sea" passed the greater part of his life is soon
to be RACED to the groundas sfs psa8 Es
1t is asserted by resident of. Orange, N. j.,
that he has invented perfect process to con-
vert asbestos rock into beautiful silky fiber.
se;skIs.ee anip ing ia cloth sjnailag 70 silk
5eriai Is entirely IRE proof. : oss' y ~ =
OF the $4,000, 900 representing the value of
the imports into Bremen from the United States
during the year 1908 articles for consumption
amounted to $14OOO,0OO, raw materials and half.
manufactured fabrics to S94,OO 5000 and manu-
featured goods to $2.0O0,0O0.
Benjamin Harrison Mckee, who as "Baby Nc
Kee" was the most famous baby in the world
during the Harrison administration. is now
husky youth of II, preparing for college, and
doesn't like his name in the paper, as he got
surfeit of notoriety as baby.
Incense is commercially divided into three
grades. according to its color, which runs from
a light yellow medium and dark yellow. 1t
is not only used in worship, but many orientals
use it to sweeten the breath and burn it in their
houses to kill disagreeable odors.
Motor omnibuses manufactured in Edinburgh
have been introduced in some cities and towns
of England and Scotland experimentally for
street passenger traffic, but sufficient time has
not elapsed to make it clear whether or not they
are fully adapted to this purpose.
Owners of vicious dogs in Dresden have just
been informed by the postoffice that unless they
remove them at once there will be no further
deliveries of letters. This is done to save the
cost of the leather leggings which the govern
ment had to provide for the postmen. asa
Z Otto wicke. who is making strong political
fight for mastery in the Twentieth Assembly
District of Greater New York, could now sign
his check for over s125 900, although at one time
be drove a coal cart, lived on cents day and
had to sleep in City Hall Park at nights.
Russell Sage's doctrines concerning the use
essness of a vacation are not upheld by his early
history. Chalmers Johnson, former compan-
ion of Mr.. Sage, says that in his youth the fnan-
cier was just as anxious as anyone that school
should be over, and enjoyed his vacation like all
the others. s.ts t N
August Anderson, farmer of Starke county,
Ind, is dead in Chicago Hospital from the bite
Of mosquito. He suffered slight injury which
caused an abrasion of the skin on his right hand.
A mosquito bit him on the abrasion and few
lays later he began to suffer intensely. Blood
resulted.
Tulare Lake, in California, once navigable by
is now perfectly dry. A man on foot
IAN cross it safely at any point, and in some
places the ground is hard enough for team to
lrive over. The cause of this condition is the
Training of Kern and King Rivers of their wa
ers by irrigation canals.
The pyramid of Cheops is the largest perma-
tent structure of any kind ever erected by the
land of man. Its original dimensions at its base
we're 764 square feet, and its perpendicular
height at the apex is 4SS feet. It covers about
X square acres of ground. and an English archi-
ect estimates its cost at 100000.
Jared Bortner, Of West Mannheim township,
FORK county, Pa, has just begun to read the