The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-10-15

per 10000 inhabitants.
The longest Continuous stairway in the world
is that which leads to the tower of the Philadel-
phia City Hall. 1t has 5SS steps.
Frank J. Gould has purchased 1900 acres of
land in Chesterfield county, Va. and will build
a commodious hunting lodge on it.
It has been estimated that an oak of average
size. during the five months it is In leaf every
year, sucks up from the earth about 123 tons OF
water.
James Davis and wife, colored, of Jones county,
Ca, are believed to be the Oldest married couple
in the United States. They were married 20
years ago.
Henry A. Bishop, the Democratic candidate
for lieutenant governor of Connecticut, was
formerly vice-president of the Western Mary
land Railroad.
The United States Government expends over
$5OO,OOO yearly restricting immigration, while
the Canadian Government expends $75O0OO to
induce immigration.
The Republicans have carried New York for
President eight times-in 1856, 1860, 1884, 1872,
1880, 1885, 1895 and 19O0-and have lost it four
tmes-in 1868. 1876, 1884 and 1892.
The bread line maintained by Louis Fleisch-
mann in New York city for many years was an
unobtrusive sort of charity, but it kept count
less thousands from going hungry.
It is usually imagined that the incandescent
electric light gives out very little heat. AS a
matter of fact only per cent. of its energy goes
to make light, while o. goes into heat.
Rev. Charles W. Savidge. of the Peoples
Church, Omaha, Neb., in quarter of century
has married 1900 couples, and in few weeks he
proposes to invite them to join in reunion In
At the recent conference in Paris Of the asso-
citation in behalf of cremation it was stated that
Germany leads the world in this method of dis
posing of the dead. In Paris there were 6,628
cases last year.
Patriarch Fish, a Seminole Indian, is said to be-
the Oldest living Union soldier and pensioner.
He is 119 years old and draws pension of $12 a
month. He was amember of Company x of the
Indian Home Guards.
James Chanler, of Philadelphia, has devised a
new alloy which is said to look like silver, have
the strength of steel and be as light as alumni
mum. 1t is said to be inexpensive to make and
adaptable to many uses.
For the sixth consecutive term the Hon. Cyrus
A Sulloway, known as the Tall Pine of the
Merrimac," has been unanimously renominated
by the Republicans of New Hampshire for the
First Congressional district.
The number of men employed in the shops of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona on June
1st was about $500, two years ago it was $4,000.
The pay rolls now aggregate $260,OOO monthly;
in 1902 the total was $575, 600.
William H. Newman, who started in business
life as a ticket agent on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. will this month become the head of
the greatest railway system the world has ever
known. the Vanderbilt lines.
Col. John s. Mosby's hat taken from him when
he was seriously wounded in Virginia, Decem-
Der, 1854, which ever since has been In the pos
session of lady at Orange, N. j., has just been
sent back to its famous owner.
A California woman, Miss Mabel Adams Aver,
of San Francisco, has succeeded in training a
number of butterflies Sugar and water are the
inducements and the little winged pets go
through quite few cute performances.
About 81 900, 600 people in this country are en-
gagged in ganful occupations, as compared with
100000 in 1900. OF this number one-third are
farmers or farm laborers. Women and girls
constitute about 20 per cent. of the total.
The annual report of the Illinois Central Rail-
road shows that there was an increase of over
$1,000, 600 in the wages of those solely engaged in
the operation of the railroad, in consequence of
changes made during the year in their rates of
pay.
Thousands of letters, postal cards, packages
ddro lu in oorl of 10
St. Louis Worlds Fair await their owners in tho
United States Government building at the fair.
The weight of the unclaimed mail mounts up
into the tons.
coin One of the voters, Uncle BILLY" Bowers,
is still living in Franklin, Ca. and is nearly 80
years of age He was born in Georgia, and went
to the place where he now resides when he was
three years old.
William, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Thomas.
George, Sarah James, Charles, Henry, Alice,
Ann, Joseph, Jane, Ellen, Emily, Annie, Fred
erick, Margaret, Emma, Robert, Arthur, Alfred,
Edward, these, in the order given, are the most
popular Christian names.
Capt. Harry Houston, whose home is at STAN
wood Mich is the only survivor of the 100 men
forming the first survey party of the 1sthmus
of Panama in 1849, and one of the four who sur
vived the nardships of the expedition and re-
turned to the States alive.
William Millikan, of Washington, Ohio, cred
tied with being the Oldest American editor,
celebrated his sSth birthday last week. Mr..
Millikan has been newspaper man since his
early YOUTH and is now editor of the Fayette
County Herald. published in Washington.
The family of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. Eng
land, is noted as a clerical family. The Bishops
father, now deceased, was Rev. James Bardsley.
His two brothers and seven sons were clergy
men, and the 10 we're all living and in orders at
the same time. He had also nine nephews who
were clergymen.
Hermann Bodenhem, chemist, laughs at pois-
ous. 81 will eat anything you MENTION" he
SAYS. You invite him to make a meal off cyan
ide of potassium. He consents. Carbolic acid
is like nectar 1T is safe to take such poisons,''
he explains, "if you take the antidote first.
That is the whole secret"
Adjacent to the rivers in some parts of Cali
fornia is a vast acreage of tule-a kind of reed.
The United States steamboat inspectors have
found that tule makes much better material for
the filling of life preservers than cork or other
materials, and it is exceedingly cheap. Very
thorough tests were made.
While arguing a case in the State Supreme
Court at Helena, Mont, the other day ex-Gov.
P. H. Leslie casually mentioned that he had just
entered upon the sixty-fourth year of his prac-
tice as a lawyer. Before President Cleveland
appointed him territorial governor of Montana
he was governor of Kentucky.
The life of an eyelash is from 100 to $50 days.
They grow very slowly, but flger nails grow
quite rapidly in comparison. If person could
live without breaking or cutting his nails for
lifetime they would attain the length of 70 in
ches. 1t takes about 121 days for new nail to
form on the little finger and 128 on the thumb.
According to the United States census in 1890
there were $3.50 members of the bar in the
United States, or one to every sos of the popua-
ton According to the census of 1900 the total
number was 114,703, or one to every $50 of the
population. Since 1900 there has been very
considerable addition to the number of lawyers.
One of the gentlemen nominated for Presiden-
tial electors by the Pennsylvania Republicans
has seen his S5th birthday. He is George Van