The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-30


Nothing will Increase egg production quicker
than green bone freshly cut.
Oswego IN. y automobilists are prohibited
from footing their horns on the Sabbath.
A COW unused to linseed meal. it is said. viii
increase her milk two quarts day If fed it.
In three years the progeny of pair of rats.
under favorable conditions, win number loo.
The iron mines of Michigan give employment
to IA, 456 persons, and their products amount to
ss8oe5.soO.
The gum used in Catholic and many Episco-
pal churches for incense burning comes from
Uganda. Africa.
The longest railroad in this country is the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy. which owns
7,7s4 miles and operates 1911 miles.
Some one has said that if farmers grew more
crops of mammoth clover they would be able to
grow mammoth crops of grain also.
Good care prevents disease in the case of all
animals The troubles to which they are sub
ject are due in nearly all cases to improper
treatment.
A married couple of Lienz, Austria, celebrated
their silver wedding by fling a petition for d.
vorce on the ground of ''unconquerable mutual
antipathy."
In six months wheat will shrink in bulk two
quarts to the bushel, or per cent. 1t there fol-
lows that o. cents bushel in August is equal to
81 in the following February.
The switchboard of the electrical plant repre-
sents great deal of money, and 1t is said that
these represent an investment of $20.OOO,OOO In
the case Of one company alone.
A mathematician estimates that the vacations
granted to Uncle Sans clerks cost the Govern
ment $3,OOO.OOO. man who doesn't get any va
cation is trying to stir mp trouble.
A German court has decided that the discov-
cry on the part of one of two persons engaged
to be married that the other is tuberculous justi-
fes the breaking of the engagement.
Edward F. searles. of Methuen, Mass, is erect
ing large fireproof school building for that
town, which, with its furnishings, is expected
to cost 100000. 1t is intended as a present to
the town.
A remarkable negro youth acts as doorkeeper
at the apostolic legation in Washington. His
name is James ]. Mattingly, he is Fl years of
age, he fiuently speaks five languages and is
studying three more.
The successor of Russell Sage in the put-and-
call market of Wall Street is said to be Amos M.
Lyon, until recently although an old mani all
but unknown in the financial world. Yet he is
worth perhaps s25.OOO,OOO. is
A Gothenburg physician has invented an ap-
paratus by which milk can be brought into the
form of powder, similar in appearance to flour,
and possessing all the qualities of milk in con-
contrated form. moisture excepted.
Secretary Hay has great respect for anyone
who has tackled and mastered the Russian Ian
guage for he spent more time aud effort on 1t
than he ever had upon any other language before
he abandoned the effort to acquire it.
The richest spinster in New York city is Mary
| G. Pinkney. She is said to have more money
| than Hetty Green, and certainly more than
| Helen Gould. The reason her name has never
| been connected with matrimonial gossip is that
she is 81 years old.
| There is said to be an accumulation of as much
| as 50 tons of guano on the roof of the White
| Tower of the Tower of London, deposited there
| for a considerable number of years by pigeons
| and sparrows The guano is to be sold and the
| pigeons have been killed.
Justice Wills, Of Great Britain, is said to con-
| template retirement. On one occasion after
| giving decision as an arbitrator, he came to
| the conclusion that his award was unjust. and
straightway sent to the defeated litigant check
for the amount in dispute.
| Automobile renting in New York is paying
business. Five dollars an hour or $40 day is
charged for an up-to-date rig, with chauffeur
| AS much as $75 day is charged for special occa-
/ sions-and no difficulty seems to be had in Sc
curing customers at these rates.
| On a farm in Sangervlle is a year-old Scotch
| collie which has taken upon herself the general
QXsFSIght s 0f p thipgs NJ sF4E Hr haEk GaH
1t takes her to get to it, neither are the hens and
/ geese allowed to go beyond their bounds.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, has
| spent much time at charitable work since she
| reached her summer home. She is one of the
| most active members of St. Hilda's Guild OF
| Christ Episcopal Church, and has made number
of dainty pieces of apparel for little sufferers
An English matchmaker has just finished max
| ing tiny watch in the form shirt stud. Its
| dial is two-sixteenths of an inch in diameter,
| and it is to be worn with two other studs. By
| turning the upper stud you wind the watch,
while by turning the lower one the hands are
adjusted.
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Judge Parker at home is by no means silent
| man. He likes to talk to everyone. 1t does not
| matter whom he meets, he will strike up con-
versation. He spends as much of his time as
| possible going about his farm. talking to the
workmen. looking at the stock and helping in
| the field.
The New York legislature In February, 1895,
/ passed bill prohibiting the display of foreign
flags on any public building in the state. In the
same year and month Colorado by act of legis-
lature forbade the display of any foreign flag in
that state. except on the buildings occupied by
| foreign consuls.
| A recently formed crevasse on the Mississippi
| just above New Orleans has been pouring into
| the great Des Allemands swamp. The result
has been to multiply the so-called floating
| islands" for which the swamp has long been
noted, until they constitute a menace to the in
| habitants and to the railroads.
The northern belt of forests is, perhaps
greater in extent than all the other timber belts
| and reserves Of Canada combined. It extends
| from the eastern part of Labrador north Of the
fiftieth parallel in northwesterly direction to
| Alaska, distance of some 5000 miles, with an
| average width of perhaps 500 miles.
| line Ire OF an eyelhsn Is IrOm 1UU 10 lOO uaySs
| They grow very slowly, but finger nails grow
| quite rapidly in comparison. If person could
| live without breaking cutting his nails for a
| lifetime they would attain the length of % in
ches. 1t takes about 121 days for new nail to
| form on the little finger and 1888 on the thumb.
Johh w. Gates made his first money by husk-
| ing corn. At the end of two or three seasons he
had saved enough to buy one third interest in a
| thrashing machine outfit, from which he saved
| $50 year for three years. He invested this in
timber, from which he made $1,000, and with
which he opened hardware store at Turner
Junction.
size glove today is larger than size glove
FIVE years ago, and this applies to all the sizes
made. The explanation is that ladies' hands
have grown larger than they used to be, through
their practice of cycling golfng, hockey, etc.,
but they do not like to admit it, SO the glove
makers meet the new conditions and yet avoid
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