The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18
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The latest type of compound freight engine
weighs 1sl tons and can haul 1000 tons of freight.
W. K. Vanderbilt is to build an inside tennis
court in his winter home at Oakdale, Mass. to
cost about $4,000.
William Ludlam, who died at Oyster Bay, N.
Y, at the age of 49, made his own coffin ten years
ago, and had kept it In his house all that time.
weed patch is exhibited by the Government
at the Worlds Fair. Here every species OF
weed which troubles the farmer of any section
Of the country is shown.
An electric sign of unusually large proper
lions was recently erected in New York. some
Of the individual letters being 6S feet high, and
none less than "a feet high.
The cost of maintaining the English Navy now
amounts to s22 year for every family in Great
Britain, or more than two weeks wages for the
great body of tho working people.
An Austrian inventor hasapplied for patent
for self-lighting cigars and cigarettes. These
are tipped witha chemical mixture, and on being
struck against anything ignite like matches.
There are more than dozen business women
$4,000 year resulting from their own enter
prise, promoted and managed by themselves.
Land around the bayons of Louisiana and
Texas, which until 1895 was classed as worthless.
now yields So, OOO, 900 worth of rice. About 100
Japanese expert rice growers are in this region.
The loss of the Government through the sale
of land at $3.50 an acre, under the timber and
stone act, is estimated by the Commissioner of
the General Land Office at $10O,00O,OOO to $ll5.-
100000.
Wabash passenger trains from the Union Sta
ton in st. Louis to the Fair grounds are made
<e4eeu -Inco staudard furniture cars after the
Exposition.
William X. Vanderbilt has named his new
racing launch Hard Boiled Eggs. On being asked
to explain the extraordinary name MIR. Wander
bilt says that he chose it because the launch
cannot be beaten.
DIR. ]. Furness Brice, ships surgeon on the
transatlantic liner Cymric, is now on his Sl9th
voyage. So far in his life he has traversed some
thing like 100000 miles, equal to 100 times
around the globe.
Col. ]. E. Thayer. of Lancaster, Mass, is build
ing museum in his town to contain his mag
niicent collection of birds of North America, a
collection which even the government at Wash
ington cannot surpass.
The Philippine Government is In the market
for school teachers. I: has carried over 1000
pedagogues half way round the world in an effort
to educate the Filipino youth up to American
ideas, and still wants more.
A rare case of longevity is cited in the lives of
Mrs. Hanna C. Baker, Henry N. Spencer. John
r. Spencer and Mrs. Fanny F. Fowler, brothers
and sisters, all living in Noank, in the town of
Groton, Conn.,. whose ages aggregate 329 years.
DR.. Amelia Wilkes Lines, who recently cele-
brated her 80th birthday is the oldest practising
woman doctor in the world. She was the first
woman to receive diploma in the State of New
York, and has practised in New York city since
1854.
The reduction of the working forces of the
railroads in this country is more extensive and
radical than was thought a month ago would
be necessary. Estimates are that not less than
$1,000 employees have been dropped from the rail-
road pay rolls.
Thus far New York has contributed only two
Presidents by election-van Buren, and Cleve-
land. New York has contributed nine Vice
Presidents, however-Burr. Clinton, Tompkins,
Van Buren,, Fillmore, Wheeler Arthur, Morton
and Roosevelt.
After six years of experiments the officers of
the street railroad company at Chillicothe,
Ohio, have decided that the women conduc-
tors must go. The women were satisfactory,
except that they were not strong enough for
switching work.
Over 600 Porto Rican school teachers are to
visit the United States in July. Committees
are at work in all the leading cities of the island
obtaining subscriptions for the fund of $4,000
necessary. Cornell University has promised to
take 200 of the young ladies and Harvard 400.
so1s.-oe11ev .. 4sn uv5nII0n or mUuern rrmes.
There is on view, in the shop of Dublin gun
smith, breach loading rifle that was offered to
the British War Office at the close of the 18th
century. 1t was rejected, it is said, because it
took too much ammunition.
Iowa drunkards will be forced to work in coal
mines, according to present plans of the State
Board of Control. 1t is planned to buy extern
sive coal land at the new inebriate hospital near
Knoxville and put the men sent to the institu-
ton at work to supply all State institutions
with fuel at actual cost of production.
Rev. DIR. Robert Collyer, the famous New
York divine, celebrated his SOth birthday ami
versary recently. II have never been sick a
day in my life," says DIR. Collyer, "and have
never eaten my breakfast in bed. What is my
recipe for longevity? Live natural life, eat
what you want and walk on the sunny side of
the street."
W. B. Subtitle, of Ravenna, O.. is the inventor
of a railroad track in which the base and cap are
separable, and the advantages are that it makes
a jointless rail and cheaper track. It will
save $1,000 mile in renewals, it is said. The
cap is reversible, and the base is indestructible,
according to the claims of the inventor, and no
fish-plates are required.
An elk of majestic proportions holds place
in the main entrance hall of the Temple of Fra
ternity at the Worlds Fair. The specimen is
said to be the largest of its kind, mounted and
well preserved. 1t was loaned by q New Mexico
lodge of the Order of Elks to the New Mexican
commission, which body in turn loaned it to the
Fraternal Building Association.
The radium industry is rapidly developing in
France and Germany, and, even at nearly 81, 600
per gram, orders are at hand for several hun
dred grams. In medicine its effects are most
extraordinary. A small glass tube. containing
a little more than a thousandth of gram, takes
the place of powerful electric apparatus, and
in cancer treatment gives results SURPRISING
those of Roentgen rays.
A competent authority has recently estimated
that $780, 900 600 has been added to the wealth of
the South in the last two years. and these figures
are doubtless within the mark. The growth of
its iron and steel industry in the period named
would alone represent value approximating
the figures given. This year the value of pig
iron produced in the region of Birmingham is
conservatively put at $S00.000,0OO.
Senator Depew states that when he was %
years old he was elected Secretary Of State,
after he had served in the Assembly, and then
he was offered the position Of minister to Japan
at salary of $4,000 year and an equal amount
to fit himself out. but he realized that it was the
parting of the ways for him, and he accepted
salary from Mr.. Vanderbilt Of $4,000 year as
attorney for the Harlem Railroad.
There are beetles in England (os the family
known to scientists as telephoride) that are
popularity called soldiers and sailors, the red
spao;ac t,ai1rr oollod bx1f tho ha