The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-04-15

Georgia has held the lead IN the prOductiOn Oh
peaches for the Eastern market since 1902. and
for years to come is likely to be the leading
peach state in the Union. She has more than
100000 trees.
Seven shepherds, says an Australian contem-
porary. drove a herd of 1900 sheep from Ma
muea. in Queensland, to Narbi, in New South
Wales, distance of 600 miles. without losing
single animal.
The city of Salem, Mass, offered prizes last
year to boys for killing brown-tail moths. In
competing for these prizes the boys destroyed
$4,000 nests, which were estimated to represent
1ls.OOO,OOO caterpillars.
A clergyman returned from Manila lectured
in San Francisco the other day. He said that in
municipal parade in Manila among the process
sionists was company of city ratcatchers. who
marched trap In hand.
DIR. Sophronia Fletcher. the first woman ply
sician in Boston, is 90 years DID, but is still won
derfully active. She graduated from Boston
University in 1854. Her grandfather fought in
the battle of Lexington.
Frank W. Sanford, of '.shilohr-Dowie's prin-
cpal competitor In the Elijah business-now
proclaims that he's going to purify Maine and
drive all corrupt political bosses and grafters
down into the depths of hell.''
Wall street banker, who is said to be the
head Of one Of the largest financial institutions
of New York, is credited with the statement that
| the fortune of John d. Rockefeller will in few
years amount to s1,OOO,OOO,OOO.
dispatch from Fairbanks. Alaska. to Tacoma
| said that a common United States two-cent
postage stamp had just been sold there for 81,
| and that it was the last stamp in town. The last
| lemon in town had also been consumed. 1t sold
for 81.
One of Senator Teller's peculiarities when
| speaking in debate Is to say ''Mr. President"
! With great freQuence. On q recent occasion he
| used ifty-seven sentences in a speech, and the
quoted phrase appeared exactly the same num-
Der OF times.
| Harry L. Burrage, the 82-year-old bank presi-
dent, who for several years has been head of the
Eliot National Bank of Boston, has just declined,
the presidency of the National Bank of North
America of New York, which was offered him,
/ it is said, with salary Of $4,000.
j. E. Sanger, school teacher of Saltwater
Junction. o.. is the inventor Of something new
in the way of rapid-fre guns. He has been sum-
moned to Washington to give information con-
corning this invention. The inventor has re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for his gun.
By excluding farm wagons from the provi-
sions of law designed to compel all vehicles to
carry lights after sunset, the farmers in the
| Massachusetts, legislature killed their pet meas
ure. It developed later that there is already a
law on the statute books covering the point.
/ Within Is years the importation of canned,
dried and preserved fruits into France has
doubled. California pears, plums, aprcots and
peaches are found in every grocery store; and
i dried fruits of every variety, of better quality
than the domestic products, are sold throughout
France generally.
i A novel way has been discovered in Denmark
for raising money for q hospital. The Danish
government issued a special stamp, worth half
a cent. which the public was requested to buy
and paste on letters and parcels. Within short
time more than $4,000 worth of these charity
stamps were sold.
Bravery is SO much a matter of course in the
Japanese Army that promotions are not the re-
ward Of it. Officers attain higher rank only by
going through a course of study and passing ex-
aminations. For very distinguished conduct
decorations are given. The Order Of the Golden
Kite is most sought
The demand for American flour is increasing
in China. This trade will have to be looked after
in the near future. The construction of flour
| mills in North China means that China will soon
| endeavor to make its own flour. For years to
come, however, the demand for American -four
will probably increase.
Ex-Congressman Levy, of New York, has pur-
chased tract of 800 acres in Albemarle county,
Virginia, which was at one time owned by Presi-
i dent James Monroe, and was part of Ashlawn,
his country home. It is three miles from Month
| cello, where Thomas Jefferson lived. Mr.. Levy
owns the Jefferson tract.
One of the newer tricks of the milkman is to
artincially thicken cream by the addition of
various chemical compounds. While these are
for the most part harmless, consisting of cane
sugar and lime in various proportions, they are
regarded unfavorably by the authorities as tend
| ing to deceive the consumer.
After IS years. continuous service in the
United States Senate william NJ Stewart goes
back to Nevada determined to win another
fortune. Though Is years old, he is as hopeful
as boy in his teens. Six feet tall, with full
beard as white as snow, the old gentleman has a
striking and patriarchal figure.
Macon, Ga, has beaten the world in inventing
a new day" to have at a fair. There is to be q
State exposition or something of that kind there
before long, and one day has been set aside as
"Smith day." Then all the people struggling
with the name of Smith in the State of Georgia
are to be asked to go to the fair and have con-
ISOLATION meeting.
Griffith ]. Griffith, the Los Angeles millionaire
who three years ago attempted to kill his wife,
| must spend two years in state prison and pay
fine of 5000, according to the decision of the
| State Supreme Court, which has affirmed the
sentence of the lower court. Griffith gave
/ park of 3000acres to Los Angeles and was named
| park commissioner.
| In Italy the olive oil crop vies in commercial
| value with the wheat crop and the cattle indus
| tries of the country, amounting to something
like 500, 100000 per year. Another interesting
feature of Italian agricultural statistics is that
the chestnut crop, for which Italy is famous, is
intrinsically more valuable than the lumber and
| arewoods of the entire country.
Wholesalers are punished in a sensible man
! Merlin Germany. They are arrested every Satur-
| day after they have finished their weeks work
| and kept in prison until the following Monday.
This is done regularlyevery week until the sem
| tence is worked out, the object being that the
delinquent shall be able to earn money during
| the week to support his family.
! A glass snake owned by E. v. Windsor, of
Barnet England, recently died after continu-
GUS fast of 2S7 days. The last time the snake
| was fed was on June II, 1884, when it ate a small
frog. From that time until its death, on Feb
ruary 2, 1905, although repeatedly offered food.
! it ate nothing. Until week before death it ap-
peared in good health and was at times very
lively. The body showed no signs of emacia-
| ton.
| tits curious fact that boys hair grows one
! half slower than girls. In boys the average
rate of growth is three feet three inches in six
years, being an average of .0lS inch day. Dur
ing the twenty-fir and twenty-fourth years
mans hair grows quicker than at any other
period. It takes an eyelash twenty weeks to
reach a length of .42s inch, and then its life is
from 100 to $50 days. By means Of camera the
wink of an eyelid has been measured and it was
| found that twenty winks can be made in four
| seconds.