The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-26
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In JerusaIsm girl who is not married at 20 is
regarded an old maid. Some marry when only 10.
The most expensive chair in the world belongs
to the Pope. It is of solid silver and cost $780,
900.
Police of the city of New York arrest each day
| an average of 4s men who say that they have no
occupation.
Alta depth Of G6 feet the water Of the Dead Sea
is twice as salt as it is on the surface, and at
1000 feet three times as salt.
Christian Endeavorers of Chicago support
chaplain in the Cook County Hospital, who di-
reefs the evangelistic work among the patients
The efforts to exterminate the plague in New
South Wales led to the killing last year of over
o. 600 mice and rats. Plague germs were found
in 1913 rats and IS mice.
AS important as the use of slage is now TO tho
farmer the practice of using 1t did not begin in
this country until about 1876. TWAS based upon
the method then in vogue in France.
A company engaged in the manufacture OF
concrete machinery at South Bend, Ind, re-
Gently received single order amounting TO
s25O,OOO. The machinery was for export.
Kentucky man has invented way to tele-
phone from speeding train. Probably the next
thing we hear of will be that someone has dis
covered q system by which we can work while
asleep.
German. which is spoken by upward of 75,oO0,
OOO people, ranks third in number among the
four leading languages of Europe, the first being
English, the second Russian and the fourth
French.
The term SURNAME" is supposed by some to
be derived from the French surnom, meaning
''over name," because persons family name
was formerly written above instead Of after the
baptismal name.
In front of the apartment houses in Spanish
cities it is no unusual thing to see three men
standing side by side in the street, looking up
and pouring out impassioned protestations each
to girl on different floor.
Billiard balls, boxes for handkerchiefs, ink
wells combs, etc., are now made from skinned
milk Milestone Of "galalith," as it is called, is
combination of SKINNED milk and formaline,
and is made by simple process.
Miss Louise Cheatam makes her living by rails
ing and training native song birds near the popu
lar winter resort of Aiken, S. @. Beagle raising
is the profitable occupation Of another young
lady, Miss Asch. also near Aiken.
There is remarkable increase inrailway traf
fic in New York city. Each month last year
there have been 100000 more fares collected than
during the corresponding month of 1905, and g.
100000 more transfers have been issued.
The room now occupied at the Capitol. in
Washington, by the Supreme Court was until
1859 occupied as the Senate chamber. Previous
to that time the court occupied the rooms i'm
mediately beneath, now used as law library.
Mrs Lew Wallace, devoted to the memory Of
her distinguished husband. has kept everything
in the library where he wrote in exactly the
came condition in which he left it. Even the
book which he was last reading lies open at the
page as he laid it down.
Dr. Charles Aked, the Liverpool, England,
pastor, is said to have written John D. Rookie
Teller accepting his offer of the pulpit of the
New York Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. The
Fifth Avenue church has offered him salary OF
$4,000 and residence.
A St. Louis millionaire. F. s. Ludington, will
crafty personal whim by spending $4,000 to
see in st. Louis reproduction of the Campanile
at Venice. The tower is to be 200 feet high and
will be situated between the auditorium and the
chapel of the Second Baptist Church.
DIR. Adelaide waIlerstein, rich, young and
handsome, has turned part of her elegant New
York home into q physicians office. Here she
devotes about six hours a day to practicing medi
cine, all the income so derived going to her
charity work on the East Side of the city.
Much annoyed the donor hurried over to tho
church. The cake was large and savory. The
icing was decorated with colored sugar in clab-
crate and intricate designs of Oriental art
Across the top also. in large letters, was the in
| scription: "From Mrs. Jessop to Jesns.'
| While preaching in Pueblo. Col. few years
ago, Rev. Edward J. 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 $30O00O0, be-
| sides great deal of other valuable property.
| seuator-elect Robert Love Taylor of Happy
| Valley, Tenn, has selected Mr.. Laps McCord,
| for years editor of the Tennessee Sugar Tree Ga
Sstts, to be his private secretary. Only man
| whose mind runs to something like sugar would
| do for the frolicsome fiddler from Happy Valley.
| Savings banks are also well established in
| Japan, now having over $10OOOO,0O0 in deposits,
| or a fourfold increase in 10 years. This is even
| more significant. of the thrift and increasing
| wealth of the people than the fact that in the
same time the ordinary deposits have increased
over rs fold.
bill granting pension of S25 month to
| Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. the widow Of the dis
tinRuished Confederate General. is pending in
| the Senate jackson was graduate of the West
| Point Military Academy. and served In the
| United States Army several years before the
Civil War.
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child with high-class vaudeville to attract large
| congregations to the Central Baptist Church, on
West Forty-second street. New York, have
| proved so successful that not only will the en-
tertainment be continued, but 1t will be made
/ more elaborate.
Sunny Slope, CAL. enjoys the distinction Of
| being the largest vineyard in the world. 1t is
situated amidst the most beautiful scenery OF
that favored land, two miles from San Gabriel.
OF total of 1900 acres. 735 devoted to grape
| vines, the remainder being distributed among
orange, lemon and olive trees.
The two Oldest secret trade processes now In
existence are said to be the manufacture OF
Chinese red, or vermillion, and the method Of
inlaying the hardest steel with gold and silver,
which seems to have been practiced at Damas-
Gus ages ago and is known only to the Syrian
smiths and their. pupils even to this day.
A member of the STAFF of the Blue Hill Obser-
vatory near Boston, has reported that obserya-
lions made there show that the average speed
with which clouds, between 5000 and 5000 feet
high, move is 60 miles an hour in midsummer
and 10 miles an hour in midwinter. The swift
est flight of a cloud yet measured was 2SO miles
an hour.
Asa realization of his boyhO0d fances and the
fondest dreams of his 80 years Of life, George 1.
Long, for 20 years editor Of the Manson uowa)
Journal and father Of grown son and daughter.
has entered college. He expects to go to the
State Normal School at Cedar Falls for six
months, after which he will enter the Iowa State
University.
Artificial silk is made from wood pulp in Swe-
den. The imitation is excellent, but it is found
that many dresses made from it have been dis
carded because the creases made when the wear
ers sat down do not come out. 1t is scarcely
possible to distinguish the real from the artih-
cIal silk, but this defect has proved fatal for use
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