The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-04

War is being waged theoretically against the
locusts in Egypt, and tons of eggs have been
destroyed.
President Roosevelt is credited with. having
one morning shaken the hands of 100 people in
20 minutes.
Among the allegations of cruelty made by an
English husband who wants a separation is that
his wife makes him wear gloves at breakfast.
Speaker Cannon opened the Illinois conven-
ton with gavel that was made from Lincoln
fagpole that was raised in Palmyra, ILL.,. in 1850.
France has 464, $50 saloons to supply the wants
of 49, 1888 inhabitants-that is. one saloon to SO
inhabitants, and this number is constantly in
creasing.
Experiments have shown that person speak
ing in the open air can be heard equally well at
distance of 100 feet in front, IS at either side
and 30 behind.
A Partisan barber, to win a wager, entered
cage containing lion and man, and composed
ly shaved the man while the lion Interestingly
viewed the operation.
The efficiency of an old lamp may be improved
rs to 40 per cent. by surrounding the lower part
of the flame with a copper ring to prevent loss
of heat through convection.
The Commissioner of Crown Lands reports
that the production of nickel in Ontario last
year exceeded that of any previous year. The
total was 6e0S tons, valued at 81, 4s9,oas.
The surgeons of Lincoln Hospital. in the
Bronx, have succeeded in replacing the scalp on
the head of young girl after 1t had been torn
completely on by a revolving shaft in a mill.
James F. Hyde, of Lincoln, Ill, who is in his
ninety-arst year. IL cf the vaast active of
town officials holding the Offices of city treasur-
err, city comptroller and deputy city collector.
There are seven special industrial schools in
Saxony which have been founded for the sole
purpose of training young men to become COM
petent and skillful locksmiths and-blacksmiths.
ml.---,-..- upor0ture or the New York sub
way is 40 degrees when the thermometer above
it shows Zero and in the hottest weather in sum-
mer the temperature of the subway is about s.
degrees.
The city budget of New York is greater than
tho combined budgets of any five other cities in
the country. New York pays salaries to more
than $4,000 persons, amounting to about $55,O0O,-
900 year.
Meat is seldom seen on the breakfast table in
Austria and Germany, nor is much use made OF
the prepared cereals so popular in America.
Wheat rolls and rye bread form the staple break
fast food.
Colorado produced ], 800 900 pounds of honey in
1903, and the output this year is expected to be
considerably larger. Epicures declare that Col
orado honey is the finest produced in any state
of the Union.
A whole town In ireland is to be sold at auc-
tion-Castle Martyr, in Cork county. 1t belongs
to a count who needs money, and to raise it
gives the inhabitants of that town chance to
buy the place they live in.
Andrew Beard, negro who has worked in the
machine shops of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company in Birmingham, Ala, for 20
years. has Just sold patent for car coupler of
his own invention for 100000.
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is about to come
into possession of the farm on which he was born.
It is place of 70 acres, located near Westmin-
ster. Mass Across the road from the farm is a
brick house which the Generals father built.
Georgias new vagrancy law makes it lawful to
put to work on the highways any adult who can
not show he has regular employment. AS a re-
suit of the enforcement Of thisla the highways
of that State are being put in the finest condition.
Commissioner of Education the average month
ly wages of teachers for 1902 was $40 for men and
about $40 for women. Less than 2S per cent. of
the teachers were men, or 122,392 out of total
of 439.496.
The 1900 census gives the number of wage
workers in the United States as 292S5.022. divi-
ded as follows: Professional, 1926, 1877; trade
and transportation, 1888; domestic and per-
rlo 101n
The failure OF the fruft crop IN Great Britain
caused great demand upon the United States
and Canada for apples. Prices rule high, the
importers quotations to the trade ranging from
$4S5 to $7.25 barrel for the best grades, and
from SO to $3.50 for ordinary grades.
Mayor John Weaver, of Philadelphia, was a
department store clerk at 81 week some 20
years ago. While SO employed he studied short
hand, which he mastered. Then he became a
court reporter, meantime studying law and
eventually winning admission to the bar.
A Japanese house is generally all on one floor
The number of rooms in it depends on the num-
Der of bedrooms the owner requires. They are
divided for the night by paper shutters, fixed in
grooves, like the divisions of an old-fashioned
work box. There are no doors or passages.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, holds
that the Boston Elevated Railroad Company was
liable for an attack Of appendicitis which James
]. Sullivan suffered two years and three months
after an injury he sustained by reason of the
negligence of the road, and awarded him $4,000.
There are now 124 O62 Odd Fellows in Pennsyl-
vania, 721 having been initiated into the order
last year. In the last thirty-sx years the lodges
in the State have distributed for relief
and the prevention of distress and actual want. |
The order has four orphans homes in the State. |
It is estimated by the United States Treasury |
Department that the amount of money now in |
circulation for each man, woman and child in |
this country ia about $30.21. This amount has |
never been higher, and no other country, with |
the exception of France, has as great per capita
circulation.
william Nelson Cromwell, the New York |
lawyer who brought about the sale of the Pana-
ma canal to the United States Government, is |
said to have received as his fee from the French |
company more than $1.O00OO0, or perhaps the |
largest any American attorney has yet had the |
good fortune to be paid.
The most beautiful volume in the COMPRESSION
al Library at Washington is a Bible which was
transcribed on parchment by q monk in the six
teenth century. The general lettering is in the
German text. Each letter is perfect and there
is not scratch or blot from lid to lid. Each |
chapter begins with large illuminated letter,
in which is drawn the figure of saint, some in
cident in whose life the chapter tells.
The Russia War Department has been expert
menting with bullet-proof breastplate, the in
vention of an Italian. In testing its powers of
resistance steel bayonet and a Circassian dag
ger were broken against 1t, and sword of Da-
mascus steel simply made a dent in the cloth.
Bullets were then fired into it-such as had
pierced eight oue-inch planks and a two-inch
steel plate-with the result that they were fat
tened against the cloth.
The best equipped train ever sent over the
Denver and Rio Grande and the Missouri Pacific
Railroad lines was that which conveyed Gov.
James II. Peabody and his party to the opening
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at st.
Louis. 1t was the finest train that ever pulled
out of Denver and all the coaches-dning car as
well as Pullmans-were built in Colorado Rail-
road men say that the train itself would have
made fine exhibit for the big fair.