The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-04-20

typist q a salary Of s875 q week, London firm,
on March lth, received no fewer than 1871 replies.
Booker T. washington says the 100000 me-
groes in the United States are the most advanced
Africans in the world, especially in religion and
industrial education.
A recent church notice in Manchester. Eng
land, read "A potato pie supper win be held
on Saturday evening. Subject for Sunday even
ing, "A Night Of Agony"
New South Wales offers $50 head toward the
passage money of approved agriculturists and
domestic servants to that colony. and $50 head
for other desirable immigrants.
At Lancaster, Pa, G. G. Hallinger, a tobacco
farmer. in preparing tobacco seeds for sowing.
counted 3.198 seeds in one pod. One such pro-
life stalk would seed many acres.
The school authorities of the city Of Plainfeld,
N. j., have raised the pay of the teachers from
% to 40 per cent. without the least solicitation
by the teachers or the superintendent
After having been in commission for So years,
the stage line between Westport and New Bed
ford. Mass, has been discontinued, having been
usurped by the suburban trolley lines.
OF the tuberculous patients treated in Penn
sylvania's Camp Sanatorium," which was es-
tablished with the aid of the State. 70 per cent.
have either recovered or been greatly improved.
Alrnon q. Merwiu. the Oldest school teacher in
New York city in point of service, viii retire
from active work with this years close of school.
and will take his first vacation as teacher in ~
years.
Rubbing posts for cattle, made of whales
Jaws, are to be seen in the village of Hawsker,
in England, and represent the whale trade for
merly carried on at that place. They stand IL
feet or so above the ground.
Fred. A. Busse, newly elected mayor of Chi
cago is the second native son of that city to sue
coed to the office. He is the first of German de-
scent. He is Al years of age. bachelor, and
makes his home with his father and mother.
Justice John Marshall Harlan, dean Of the
Supreme Court of the United States, lives at
Mount Pleasant. suburb of Washington. When
the weather permits he walks from his residence
to the Capitol every morning, distance of fully
four miles.
No plant should be given nourishment II 1t
shows plain signs of still retaining sufficient for
immediate wants. "Driblets'' are not beneficial;
the ideal way to water plant is to immense the
whole pot in pail Of water from quarter to
half an hour.
Glass bath tubs are being made in Germany
and are said to have advantages over the metal
and enamel, the principal one being that they
are much cheaper. They are made in solid
piece. and one can be turned out complete in
about five minutes.
Most of the 10000 employees of the Southern
Railway have made contributions toward the
erection of monument to the late Samuel Spen-
Ger. who was killed last Thanksgiving Day. The
monument will be erected at Atlanta, Ca. at a
cost of somethinglike $4,000.
Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the two living vice.
presidents, puts in most of his time travelling
about the country, visiting relatives. whose
name is legion. particularly in the South. He
STAYS but little at his comfortable, unpreten-
tious home in Bloomington. i'll.
II ia estimated by the Department of Agricul-
ture that last years crop was produced ana
gathered at a saving Of $6S5,0OO.OOO over what
would have been the cost of raising an equal
crop 30 years ago. This saving was accomplish
ed by the use of modern agricultural imple-
ments.
At the final meeting on February 18th of the
Waterloo and City Railway Company tu0e)'
London, which has been taken over by the Lon
don and Southwestern. the chairman mentioned
that since the railway was completed, in 1898, 1t
had carried 100000 passengers without an ac-
cident.
The southern illinois penitentiary is now pre-
pairing limestone dust for distribution among
the farmers for fertilizing purposes. This lime
stone dust is put up in sacks at the prison and
sold to the farmers at so cents a sack. 1t is said
by the farmers to be one of the finest fertilizers
known.
The State of Washington produced 10,5OOOO0,-
600 shingles in 1905 fiscal year. or 6SH per cent OF
the total output of the United States. Wash
ington has $50 mills with daily output of Az
$4,000 or IS per cent. more than 1905. In no
other State does the yearly output approximate
100000.
Fanny j. Crosby, the blind hymn writer. cele-
brated her S7th birthday q week ago in Bridge
port, Ct. Miss Crosby received many presents
and congratulatory messages from all parts of
the country. She says that the way to keep
young is to be cheerful, keep working and love
mankind.
If the services of a professional manicure are
enlisted frequently for the child who bites her
finger nails, the habit will soon be broken. The
trouble is usually brittle nails that are contin-
ually developing jagged edges. Such nails should
be kept short and the child given plenty of olive
oil or cream.
Thomas Wightman, pioneer glass manufac-
turer of Pittsburg, has been in active business
for three quarters of century and now, at the
age of 60 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.
Heir to millions and son of the president of
the Rock Island Railroad system, II. L. Win
chell, Jr., is going to become railroad king by
learning the art of transportation from the very
bottom up, and has entered the shops of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia as
an ordinary apprentice.
Despite his i'll health, Baron Speck Won Stern
burg has been interesting himself in the outdoor
exercise of some of the Roosevelt children. The
German ambassador has been giving them in
struction in jumping their horses. He has been
an officer in the German Army and is well known
as an excellent horseman.
The estimated population of continental
United States in 1905 and 1906, according to q
census bulletin, was S2574,1 1876 and 1891 80 re-
spectfully. Including Alaska and the insular
possessions the population of the United States
in 1905 was 90, 1920. The increase in popula-
ton from 1900 to 1905 was 6579.6sO.
An organization of seven young men, of which
Frank Wilson, Jr.. is president, has been formed
in woodbury., NJ. These have banded together
and solemnly declare that they will each pop
the question: on a certain date. and. If accept
ed. ret married at the same time and take the
same honeymoon trip. Several girls of the city
are on the quivive.
When DR.. Buckley. editor of the Christian Ad-
vocats. told the New YORK Conference last week
that some of his best suggestions for editorials
came from persons shutup in asylums as luna
tics, the brethren were amused. Il knew you
would laugh, :" said DIR. Buckley, but want to
say that some of the inmates Of insane asylums
are as sane as you will ever be-"
The latest wrinkle IN the school system OF