The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-02


Coliseum for their accommodation.
Statistics of prisons show that twelve men to
one woman are imprisoned in this country. In
France the proportion is five to one.
NJ. l.. Carrot and z. w. Preston, of Sioux City,
Ia, claim to have patented an invention by
which it will be possible to talk around the
world.
man named May, from Norman. Okla, trav-
cling in Western Texas, walked five miles fol-
lowing a mirage, trying to get water for his
mules.
A partridge shot bya sportsman in a field near
cambridge, England, the other day, dropped
into the smokestack Of passing locomotive and
was lost.
The first solid train Of canned peas ever ship |
ped from an American canning factory went out |
from canning company's plant at Longmont.
COL. recently.
Some real estate in Market street. San Fran
cisco. sold the other day. brought the record |
price for that city-$ 900 front foot. 1t has
depth of 100 feet.
Lightning struck the hennery of Mrs. Fowler, |
in Bloomfield. Ct, and killed one hen out of
hundred perched on the different roosts, but
did no other damage.
RI. Collier. of New York, who recently pur-
chased the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, will
present the property to the National Govern
ment as a national park.
AS a result of the closing of the saloons in
Minneapolis Sunday, 10000 Minneapoltans took
the electric cars to St. Paul and spent $780,
600 there for Sunday drinks.
For picking up an apple while on the march
and not dropping 1t Immediately when ordered
to do so by sergeant, a German soldier has been
sentenced to eight months imprisonment.
Idaho is larger than New York and Maine
combined, and has inland lakes which cover an
area of $40 square miles. It's smallest county is
about the size of the State of Rhode Island.
More courteous in its wording than most cpl
taphs is one in Derbyshire churchyard which, Y
after giving particulars of birth and death, con-
cludes: "'Twas said he was an honest man."
Having inquired of the leading omnibus rail-
way and parcel carrier companies as to the best
material for road paving, the council of Lam
beth, London, finds that the majority are in
favor of wood blocks.
Darius o. Mills, whose philanthropic aid to the
poor of New York city in the shape of low
priced hotels, is well known, will build another
mammoth hostelry, which will have 1000 rooms
and will cost 100000.
George Wright, the inventor of the modern
game of tennis, at present lives in Boston, but
conceived the idea of the game while living in
England. Beals Wright, the worlds best man
tennis player is his son.
But little paper has been recently made from
rags; vegetable substances, such as wood, al
falfa and straw, are especially employed. But
the use of furze wild or cultivated, has not been
thought of until recently
One popularity of the Transvaal climate is
that, while being very healthy, it yet has the
effect of making people appear far older than
they really are. The rarefed air is popularity
supposed to be responsible for this.
Although the name of the first ropemaker and
that of the land in which he practiced his art
have both been lost to history, Egyptian sculp-
lures prove that the art was practiceG at least
| 1000 years before the time of Christ.
John W. Powell, of Montgomery county, Kan.
has sued his wife for divorce, claiming that dur
ing the last eight years size has made four
trips way back to Illinois to see her folks, which
he regards as criminal extravaganza.
| DR.. Thwing, president of the Western Reserve
| University, remarked, after recently attending
| the Horse Show in New York and finding 1t to
| be as much of a dress exhibition as an equine
one: 1T is a cothesline instead of horse reir."
| Curtis Guild, Jr., the Republican nominee for
| governor of Massachusetts,, is a brilliant public
| speaker and it is said of him that when he was
| 10 years of age he could repeat page after page
| of the speeches of the d-time Republican cam
,paigners. ~
fr-Aibcrt rrederfcoi, tinae q fonzoue oper-
| attic baritone now practically controls the roast
| chestnut trade of New York city, having in his
| employ an average of 1D0attendants on his roast
ers. He lost his voice through bronchial trouble
| years ago.
Governor Herrick, of Ohio, was elected by the
| largest Republican plurality ever given guber-
material candidate In the history of the State
| and was defeated for reelection by the largest
Democratic or opposition plurality ever given
| in that State.
| The Pope has ordered firm of Florence jewel
| ers to manufacture a crown set with imitation
| stones for the image of the Virgin the basilica
| of the Vatican, in place of the crown containing
gems valued at $75OOO 600, which is to be deposited
in the vaults of the Vatican.
Florence Nightingale, the woman who revo-
lutionized the slckrooms and hospitals of the
| civilized world, is now So years old. The $780,
| 600 testimonial presented to her few years ago
| she gave to school for trained nurses. She has
written many books on nursing.
Secretary Roots energy in the State Depart
| ment is astonishing members of his staff. He
| goes to work early in the morning, insists on
| hax inf inn ah
that is going on and stays at his desk until or
| O'Clock every evening, working hard.
| Seth Nation, father of James, the assistant
| State auditor of Kansas, has no fear for the
| number ID. He was born on April 10, enlisted in
| the war on August 10. was nominated treasurer
| of Neosho county on September 10 and was
| inaugurated on October 49, and has had 10 chill
| dren.
| Secretary Taft has Travelled 100000 miles. or
| four times the distance around the world at the
| equator, since May a. 1900. when he became
| Governor General of the Philippines. In the
five and half years since his call from the Fed
| eral Bench he has spent $50 days on the ocean,
| or almost year.
Alligator boats" used by Canadian lumber
| men, can travel both on land and water. When
| the boat comes to a place where the river has
| entirely dried up or to sand bank, an anchor
| and cable are taken out some way ahead, the en-
| gines are set working, and the boat is slowly
| hauled up to the anchor.
| Some interest was taken during the year in
| the claims that Mexican tree cotton is immune
from the boil weevil, and that the staple is equal
in every respect to that produced by the cotton
plant of our Southern states. Scientific investi-
| cations, however, seem to show that there is
| little foundation for these claims.
Alexander Campbell, who has just died at La
Sale. ILL.,, was at one time Abraham Lincoln's
closest friend 1t was said of him in 1850 that he
furnished Lincoln more financial aid in his race
| for the Presidency than any other one man.
| Campbell was one of the first to suggest that
| Treasury notes be issued by the Government.
The youngest man ever elected to Congress
was John Young Brown, of Kentucky. He was
| chosen to the Twenty-sixth Congress when he
| was but % years old. Being under the constitu-