The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-31

unless he has passed public examination and
is properly qualified.
The Japanese lover, instead of an engagement
ring, may give his future bride piece of beauti-
full silk to be worn as a sash.
Brazil's chamber of commerce has offered
prize of 100000 to the physician who shall dis
cover permanent cure for cancer.
Prominent railway managers predict that
within few years passenger trains will be very
largely drawn by electric locomotives.
James ]. HILL the railway magnate, has offer
ed $7S75 in prizes for the best managed and best
titled farms in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Japan has the monopoly of camphor produc-
ton, for it is only in that country and Formosa
that the camphor tree fiourishes commercially.
Suffering children have lately become alarm
ingly numerous in Germany. The public schools
contain $4,000 of them. Theincrease in the num-
Der is largely due to mimicry.
The only venomous bird known is the death
bird" of New Guinea. The bite of this bird
causes intense pain in every part of the body,
loss of sight, commissions and finally death.
In the Wisconsin zinc field there are ID mag
netic separation plants in operation and it is
said that this use of elecro-magnetism is greatly
increasing the yield of zinc in that district.
At Lancaster, England, the other day, at the
funeral of w. Wingate Saul, former army sur
| geon, the hearse was draped in green, the drivers
wore green and chestnut horses were used.
bushel of bituminous coal is different in
different states. In Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and
Kentucky it's weight is 80 pounds, Ia PeHnsyl-
vana rs pounds, and in Indiana 20 pounds.
|
more money for the Freedmens Aid and South
ern Education Society than any conference in
| Methodism with the exception of Rock River.
Professors in the University of Maine have
| perfected plans to travel throughout the State
in finely equipped special train and give free
lessons in theoretical agriculture to the farmers.
| Miss May Carrigan, of Springfield Mass, has
| broken all records for bindfold typewriting
| from dictation, writing 5,221 words in hour,
exclusive of errors, for each of which five words
were deducted.
| More than so kinds of bark are now used in the
manufacture of paper. Banana skins, pea vines,
| cocoanut fiber, hay straw, water weeds. leaves,
shavings, corn husks and hop plants are used for
| the same purpose.
Rev. Richard Rymer, of Brixton, England, is
| the Oldest wesleyan minister IN the WOrlu. he
has been preaching for II years, and labored
| number of years in France when Louis Philippe
| was on the throne.
| Miss Grace Brenneman, 20 years old, of Lind
| say, O., is telegraph lineman. She can splice
| line, put on a new insulator, replace fuse or
repair dropped switchboard. Climbing pole
| is childs play to her.
The tallest building in the world is being
erected in New York by life insurance COM
pany. 1t will be 500 feet high, five feet higher
| than the Washington monument, and So feet
| higher than st. Peters, Rome.
| Matte NJ. Marshall, grandniece of former
Chief Justice Marshall, of the United States Su-
! preme Court, is one of the three women rural
| mail carriers In America. She is connected with
the Granite City, ILL.,. postofice.
DR.. W. ]. MCGEE, director of the St. Louis
Public Museum, has received from Captain P.
8. Drown, of that city, as loan exhibit, the sun
dial of Thomas Jefferson, fashioned by the Apos-
| tie of Democracy with his own hands.
| Two street peddlers in Bradford, England,
bought horse for SLIPS. 1t was killed by
motor car one day and the owner of the car paid
them Sis for the loss. Thereupon a new indus
try sprang up on the roads of England.
The famous Willamette meteorite has been
| sold to New York scientist. who will present it
| to the American Museum of Natural History in
| New York city. The price paid was $90,6C0,
| which is said to be the highest price ever given
| for meteorite.
| Lecturing before London audience upon the
Importance of house cleaning, an English seien-
fist asserted that as much dust as can be placed
on pin point yields no fewer than 5000 colonies
of living germs. The majority of these germs
are representative of disease.
The latest novelty in vegetables is black po-
tato, which has been sent out to a well known
seed merchant of London. This eccentric tuber
came from the Congo and is said to have an ex-
cellent flavor 1t respectfully recommended for
ornamental cookery and in salads.
For days millions of robins flew south bound
over Yuba, Nervada and Placer counties, CAL,
in successive great clouds recently. At night
they alighted on trees, shrubs and rocks, and at
daybreak resumed their flight. Nothing has
ever been seen in California like it,
Three giant brothers named Phillips are among
the new members of the British Parliament, and
all are Liberals. Wynford Phillips is six feet
three inches tall /; Owen Phillips, six feet seven
inches, and Ivor Phillips, six feet four inches.
They are sons Of Rev. Sir Erasmus Phillips.
There are 10 members in the United States
Senate who have passed the three-score and ten
mark-Pettus and Morgan of Alabama, Allison
of Iowa, Cullom of Illinois, Teller of Colorado,
Proctor of Vermont. Frye Of Maine, Platt and
Depew of New York and Alger of Michigan.
Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the
Pension Office, Washington, claims to have been
the youngest regularly enlisted and mustered
soldier in the Union Army during the Civil
War. He enlisted at Indianapolis on October
18th, 1851, at the age of II years and months.
The city of st. Louis is soon to have an exhibit
building, or permanent museum, that will cost
$I,0OO,0OO. The committee furthering the build
ing of the museum is soon to report definite
plans. A 100000 fund has already been as
sured that will take the form of an endowment
At the present time there are 17S Filipino stu
dents in this country receiving an education at
the expense of the Philippine government. The
, candidates are selected by examination, and one
stipulation is that they will enter the Philippine
civil service after they have completed their
studies.
The logs which formed the cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln was born have been taken to
| New York from the cellar of the old Peppenhu-
sen home, at College Point, L. l., and will be held
until later, when they will be used to rebuild
. the cabin on its original site on the old farm
near Hodgensville, Ky.
. First Lieutenant Walter H. johnson, of the
. Eighth Infantry, now on his way to the Philip
pines, was rejected when first he applied for a
commission, the surgeon finding that he had six
toes on each foot. On learning that he would
be accepted with ten toes he had the extra two
; amputated, applied again and was accepted.
What becomes of the s0O,OOO,OOO tons of coal a
year now produced in the United States a? Rail-
roads, iron and steel mills and manufactures
are the largest consumers. The annual coal bill
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system is $lS,OOO,-
600. The domestic demand increases every year.
Coke calls for 100000 tons of coal this year.
1t is reported from Dresden that Germany will
witness public auction that is probably unique.
The house at Eisenbach in which Martin Luther
! lived from 1893 to 1901, being then youth Of
from Is to 49, is to be offered for sale, together
, with all the historical objects and documents
associated with Luther and his period which it
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