The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-19


Miss Minnie Baldwin, of wister l. T., is presi-
dent of bank in that city. She also manages
the institution, which has a capitalization of
$25,0OO.
In recent warm week in Munich $4,000 gal
| Ions of beer were consumed, an average of two
and one-half gallons to every man, woman and
child in the city.
bee that works only at night is found in the
| jungles of India. 1t is an unusually large in
Sect The combs are often six feet long and
from four to six inches thick.
Cross aisle seats in trolley cars are now de-
manded by the laws of some cities, notably
| Chicago and in the opinion of experts, this type
of seat is bound to become universal.
1t is said that in Benton county, Ind, there
are a million rods of thing under the fields.
making them fertile and tillable. The land
averages are worth $115 to S135 an acre.
A new oil district has been struck within 20
miles of Pittsburg, and prospectors rushing
there in large numbers. Uncle Sans farm is
good producer, both on and under the surface.
| colony of Goblin moth parasites imported
| from Europe and set free recently in the apple
orchards of the Parjaro Valley, California, is
clearing them of the orchardists' enemy in great
style.
Senator Frank Bosworth Brandegee, of Con-
necticut. inherits the gift of oratory from his
| father. and is credited with being forceful,
witty, epigrammatic, and his subject matter is
well thought out.
The original captains commission issued to
John Paul Jones, in Philadelphia, in l776, is
owned by Joseph A. Newton, of Haverhill, Mass,
| his father having found it ina second hand book
| store in Baltimore.
DR.. j. W. Jones, pastor of st. Paul's Methodist
Church, Lincoln, Neb., in lecturing before the
annual assembly of the Nebraska Epworth
League, advocated the recognition of rag tme''
music in the churches.
The Rev. Edward Dunbar. who wrote the old
Sunday school song, "There is a Light in the
Window for Thee, Brother" sleeps in pauper's
grave at Cofreyville, Kan, where he died tramp
in the town Jail IL years ago.
The robbery of jewelry store on Broadway,
| New York, effected by entrance through plate
glass window on either side of which was an all
night drug store and an all-night restaurant,
was a crime of peculiar boldness.
The expectation of ostriches from South Africa
has practically been prohibited by an export
tax of $4S7 each, intended to preserve to that
country, as far as possible, the monopoly of the
lucrative trade of ostrich farming.
In the case of an arrested motor driver at
Hailsham, England, the other day the police
swore that he was driving at the rate of SIN
miles an hour, and they refused, under cross
examination, to take off even the one-half.
Henry Cooper, constable of the village of Child
dingford, Surrey. England. died the other day
| Iox Nj, hold fbo OF oh IN
all that time he did not make one arrest, which
says much for Chiddingford or little for Cooper.
With reference to the threatened invasion of
the crinoline the London Daily Neacs calls atten-
ton to the fact that since the crinoline was last
in fashion the fiat has become an institution.
How could women wear crinolires and live in a
hat7
, A Pike county (Pa.) man with so many chill
dren that his wagon wouldn't hold them, recently
drove into Milford with buggy hitched on be-
hind his wagon in which the surplus was loaded.
Mr. Roosevelt ought to send that man an auto
mobile.
Gen. Franz Sigel. the dashing cavalry leader,
who organized four regiments of young Ger
mans for the Federal Army during the Civil
War, will be honored by the erection of a monu-
ment to his memory by the patriotic citizens of
st. Louis.
Miss Evelyn Walsh, the only daughter of Thos.
F. Walsh, the Colorado mining king, is the owner
of an $4,000 automobile, and is intensely proud
, of her ability as chaufeuse. She is creating
, quite sensation at Newport, where the Washes
, are this summer.
, The first execution of Oregon's new law pre-
; scribing the lash for wife beating was no farce.
The whip used was of braided rawhide, with four
lashes, and the jailer, who did the lashing, laid
on 2Ostrokes with all his strength, bringing blood
at the fourth blow.
The recent death of DR.. J. H. Stringfellow,
Speaker of the first Kansas House of Represen-
tatives, recalls the fact that he started the first
newspaper published in Kansas, the SQuatter
Sovereign. DIR. Stringfelow was called 1.-THE
father of Atchison."
DIR. Washington GLADDEN., who has been so
vigorously protesting against churches accept
ing what is termed tainted money" and John
, d. Rockefeller were country boys together, at
tended adjoining district schools and frequently
met in rival spelling bees.
, memorial church for William Mckinley
dedicated at Portland, o. his boyhood home, is
erected on the spot on which stood the church
Mckinley Joined when he was fourteen years
old. Mrs. Mckinley contributed toward its
building, and Andrew Carnegie gave the organ.
Inventors are now turning their attention to
the smaller details of the automobile. One of
the most recent patents is applied to wire
frame arranged to sweep the rubber tires. This,
it is claimed, will avoid many punctures, since
it will remove tacks and bits of glass as as
picked up.
English automobile manufacturers are expert
menting with wire wheels in the belief that,
weight for weight, they are stronger than those
of wood of the artillery variety. This would be
a practical return to first principles, as all the
early types of self-propelled vehicles were
equipped with wire wheels.
Since 1870 the PROPORTION of male teachers in
the United States has decreased from 80 per
cent. of the entire number to 26 per cent. of the
| entire number in the past year. The average
, compensation for male teachers last year was
$499s and $4951 for females. This is a slight in
crease over the previous year.
Business men should be careful" writes a
| correspondent of a London newspaper, Ito read
their typewriter correspondence before COM
uniting it to the post. have received type
written letter from gentleman of German ex-
traction who informs me that he is a wholesale
tobacconist and cigar imposter."
They attend to the comfort of the public ear
in Belgium. At Verviere organ grinders are by
law compelled to appear every morning before
the police superintendent and play their instru-
ments. The organs which chance to be out of
, tune must be set in order before license to
7 play on the streets will be granted.
CONGRESSMAN Frank L. Dickson, of the Twenty
third Illinois district, is so extremely youthful
in appearance that on a recent railroad journey
the conductor of the train refused to honor Mr..
Dickson's annual pass until convinced by mu-
, tual friend of the Congressman that he was
really old enough to be in the House.
man who had been hired by a close listed