The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-30
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The British motor car trade, though less than
decade old, already involves the sum of so 0OO,-
coca year.
Observing his sixty-eighth birthday, Andrew
Carnegie announces that SO far he hassucceeded
in giving away sla8.OOO,OOO
Murders and homicides decreased more than
1900 in the United States in the last 10 years.
Lynchings decreased one-half.
william R. Taylor. governor of Wisconsin
from 1874 to 1875. has been admitted to the Old
Peoples Home, near Madison.
The Khedive Of Egypt owns the most costly
saddle in the world. It's made of black leather,
though more gold than leather is visible. and it
cost $4,000.
Missionaries of the American Methodist
Church speak no fewer than 81 languages. There
are 5000 of these workers and 10000 Christians
under them.
Hon. John A. Merritt, the present postmaster
of the city of Washington, was in early life
farmer, and before studying law worked in
grocery store.
Garrett A. Hobart, aged 10, son of the late Vice.
President Hobart, has been elected trustee of
the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, of
Paterson, N. ].
Judge Bond, of Brownsville, candidate for
Democratic nomination as governor of Tenncs-
see, is an oId-fashioned citizen. who refuses to
wear either cravat or necktie.
1t is declared on the authority of leading
member of the Automobile Club of America that
there is one chauffeur in New York city who is
receiving an annual salary of $4,000.
John Moser, millionaire owner of one of the
largest stove foundries in the world, died at
Newark. Ohio, few days ago. He began his
career in New York city selling matches.
The anti-pass movement has reached Illinois,
a resolution calling for two-cent passenger
fare and the abolition of free railroad passes
having been adopted by the State Grange.
Rev. william Howe, said to be the oldest Bap-
fist clergyman living. will be 100 years old on
May 20, 1908. He is the founder of fremont
Temple, Boston, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
In accordance with custom followed for CEN
turtles, when the newly elected mayor of the
borough of Islington. London, first took his seat
on the bench as magistrate, he was fined $1.25
Fifty Thousand acres of alfalfa were raised in
the Greeley district of Colorado this year, three
crops being cut during the season. The average
yield to the acre for the three cuttings is five
tons.
If you wish your windows to be bright and
clear use no soap on them, but sprinkle ammo
mia in the water with which they are washed. If
newspaper is used for drying polish will be OBJ
tanned.
Miss Helen A. Knowlton, of Rockland, Me-, is
the only woman lawyer in that State. She was
admitted to the bar of Knox county six years
ago. and has acquitted herself well In the prac-
tice of law.
A French farmer who kept number of dogs
and cats, constructed ingeniously, in order to
protect the latter from the former, veritable
cats nest, which he placed among the branches
of stunted oak tree.
Shipments of potatoes over the Bangor and
Aroostook railroad, which handles most of the
Maine crop, amounted to 2,256,09S bushels to De-
cember LIST, an increase of 390,559 bushels over
the same period last year.
The anvil used by John Bunyan when he was
working at his trade at Helstow was sold in Lon
don lately for R255. Itmeasures about 80 inches
long and bears the inscription cut into its side,
". Bunyan, Helstow. 1647."
The nonrefllable bottle will have to look to its
laurels if it is to continue to occupy first place
in point of numbers in the Patent Gazette for up
to the present time 100 patents have been issued
in this country for cement fence posts.
1t costs money to live in South Africa. A
woman resident in johannesburg pays $50 a
month for her cook and $35 month to a Hindoo
servant. In India she would have had to pay
only So month for the Hindoo's services.
AS illustrating the excellence of the paper
(which is made from unused linen scraps upon
which Bank of England notes are printed, it is
stated that when one of these notes is twisted
into rope it will sustain weight of 359 pounds.
A Seattle judge granted Is divorces in rs
minutes. The other day, in one case man was
granted divorce because his wife had Joined
the shakers and in another because his wife
had circulated report that he was an Anarchist.
A German statistician has been calculating
what part of a woman's life is spent before her
mirror. He begins with years and ends with
go, and makes the time consumed in all the inter-
vening periods 1000 hours, or about 10 months
of life.
When Killaen Van Rensselaer, and Miss Doro-
thy Mansion were married in New York recently
a wedding ring was used which had been used
by an ancestor and namesake of the groom when
he married Ann Van Weyler in Amsterdam 278
years ago.
plaster-of- paris model of the statue of the
late Senator M. A. Hanna has been completed
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, tho sculptor. The
final cost of the work is estimated at about $685.,
am n - l.
placed in Cleveland.
Senator Elmer J. Burkett. of Nebraska, Is the
"baby' member of the United States Senate.
He was plowboy at 10. student at an Iowa
college at II, a graduate at 20, aschoolteacher,
lawyer and member of the National House of
Representatives at 80.
William Waldorf Aston is soon to erect model
apartment house in Broadway, New York, near
Central Park, which will cover almost city
block, but will be only IL stories high. 1t will
accommodate 900 persons. No apartment will
be let under $1,000 year.
The celebrated excelsior diamond, owned by
Tiffany & Co. of New York. which was found in
the Orange Free State in 1898, and weighed about
seven and quarter ounces avoirdupois. and was
valued at $l.OO0,OOO, has been divided into 10
stones. with total value of 100000.
John Burns, a member of the British Cabinet
when asked for sketch of his life in the Eng
lish who's Who" wrote: "Was educated at
Battersea and at night schools and still learn
ing. Came into the world with struggle, strug-
Cling now and prospects of continuing it,
Mediterranean moths have closed two Min
neapolis -four miles, and more mills may have to
shut down to get rid of the insects. The moths
gather under the silk cloth through which the
flour is sifted, and form heavy webs there. They
also eat the silk, making sitting impossible.
England's public hangman. Ellington, who
died recently. is to be succeeded by "Alec"
Taylor, a naval-reserve man, who has been re-
recently railroad employee. He said, on re-
ceiving the appointment, that he would always
be glad to hang station-master without charge.
John w. Oliver, the veteran editor of the
Yonkers Statesman, who is nearly 81 years old.
but is still active and at his desk every day,
played baseball long before there was any pub
lished record of the game. He says his recollec-
ton is very clear as to how the game was played
In 1925.
A recent candidate for Parliament in England