The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

motives in l8e6-ten years ago-was 1890 tons.
while today it has increased to 81 800 tons. This
means correspondingly increased trainloads.
Fishes have no eyelids, and, necessarily, sleep
with their eyes open; they swallow their food
whole. Frogs, toads and serpents never take
food, except that which they are certain is alive.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the youthful
statesman from Indiana. is the most industrious
magazine writer in Congress. He last week
wrote three articles for magazines, for which he
received 1900.
Col. John Jacob Aston now has Is motor cars
in his garage, and is reported as content with
that number for the present. Mrs. Astor, how
ever, who has fair collection of her own, is
still making additional purchases.
Twins were born to DIR. and Mrs. w. E. Arm
strong, of Logansport, Ind. Armstrong, him
self twin, was married to Miss Mabel Morrison,
a twin, by Rev. Thomas o. Throsert, a twin. His
best man was S. D. Wallace, twin.
woman applied to the Elton Union guardians,
in England recently, for the wooden leg which
was worn for years by her uncle, who died In the
workhouse. Her request was granted, and the
woman took the leg home with her.
The death of E. Mcqueen. the engineer i'll the
wreck on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
at Waldron, No., the other night. makes the
twelfth man in the Mcqueen family to be killed
on duty. all on locomotives, since 1888.
William H. Trip, of GAINESVILLE. Wis., is be
lieved to be the only man in America who can
boast of having mahogany sidewalk in front of
his residence. He is SO years old and native of
Pennsylvania, from which State he emigrated in
1851
An official of the Naval Observatory. at Wash
ington. ventures the somewhat startling sugges-
ton that the SIM is still getting hotter The
process, however. is too slow to have any but
scientific interest for the present inhabitants Of
the earth.
The total number of cabin and steerage pas
sengers landed at the port of New York during
the year 1906 by all the Transatlantic steamship
lines was 1,159551. In 1905, 992.065 were landed,
which gives the year just ended the record by a
margin of 167,4S6.
High hopes are entertained that much of the
fber:of the cotton stalks in the South will soon
be utilized for making paper, and scientific stu
dents of the boil weevil believe that if the stalks
can be thus disposed of at profit the weevil
VIII 90 uCCl6 udndS0 10 cOCtOu.
judgship at Sacramento, CAL, was vacant.
There were three candidates. Two of them,
who believed their chances were equal, agreed
to shake dice as to which would withdraw, and
did so. The Governor heard of it and appointed
the third candidate to the place.
Disappearing paper is novelty for use by
those whose correspondents forget to burn the
letters after their utility has ceased. 1t issteep
ed in sulphuric acid, dried and glazed, the acid
being partly neutralized by ammonia vapor. 1t
falls to pieces after given time.
A remarkable bird found in Mexico is the bee
martin, which has trick of ruffiing up the
feathers on the top of its head into the exact
semblance of beautiful flower, and when bee
comes along to sip honey from the supposed
flower it is snapped up by the bird.
In order to deter boys from smoking cigarettes,
it was suggested at meeting of the education
committee of the London County Council that
the diagrams of cigarette smokers handwriting
which appear in the medical officers report
should be enlarged and displayed in schools.
While preaching in Pueblo, Col. few years
ago, Rev. Edward ]. Wilcox found himself una
BILE to pay his debts. He therefore quit preach
ing and went into the mining business Today
he owns mines in Colorado worth $3.OOO.OO0, be-
sides great deal of other valuable property.
Roscoe ]. Stiles, of Anderson, Ind, at one time
president of Green River College, KY, is at pres
emit conducting blacksmith shop in his home
city. He says: st would rather be a strong.
healthy blacksmith than tired. wornout col
lege president, with the grave yawning for me-
blizzard" is an American word. The date
and circumstances of its origin are obscure.
Though it was first commonly used by the Ameri-
can newspapers as good word for snow squall
in the winter of 1880 1881. it is said to have been
known to the West in that sense nearly 20 years
earlier.
Robert Shields, banker of Neenah, Wis, who
a few days ago started on his eighty first year,
drove the first survey stake for the first railway
in Wisconsin. That was in the fall of 1S49, and
the line was the Milwaukee and Waukesha, out
of which the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road grew.
The State of Washington produced 1880 OOO,-
600 shingles in 1905 fiscal year, 6SK per cent. of
the total output of the United States. Wash
ington has 459 mills, with daily output of A.
$4,000, or Is per cent. more than in 1905. In no
other State does the yearly output approximate
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Since Hon. Thos B. Reed died. four years ago,
his estate has increased threefold, and its6ap-
proximate value at present is about half a mi
lion dollars. It has been through careful invest
ment on the part of Augustus G.. Paine, of New
York, the executor. that Mrs. Reed is so amply
provided for
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from his residence to the Capitol and back, and
often, after dusk, goes for long strolls through
the northwestern section of Washington. These
tramps usually consume an hour or more, and
Mr.. Fairbanks rarely has companion, prefer
ring TO be alone.
Thomas wightman, pioneer glass manufac-
turer of Pittsburg, has been in active business
for three-quarters of q century and now, at the
age of 90, is to be found in his Office every day.
Mr.. wightman is interested in two banks and in
other business enterprises, taking an active part
in the affairs of all.
Miss Amy Battersby. now SO years old, is still
teaching in an English Sunday school at Fall
kirk, where she began to teach in 1882 Her class
now meets at her home. She has kept list of
her pupils since the beginning and knows where
each one lives and other particulars, the pupils
sending her remembrances every Christmas.
The Oldest enlisted man on the rolls of the
United States Army is Sergt. David Robertson,
of the Hospital Corps. stationed on Governors
Island. He is a native Scotchman. first enlisted
May 9th, 1854, and he has been in continuous
service, having the extraordinary record of
never having lost day. He is IA years of age.
Diseases among chldren-notably sore throat
and bad eyes-caused through dust raised by
motor cars, are most rife where the schools are
situated on roads frequented by motor cars or
where the children traverse these roads. In one
school the head teacher points out that they
have 10 cases of sore throat where five years ago
they had one
Mai. George W. Evans, chief of the division Of
finance and disbursement, Department of the
Interior, was congratulated by the head of tn
Department last week because in the % years he
has held the position, under 16 different Secre-
aries of the Interior, he has never made an error
in his accounts. although he has handled several
hundred millions.
Frederick W. Mulkey, who is serving Ia toe
United States Senate from January 2Sd to March
ill., is the youngest Senator in the United States.