The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-28

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The average annual contribution in American
Protestant churches is s1s per capita.
The murders in the United States in 1903 num-
bered s.976; the legal executions numbered but
123.
The Methodist Year Book for 1904 reports
gain of nearly 1000 churches during the last
year.
The most expensive chair in the world De-
longs to the Pope. 1t is of solid silver, and cost
$4,000.
The latest type Of compound freight engine
weighs 1871 tons, and can haul 1000 tons OF
freight
The suicide rate in the United States has in
creased In ten years from IL to II per lOO.UOO OF
population.
The United States sold $193.0OO,OOO worth of
breadstuffs abroad last year. an increase OF So
100000 over the best previous year.
Female slavery still prevails in China. Out of
a population of about four hundred million
nearly ten million girls or women are slaves
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has never had
shave His present sixty-year-old hirsute APP
pendage began to sprout when he was sixteen
years old.
Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee, has is
sued letter to the clergy in his archdiocese IN
which he forbids them taking an active part In
party politics.
An old gentleman in Australia broke OF the
engagement between his daughter and a young
man because the young man led the thirteenth
trump at whist. f
The center of the production OF the most inn
.-.In c<ss-rs 49, nt
and buckwheat-tak in the aggregate. is IN
Illinois. a few miles north of Quincy.
company has been organized in Chicago |
which contracts to bury people and let them pay |
on the installment plan. The installments
must all be paid before the funeral OCCURS, how
ever. fts. ,n
From each Weather Bureau station the APP
pearance of the first robin in spring must be
renorted by telegraph to the Washington Office.
The movements Of no other bird or animal are
noticed. "a
waterway exou.s.---- In s..--..-- .7es,r-.-.
Pittsburg and st. Louis during the Worlds Fair
| Twenty-one days will be required to make the
round trip, giving visitors six days at the
| Worlds Fair.
Mrs. H. M. Singer, 60 years old, widow of the
| famous sewing machine inventor. and possessed
| of millions, is soon to wed D. M. Smyth, re-
tired and wealthy inventor of Hartford, Ct,
aged II years. I'd
Senator Chauncy N. Depew is a director Of
seventy-four companies. William K. Wander
bilt is in fifty-five and George J. Gould in fifty
| two. John d. Rockefeller is a member of but
one directorate.
The United States employed II, 555 men in dis
| tributing mail last yeBr. The cost; distributed
among 1,4O0 lines, was $6S,5e0,OOO. In S73 acct
dents to mail cars Is clerks were killed and 70 ]
seriously injured.
| The school children of Columbus, o., are $24,
225.25 richer now than two years ago. when the
penny savings system was started by the Board
of Education. The average accumulation of
the depositors is ST.
In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands
| six against six, the prisoner is acquitted. A
/ vote of seven against five leaves the decision to
the court, and in vote of eight against four
the prisoner is convicted.
Col. j. E. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass, is
| building museum in his town to contain his
magnificent collection of birds Of North Ameri-
| ca, a collection which even the government at
Washington cannot surpass.
The death plant of Java has flowers which
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/ to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time.
| full-grown man, and which kills all forms of
| insect life that come under its influence.
At Fort Madison, Ia. lives Mrs. Rachel AL
bright, the granddaughter of Betsy Ross, who
made the first flag for the independent colonies.
| She was born in her grandmother's home in
| Philadelphia, 1872, and was taught by her to sew.
/ or the CenrraT RalTroad or New Jersey, has com
/ pleted "a years. continuous service, which gives
| him the distinction of being the oldest locomo-
tive driver in this country, If not in the world.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are the largest frog
markets in the world. The total receipts for
the last year from the frog catchers of the State
exceeded five hundred thousand Dozen requir
ing the slaughter of no less than five million
frogs
Farm hands, of Grant township, in Franklin
county, Iowa, have formed an organization for
the protection of their rights. An eight-hour
| day will be demanded and $50 per month, with
board and washing, as well as few minor con-
cessions.
Miss Stella Snyder, a Missouri school teacher,
was recently sued for $1,000 damages for whip
| ping one of her pupils. She won the case, and
as a result Of the publicity attending the trial
she has secured an appointment in the State
Reform School for Girls.
If one could save cent the first day of the
| month"; cents the next day. cents the next.
and so on, doubling the amount each day, he
would have nearly $3.OOO,OOO at the end of the
month-providing the month had thirty-one
| days and his salary could stand the pressure.
| stone jar of butter was found on a farm
near Lincoln, Neb.. the other day. 1t was buri-
ed forty-two years ago. and when exhumed was
found to be sweet and yellow, even though. as
the veracious correspondent declares, the stone
crock crumbled to pieces when exposed to the
air.
A novel plan has been evolved in Chicago by
E. p. Dryer, prominent labor leader of that
city. to place an army of union men on farms in
Mississippi. 1t is said that 10000 acres have
been secured, and the idea is to parcel it out in
fve-acre tracts, making homes for 5000 union |
families.
The death of Henry Fuchs recently in a San |
Francisco almshouse has served to recall the |
fact that he was the inventor of barbed wire. |
It is reported that the fortune Fuchs made |
from his invention was lost in an unsuccessful |
and expensive expedition to Nome, Alaska, in
search of gold.
Mrs. Harriet Murdoch, who died recently at
Scituate, Mass, in her ninetieth year. is be-
lieved to have been the last person who as
child was rocked in the cradle that came over in
the Mayfower. Mrs. Murdoch was cousin of
the owner of the cradle. That precious relic is
now preserved in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth.
A man at Morristown, N. Y, wondered why
his house was so cold after the sun had begun
to shine with spring warmth. He went to the
basement to investigate and found that the sub
cellar was filled with ice to the thickness of
eighteen inches. The ice had formed from
water escaped from leaking pipe during the
winter.
1t is proposed to erect q monument at Wash
ington, d. c.. to the memory of the late Major
Walter Reed, q. 8. A, whose labors demonstra-
ted that yellow fever is transmitted by mosqui-
toes. and who died in Cuba of the disease while
conducting his investigation. 1t is said that
Major Reeds discovery made it possible to