The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-08-25

last 10 months.
From 1905 to 1888 Scottish bankrupts were COM
PEELED to wear sort of convict dress, half yell
low, half brown.
Samuel Bradbeer, who died at Pitminster. Eng
land the other day at SO. had sung 70 years In the
parish church choir.
During the year 1905 the Methodist Episcopal
Church sent out ~ new missionaries to reinforce
its workers in foreign lands.
The first top buggies that appeared frightened
horses far more than automobiles do now. I'VE
don't vouch for this.-EDs.l
F. w. Martin, of Beloit Wis, has just paid
5000 for Lord Bacon, the highest price ever
given for an American-bred hog.
The most awful accident in history was the
fall of Roman amphi- theatre in the time of
Tiberius. Fifty thousand people we're crushed.
Denver now holds first place among American
cities as a manufacturer of mining machinery,
San Francisco coming second. Chicago third,and
Milwaukee fourth.
Pope Plus x. probably receives more letters
and newspapers than any other ruler in the
world. His IS secretaries have daily some 10000
or %, 600 to deal with.
Wilmer Case, of the town of Lafayette, N. r,
willed the church choir there the sum of 800 on
condition that the choir should sing America
every Memorial Day.
Apropos the clamor of old age pensions at
Washington, it has cropped out that there are
1900 unpaid grocers' accounts against Govern
ment clerks in that city.
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he was heating water for bath, tramp worked
several difficult problems in algebra, showing
himself to be an unusual tramp in many ways.
Miss Mary Ann Lincoln, of Leominster Mass,
celebrated her one hundredth birthday few
days ago in the same house in which she was
born and in which she has passed her entire life.
The Claus Spreckles mansion on Van Ness
avenue San Francisco. is to be rebuilt at an ex-
penditure of $4,000. Before the fire the Spree
kles mansion was one of the most pretentous
homes in America.
Servia Is suffering from plague of butterflies
and the government has offered reward for
their determination. The fields throughout the
country are white instead of green because of
the clouds of the insects.
Capt. Alexander Simpson, of the Aberdeen
liner Moravian, has just completed his seventy
first voyage, having travelled 1000 900 miles with
out mishap. a feat supposed to be unparalleled
in British marine circles.
William John Roberts was sent to prison for
forgery in London the other day. Once he was
rich. but his doctors told him he had only short
time to live and he squandered his money. He
recovered and poverty led him into crime.
adopt the constitutional prohibition. and Sena-
tor Benson. the successor of Burton, was one of
the three lawyers in the State Senate in 1881 who
framed the first prohibition law Kansas ever
had.
In these days of increasing use of concrete for
building purposes, it is interesting to recall the
fact that the Pantheon. in Rome, about 1900
years old, is covered by dome over 142 feet in
diameter, which is cast in concrete in one solid
masss
Elihu Root, secretary of State, used to be a
golf player. He was one of the founders of the
Nassau Club. He quit playing golf when he
went to Washington and began riding horse
back. The President says golf is grand
mothers game"
Mr.. Saunders, former schoolmaster, told the
British House of Lords committee on juvenile
smoking that he could detect smokers by their
handwriting of boys who smoked being of
loose, fiabby kind. Handwriting, he said, was
q cinematograph of the heart.
| In published interview Speaker Cannon says
| he has received s15OOOO from the Government
for his 30 years of service in Congress, and has
spent 100000, always living within his income.
| In Washington he has always boarded, until he
| became Speaker, when he rented house.
Rev. J. W. Van Kirk, D. D.. pastor of Grace
| Methodist Episcopal Church, Youngstown, o.,
| has returned from his missionary trip around
| the world. He started out without penny in
| his pocket and made his way by preaching 1.-THE
| Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of
Man."
| The thirty-seventh annual reunion of the So
| ciety of the Army of The Potomac will be held
| in Washington on October 18th and 10th. The
| Mcclellan statue will be unveiled on the first
| day with addresses by President Roosevelt, Gen.
| D. e. Sickles, o. o. Howard and Granville M
Dodge.
| Governor Cobb, of Maine, is to be present at
| Camden, in that State, on August 30th. at the
unwilling of a tablet to the memory of Bill Con.
way the United States sailor who, at the out
break of the Civil War, refused to haul down the
American flag at the navy yard in Pensacola
Florida.
Mrs. Philo P. Wilcox, of College View, Kan
is perhaps the only woman blacksmith in this
country. Unable to secure an appointment as
teacher in the rural school district, and as her
husband had failed in health, Mrs. Wilcox turn
ed to blacksmithing, which has been her hus-
bands trade.
Rev. William Hurlin, so years old, preached to
the Antrim IN. H. Baptists Sunday morning.
He did not wear "specs," was not confined to
notes" and delivered his sermon in a voice de.
scribed as STEADY and powerful" His first SER
mon was preached to London congregation in
April of 1885.
Fishes have no eyelids. and necessarily sleep
with their eyes open. They swallow their food
whole, having no dental machinery. Frogs,
toads and serpents never take food except that
which they are certain is alive. Serpents are SO
tenacious of life that they will live for six
months or longer without food.
The farmers in some English districts say that,
owing to the dust raised by motor cars settling
upon grass, it now takes man two days to cut
an acre with scythe, whereas it only took one
before motor cars came into existence. The
dust dulls the edge of the scythe, and makes
necessary frequent sharpening.
BY a somewhat primitive system the town of
Thompson Fall. Mont, manages, in the hottest
weather, to keep rooms at temperature of So
degrees. Wells are covered at the top and large
pipes tap the current of cold air few feet be-
low the surface of the ground, conveying it to
different rooms in nearby buildings.
What becomes of the 800. 900 tons of coal
year now produced in the United States Rail-
roads, iron and steel mills and manufactures
are the largest consumers. The annual coal bill
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system is $1S,OOO,-
600. The domestic demand increases every year.
Coke calls for 600 tons of coal this year.
The 100000 miles of main track of the railways
of the United States represent property to the
extent of $4,000, 5000, or as much as the total
value of all the property in the country in 1860,
the year of Lincolns election. Their income of
over $2,O0O,0O00OO year is very nearly four
times the annual revenue of the United States