The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-23


Forty million dozen eggs are used yearly In
the calico printing industry In England.
The ant which attacks the cotton boll weevil
is also said to be deadly to the centipede.
Twenty-three miles of American railroads in
1880 expanded to over 100000 miles In 1904.
The japanese word of parting is not $50 long,
or ''See you later" but "sayonaro''-"It must
be so."
{ 1t is stated by the Church Economist that
thirtysix per cent. of the people Of this country
are church members.
Three per cent. Of the Japanese Army officers
are Christians. Two Japanese battleships are
commanded by Christians.
The production of anthracite coal in America
has reached Its maximum, and q steady decline
in the output is predicted.
Among the prizes to be awarded at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair are purses for standard-bred
trotters to the value of $6205.
Nevada has mile Of railroad for each five citf-
zens. but only eighty-seven hundredths of
mile for each 100 miles ofarea.
Living is cheap in Japan. Twenty-Five to
thirty shillines month will supply food. fuel
and clothing for family of iive persons
A number of valuable and interesting pieces
OF Indian pottery have been found recently by
guides and visitors In the Adirondacks.
While in carpeted room ii, tenement house
seventy-five germs settled ona three inch saucer
in five minutes, after sweeping there were s.7oO.
Oficial reports show that there were 313N
horses exported from the United States last
year, an increase Of 5,667 over the previous
year.
1t is understood that the Pope ia to issue q
ana priests who SO desire may allow their boards
to grow.
Charles II. Booth, lately deceased at Engle
wood, N. j.. was l0l years Of age and holder of
the oldest life insurance policy of which there
Is record.
1t is estimated that whales live to be about
1000 years old, elephants often reach the age Of
400 years, and swans call 800 years an average
life time.
l trackless railway is soon to make its advent
in Prussia. It will run over good roadbed, 20
feet wide. and win obtain its power from over
head wires.
The city of New York in the IL months ending
with February, for the first time in it's history,
passed the billion mark in the number of i've
| cent fares paid to local transit companies.
| Mans structure, compared with that of other
animals, indicates that fruits and escurent vege-
| tables arc his natural food. The man-like apes
live exclusively upon fruits, nuts and green
| leaves.
i he rs {ko <,av al xuh fo1,
brings it drinking water from far out in the lake
| Cleveland's number of typhoid fever cases has
| shrunk from IS week in 1908 to about two at
present.
| When you speak into the long distance tele-
| phone the man with whom you talk, be he 100 or
| 1000 miles away, hears the sound of your voice
before your stenographer who sits across the
| room can hear it.
| Baron Taillace, of Astoria. L. L, who intro
| duced the phu-lo plant from the TonQuin
country, in China, which, he says, will kill mos
quitoes. is up to his eyes in business. SO far as
answering inquiries is concerned.
The use of saccharin, a product of coaltar, in
stead of sugar is growing. 1t is not only used to
sweeten beer. but it is now also employed in the
manufacture of syrups, jams, lemonades, wines
Especially champagne), cider, brandy, pastry
| and chocolate.
Vendors of drinking water in Springfield,
| Mass, are required to have license from the
Municipal Board of Health, which, before grant
ing license, investigates the source from which
| the water is secured and the method of shipping
and handling it.
The Miller brothers of Bliss Oklahoma, operate
one of the largest farms in the United States
containing 81, 600 acres. 5000 of which they had
planted in wheat this year. The land is owned
| by the Ponca Indians and is leased from that
tribe by the Millers.
With two. exeentionsx there have been no
dent OF the United States. These two excep-
lions were John C. Breckenridge, who was SO
when he became vice-President, and Theodore
Roosevelt. who was A.
There are few things in nature more wonder
full than the common impulse which seizes mill
lions of undeveloped insects living in dark tun-
nels underneath the ground and urges them to
cut their way upward that they may complete
their appointed life in the upper air.
A rather unusual sentence was passed recently
on some Indiana boys. They had broken into
grocery store and stolen quite number of arti-
cles They were sent to berry farm to work
OUT Lu6 dWOuub VI tuclE uokudBCSs 1ulb lucy
must pay to the man whom they robbed.
Until recently it was almost universally be-
lieved that petroleum was, like coal, derived
from fossil vegetation or possibly from animals
or fishes Of some long past age. Now it is as
serted by many scientific men that it may not
be Of organic origin. but may be due to subter
ranean chemical action
Miss Ella F. Jones, "A years old, said to be the
only practical woman machinist in Chicago,
plans to erect and operate in that city new
plant for the manufacture of machinery, en-
ploying $50 men. Since her fathers death, two
years ago, she has been manager of machine
works employing IS men.
The Corean never cuts his hair or beard. To
do 80 is considered mark of dishonor to his
parents, whom he strongly reverences. Any
hairs that may happen to come and even the
parings of his finger nails are carefully saved
and put into the coffin with him in order that he
may go back to mother earth intact.
The Mikado of Japan sleeps in a European
bed, but 100000 of his subjects prefer the
floor. His Majesty wears European clothes, uses
a knife and fork in preference to chopsticks and
rides in carriage that would not attract par
ticular attention in Chicago boulevard but for
bu0 sOEBoOuS livery VI In0 m0H On CuO DO4.
Leslie M. Shaw after farming and teaching
school In Vermont went to Linn county, Iowa.
He taught there until he got enough money to
enter Cornell College. at Mount Vernon, where
he paid his way by working on farm and sell
ing trees for nurserymen. In similar manner
he worked his way through two-year course
at the Iowa College of Law and began to prac-
tice at Denison.
Although George w. Vanderbilt owns what is
probably the greatest estate in this country at
Biltmore. N. c.. he still holds the old ancestral
farm on Staten Island against all attempts to
buy It. Mr.. Vanderbilt rarely goes there, but It
was the favorite summer resort home of his
mother, and it was the first country home pur-
chased by the old commodore, grandfather of
the present owner.
Railroads are being built In every part of the
Mexican Republic. and steel plants, shelters,
refneries and factories of every kind, affording
increased wages to the laboring men. giving
them better homes, better food, better clothing,
education for their children, delivering them