The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-20

three years, mas married over 0,UOU people.
In Germany the number of servant girls who
have savings bank accounts is nearly three times
as large as that Of shop girls who have them.
The assistant Of London dentist pulled the
wrong tooth from patients jaw and court
has ordered the dentist to pay the sufferer $sl.
A shell for shooting oil upon the stormy seas
from the Shore in order to reach wrecked YES
sells, has recently been invented and success
fully tested.
Russian papers state that the Chinese court
astronomer predicts that the present war will
last 80 years. and that four years hence Great
Britain will be involved.
A prominent Mason. named Little, of Hull,
England, committed suicide recently while
laboring under the delusion that he had betrayed
some secret of the craft.
The Rev. Hudson Taylor says that opium in
China sis doing more harm in week than the
united efforts of all our Christian missionaries
are doing good in year."
At wedding in Barstow, CAL, the other day,
each Of the guests was presented with gold
nugget from mine which the bridegroom had
bestowed upon the bride.
Married eight years. German named Drew
has seven sons, all of whom he has pledged to
the German Army. The Kaiser has written him
letter strongly commencing his patriotism.
John W.. Oliver, the editor of the Yonkers
Statesmon has just celebrated his nnetieth birth
day. He is still actively engaged in the duties
devolving on him as editor and general manager.
Mr.. Henry Caldwell Robinson. just appointed
A.. Ty<o4 nd
road, climbed to that responsible position from
the humble station of apprentice in the machine
shop.
Among the most backward and savage tribes
great attention is often paid to the children
The toys and playthings used by the savages in
all parts of the world are often surprisingly well
made.
An exhibition of cinematograph pictures rep
resenting life in the internal regions has been
stopped by the Munich police at the instance OF
the bishop, who protested against the ''profana-
ton of hell.'
Outside the Polar regions there:remains unex-
plored, it is estimated, about one-hftieth OF the
land surface of the globe. Fifteen years ago
the unknown portions were about one eighth OF
the earth's total.
DIR. Sophronia Fletcher, the first woman physi-
clan in Boston, is 90 years old, but still wonder
fully active. She graduated from Boston Uni
versity in 1854. Her grandfather fought in the
battle of Lexington.
A bankrupt sawyer recently stated in Lon
don court that his trade had been ruined by the
advance in the price of sugar. Confectioners
and candy manufacturers were economizng by
doing without wooden boxes and cases.
Four hundred ex-Confederates now living in
New York city will be guests of o. 8. Grant
Post on Memorial Day, and Senator Joe Black
burn. of Kentucky, who wore gray from 1851 TO
1866, will be the orator at Grants tomb.
South Carolina is making methodical and
| hopeful effort to divert the stream of immigra-
| ton to her territory. The state has about A.
| 100000 acres of unoccupied land, and desires new
| white blood to develop the fields and mines.
q. i. stoessel. a nephew of the Russian COM
mander who was in command at Port Arthur. is
a truck farmer near Pass Christian, Miss. He
was born in New Orleans, to which city his
parents came from Switzerland over 80 years
ago.
Four Holyoke storekeepers have paid $25
apiece in police court for keeping their stores
open on Sunday, and eleven for selling cigarettes
to minor. All eleven sold to the same minor
a boy detective employed by the police depart
| ment.
A Japanese statistical pamphlet states that
| Jauauese may divorce his wife for talking too
much. The latest annual figures show that,
with fewer than 100000 Japanese marriages re-
ported in the year. there were more than 6OOO0
divorces.
| The Legislature of Nevada has repealed a law
that compelled gambling to be done on the sec
ond floor of buildings. So Nevada is again
State in which gambling can be carried on in
any place, so long as the gambler pays the
license tax.
Catalina grows at the rate of third of an inch
in diameter year on good soil. There are fine
summer days when the sprouts on stump of
sturdy root-growth will grow six inches in the
"a hours. You can see catalpa grow, you can
hear it grow.
There are fourteen pairs of twins in the Whit
tier school, Minneapolis. Besides being in ac-
cord with President Roosevelt as to race suicide,
the Whittier school district is strongly Repub-
lican, having given 1,547 votes for Roosevelt and
161 for Parker.
Louis Moilenen, of Houghton, Mich, is only
10 years of age, but is feet inches tall, weighs
$40 pounds and is still growing. He is well pro-
portioned and strong as an OK. His parents are
understood people, Mrs. Moilenen weighing less
than 100 pounds.
A fine cattle ranch of $500 acres. near Cal
gary Alberta British Columbia, has been bought
for 100000 by President Smith of the Mormon
Church, and the land will be colonized by Nor
mons, of whom there are other colonies in that
part of the country.
N. Kaumanns, an expert connected with the
Agricultural Department of Germany. is in this
country investigating conditions among his
countrymen. He says the more desirable Ger
man immigrants are not settling in the United
States, but are going to Canada.
The British Army Council has decided to dis
continue the experiment of providing recruits
with artificial teeth. The soldiers would not
pay for their teeth agreed, out of their pay of
25 cents day, and when the military authorities
tried to make them they deserted, teeth and all.
Eggs are current coin in Mayo. Kerry, Done
gal and Leitrim, Ireland. They are everywhere
received over the counter in payment for tea,
sugar, meal. oil, bread, tobacco, patent medi-
cines and general haberdashery. Accounts are
kept open and goods supplied on credit in eggs.
A shotgun recently manufactured by Con-
necticut firm was a special order for man who
uses his left eye to aim with, the right eye being
sightless. The stock and lower frame of the
gun were twisted so that he may shoot without
discomfort. The gun is the third made for this
man in the last rs years.
Starr J. Murphy for six years has been charity
manager for John d. Rockefeller, drawing a
handsome salary for work done as head of the
bureau of benevolence. The Standard Oil mag
nate has only one rule in connection with Mr..
Murphy's position dollar must be devoted
to a charity which will return good results.
Experiments show that plants cultivated to
the depth of an inch and half evaporated 1000
pounds less water per acre daily than plants
having no cultivation. On heavy clay soil the
difference in some cases was as much as 1000
pounds per day on an acre. Cultivation, there
FORE means saving the moisture in the SOIL
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, of Eliza
beth, N. J., the first ordained woman minister in
the United States and probably in the world,
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