The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-11

OF the 1861 6l freight cars ordered for Ameri-
can railroads last year $1,000 were Of steel con-
struction.
other State in the Union. and the live stock on
its farms is valued at over S2O0.OOO,OOO
People who go barefooted and those who wear
sandals instead of shoes, 1t is said, rarely have
colds in the head or any form of influenza.
A vineland (N j. contractor, Feaster by
name. died of fright at the sight of surgical in
struments laid out preparatory to an operation
upon him.
sc. T. Dodd, who has resigned as general So
licitor of the Standard Oil Company. probably
drew the largest annual salary of any individual
in the United States $25O.0O0.
While working on the teeth Of Civil War
veteran named Reese at Ottawa. Kan. the deu-
tist found one-ounce mimic ball imbedded in
the jawbone. Reese was shot in battle in 1854.
The other day member of London borough
council said he had watched a man working on
one Of the borough streets who dropped his pick
into one hole fully $50 times without moving
anything.
Statisticians find that something like 1000 YES
sells of all sorts disappear il the sea every year.
never to be heard from again, taking with them
1900 human beings and involving money loss
of $l0O0O0.0O0.
A wealthy Eastern tourist lost in an electric
car at Los Angeles purse containing $5.O26.
To the conductor. who found and returned it.
he gave, after carefully counting the money, a
reward of two dimes.
Fnlly 1000, 900 gallons of applejack have been
distilled this year in Northern New Jersey.
The low prices prevailing for apples make this
method of disposing of the fruit more profitable
to the owners of orchards.
Henry Morris, an Englishman who has given
much attention to the subject of cancer, re-
Gently called attention to the pernicious in
fuence of the clay pipe and the decayed tooth
in causing cancerous growths.
Water is SO nearly incomprehensible that it is
but little denser at the bottom of the ocean than
on the surface. Any substance which will sink
will go directly to the bottom in spite of the
popular belief to the contrary.
hunter who lives at Kustrin, Germany, shot
and wounded wild duck. When he came across
it, after long search. he found that it had tried
to stay the flow of blood under the wing by stuff
fing in number of grass blades.
Edward Rose, arrested in Wilmington, DEL,
for stealing a Panama hat in Honolulu, was
taken back to Hawaii for trial. The hat was
worth 81. Travelling expenses for sheriff and
prisoner amounted to nearly $1,000
Two hundred and twenty thousand sacks of
sugar were made at the beet-sugar factory in
Fort Collins, Col, during the season of 1904 as
against 10000 sacks in 1903. The run lasted ~
days, $4,000 tons of beets being sliced.
"A price has been put on the head of the Ameri-
can eagle in Tehama county, California. The
board of supervisors offers reward of 81 for the
head of each of the great birds on the petition
of the sheep men. who have lost many lambs by
eagles.
The Agricultural Department has rented 20
acres near Yula City, CAL. and the University
of California will experiment there with all
kinds of wheat, barley, oats and rye. Two other
experimental stations will be established North
and South.
Hulls of corncobs used in adulterating mixed
feed may usually be detected by taking small
handful of the feed and spreading it in thin
layer upon the palm of the hand. However, If
gushing it.
All arrangements have been made for Presi-
dent Roosevelt's hunting trip in Colorado. He
will arrive in Colorado Springs about April /.
Immediately after leaving the Rough Riders
reunion in Texas, and will leave for the noun
tains at once.
Once year the Archbishop Tuam breaches
a sermon on health and cleanliness. The Ma
tional Board of the Catholic Truth Society. of
let which sells at penny. 1t WILL is is believed
do much good.
We have II, 1000 postofices and 100000 miles of
postal routes, with q yearly travel over them
amounting to 5OO,OOO,OOO miles. The service
costs over $3.50, 900 year. The receipts now
almost equal the expenditures, and have doubled
in the last 10 years.
The value of shells, tortoise and others, gath
cred in Cuba during the past year amounted to
about $4,000, and of sponges. $500,OO0. OF the
latter the United States received about So per
cent. and Europe the remainder, France being
the principal buyer.
One of the surest signs of coming clash be-
tween the anthracite mine owners and the mine
workers is the erection of vast coal storage yards
by the operating companies. 1t is said that the
Reading Coal and Iron Company will have sur
plus stock Of 100000 tons.
There is no punishment in France if the muir
derer is not discovered and brought to trial
within 10 years. Arnold Weber, who committed
a murder in Paris 25 years ago, has just written
defiantly to the police confessing the crime and
saying he is about to return to Paris.
The Rev. George Martin, an Episcopal clergy
man, is against all labor-saving devices and goes
around the London markets upsetting barrows
and pushcarts, because, without their use. more
men would have employment. Between times
various magistrates admonish, threaten or fine
him.
One of the recent interesting food discoveries
is that the growth and attending of oysters may
be promoted by supplying with commercial
fertilizer the minute diatoms on which the BIZ
valves thrive. This discovery is due to DR.. H.
F. Moore, of the United States Bureau of Fish
cries.
One of the novel features of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition this year will be shallow lake
200 acres in extent, in which will be many kinds
of fish. The lake will also contain about III, 600
electric lights, which will illuminate the water
and allow people to see the fish as they swim
about.
Arrangements are being made by the Saliva
ton Army to secure more help for Canadian
farmers next season. The plans made will not
only benefit the farmer, who finds help growing
scarcer each year, but will be a boon to desira-
BILE class of British immigrants anxious to make
their way in the colony.
According to Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics
the amount of money annually expended on
alcoholic liquors in the United States is $685.
10000 SIS 900 going for wine, $2l0,00O0OO for
beer 600 for cider and $685. 600 for spirits
One hundred and eleven million dollars are esti-
mated to be paid in taxes.
man injured in railroad accident in Eng
land, who died in hospital without recovering
consciousness was identified by the way he
counted in delirium. He never went beyond the
number of nails in a horses shoe, and the doc
tors decided that he was horseshoer. This led
to the discovery of his name.
Since 1870 the proportion of male teachers in
the United States has decreased from 80 per
cent. of the entire number to 20 per cent. of the
entire number in the past year. The average
compensation for male teachers last year was
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