The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-02

a nOcleSter man wants q divorce Decducc nAo
wife hit him with the Life of Thomas Jeffer-
son."
The average number Of visitors in New York
city is estimated at 25O,0OO and their stay is 10
days.
The profits of the state penitentiary of North
100000.
1t is true that the Mediterranean is tideless.
The springs on the east coast of Sicily rise fully
four feet.
Miss Mary A.. Swain of franklin N. H.. hasa
piano over 200 years old. 1t is probably the first
upright piano made.
Nearly one-half of the mortality in the Uni
ted States is from diseases of the lungs, and 70
per cent. of it preventable.
John Sharp williams, the new Democratic
leader in the National House of Representatives,
rarely, IL ever. loses his temper.
Wages range very low in Spain. Farm labor
ers get $1.5O a week. Women who work in vine
yards get 15 cents for 10 hours work.
In Germany 15S acres for every 100 of the
population are planted with potatoes-almost
five times as much as in the United States.
At Waterloo, Iowa, the Womans Christian
Temperance Union will soon undertake new
line of work by opening home for working
girls.
The New England Society celebrated the 223d
anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Faith
ers in horticultural Hall, Philadelphia. few
evenings ago.
J.H. Alderman state superintendent of pub
lie instruction in Oregon. urges that the ele-
ments of scientific farming be taught in the
public schools.
Rev. Francis E. Clark, the founder of the
Christian Endeavor Society has left Boston for
a trip around the world. DIR. Clark was accom-
panied by his daughter.
A new rifle with which the United States
Army is to be shortly equipped is said to have
an effective range of five miles, and to be the
lightest rifle ever devised.
Senator Money. of Mississippi, introduced
during the first week of the extra session of
Congress 233 bills. more than 200 Of which were
for claims of various Sorts
In New York. at the lowest possible average,
100000 people live in rooms which ought to be
considered absolutely uninhabitable, dark and
without any windows or ventilation.
George B. Young, the st. Paul attorney re-
tanned by the Northern Securities Company in
the merger trial. received fee of 100000. He
was special counsel for the company.
Ex-Gov. James p. Eagle, of Arkansas, was
elected president of the Baptist State Conven-
ton recently held in Little Rock, a position
which he has filled for q successive years.
William P. Frye, of Maine, boasts of being
the only great-grandfather in the United States
Senate, girl baby having arrived at the home
of his grandson, William Frye White, in Wash
ington.
Representative Wiley, of New Jersey, said to
be the only civil engineer in Congress, is proud
of lineage extending back to the first Post
master General of the United States, Samuel
Osgood, who was citizen of Massachusetts,.
More specifications for patents and trade
marks were printed in the Patent Office Gazette
this year than in any previous year, Areport of
the work of the division shows 81 ,165 patents,
1886 trademarks and 536 design specifications.
There are today 100000 day laborers in this
country. One and one-fourth million belong
to national trade unions. another millions to
trade unions not yet national in their scope and
the remainder comprise the army of inorganic
ed labor.
The French Army has discovered that bees
can be used as messengers in time of war. One
has flown four miles in twenty minutes with
message. When liberated they will return to
their hives just as a carrier pigeon will return
to it's loft.
The chemists of the Agricultural Department
have shown that ability to fix the nitrogen,
which is infinitely abundant in the air and apply
it to the wornout fields of the world will enable
mankind to cultivate what is practically virgin
soil forever.
James Kelley, one of New York's little known
millionaires. has curious fad-that of provid-
ing for the decent burial of INDECENT dead. He
is in constant communication with number Of
undertakers, who keep him posted regarding
such cases as he wishes to look after.
Rev. James M. Stafford, who lives just across
the river from Petersburg, Ind, breaches, owns
ferry (run by his father,) invents things, takes
out patents on them and accumulates worldly
riches. He is 81 years old, and the neighbors
think he must be worth half million"
small boy in East st. Louis, ILL.,, recently
went to the authorities of the town and claimed
that he had been kidnapped by negro who
wished to make monkey of him. The boys
skin had been stained, and he said that he had
been in a cage of monkeys in a circus for a
week.
The expression, bakers dozen," which is in
point of fact b. has history. For baker in
the olden times to give short weight in bread
exposed him to considerable penalties, and thus
AZ, 90 oId WIS oof RI ho
dozen as compensation for any possible deficien-
cies to the rest of the batch
T. c. williams, the millionaire tobacco manu-
facturer, of Richmond. Va, distributed $4,000
in cash to his old employees the day before
Christmas. Mr.. Williams sold out to the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company few months ago and
took this occasion to reward his faithful staff.
The checks ranged from $50 to $500.
Clinton c. Grimm, st. Louis, COL, ran away
from his home several years ago and his parents
could find no trace of him. The other day his
father received check for $4,000 from the
young man, accompanied by the information
that he had goodly sum left and would return
to his old home and engage in business.
Bishop Thomas Bowman, of East Orange, N.
j., the Oldest living Methodist Episcopal Bishop,
VINO mas pdsseu us elBHIy-slAIn Dlrtnudys HAS
just made public a story in which he tells how
he warned President Lincoln that he was in
danger of being assassinated by John Wilkes
Booth five days before the tragedy occurred.
Alive and healthy without spleen is the re-
markable lot of Miss Olive Smith, of Kinross,
Ia, who visited the University of Iowa Hospital
and reported to DIR. William Jepson, of the chair
of surgery. Months ago DR.. Jepson removed
Miss Smiths spleen, and the report will be made
to the American Association of Surgeons in
Denver.
We are the most prosperous people in the
world because we both produce and consume
more than others. The little that we sell abroad,
about 10 per cent. of our net production, and
the little we purchase abroad, or per cent of
our net consumption, constitute no challenge
to the statement that our prosperity rests with
ourselves
The corn belt includes little of Northwest
ern Ohio, a considerable strip across North Cen
trail Indiana, all of Northern and Central ILL
nois, the whole State of Iowa, Northwestern
Missouri, Northeastern Kansas and Southeast
ern Nebraska. On the map it roughly resembles