The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-10-20


10000 tons of honey in year, while Spain comes
second as producer of honey among European
countries with 100000 hives and 1900 tons Of
honey.
Receipts Of the New York postofice are far
ahead of those Of any other Office in the world,
for the same extent OF territory. At the pres
emit rate. for this year, they will be about sl7.-
100000.
For compelling 10 soldiers to scrub q barrack-
room with their toothbrushes, subaltern in the
German Army has been sentenced by court
martial to one years imprisonment and degra-
dalton.
There is a plant in Chicago which manufac-
lures more maple sugar in month, said DR.. w.
H. Wiley In recent address than is produced
by nature in the whole of the State of Vermont
In year.
In Germany 1900 horsepower tandem gas en-
gines and 100 horsepower gas dynamos no
longer excite surprise; one establishment has
just turned out 2 900 horsepower gas engine for
mining company.
Twenty million dollars is the estimated value
of the debris left by the San Francisco catas-
trophe. It's weight is given at 100000 tons. and
it is figured that it would require train 600
miles long to carryit.
Rabbits, asserts a naturalist, have white tails
so that the young may distinguish their mother
in case of pursuit. The natural color Of the
rabbit is so like the surrounding earth that this
would be impossible otherwise.
For fifty years Ohio has had at least one MEM
Der of Congress named Taylor. E. L. Taylor and
Col. W. A. Taylor are at present the respective
Republican and Democratic nominees for Con-
gress from the Columbus district.
Among the curiosities of church architecture
in America may be mentioned the fact that in
Santa Rosa, CAL, is church with seating ca
pacity of 200, which is built entirely of timber
sawed out of single redwood tree.
Charles Edward Magoon, who has been made
provisional governor of Cuba, was born in Min
nesota in 1881 and after farm bringing up In
that State worked his way through the Univer-
sity of Nebraska. graduating in 1881.
The first capitol of Ohio. at Chillicothe, was
built of logs. 1t was two stories high, which
made it a building of mark in its time, and its
dimensions on the ground were SO feet by "a
feet-which was big for Chillcothe.
A banknote that passed through the Chicago
fire is one of the curios preserved in the Bank Of
England. The paper was consumed, but the
ashes held together, and the printing is quite
legible and it is kept under glass; The bank
paid the note.
A jeweler, no matter how dishonest, would
not steal the jewels in a watch, for they are
valueless; they cost only 10 cents apiece. In
antique watches the jewels were often costly.
In modern watches they are never worth more
than s15a gross.
In the six months ended June 3Oth. 2.297.2
miles of new railway track was laid in this
country, greater amount of new construction
than in any corresponding six months in the
last Is years. except in 1902, when new construc-
ton aggregated 2,3l4 miles.
A singular birth custom prevails in Yorkshire.
In parts of the West Riding it is quite common
for visitors to a house in which new baby has
appeared to carry with them as an Offering to
the infant a new laid egg, some salt, piece of
bread and, in some cases, penny.
quaint superstition is prevalent in many
English villages. When woman is going to be
married every effort is made to prevent her
from seeing her wedding ring before the cere-
mony, as it is considered that sight of it except
at the altar is bound to bring bad luck.
Practically every inhabitant of the county Of
Letcher, KY, containing 1900, is related d.
rectly or indirectly to one family. This family
is named Webb. descended from the famous
Daniel Boone, and it has been famous In the
county affairs for more than 100 years.
George f. Pollock, recently appointed Assist
ant Commissioner of the General Land Office in
Washington, did not have even primary school
education until he was more than 10 years of
age. He is receiving $35, 900 year for purely
intellectual work. and is still young man.
Charles King, of East Liberty, a suburb of
Pittsburg. is what might be termed careful
man. He has been a voter in the East Liberty
district since 1857. and when asked on the last
registration day If he had tax receipt he pull
ed from pocket tax receipts for the last Al
years.
Norwegians have primitive way of breaking
up old, wornout wooden ships. They take them
to exposed rocky parts Of the coast, and, after
anchoring them, leave the breakers Of the next
storm to smash them to pieces. After the storm
the floating fragments are picked up and sold
for firewood.
The largest and costliesr building thus far
undertaken in New York, the city of immense
structures, is the magnificent $10.0 600 Episco
pal Cathedral of st. John the Divine, now being
erected on Morningside Heights. This will be
the greatest sacred edifice in America, and the
fourth in Importance in the world.
The male teachers In the United States are
steadily decreasing, as shown by statistics. In
1870 the proportion was Al per cent; in 1872 it
had increased to 1873; in $4,000 it fell to 3l5 in
1900 it dropped to 299 and in 1903 it had reached
Is per cent. There were in the states 455,242
teachers, and of these 1874 were men and 341,-
49S women.
The late Congressman r. r. Hit had knowl-
edge of stenography which was of great value
to him in debate. He has been known to rise
with his hand full of shorthand notes of speech
just delivered to which he was about to reply.
and woe to the man who accused Mr.. Hit of
misquoting him. He was the patron saint of the
stenographers of the House.
One man in New York says he makes good
living by what he calls cruising for salvage. He
goes about in an automobile and follows novices
trying to operate recently purchased machines.
If the machines break down or stop he comes up
in time to offer his services as tug or to offer
about half the value of the machine if the owner
is so disguised that he wishes to sell.
The natives of certain parts of India are In the
habit every year in the summer of digging the
dry river banks for fish, which they dig out by
hundreds, just as they would potatoes. The
mud Jumps are broken open and the fish, per-
haps eight or ten inches long, win be found alive
and often frisky, as If just removed from its
supposedly native element, the water.
The Government has in its employ man who
does nothing all the year around but kill noun
tain lions. John Cor is the man, and he was APP
pointed to the position about year ago. he
has two assistants and the three men have killed
several hundred of the marauding brutes. Their
work is confined mostly to Wyoming, where the
lions reach their greatest size and ferocity.
A species of tree is found growing on an island
of the coast of Africa the condensing power of
the leaves of which furnishes the sole water
supply of the island. In the forests OF wash
ngton State and British Columbia trees have
also been observed which drip copiously through
the night and until 10 or II o'clock the following
when the flow gradually ceases only
% begin again at or near sunset.