The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-12

branch alone has over Loo names on its roster.
Among men, 81 per cent are stronger in the
right arm than in the left. In 30 cases the left
| arm is stronger; in the rest the two arms are
| equal.
| statistfcian has calculated that there are in
| Europe at this moment 9500. 900 men underarms.
If they were all lined mp the line would be 100
mileslong.
| In Sweden some Of the station waiting-rooms
1 are provided with couches for passengers, and
porters call the travellers 10 minutes before the
arrival Of trains.
| Bombay claims the greatest density Of popu-
| lation in the world. and its claim Is only dis
| puted by Agra, also in India. Bombay has 700
| persons an acre in certain areas.
| John Leidy. a farmer living near Robinson.
/ Kan, has installed complete electric light
plant on his place, which lights bis house, barns,
cowsheds, corn cribs and granaries.
| Justice Harlan. of the United States Supreme
| Court, 70, gigantic and healthy as country boy,
doesn't believe in cold baths. "Ineyer put cold
water on my warm skin in my life.r he says.
Att mild red heat. good steel can be drawn
| out under the hammer to fine point; at a
/ bright red heat it will crumbie under the ham
mer, and at white heat il win fall to pieces.
In some parts Of England auctions are held
| with minute sand glass. The highest bid made
between the time the glass turned TIL the sand
runs out wins the article that is under the ham
mer.
About $1,000 900 Is at presentinvested IN Eng
| land in the manufacture Of motor wagons. About
| 10000 men are employed in them, or as chauf-
feurs, ETC., and their wages aggregate S75000,000
year.
TENDER Let, 1906 total of 1856 tons of toys were
| sent from Germany to the United States, as
| against S.716 tons for the same period the pre-
vIous year.
Many kindred of George Washington, our first
President, dwell on and about the original Wash
iugton plantation in westmoreland county, Va.
The present occupant Of the plantation is named
George Washington.
Twelve Chicago women will make up the jury
| to try the case of Mrs. NJ. A. Snyder against her
neighbor, Mrs. Mary Murphy. 1t is for SANDER,
and the judge decided men could not accurately
assess the injury, If any.
In some parts Of England the practice prevails
| of displaying flag from schoolhouse roof when
every pupil is present The children take great
pride in this, and the rivalry between schools is
found to improve the attendance.
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicago, declares
that IL is disgrace to Wisconsin to permit the
old Territorial Capitol at Belmont to be used as
a COW stable. Mr. Jones urges movement to
rescue the historic building and preserve it for
the State.
Senator spooner. of Wisconsin. takes most
x.~ss7o tf,e that hoa fotra
congressional junket of any kind, and next to
that, that he has never been shaved in the Sem
ate barber shop. which is maintained at Uncle
Sans expense.
Tom Gale, the delegate from Alaska for the
two-year term beginning March 4th next, has
arrived in Washington. He is 65 years old. but
exceptionally vigorous for his age. He was
born in Vermont, but went to Alaska as pros
pector 10 years ago.
Most of the worlds supply of platinum comes
from the southern part of the Ural mountains
in Russia. According to the report of the Rus
sian ministry of finance. the increased demand
for the metal of late years has raised its price to
nearly $500 pound. !.
i High hopes are entertained that much Of the
fiber Of the cotton stalks in the South viii soon
be utilized for making paper. and scientific stu
dents Of the boil weevi believe that If the stalks
can be thus disposed of at profit the weevil
viii do little damage to cotton.
The Oldest building in England that has been
uninterruptedly used for church purposes is St.
Martins Cathedral at Canterbury. The build
ing was originally erected for a church, and has
been regularly used as place for religious gath
erings for more than 150O years.
.1.t,,, @1o+ mill I,,,r1 cool IN fs, tta AraFox
of locomotive at the rate of 200 shovelfuls a
minute, If necessary, will tighten the labor of
the fremen on many of the engines of the North
western road. An order has been placed for 700
of these mechanical stokers, at cost of $780,
900.
Robert Shells, banker of Neenah, Wis.,, who
few days ago started on his eighty-irst year,
drove the first survey stake for the first railway
in Wisconsin. That was in the fall of 1849 and
the line was the Milwaukee and Waukesha. out
of which the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
road grew.
Window glass is the novel covering for wounds
recommended by British surgeon. The glass
issmeared with carbolated oil and packed around
the edges with absorbent cotton, and gives pro-
lection against blood poisoning, hemorrhage and
irritation. The glass can be removed for clean
ing without trouble.
A popularity of the eyeball of the mole is that
it can be projected forward several times its own
diameter beyond the orbit and retracted in like
manner DR.. Lindsay johnson notes that this is
necessary for vision, as the animals dense fur
so covers the eye that the making of an opening
is the only way to see.
The most remarkable gold beetles in the world
are found in Central America. The head and
wing cases are brilliantly polished with a luster
as of gold itself. To sight and touch they have
all the appearance of that metal. Oddly enough,
another species from the same region looks like
solid silver, freshly FURNISHED.
James Bloodgood, the millionaire steel mag
nate Of Pittsburg, suffers terribly from dyspep-
STA, which he contracted years ago while boiling
hurried meals and piling up his big fortune
Now he tramps 10 hours day to keep the trou-
BILE within bounds, living meanwhile almost ex-
clusively on dry toast and weak tea.
One Of the features in the construction of the
new tube works in McKeesport, Pa. which will
be completed at cost of more than $l2,0OOO 600.
is great roof covering many mills, which will
be the largest roof in the world. It will be 56s
feet wide and 1.7O0 feet long. The frame iron
WOEk W SuppoHt tLio SLSdV AoOA 10 hV" DoAhB
built.
should Senator Bailey, of Texas, be defeated
for reelection, he could retire to one of the
finest blue grass farms in Kentucky. His enc
mics declare that he has close to $1,000 600 stored
away in land and horses in the central part of
that State. He owns three fine farms which
! nearly adjoin, the land averaging in value $50
| an acre.
Edward F. Hamlin for the past 30 years has
acted as executive secretary under IA governors
of Massachusetts, during which time he has not
been absent single day on account of sickness
He was appointed by Governor Rice in 1877, and
has served under every governor since that
time. being the first person appointed to that
position.
From the Office boy to the presidency and ac-
tive management of the largest aggregation of
domestic steamship lines in the United States in
period of little more than 80 years is the record
of Calvin Austin. who has just been elected pres-
anr+ AFaIIorx Qfao limo which