The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-13

crops of mammoth clover they would be able to
grow mammoth crops of grain also.
Contractors for the Pennsylvania railroad tun-
mel under the Hudson River recently placed
orders for 5000 tons of bolts. costing $4,000.
Rev. Peter Rowe is the Episcopal bishop of
Alaska. The route OF his visitation covers
distance Of 500 miles through an unpeopled re-
gion.
Good care prevents disease in the case of all
animals. The troubles to which they are sub
ject are due in nearly all cases toimproper treat
ment.
Germany exported last year over thirty mil
lion dollars worth of books and works of art.
England and the United States were her best
customers.
By curious anomaly, although a man can
now be conveyed to New York for SO, it costs
a bullock $3.50 to book his passage from Canada
to Liverpool.
General Kuropatkin. the Russian commander,
is one of the most devout of Russians When at
home he never misses a service and has chapel
in his own home.
Russell Sage the financier. was SO years of age
on the 4th instant, and observed the anniver-
sary by attending to business as usual. He is
one of the richest men in America.
Among New York's successful lawyers is Mrs.
Charles Truax, wife of Judge Truax, whose prac-
tice brings in a handsome income. Mrs. Truax
was admitted to the bar six years ago.
Two thousand people attended the eighth an
nual reunion of the Maryland Association Of
Ohio, which was held at the Franklin Chautau-
qua grounds. at Springfield. on the 4th instant.
The closest relative of George Washington
now alive is Mrs. Attic Morosini. the wife of a
New York lawyer. She is a Rreat-Rreat- grand
daughter of Samuel Washington, q brother of
the first President.
Henry g. Davis is the Democratic candidate
for Vice President. Cyrus w. Davis is candi-
date for Governor Of Maine, Jefr Davis for Gov
ernor of Arkansas and John w. Davis for Gov
ernor of West Virginia.
The United States could mobilize 1900 regu-
lar army soldiers at any point in the country
within FIVE days could add 5000 more in the
next five days, and In 90 days could enlist, equip
and mobilize 100000 men.
Medical examiners for life insurance societies
have added the term coffee heart to their
regular classification of the functional derange-
ments of that organ. Its effect is in shortening
the long beat of the heart
It is said of King Edward that he can keep
constantly on the move from morning till night
and is never in hurry to sit down and rest.
He gets through a great amount of routine
work, too, and seems to like it.
The commands we give to the horse and our
call to the cow are the same used by the prehis-
toric men of our race. In all probability the
,rol,o Ia ~ In ho vorda mo-
as in the days of Abraham or Noah.
An excellent way to dry fruit is to make a tray
about by 8 feet and suspend from kitchen cell
| ing. Fruit dried In this manner is cleaner and
lighter colored than sun-dried fruit. And it re-
| quires no moving out every time it rains.
An ingeniously constructed shadow clock has
| just been invented by Professor Herth, of Lynn,
| Mass. The essential feature Of the invention
consists of lamp. which throws upon the CELL
| ing an optical representation of small watch.
John Burroughs, famous alike as naturalist,
critic and poet, has, after years of study, come
| to the conclusion that the lower animals cannot
properly be said to think at all, but have keen
| perception and live entirely in and through
| their senses.
The reduction of the working forces of the
| railroads in this country is more extensive and
| radical than was thought month ago would be
necessary. Estimates are that not less than
| 1900 employees have been dropped from the
railroad pay rolls.
| Fresh pineapple juice contains a remarkably
| active digestive principle similar to pepsin.
| The principle has been termed "bromelin,' and
| so powerful is its action upon proteids that it
| will digest as much as 1000 times its weight
| within a few hours.
| The Erie Railroad has adopted novel equi-
page for accident emergencies in the form Of a
mom aea noFlce doctor and attendants are
constantly in charge.
| In Russia the native insurance companies who
| do the major portion of the country's business
| insure the lives of single women and widows,
| but at higher rate than those of men, and mar
ried women are only accepted in case their hus-
| bands are also insured.
| Miss Lee Kue, the Chinese woman who has
become cattle queen in Arizona, arrived in
| San Francisco the other day en- route for China.
whittier she is escorting the ashes of her father
| who died some time ago, leaving her heir to ex
tensive ranches in the Southwest.
Rev. Moses G. Henderson, who has just died at
l
| a record In the matter Of funeral attendance.
During his 81 years in the ministry he oficiated
at 1880 funerals, and during his long service he
performed nearly 1000 marriages.
| The loss of life from accidents and disasters
in the United States last year was Fire, 1,792
drowning, 2474; explosions, 1888; falling build
ings, etc., 474; steam railways, 4,O90 electric
railways, 57S; electricity, 1856; mines, 1888; cy-
clones and storms. 4S7; lightning. 1S9.
Most Americans have an idea that rubber is a
| product like wheat or corn, to be obtained from
q given tree. The idea is quite erroneous. It
| has been estimated that 1000 different species
contain rubber, though commercial quantities
have been obtained from only 40 or 80.
David D. Roper, former member of the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania, who died at Allentown,
provided in his will that no member of his family
| should wear mourning for him. He advised his
relatives after his burial ITO take as much pleas
ure out of life as they conveniently can"
A 1O-inch streak of gold ore running 800 to
the pound has been opened up in the Belle mine
at Salina, COL, a discovery which has aroused
great interest in that portion of the Centennial
State. This is but one of the series of rich
strikes which have been made in the Boulder
uistrlct tne last year.
Alum is one of the latest mineral substances
of value to be added to the list credited to Colo
RADIO. A blanket deposit, four feet thick and Of
great width, has been discovered a few miles
east of Florence, and it is pronounced to be Of
high commercial quality. This is the first dis
covery of alum in Colorado.
1t is not generally known that Mrs. Florence
Maybrick, once sentenced to death for the muir
der of her husband, and just released from a
British prison, was the first to sing the now
famous Holy City," It was written by her
brother-in-law, Michael Maybrick, who pub
fishes his songs under the pen name of stephen
Adams"
]. Pierpont Morgan said to q Questioner one
day that his was an independent branch of the
Morgan family, but dating from the Norman
Kings. Asked if he had a coat-of-arms, the
Wall street financier took $40 gold piece out
of his pocket. exhibited it. and replied that was
f. and that a few other families had adopted the