The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-08-04

Simon P. Hughes, fifteenth Governor OF Ar
kansas. Confederate veteran, upright Judge and
well-beloved citizen, is dead at 70.
The salaries committee Of Stockport, England.
has advanced the salary Of the municipal drafts
man $3.50 year-about four cents week.
Ivy does not make house damp; on the con-
trary. it's small roots extract every particle Of
moisture from the brick or stone to which 1t
clings.
Thomas A. Edison has acquired the farm at
Milan. Erie county. Ohio. on which he was born
and reared. and Is going TO transform 1t into q
fne country home.
Pope Plus X. probably receives more letters
and newspapers than any other ruler In the
OF 900 TO deal with.
The temperance committee Of the Southern
Methodist Episcopal Conference reported in
favor OF rule which would prohibit the use Of
tobacco By young pastors.
The Queen Of Spain Is 70 have doctor of her
own. He win have salary Of $4,000 year. an
allowances for rent Is for each visit to the Queen
and the right TO private practice.
Gen. James Grant Wilson. OF New York. has a
large. old-fashioncd seal ring. containing hairs
from the heads Of Washington, Hamilton. Lin
coin. Grant. Napoleon and wellington.
Fifty years ago the Hamburg-American Line
was started with twosteamers. Today the same
company has Isl ocean steamers plying on IS
different routes to all parts Of the world.
A camel begins work at four years old, and
frequently continues in use for over half CEN
M fool
while few horses can carry more than go pounds.
DR.. wiley, OF the Department Of AgricnItnre.
he placed 1S0 chickens in cold storage and after
six months he viii see what has happened to
them. He is also investigating the effect of
freezing upon fruits.
For 1--WE years Senator Lafollette, of wiscon-
sin, has not eaten meat of any kind. my
stomach went back on me-" says the Senator,
land was reluctantly forced to cut meat out
of my MENU"
Denver Stout, pilot on the Ohio and Kama
wha rivers, was the first white child born in
what is now the city of Denver, AZ years ago.
His parents travelled by OK teams in 1859, reach
ing Denver in six weeks.
On the hand of a man who has 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.
Generally speaking the wages are higher in
those parts of Germany where the farms are
small and owned by well-to-do peasantry than
in those parts where large landed estates are in
the hands of few proprietors.
Ladies seldom rise in Spain to receive 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
decided violation of propriety.
James e. Burke, the blacksmith of
Burlington. VT, has set out to secure the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of his State.
He has behind him record of four successful
campaigns in his city against heavy odds.
Under the English law of the eighteenth CEN
tury women were absolved from all debts on
marriage. Fashionable women who had lost
heavily at cards sometimes welded a criminal
on his way to the gallows to escape their credi-
tors.
The Emperor of Austria was the first royalty
to have newspaper specially condensed and
written out for his private reading. This was
started some thirty years ago. Nothing which
concerns him, whether pleasant or the reverse,
is omitted.
Ex-senator W. E. Chandler was asked by a
young lady: Don't you enjoy going into the
country in your automobile :" "Yes." answered
Mr.. Chandler; "but the pleasure is nothing com
pared with the satisfaction of getting back home
safely"
Edward Iveson Goldsmith. just "a years old,
bears the treble distinction of being the Oldest
native citizen of Lynn. Mass, the oldest veteran
of the Civil War now living in the Bay State and
one of the youngest looking men of his age in
the world.
DR.. DE. salz4on, for1sss' ohfef or the DuTtat.
of Animal Industry. has been advised by the
Uruguyan government of its acceptance of his
offer to organize Bureau of Animal Industry
for that government at a salary of $1,000 an
nually in gold and all his living expenses.
The insignia of the Golden Fleece conferred
upon the first Duke of wellington was that &C
tually worn by Columbus, and, as special mark
of Spain's gratitude, this insignia was made
hereditary, so that the present Duke is the proud
possessor of the star worn by the discoverer of
America.
A dozen glass jars filled with berries were
found by workmen who were excavating for a
building in Johnstown, Pa, and it is believed
they were buried by the great food of 1889. The
berries seem to be as good as when they were
caught in the mighty swirl of the waters seven
teen years ago.
The venerable Professor Alexander Stephens,
M. D., of the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons, said recently in a lecture to his
class: 1.-THE older physicians grow the more
skeptical they become of the virtues of medi-
cine and the more they are disposed to trust to
the powers of nature"
The idea that birds select secluded places to
build their nests has been proved false. Birds
have been known to build in the noisiest or most
conspicuous places. A sparrow's nest was dis
covered in an electric light on the Thames en-
bankment, London, where the lamp was lighted
and put out each day.
Thomas L. Elder. of New York. bought at auc-
ton an 1904 dollar. He paid 81 600 for 1t. 1t was
one of collection of Major William Wetmore's,
which was sold in Philadelphia last month. A
Mr.. Chapman bought 1t there for $720. and Mr..
Elder bought 1t from him. 1t is said that only
six 1904 dollars are in circulation.
Loring Goes, the inventor Of the handscrew
wrench which bears his name, died at his home
in New Worcester, Mass, a few days ago. He
was % years old. He had the reputation of
being the oldest man in the country actively en-
gagged In the management of big manufactur-
ing concern-the Goes Wrench Company.
More nearly than in the growing of any other
crop the United States has a monopoly in sup
plying the worlds cotton demand. In 1904. when
the greatest cotton yield was produced, of the
total of ls,5OS,OOO bales the United States sup
piled 900 bales all the other cotton acres of
the world producing less than 10000 bales.
In New York State there are $3.50 automo-
biles registered and it is estimated that for the
United States the number exceeds 100000. The
annual cost and operation of the New York auto
mobiles are said to aggregate S3OOO0,O0O. from
which it is assumed that the entire country
spends about 5000 900 annually for the delights
of motoring.
Andrew Jackson Buchanan entered the West
tern and Atlantic Railroad shops in Atlanta 81
years ago last October. His name is still on the
payroll as a competent mechanic, though he is
nearing his eighty-seventh birthday. The old
gentleman shows few signs of age, standing as