The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-18


Jefferson was inaugurated for the second time
as President of the United States.
In South Greenland the color of the hair rib
bon which woman ties around her head denotes
whether she be maid, wife or widow.
Japanese bride gives her wedding presents
to her parents as a slight recompense for the
trouble they have had in rearing her.
The quickest growing plant in the world is
the kudzu, a species Of bean. 1t is said to have
been known to grow 60 feetin three months.
seat ON the New York Stock Exchange has
been sold for $s2,5OO This is the high-record
price. The name of the purchaser is not dis
closed.
DIR. VIM. Henry. an English physician, states
as a result of experiments that in all forms of
animal life. insects included, exists the taste for
alcohol.
During the session of Congress which closed
on March 4, President Roosevelt signed 1872
measures passed by the Senate and House of
= Owls are not really wise, and the reason that
they seem so is because they never move their
eyes. This they cannot do, as their eyeballs are
fixed immovably in the sockets.
In Germany policemen on duty can stop chill
dren in the street in school hours and ask them
why they are not at school. It is suggested in
England that that be made the law there.
1t cost nearly 5000 to ship the recently dis
covered big diamond from Africa to England.
But $50 of it went for marine insurance to the
tune of 81, 100000. Protection against theft was
extra.
An average of % prisoners annually are lashed
at the whipping-post in Delaware. In England
last year, out of some 1000 criminals who felt
the laws severity, only nine were sentenced to
be whipped.
Railways of the United States employ an army
of 100000 men. The income of the railway
companies last year totaled $4,000. 1900, and
their total assets for this year is valued at four
times that sum.
Mrs. Lucinda D. Simmons is dead at East
Orange, N. J. Her father. Wheat Beals, of Yer
mont built the first railroad track in the United
States, and her grandfather was member of the
Boston tea party.
Melvin O. Adams, a Boston attorney, has given
$4,000 to his native town of Ashburnham. Mass.
to erect memorial school building to his
mother. which is to be known as the Dolly Whit
ney Adams School.
Complimentary to the power of the press Is
the letter of Buenos Ayres woman who writes
to the editor of London evening paper asking
him to use his influence to prevent the earth't
orbit from being changed.
The State of New York, under the provisions
of the Radford Beaver Restoration act, has pur
chased several live, wild beavers, to be liberated
in the Adirondack wilds some time this month
Others will be liberated later.
Norway is famous for her many miles of ex-
cellent roads and the wonderful feats of engi
neering achieved that good. solid roads might
| be had with the least possible grade over noun
tains of considerable altitude.
There is no more attentive and patient listener
| in the Senate than Mr.. German, of Maryland
| His attitude whenever he takes his seat on the
minority side of the chamber is involuntarily
that of attention to what is going on.
A locomotive owned and operated by the Lon
don and Northwestern since 1882 had, up to 1902
made 100000 working miles. The time out Of
service for repairs averaged IL per cent. of the
working time credited the locomotive.
The total number of all known varieties Of
pOsJdE6 StdAn Po uoCu ny oil SuC W
| the world, up to date. is 1922. Salvador, the
smallest of the Central American republics, has
issued $50 different kinds more than any other
country.
The Southern Farm Magazine says that the ag-
gregate production of corn in the South for the
last two years has been 1,300,000,00O bushels
against 9OS.0OO.OOO bushels for the two preceding
years. or total increase in the last two years OF
nearly 4OO,OOO,00O bushels.
flock of dozen horned larks were seen in
Pine Run Valley, Bucks county. Pa, a few days
ago. These birds, which are summer residents
of the Arctic regions are rare winter visitors to
this section, being more inclined to frequent the
marshy sections near the seacoast.
The San Francisco police arrested the other
day three men and three women in what they
said was shoplifting school. 1t had counters
and shelves, and the women we're being taught
to steal. A large amount Of goods, stolen from
department stores was recovered.
The California commission to the st. Louis
Exposition returned to the State $6,00O unex-
pended, of the 100000 appropriation made by
tho Legislature for State advertising purposes.
Practically all the exhibit has been sent to the
Portland Fair, which is to open next May.
John Smith, Tacoma character, died in that
city recently carrying secret with him. Every
summer for many years he had disappeared into
the Cascade Mountains for a few weeks, and re-
turned with about 81, 900 worth Of gold dust. He
was trying to tell friend where it was when he
died.
They have queer way of holding auctions in
Japan. The auctioueer puts up the object to
be sold and asks for bids. Each bidder then
writes his highest price on bit of paper and de-
posits it in box. The box is opened and the
object handed over to one who has offered the
most.
An order to San Francisco firm for hay has
virtually emptied the hay barns of that city. 1t
is to be furnished in doubly impressed bales,
weighing only 100 pounds each. The total order
is for 5000 TONS and the Japanese consul says it
is from Russia. Just how it is to be got to Man
churia is not stated.
The Roman Catholic Church now boasts of
1000 churches and chapels in England and Scot
land. The total number of clergy is 1874.
Thirty two Roman Catholic peers have votes in
the House of Lords, and to the House of Com
mons England sends five and Ireland seventy
one Roman Catholic members.
Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike, an
officer in the United States Army, discovered
the famous peak that bears his name on Novem-
Der Is. 1906. The Chamber Of Commerce of Colo
RADIO Springs has started movement to honor
the one hundredth anniversary of this event in
1905 by celebration to be participated in by the
entire State.
Although there are at present only 120 miles
of railway in the Philippines, the United States
Government has made plans to add 1000 miles or
more as soon as practicable. AS nothing can do
more toward opening up and civilizing a new
country than good railway facilities it is to be
hoped that ''as soon as practicable will be in
the near future.
The earliest potatoes come from the hill that
contains only one vine and planted with tubers
that are uniform. The largest yield is usually
from two or three vines in the hill, on rich
ground, but they will vary in size, some being
very small. With only one vine to the hill there
will be more large potatoes. proportionately,
but smaller yield per acre.
Winthrop Murray Crane, the new senator from
Massachusetts,, has been attending to his duties
in Washington only couple of months, but