The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-22

1t estimated that nearly 1900 acres of cedar
trees are cut down annually TO provide the ma
terial for lead pencils.
Though Russia's wheat-growing soil is almost
the most fertile in existence, yet she only raises
eight bushels TO the acre.
During the lifetime of healthy hen she will
lay from 800 to 900 eggs. Her best laying capacity
is during her second year.
Nebraska has a young woman nominee for the
office of county attorney in the person Of Miss
L. Mae Dawson, of Long Pine.
Glass bricks, a German product are translu-
cent, but not transparent, and possess the adj
vantage of being acid-proof and of harboring no
disease germs.
Apropos the clamor of old age pensions at
Washington. it has cropped out that there are
1900 unpaid grocers' accounts against govern
meut clerks in that city.
James +. Devlin. a fireman on Western rail-
road, has patent for steam turbine engine for
which he has just received $975,OOO from the
Transatlantic Steamship Company.
Levi P. Morton. former vice-president of the
United States. is over so years old, but still as
active as he was 30 years ago. He gives close at
tention to his great financial affairs.
The percentage of improved land. that is, land
under crops and grass Is in this country ~; in
England it is rs; in Germany about CO.
The BARRIERS sign was striped pole as far back
as 1850. the stripes around the pole being SYM
bols of the bandages used in wrapping the arm
or part from which the blood was to be let.
The city of Centralia, WASH. was founded by
n oo1or mo moi Woo Ho
died at the age of so years few months ago and
all the stores in town were closed in his honor.
For small silver cup of the Commonwealth
period, weighing three ounces. $50 an ounce
was paid in London recently, whiea Charles III.
tumbler, with the York hallmark of 1882, brought
500 an ounce.
Among the few other things lost in the shuttle
during the earlier relief proceedings in San
Francisco were nine carloads of whisky, and,
despite strenuous efforts, the whisky has not
been traced yet.
Dr. Wiley, of the Department of Agriculture,
has placed $50 chickens in cold storage and after
six months he will see what has happened to
them. He is also investigating the effect of
freezing upon fruits.
A few years ago road dust was an almost in
Southern California. Now the roads are sprin-
killed. with petroleum twice year, and even an
automobile raises no dust.
There is nothing revolutionary in modern pro-
posals to tax bachelors. Two centuries ago
every celibate in England was paying tribute to
the exchequer "for neglecting his duty to sup
port another mans daughter
John waterworth, the oldest engineer in the
world, has just died at Preston, England, at the
age of IS. He began driving in 1916, and drove
an engine 100000 miles in his 81 years of SER
vice without single accident.
n The colluloid wind screens of automobiles
give great risk of fire. Very fine copper gauze
is said to have proven satisfactory substitute.
being easily seen through and noninfiammable,
while it does not crack like celluloid.
Here is most simple test for the detection of
base coin: Sharply cut the milled edge of a
good coin against the milled edge of the sus-
suspected coin. If spurious the metal will al
most Immediately begin to shave off.
Iowa's corn crop this year will total the stu
pendous yield of 3s1 100000 bushels. This is the
startling estimate made by George A. Wells,
secretary of the Iowa Grain Dealers Associa
ton, in his final estimate of the seasons crops.
In thousand miles of Europe an observer
saw only one rubbish heap-some old metal cans
at Carlsruhe. Everywhere else was complete
absence of all waste or carelessness, and, above
all, of DETACHMENT and roadside uncleanliness.
John PierSon, of Swedesboro, N. j., is dead at
the age of 100 years and months. He was
Republican, and the fact that he was elected to
the New Jersey Senate in 1850 on the Abraham
Lincoln ticket was one of his proudest memories.
The india rubber exports from Panama to
foreign countries during 1905 were estimated at
10000 pounds, valued at $ss.OOO gold. The total
shipped from Colon district to the United States
during 1905 was estimated at 10000 pounds, val
ued at $9O.OOO,OOO.
Miss Nellie White, niece of ex-Gov John D.
Long and heiress of the late Nelson W. White,
has left her home and wealth to travel 5000
miles and wed DIR. Walter R. Brickerhoff, who is
in charge of the United States leprosy camp at
Molokai, Hawaiian Islands.
Methodism has at least one living follower
who became identified with the church more
than century ago. Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons
Wood recently celebrated her one hundred and
nineteenth birthday at Hillsboro, Ore. She
united with the Methodist Church in 1870.
New York hotel proprietors and the officers of
some clubs are seriously considering the matter
of compelling walters to wear blue cloth dress
suits, in order that they might be distinguished
[ from the guests, whose evening attire is pre-
cisely the same as that worn by the food
tthrowers.
Rev. Angus johnson, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Avalon. Tex, has just cele-
brated his 9Sth birthday by preaching two SER
mons to his flock-one in the morning and the
other in the evening. He recently rounded out
the SEVENTEEN anniversary Of his ministry, and
shows few signs Of his great age.
Mrs. Nellie A. Reid. the only woman pastor in
Connecticut, is stirring religious circles in South
Manchester as they have not been moved in
many years. AS pastor of the John Wesley Pen
tecostal Church, she is not only winning the
hearts of the parishioners but is saving the
souls of many unbelievers as well.
1t is calculated that only two-thousand-
millionth part of the heat emitted by the sun is
caught by the earth, whose coal supply power is
relatively so infinitesimal that if every bit of
coal in the world were cast into one great bonfire
and instantaneously burnt 1T would not generate
as much heat as the sun produces each tenth of
asecond.
Charles Scott, leading candidate in the Missis-
sippi Gubernatorial race, will carry on his fight
in the good old fashioned way. He will disdain
the use of a railroad train and will make his
trips from town to town on horseback, accom-
panied by his campaign committee. Whenever
the party fails to reach town at night they
will camp out.
The new commander in chief of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, Gen. Robert b. Brown,
is native of Ohio and 81 years old. He has a
splendid record as a soldier. He remained In
the service for more than four years, was
severely wounded while in action before At
lanta, Ca. and received medal of honor for
distinguished and meritorious service.
Milk, and milk only, has formed the diet of
six-year old Arthur Keene, Of Penarth Wales,
since birth. He has been tempted with the
choicest of solid food to no purpose. and medi-
cal men who have examined him confess that
the case battles them. He is finely developed
and healthy and his diet each week consists of
80 pints of milk, mixed with sugar and little