The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-30

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
! The latest London quotation Of radium was
$4,000 an ounce.
Alaska's canned salmon output IL estimated
this year 1t 100000.
The total number OF men in the United States
liable to military service Is II, le8750.
A caterpillar in the course Of month win de-
your 600 times its own weight in food.
There are 252 cities and towns in the United
States having population of 5000 or more
year the consumption of whisky decreased 100
600 gallons.
In Hesse, Germany, tax has been put on
bachelors, who now have to pay Is per cent.
more in taxes than married men.
NO fewer than l,OS6. $40 copies OF the Scriptures
were circulated in China last year. the actual
sales being well over million copies.
All native-born and naturalized Danes over 60
years old receive pensions of $3.50 to 81 month,
If unable to support themselves or families.
Ananonymous correspondent Of the New York
Sun says that lager beer is made of malt. hominy,
glucose, some hops and much water, and costs
so cents barrel.
Eighty thousand dollars is gladly paid for
seat in the New York Stock Exchange. There
are LOO Of them, representing an investment OF
nearly 100000.
The chairs used by Mr.. witte and Baron Ko-
mura when they signed the treaty at Portsmouth
have been purchased by President Roosevelt.
The price was $40 each.
The contest for City Clerk of New Albany this
fall will be one-legRed mans race. for all the
candidates announced for the Office have only
three legs between them.
William p. Shaw, son Of Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw, to convince his family that he
| can be elf-dependent, worked all summer in q
salmon cannery in Alaska.
They have progressive peanut parties out in
Kansas. If progressive peanut" is possible
it is up to Wizard Burbank to evolve one that is
roasted and ready for use.
An Oklahoma man believes the yellow fever is
spread by mosquitoes that have gone mad. The
hot weather affects the insects much as it does
dogs who contract hydrophobia.
The Kansas City Journal says that junction
City, Kan, has more automobiles per capita
than any other city in the United States. People
there are mortgaging their homes to buy autos.
Gen. Herman Haupt, of Washington, is the
Oldest living graduate of West Point Military
Academy, and man distinguished in Civil War
military history and in railway and engineering
circles.
After passing unscathed through hundred
battles and skirmishes one of Mosby' guerrillas
has just died in Washington hospital as the re-
suit of falling into a lake of icy water last
| winter.
The Department of Agriculture during the
last two years has taken great interest in pro
noting gardening work and botanical study
among the pupils of the public schools of Wash
ington.
Mrs. Mildred Dewey, wife Of Admiral Dewey
has returned to the Twenty.eighth Alabama
| Regiment the flag captured at Orchard Knot
| during the Civil War by her first husband
| General Hazen.
An athletic San Francisco girl, accosted by {
street loafer, picked him up and tossed hin
through a shop window. In paying for tht
broken pane, she remarked that she did not be
grudge the money.
The city of Nuremberg and the Society O
German Clockmakers have erected q monumen
to Peter Henlein. who 400 years ago substituted
springs for weights in clocks, and thus made
watches possibility.
Gheel, in Belgium, is strange town. Imbe
Giles are sent there as to asylum, but, insteat
of being shut up and deprived of the pleasure
of liberty. they are allowed to enjoy themselve
like reasonable beings.
BY the will Of Mrs. Julia e. Hackley, widow
of the late millionaire philanthropist of Muske
gon, Mich, that city gets 100000 as an endow
ment to be known as the Julia r. Hackley Me
mortal Fund for the Poor.
In Alaska they do not do things by halves
Miners are now engaged in turning the cours
of Kink River so as to leave dry about tire
miles of its bed and to mine this auriferou
gravel with steam shovels.
Mrs. Anna Colgate, the widow of the grea
soap manufacturer, will build costly monu
ment, probably the most expensive of the kim
in the United States, over the grave OF Dandy
her pet horse, which died recently.
After Russia. Germany is the richest countr.
in children. For every 10000 Inhabitants there
are 1853 living births year, as against only 226 il
France. Hence the increase of population ii
Germany is correspondingly great.
George Maybell and Ira Hoeye, once friend
and partners in business. met in the street IL
Fresno, CAL, the other day, after not having seer
each other for % years. and at once began tt
| fight over S. that one owed the other.
The first American flag fired upon by Confed
| crate soldiers in the Civil War is now in the
possession of former Congressman L. Cass Car
penter, of Denver. The flag lis six by three feet
and was the storm flag of Fort Sumter
| A Berlin landlord has not only sued a tenan,
for loss sustained through her excessive use Of
water for bathing purposes, but has promul
| gated the extraordinary theory that mo re
spectacle woman takes bath every day.
The Southern Pacific Company is to begin the
experiment of educating its own mechanics
| Orders have been received from headquarters
to begin the erection of building on the rail
road grounds at Sparks, New, for the purpose.
John Phillippi horticulturist of Lodi, Cal.
has perfected new fruit from the peach and
the nectarine. The result is firm, sweet white
meat, with palatable mixture of the favors OF
the fruits from which it is a cross. 1t is called
| the "peacherine."
| A masked robber entered a saloon at Garelle
Siskiyou county CAL. the other night and levied
contribution on the Is men at the bar. After
| emptying the cash register he threw so on the
bar. saying: "Take drink on me, boys" and
| backed out behind his pistol.
Edward Teale Devens, of Santa Rosa. CAL, in
| his will insisted on cremation. He also declared
that joy should reign instead of sorrow, and left
provision for fund for dinner, drinks, cigars
hotel bills and railroad fares for designated
friends who attended his funeral.
The alarm in Germany over the steady progress;
being made by American made shoes is progress
sive, and seems to have been instrumental in