The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-24

In the SOUTHERN part OF CaHLOFut@ rooA Bok-
dens are becoming features of all the new build
ings
Bullets that fail to penetrate pasteboard three
inches in thickness will pass through ive-inch
plank.
Persons are killed at the rate of one for every
day in the year in the New York city streets by
vehicles.
The Bible class over which John d. Rockefel-
Ter. Jr., presides now numbers over 300 members
and is constantly growing.
Argentina, with nearly go, 900 900 acres Of land
suitable for agriculture. has not even 10 per
cent. thereof under cultivation.
The present London price of an ounce of ra-
dunn would be $4,000. according to DR.. Hamp-
son in a recent lecture at Leeds.
Visitors to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in
Portland next year will not "take in the Mid
way" They win "hit the Trail.''
Mr.. Chamberlain says that there are 100000
fewer farm laborers In England now than in
1851 and 100000 laborers are underfed.
The Ambidextrous Society, of London. has
been formed with the object of encouraging
people to use both hands with equal facility.
E.w. Hoch, governor-eIect of Kansas, has re-
ligious scruples against dancing, and there will
be no inaugural ball at Topeka next January.
Traced by the impression of his teeth left in
half-eaten apple in house at Basic, Switzer-
land, burglar confessed to breaking into the
building.
More than 10, 100000 persons are enrolled In the
Sunday schools of the country. In public schools
A.. IL fhov mil
100000 more.
The United States Rubber Company is credited
with the manufacture last year of $4,000 900 pairs
of rubber boots and shoes, or daily production
of 100000 pairs
Robert Burns family Bible, containing inter-
esting family entries, was sold at auction In
London q few days ago for $3.50. The purcha-
ser was dealer.
Wilbur F. Watt. who has been blind for over
81 years, has just issued his second literary
work, entitled. "Our Country's Flag" His home
is In Maiden, Mass.
1t is estimated that to collect one pound of
honey from clover g. OOOO 900 heads of clover must
be deprived of nectar. and 3.75O.0OO visits from
bees must be made.
Are your glasses insured 2'' If not. they may
be for the small sum of $1a year. A New York
concern has just established this, the latest
phase of the insurance business.
Wireless telegraph messages have been sent
from Kansas City to Cleveland, O., 725 miles,
without relaying. This is said to be the longest
distance overland ever covered.
Unmarried men over Is have one vote, mar
ried men and widowers with families have two
votes, and priests and other persons of position
and education have three votes in Belgium.
John d. Rockefeller has purchased six houses
and lots in Griggsville, N. Y. and it is reported
he intends to buy the whole hamlet, so that he
can add it to his park of 5000 acres at Pocantico
| Hills.
In the district about Gridley, England, twenty
women work as blacksmith to every man fol-
lowing the trade. For many generations this
work has been almost entirely in feminine
hands.
Ann Arbor, Mich, gets its name from Ann
Allen, the wife of the first settler in that re-
gion, the pioneers being in the habit of refer
ring to that particular little hamlet as AIMS
Arbor.
Thirty years ago the cost of shipping ton of
grain from Chicago by railway to New York,
| and then by steamer to Liverpool, was about
| SIG. The same service is now performed for
about $3.50.
Henry McHarg, Jr.. son of the New York mil
lionaire and a graduate of Harvard, who started
In as a puddler in the mills of the Virginia Coal
and Iron Company, Radford, Va, has been pro-
noted to be superintendent.
Judge A. Starke, who has just died at San
xv1f ol,fld hfnrVl
in Sonoma county, that state. The fact is inter-
esting as commentary on the extreme youth
of the Pacific Coast ser'ar',s,nitss
| John and Henry Gibbons, twin brothers, re-
Gently celebrated their seventy-third birthday
at their home, near Lees Summit, Mo. There
are nine brothers in this remarkable family, all
| of whom are living. The eldest is o. years of
| age.
| Finnish housewife buys a new broom every
mornings necessary extravaganza. since she
sweeps her whole house every day, and the
broom she uses is just bundle of fresh. green
birch leaves, whose natural dampness ticks up
/ the dust.
In order that no stigma may attach to those
/ born in them, the names of English amshouses
| or warehouses; are being changed. They are
known by such names as 1.-THE Holly Trees"
1.-THE Cedars, {" "Ransome Lodge" which look all
right on birth certificate.
| The fact that Governor-elect Douglas, of
Massachusetts,, makes no bones of having once
sat on the shoemaker's bench and waxed thread
and used avis no doubt gained him good many
necessary votes from the organized workingmen
of that State in the recent election.
The return made by the Democratic State
/ ,eM oo oo,,1 20 0f nj
expenses in the late campaign show that $751;
4Ol was received and $40, 673 expended. The con-
| tribution of Governor-elect William L. Douglas
was the largest received. amounting to $4,000.
Australia alone sold last year rabbits to the
value of $1,34S0OO. In lecture recently deliv-
| cred by one of the commercial agents of Austria
| liza it was stated that the great Australian pest
| of rabbits has been alleviated to some extent,
owing to the fact that it was possible to ship
| them to England.
The pastor of Baptist church of Peoria, ILL.,,
DIR. George II. Simmons, has organized the Inter
state Bank and Trust Company, with capital
| of half million. As explained by Dr. Simmons
it is to be q savings bank for the poorer classes,
and the profits will be devoted to the erection of
| homes for the poor.
| After rs years of continuous service as pastor
| of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y, Rev. Thomas B. Mcleod has
resigned and gone to Washington to make his
future home. His congregation presented him
with a check for $4,000 and gold watch and
| chain before he left.
Eastern capitalists to supply the larger
part of the sum of 100000 for the establishment
of a wooden mill at Pueblo, Col. The new plant
will employ in the neighborhood of 200 hands
and is an industry which the business men of
1.-THE Pittsburg of the West" have been antici-
pating for some time.
John L. Grifiths, to whose care the late Presi-
dent BENJAMIN Harrison left all his private pa
pers, is reported to have discovered among them
an extraordinary private document This is
nothing less important than an intimate history
of the four years of the Harrison administration
written by the President himself.
Major welitscho, under whose supervision
Port Arthur was fortified, is regarded as the
greatest living military engineer. He is now 4S
years of age. 1t was he who outlined the entire
plan for the fortified circle Of mountains and