The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
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which there are fewest births.
The Oldest clerk in the Government service at
Washington is now 81. There are two who are
90 and three So, while 81 are over SO.
New York's cemeteries, with their 3.155 acres
of land are sufficient for the burial of the city's
dead. at the present death rate. for $50 years.
In the town of Tollesbury, England. a place Of
1900 inhabitants, there is only one physician and
there is no druggist dentist within nine miles.
The life of the horse is said to have been re-
duced by civilization. At the age of 20 the do
nestle animal is as old as if he had lived 90 years
in free State.
Lewis Mann, of Bryants Pond, Me-, is laid to
be the largest individual maker of clothes in the
world. He started with capital of $780, and
his factory was deserted mill.
Measurements made in London schools show
that tho children's stature. as well as their
weight, increases regularly in passing from tho
poor to the well fed and well clothed.
DIR. Lynn. of Pana. ILL.,, the Oldest physician in
that State, has just celebrated his one hundred
and first birthday. More than 1000 persons at.
tended a reception given in his honor.
Denmark's kings for 1884 years have all been
named Christian or Frederick. 1t is the law of
Denmark that Christian must be succeeded by
Frederick and Frederick by Christian.
clergyman owing allegiance to the Church
of England in Canada cannot hereafter s0lem
nize the marriage of divorced person as long
as the other party to the divorce is living.
When strong westerly winds pile up the water
of Lake Erie at its eastern end, where the outlet
is. the flow over the Niagara cataract is some
times increased 40 per cent. above the normal
volume.
Justile Darling, an English judge, suggested
in the course of an automobile case recently
that the speed indicators of autos might well be
marked "Flne, ""Imprisonment," "Manslaugh-
ter,""Murder."
On the hand of a man who had lost a middle
finger by accident Professor Won Eifelsberg, of
Vienna. has successfully grated one of the
mans toes, which, it is thought, he will shortly
be able to use as finger.
New England newspaper of 1877 announced
that "a considerable town in this province has
been so wakened by the awful Providence of the
earthquake that the women have generally laid
aside their hoop petticoats."
Ladies' seldom rise in Spain to receive a male
visitor, and they rarely accompany him to the
door. For Spaniard to give lady-even his
wife-his arm when out walking is regarded as q
decided violation of propriety.
The body of Eleanor Perkins, nurse who had
been O. years in the service of an English family
in Lincolnshire, was carried to the grave the
other day by four sons of the family, all of whom
she had nursed in their infancy.
Nailless horseshoes are badly needed, owing to
the injury done by nails to the hoof of a horse.
A horse shoe carrier fitting the hoof, and to
which the shoe can be easily affixed, is the latest
invention to solve the difficulty.
In high mountains there is no State to COM
pare with Colorado. She can claim 40T peaks of
an altitude of more than 10000 feet, 395 of more
than 11OOO feet. 233 of more than 1900. 149 of
more than 1900 and SO of more than 1900.
Two women. in lighting picnic fire on the
slope of Waterman Mountain, San Bernandino
county, CAL, the other day, discovered asphalt
tum deposits. A rush followed. 90 900 acres have
been located and an oil boom is in progress.
French, on bills of fare, the London Ladies'
Pictorial says. will always be preferred by nine
out of ten persons, because it introduces into
the taking of ones meals an element of chance
and adventure which is nearly always appre-
ciated.
Bathtubs made of glass are being manufac-
tured in Germany. They are made in solid
piece, and one can be turned out in FIVE minutes.
The tubs are said to have advantages over metal
aud enamel, one being that they are much
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The work of the last three years in Germany
and France is estimated by Professor Currie to
have yielded about pound of radium. Ameri-
cas- stock of radium SALT reduced to the strength
known as one million. would have filed lady's
thimble.
The per capita of money 10 circulation on May
LIST was $3222 for each inhabitant. That exceeds
the record of any previous time. Most of the
gain was in gold, 600 being added by i'm
ports, and gold certificates also gained about
$l1, 100000.
Bob Taylor, the ex-governor of Tennessee,
who has just won a United States senatorship at
his party's primaries. was the author of the re-
mark about Mason and Dixon's Line that it was
1.-THE line of demarcation between hot biscuits
and cold bread.''
The French people are the greatest consul
mers of cheap wine in the world. 1t is used
more generally than milk in the United States.
Even the little children drink it, The public
schools give it to the pupils The servants insist
on the daily allowance of wine.
Vernon Pearce, of Dunkirk. N. Y, is healthy
man of 43 years. 8 feet inches tall and weigh
ing just As pounds. His widowed mother runs
little store and Vernon helps. Pierce's father
weighed 200 pounds, his mother It's and two
osck Ia.
The importation of precions stones at New
York bears testimony to the great prosperity of
the nation. During March the aggregate was in
value So, 7s9,S25 the highest for one month in
the history of the country, and 100000 more
than in the corresponding month last year.
During the last IL years approximately 622
miles of State highway have been constructed
in Massachusetts,. These roads have cost, ap-
proximately, S. 160, 600. Of these highways about
80 per cent. are the kind known as macadam
roads, the remaining 10per cent. being of gravel.
Two Salt Lake City judges have decided against
the teaching of modern languages in the grade
schools. on the ground that more than go per
cent. of the pupils will never enter college or
seek a university degree. and also that the inter-
est of the few must yield to the needs of the
many.
Judge j. T. Fleming. of Oklahoma, is unique.
He served in the Confederate army, voted the
first time in his life for Grant, and the last time
for Harrison. He believes that every Union
soldier should be paid pension of $50 month,
inasmuch as they saved the greatest union of
states on earth.
In Alaska the papoose is placed in kind of
waving cradle, into which 1t is securely tied, the
whole being fastened to young sapling fir
planted in the ground in a slanting direction; it
moves up and down at the slightest provoca-
ton. In summer the baby is left for hours
together outside.
What becomes of the 800 1000 900 tons of coal
year now produced in the United States? Rail
roads, iron and steel mills and manufactures
are the largest consumers. The annual coal bill
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system is $1S.O00,-
600. The domestic demand increases every year.
Coke calls for 100000 tons of coal this year.
Prof. W. R. Hart, of Nebraska, in recent ad-
dress. took the ground that the study of agricul-
ture in our public schools would afford the best
possible material for mental discipline. He said: