The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-11-17

with lead pencils.
Intoxication while on duty is a misdemeanor
for railroad employee in California and if death
resu. is. a felony.
u Mrs. Esther S. Damon, of Plymouth, VT. is
4 the only living widow of any Revolutionary
soldier. She is 90 years old.
The average yield of wheat to the acre in Eng
land far exceeds that of any other in the world,
with perhaps one xception-Denmark.
shipment of four full-length trains of cars
of tobacco was made on October 1st to Norway
| by G.. w. Huntington. of Farmville, Va.
Railroads running within three miles of
county seat in Oklahoma must build line
| through the county seat and establish station.
The peanut crop in the United States now
| amounts to 100000 bushels annually. The
total sales amount to between $SOOO,OOO and $40,
100000.
The Canadian wheat crop for this season is
estimated at 100000 bushels by Montreal
writer. The 1905 crop amounted to 100000
bushels.
Putting up telegraph wires ON poles costs $3.50
mile. Laying the same wire under ground will
cost more than ten times that sum-about ST.
$50 mile.
A recent wedding in Brittany was celebrated
according to old customs of that country. The
festivities lasted five days, and entertaining the
1900 guests cost nearly 5000.
Sunday Island, in the Pacific, is really the tall
est mountain in the world. 1t rises 1000 feet
out of five miles of water, and is thus nearly
30 900 feet from base to summit.
The annual report of the American Bible So
ciety gives encouraging indications relative to
the religious life of the Filipnes. The school
enrolment has doubled, now being 100000.
Cambridge, Mass, provides for privilege of
study and travel one year in seven for the pub
lie school teachers teacher draws a part
salary and has regular position on return.
In an address at Topeka, Kan, to the delegates
to the seventy ninth annual convention of the
National Methodist Sunday School Convention,
Bishop Vincent advised against the holding
of long family prayers.
The skeletons of three of the soldiers who
were of Napoleon's army when he crossed the
Alps in the year 1900, were found recently in a
cave near a road that was built across the st.
Bernard by Julius Caesar
Mrs. Alkaline Sharp, of Berlin, N. j., was as
tonished recently by visit from her brother,
Samuel Hillman of Philadelphia. Although the
two live but twenty-five miles apart, they have
not seen each other in fifty years.
Philadelphia has also found plan by which
its teachers can be pensoned, the retirement to
take place after thirty years. service. Four
hundred dollars minimum and $500 maximum
will be the amount of the pensions paid
Daniel Tarbox Jewett, former United States
Senator from Missouri, who has just died at the
age of 90 in St. Louis in the early part of his law
practice in that city frequently opposed AbTa-
ham Lincoln, and invariably came out victoIi-
GUS.
Charles H. Robb, of Vermont, at present AS
sistant Attorney General of the United States,
who has been appointed Associate Justice OF
the Court of Appeals of the District Of Column
bia, is not quite 80 years of age. His boyhood
was spent on farm.
The Shah of Persia is supposed never to be off
Persian SOIL AS matter of fact he never is,
though he does travel. To his boots there is
false sole; between the false and the real por-
tion of the holy earth of Persia is packed. He
thus strictly obeys the law.
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 nine
tenth birthday at Hillsboro, Ore. She united
with the Methodist Church in 1885,
According to a recent act of the legislature of
that State. Florida railroads failing to pay a
claim for loss or damages within 90 days must
pay % per cent. on the judgment obtained by
the claimant in excess of the amount offered by
the railroad in settlement of the claim.
sneezing is the best brain clearer known.
Many persons conclude an attack of faintness,
or fainting, with violent sneeze. Oar 'arees--
tors took snuff from belief in the efficacy Of
sneezing. But tobacco so taken is in part alb
sorbed into the blood and hurts the system.
Stuttgart in Germany, dissatisfied with the
high prices which even the very poorest of the
population are obliged to pay for funerals, has
resolved to build q city crematorium and to
offer cremation to the poor at terms far below
those which even moderate undertakers CHARGE
It is said that American women form the ma
iority of those who are at the various health re-
sorts of Europe every year. and that their all
ments are as numerous as the many kinds of
| waters that are supposed to restore the failing
| powers of the nervous or take Off or put on
| flesh.
Through the patriotic generosity of T. ].
Coolidge of Boston. valuable addition has been
! made to the White House collection of presiden-
tal china, consisting of four pieces Of Jefferson
ware. which belonged to blue and white din
ner set which President Jefferson ordered in
France.
According to missionaries. 100000 natives
| are facing starvation in the northern part of
Kiang Su province central China 1t is said to
be the most serious famine in the history Of the
| country. Magistrates are preventing people
from leaving, but are providing no relief for the
/ sufferers.
Col. John Jacob Aston, Perry Belmont, Harry
Payne whitney and Mrs. Michael p Grace are
all said to be particularly anxious to buy the
| original commission granted by William and
Mary in 1894 to William Penn, appointing him
| Governor of New York, which is for private sale
| in London.
| Rev. Edward Laughlln, son OF the Pittsburg
/ iron and steel millionaire of that name, has gone
| to Philadelphia, where he will become assistant
| to Rev. j. Gray Bolton, of the Hope Presbyte-
rian Chapel. Besides assisting in the work OF
the parish the wealthy young clergyman will go
| down into the slums.
| An eleven-story skyscraper is to be built in
| West Thirty-ninth street, New York. which is
attracting considerable attention from engf-
neers and architects in general from the fact
that it is proposed to dispense with the steel
frame construction heretofore considered an in
| dispensable adjunct of a tall building.
| Travelling on the Argentine pampas is inter-
esting. if not entirely comfortable. Men there
are scarce, but horses are plentiful. Often 90
horses are driven in the same team. The driver
| is perched 30 feet from the ground. The wae-
ons are sometimes so feet long and 10 wide,
while the back wheels are IA feet or so high.
| The mere fact that great many people have
been in the habit of using railroad trestle as a
| footbridge and that the railroad company had
made no complaint, says the Court Of Appeals
of Kentucky, does not give the people any spe-
cial rights on the bridge or compel the railroad
company to exercise Especial degree of care for
| their safety.
At the jamestown Exposition, to be held next
year, there will be special day set aside to be
known as Apple Day. The national fruit VIII
| bova q hi0 showinO made in its behalf, common