The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-01-28

malady.
OF the Is6.56l freight cars ordered for Ameri-
can railroads last year $1,000 were of steel con-
struction.
The Oldest working clock in England is that of
Peterborough Cathedral 1t was made by a
monk in 1920.
The British appeal courts have decided that it
is illegal to include in the weight of tea the paper
in which it is sold.
1t appears that eggs are sent from Austria to
ireland and thence to England. where they are
sold as fresh ''Irish eggs"
Cleveland is to have huge building, covering
an entire block. and occupied solely by concerns
manufacturing and selling automobiles.
In 1904 the free-delivery mail-carrier system
of the United States employed 20, 761 persons in
towns and cities and 24,566 on rural routes.
A Japanese porter in San Francisco saloon
had saved $50. He borrowed 81 from the bar
tender and sent the $40 to Japan for the war
fund.
England cannot get enough cavalry officers.
Under the social code of the British Army
cavalry officer must have a considerable income
beyond his pay.
Fifteen cars a day for five years, or total of
q, 475, is the order placed by the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway Company with the Canada Car
Company of Montreal.
Nearly 40 per cent. more women are working
this year at mems labor than worked 10 years
ago; while the increase of male workers is only
a trifle over % per cent
It was mentioned in London police court the
other day that burglars in jewelry store tested
watches, in order to tell good from cheap ones,
by throwing them on the floor.
In the course of law case in London the other
day the Judge asked witness whether it was
fact that people had begun to collect old weather
cocks. The witness said it was.
Oak beams 1000 years old recently were re-
moved from the Blue Bell Inn, Bedlington, Eng
land. They have been made into handsome
furniture by local manufacturer.
Chief wilkie, of the United States Secret Ser
vice, has announced the discovery of a new
counterfeit $40 United States Buffalo" note.
The note is an excellent counterfeit.
The Vienna Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is selling donkeys at re-
markably low prices, to replace the dogs gener-
ally used for drawing tradesmen's carts.
In Tunbridge Wells, England, man read in
his Bible the passage: "And If thy right hand
offend thee cut it of, and at once wentinto his
yard, took clever and chopped his right hand
of.
The American Baptist mission in the Philip
pines is meeting with great success. Rev. @. W.
Briggs baptized more than thousand during
1904.
A fir tree was cut in Oregon recently which
made nine savings averaging fourteen feet in
length, scaling 2l,4S3 feet board measure. The
product of this one tree will bring more than
$1,000.
Episcopal women of Cleveland will present
Rev. DR.. Rowe, Bishop of Alaska. silk tent to
use on his long and terribly cold trips from sta
ton to station when he usually sleeps in the
snow.
Japan is importing immense quantities of all
kinds of railroad material. including locomotives
and cars from the United States and Europe.
This is chiefly being used in Manchuria and
Korea.
Missouri will make an exhibit at the Lewis
Gated for S3OO.OOO The best of the States dis
ferred to Portland,
The Erie Railroad Company will equip its lines
with pneumatic signals, which will cost about
$4,000 mile. 1t will cause the company to dis
pense with the services of large number of
telegraph operators.
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It is officially noted that twice as many people In
Scotland as in ireland choose to go to prison for
minor offenses rather than paya fine. In Ire
land they pay the fine.
No senator in washington received as many
cigars for Christmas presents as did Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, although he never uses
tobacco in any way. He is literally dispensing
them among his callers.
Many pieces Of the best statuary used on the
grounds and buildings at the Worlds Fair have
been donated by the st. Louis management to
the Lewis and Clark Exposition, where they will
grace the grounds next summer.
Growing strawberries under thin muslin,
known as tobacco plant bed cloth, resulted in
later blooming, larger berries, better pollena-
ton and healthier plants. This practice adds so
to 100 per cent to the yield of berries.
When the German Emperor travels on home
railways detailed bill is made out for every
engine and car used and for the distance ira
versed. 1t is estimated that he pays the Prus-
sian railways alone about $4,000 year.
Eastern capitalists are preparing to construct
an electric line which will traverse the entire
Grand Valley, which is one of the most import
ant agricultural and horticultural districts in
Colorado. The line will carry both passengers
and freight.
Johannes A. Oertel, who produced the famous
painting Rock of Ages though 50 years old,
still plies his brush at his home, 20 miles from
Washington, in little Virginia village, Vienna.
It was in 1857 that 1.-THE Rock of Ages" was
painted in the studio of the artist at Westerly,
r. !.
Though Fairfield, Adams county, Pa, is vii
laRe of less than 400 inhabitants, % widows are
among its residents as census just taken shows.
There are but five widowers and three bachelors
in the town. During leap year seven women OF
the village were married. Four of these were
widows.
green parrot spoiled the romance of Miss
Lena Anderson and Olaf Olson, of Holton, KAN,
her fathers hired man. The pair had planned
to elope and the girl was about to descend the
ladder Olaf had placed beneath her window,
when the family parrot awoke her father by
screaming 81 seen yer ~
Senator Hale now has the banner record of all
senators ever elected from Maine in having been
chosen for five full terms Of six years each. The
Maine Legislature at Augusta few days ago
gave him reelection by reclamation, and many
pleasant things were said about his public ser
vice at the national capitol.
Gen. O. o. Howard is the only living American
soldier who has commanded at one time 10000
soldiers. Once when he was emerging from the
battle of Fair Oaks minus his right arm he was
met by General Kearney, who had lost his left
arm, with the remark, "Never mind, Howard
we will buy our gloves at the same store"
The silver watch worn by Capt. Meriwether
Lewis on the exploration expedition 100 years
ago through Oregon to the Pacific, and which
was believed to have been stolen from him when
he was murdered in Tennessee, has been found.
An old lady in Weston. W. Va, claims to own
the identical timepece, and will exhibit 1t at the
Lewis and Clark Centennial.
tt NAV or may not be an ominous circumstance