The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-03

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The new Missouri river bridge of the Illinois
Central at Omaha is now In use. 1t is the longest
drawbridge in the world. and cost 100000.
It is estimated that 500 motor omnibuses will
be running in London year hence. Drivers of
horse-drawn omnibuses are being trained for
the new work.
A woman who was plaintiff in an action in
London court the other day said she earned her
living by lending outsiIk skirts hats and feathers
to working girls for holidays.
Tho children of San Rafael Cal have been
formed into junior section of the local improve
ment club. Their duty will be to preserve the
street trees and to keep paper of the streets.
A company has been formed in Mexico for the
extraction of oil from corn (maize) without
thereby affecting the grain for purposes of dis
tillation in the process of manufacturing spirits
Piotr Kasrmieresak. who was born in Poland
ia years ago, is dead ut his home in Detroit. He
had been a lifelong abstainer from tobacco and
liquor and had spent most of his life in the open
air.
DR.. r. s. Macarthur has just celebrated the
close of his thirty-fth year as pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, in New York, during which
time he has never missed Sunday through
illness.
Bradley Pratt, a prominent citizen of Rutland,
VT. has just died in that city at the age of "a.
His father lived to be 1Os years of age. and four
surviving brothers and sisters ages aggregate
1888 years.
A recent police census accredits Washington
with population of 322.572. In 1900, when the
last national census was taken. the population
of the national capital was 27S u.s. and in 1890 the
population was 23O.302.
The trustees of the Mormon Church at Salt
Lake City have purchased 40 acres of farm lands
In South Royalton, VT. where they will erect
monument. shrine and cottage on the site of the
birthplace of Joseph Smith, founder of their
faith.
Col. Willard Glazier. who died in Albany, N.
Y. claimed that he discovered the real source of
the Mississippi, a small lake south of Lake
Itasca. In 1881 he made a canoe voyage from
the head waters of the Mississippi distance of
800 miles.
The Agricultural Department has rented 20
acres near Yula City, Cal and the University of
California will experiment there with all kinds
of wheat, barley, oats and rye. Two other ex-
perimental stations will be established North
and South.
Miss Isabella Morrison. who the other day be-
came the second wife of Ex-Lieutenant Cover
nor Woodruff, of Brooklyn, N. Y, multi-mil-
lionaire, supported her mother and younger
sister by working in millinery shop after the
death of her father.
The group of judges of the Supreme Court of
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of that State. One of the judges thought the
lawyer an able advocate. "That fellow" said
another judge, lis the most intellectual man
physically ever saw"
At the recent meeting of Baptists North and
South liz st. Louis among those who attended
were q number of Indian chiefs who have been
converted to Christianity, including White Arm
and Bread, from the Crow reservation. They
appeared in full uniform.
One of the novel features of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition this year will be a shallow lake
200 acres in extent, In which will be many kinds
of fish. The lake will also contain about 125,OOO
electric lights. which will illuminate the water
and allow people to see the fish as they swim
about
Thirty-five years ago w. H. Newman was
brakeman on Southern railroad at 81 a day !;
today he is president of the great Vanderbilt
system, with salary of $4,000 year. pala-
tial residence in New York and private car so
sumptuously appointed that a king might
envy it.
All grain deteriorates gradually after milling
"A medical expert says that at least 80 per cent
of all milled products offered to the consumer
in the ordinary state is unfit for food. In Mexico
10 uh1 md md ho 90
ground in each household as it may be needed
for immediate use.
+ Originally 100000 bronze medals were struck
by the British for distribution to soldiers who
took part in the South African war. Someone
in authority, however, objected that 1t would be
unwise to issue the medals to natives. Conse-
quently $4,000 medals have been returned to the
mint to be remelted.
The wedding of Miss Marion Haven and For
syth Wickes in st. Bartholomew Church. New
York, was ten minutes late because the bride in
sisted upon awaiting in the church the arrival
of little Katharine Mackay, one of her flower
girls, saying: II wouldn't have that child disap-
pointed for worlds"
Within 10 years the importation of canned,
dried and preserved fruits into France has
doubled. California pears. plums, apricots and
peaches are found in every grocery store; and
dried fruits Of every variety, of better quality
than the domestic products, are sold through
out France generally.
curious effect of the war in the far East is
the migration of sharks to European waters.
The submarine explosions are supposed to have
frightened the creatures, which have passed
through the Suez Canal and have been making
havoc among the fishes of the Adriatic. Inva-
sion of the Black Sea even has been feared.
The business and social relations between
Canada and the United States are growing closer
than ever before. The American invasion" of
the Dominion is an established fact, and the pro-
vinces are rapidly becoming Americanized. A
large number Of the leading American corpora
tions have established plants In the Dominion
near the border.
The management of the Illinois Central Rail
road has engaged Mrs. A. E. McCrea, a Chicago
artist, to go over all the lines of the Company.
from St. Paul to New Orleans, to plan and exc
cute effects in landscape gardening. Much at
tention will be given to lawns, and where there
are necessary unsightly buildings they will be
covered with vines.
There is movement in Florida to reclaim the
Everglades, which comprise 100000 acres of
marshes or lagoons, covered with primeval
forest trees 1t is proposed to drain at least the
more accessible marshes and clear away the
trees and tangled semi-tropical vegetation. 1t
is believed the lands, if once thoroughly re-
claimed, would be very fertile and valuable.
According to the Western E7ectrician legislation
under which street railway companies are COM
PEELED to carry pupils of the public schools at
one-half the full fare has been declared consti-
tutional by the full bench of the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court. Legislation OF this character
is In actual operation in a number of Western
towns and has been attempted in many Others
Sir Frederick Trevis says that among 230 pa
tients operated on for appendicitis at time
when the acute manifestations had subsidized, no
fewer than IL subsequently complained that
they were not at all relieved by the operation.
OF every 100 patients in whom an abscess in the
appendix region is opened no fewer than II per
cent. afterward suffer from recurrence or other
trouble.
An American, ]. G. Jenkins, who is relinquish-