The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-10-14

Daniel Francis, of Des Moines Iowa, has given
$4,000 for the erection in that city of home for
aged and WORKOUT ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Texas, in the fiscal years 1906 and 1907. will pay
$4,000 to Confederate veterans for pensions,
besides expanding S154 53s for the support of the
Confederate home.
Following close upon the Virginia ruling that
$50 is the proper penalty for stealing kiss,
comes Missouri decision in which $500 Is named
as the correct figure.
J. H. Richardson, Of Anthony. Kan, has dis
covered that the water below dam is much
softer than that above it. He claims that fall
ing over the dam breaks the water.
1t is said that since he began the practice of
law in New York city after his defeat for the
Presidency, Judge Alton B. Parkers income has
been at the rate of $4,000 annually.
Paper car wheels made by pressure from rye
straw paper are usually good enough to take
second set of steel tires after the first set has
been worn out by run of 3OO,OCO miles.
david Harum, !" the novel written by the late
Edward Noyes westcott, netted the authors
estate about $125,OOO. according to statement
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man will die for want of air in five minutes,
for want of sleep in 10 days, for want of water
in a week and for want of food at varying
periods, depending on other circumstances.
Statistics just compiled at the Missouri State
University show that fully so per cent. of all its
students are dependent on their own resources,
and that nearly Is per cent. work daily for their
own expenses.
While defending case in court at Carlow,
ireland, the other day, an attorney was sur
prised and grieved to see the feet of his client
a pair of boots that had been stolen from him
some time before.
Almost one-fourth the women of New York
State are working for wages, where 20 years ago
triie more than one-sixth were so employed.
Massachusetts reports 28 per cent. of its female
population working for wages.
A number of the neighbors of Wesley Cramer,
living near CARRIER, KAN, who has had serious
run of misfortune, during the summer, gave
him blowing bee lately. Some came from as
far as five miles with their gang plows.
Since the process Of photographing on silk and
linen has been brought to such perfection in
France many persons have their portraits upon
their linen, instead of their names or initials.
The portraits are not injured by washing.
"Baby Jim, :" young colossus from Beaumont
Texas, is the latest freak. The youth is Is years
old and seven feet tall. In coming up from
Galveston he was too big for the ordinary rail-
road car, and had to find accommodations in the
stock car.
Having reached the conclusion that house flies
are distributors of typhoid fever germs, the
Seattle Board of Health has resorted to very
stringent methods for their exclusion from hos
pital wards and houses in which there are
typhoid cases.
Playing cards are known to be of Eastern
origin, but when or by whom they were first in
troduced cannot now be ascertained. 1t is,
however, tolerably certain that they originated
in Arabia and were brought into Europe during
the Crusades.
Miss Grace Barstow, of San Francisco, is the
only woman violin maker in the United States
and probably in the world. Moreover, she is
fine performer on the instruments of her own
making. She is experimenting with native red
wood as a base bar.
H. w. Denison, an American attorney, who
has been for the past 20 years legal adviser to
the Japanese Foreign Office, will retire and re-
turn to the United States within year. He is
the only American who has held such high
position in a foreign government.
A poor lad whose presence of mind saved
passenger train from destruction on the Rio
Grande Railway has been rewarded in novel
manner. The directors have given him free
pass for life and Miss Helen Gould will defray
the cost of his education at college.
CO.. (Buffalo) Jones, who lived in Oklahoma
and who went from there to serve as game Gus
todian in Yellowstone Park, has resigned his
position to engage in the raising of buffaloes
and mixed bloods, known as cataloes, on his
ranch near the Grand Canyon, on the Colorado
River, in Arizona.
William Weeks, a professional glass eater. was
married in Oakland, CAL, last week, and in the
course of an interview gave useful pointer on
glass as steady diet. He said he had been eat
ing ground glass for fifteen years and had thriven
on it, but powdered glass would have cut short
his career long ago.
William J. Palmer, the founder of Colorado
City, COL, has given to that city $l,000,0OO or
more in the way of parks, large sums to its
charitable institutions, built driveway up the
Bear Canyon and now has bought up another
large tract of ground, with the intention of
turning it into park.
1t is said of Marshall Field, the Chicago mer-
chant, that he never borrows money, never
gives a note or a mortgage. never deals in mar
gins on stocks or grain, always buys goods for
cash, sells on short time and narrow margins,
and insists to the last letter on the fulhlment of
every contract between him and his customers
Miss Eleanor Williams, of London, England,
for twelve years preacher of the Gospel. occu-
pied the pulpit in the Chatham Street Welsh
Baptist church in Pittsburg lately and made so
foot to call the young Englishwoman to the
pulpit. Miss Williams says she will consider the
offer.
Women in China have the privilege of fight
ing in the wars. In the rebellion of 1850 women
did as much fighting as men. At Nankin, in
1853, 100000 women from various parts of the
country were formed into brigades of 1900 EACH
under female officers. OF these soldiers 10000
were picked women, drilled and garrisoned in
the city.
Because Professor P. G. Holden, of the Iowa
Agricultural college, induced the farmers or his
State in large numbers to select for seed pur
poses only the most perfect kernels and to adopt
scientific methods in preparing the ground for
planting and tillage afterward, he is credited
with having added 100000 bushels to Iowa's
last corn crop.
Upon the southern slope of ridge of hills not
far from London an old man makes q slender
living catching and feeding suails, which he
sends to continental markets. He has besides
standing order for all the bumblebees he can
collect in autumn for expectation to New Zea-
land. They fertilize the clover blossoms on that
South Sea island.
In the Colorado Desert there are rain storms
during which not drop of water touches tho
earth. The rain can be seen falling from the
clouds high above, but when it reaches the hot,
dry air beneath the clouds it is entirely absorb
ed These strange transforms take place in re-
gions where the thermometer often registers
12S degrees in the shade.
B. Reed. who was the pioneer shoe drummer
in the United States, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn, in his SD year. His father, an eccen-
fric roeidant of South Norwalk Conn., named