The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-01-21

The latest thing IN Motel Diils OF rare Is staLeu
to be an edible menu card. 1t is generally made
of biscuit, which the guest eats with his cheese.
r. /. Knapp, the inventor of the side hill pillow,
died at Half Moon, CAL, recently. He was ma
tive of New York, but went to California in
1856.
Eawdust is now used by some Paris restau-
rants. the Gaulois says as dressing for outlets.
instead of bread crumbs. It costs only 30 cents
q sack.
A striped bass feet inches in length and
weighing 25K pounds was caught in Russian
River. California, recently. 1t took several
hours to land him.
Nearly 40 per cent. more women are working
this year at mems labor than worked 10 years
ago; while the increase of male workers is only
a trifie over rs per cent
Governor Hoch, in his inaugural address in
Topeka, Kan, said kansas is not Western
but Central state. 1t is the rich, juicy meat
in the national sandwich
For over so years Justice David ]. Brewer has
been connected with Sunday schools as scholar
and teacher. For IL years he has been teaching
a class of adults in Washington.
The imports from Panama into the United
States in the year ended June 30, 1904. were valu
ed at $440.744, and the exports from the United
States to Panama we're valued at $s7s,7s4.
During the last year 572,79S steerage passen-
gers arrived at the port of New York. During
the same time there were 68,7O4 cabin passen-
gers, while $685. came in the second cabin.
A straw vote among the trainmen of the Penn
sylvania system on the question of whether they
shall be called guards or brakemen is said to
have resulted in of the English term.
Andrew Carnegie rarely carries money with
him. Not long ago he found he had no cash
when street car conductor asked for his fare,
and stranger produced the needed nickel.
The street railroads of San Francisco, in ac-
cordance with request by the Board of HEALTH
have issued an order against carrying of soiled
clothes on their cars in bundles or baskets.
The art of treasures at Windsor Castle are said
to be worth over $50 100000. The King has had
them rearranged, but has not been able to in
sure them as yet, owing to their great value.
There is distress in the north of Ireland as
we'll as in the southwest. The Salvation Army
is feeding 5000 destitute people in Belfast, and
the lady mayoress of the city has appealed for
aid.
Lieutenant U. s. Grant Ill, grandson of the
late President Grant, has been detailed to the
White House as military aid to President Roose-
welt, and will be stationed at Washington bar
racks.
Governor N. J. Bachelor, of New Hampshire,
received as Christmas present an exact repro
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chair. used by Governor Wentworth from 1741
to 1765.
Judge Jeter G. Pritchard, former United States
Senator from North Carolina. has sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt golden eagle which was cap
tured on Bald Mountain and measured feet
from tip to tip.
Mrs. Lucinda B. Simmons is dead at East
Orange, M. Her father. Wheat Beals. of Yer
mont built the first railroad track in the United
States, and her grandfather was a member of
the Boston tea party.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt loves horses. He has a
large farm near Newport, where he keeps his
fine animals He is one of the best hand
whips in New York, and in the coaching season
his turnout is on the road daily.
The development of the dairy industry in the
United States is scarcely realized by business
men. In 1898 the butter haul over the Minneapo-
lis and st. Louis railroad was 100000 pounds
Last year it was nearly 100000.
John Morley, who has just returned to London
from America, when asked what impressed him
most, said Niagara Falls and the President ,
both give you the impression of going on forever;
or better. the activity of both seems ceaseless."
Mrs. Villa A. Leonard has been an expert
money counter for the United States Treasury
Department since 1862. For many years she has
been the fastest note counter in the Depart
ment. She has counted more money than would
pay of the national debt.
An investment of 81 900. 900 will be represented
by the beet sugar factory. which is soon to be
erected at Sterling, Col. Nearly 1000 men and
women will be employed, and market for sugar
beet growers will be created, approximating in
revenue $s5O,OOO per year.
Colorado burros are being purchased In large
numbers by the United States Government for
use in the Philippine Islands. Two carloads of
these Rocky Mountain canaries'' were recently
shipped from Trinidad, COL, to San Francisco
for transportation to the islands.
worth of potatoes to the agricultural wealth of
the Centennial State for 1904. Fifteen hundred
carloads is the estimate of the potato crop for
that county. and many ranches reported yield
of over 20 tons of the tubers to the acre.
Denver, COL, will soon have the distinction of
operating the first lime kiln construction in the
United States under foreign patents. The kiln
will be constructed for the purpose of COM
bining lime and sand, in the manufacture of
silicated brick, which is said to have extraordi-
nary qualities for resisting fires.
Lieut.. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, an officer in
the United States Army, discovered the famous
peak November Is, 1906. The Chamber of Com
MERGE Of Colorado Springs has started a move
ment to honor the one hundredth anniversary
Of this event in 1903 by celebration to be par
ticipated in by the entire state.
John d. Rockefeller has become sufficiently
in Pueblo, Col, the "Pittsburg of the
West. to invest more than $l25 900 in real estate
in that city. 1t is said that he will build homes
near Lake Minnequa for employees Of the great
steel works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, in which he is now largely interested.
woman of 70 conducts successfully 70-acre
farm near Kokomo, Ind. The buildings are well
kept and the farm is in productive condition.
Specialties are pork production, butter and
chickens. The owner has managed the farm
since her husbands death, about Is years ago,
and she understands the methods of all kinds Of
farm work.
The Society of the Home for the Aged, of FL
mira, N. z, has secured the contract from the
Railroad Company for the making
Of all signal flags TO be used on the system dur
ing 1905. The contract calls for 1900 flags of
white, red and green colors. The flags are to be
used on locomotives and trains and by fiagmen
and gatemen.
Judge Riley, of Lexington, KY, whose name
has been associated with the re-establishment Of
the whipping post. is the author of a still more
startling punishment. All those charged with
are to have the choice of drinking
q glass of fish brine or going to Jail. 1t is re-
ported that one victim took the emetic and that
It had the desired effect.
The use of trap nests will increase the egg
yield one-third. We frequently kill hen that
never has laid and never will. There are such
irones in every flock. They are Improbable, of
course. Some Of them can be picked out at
sight. But there are many poor layers that look