The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-18

| their patron saint. Even If nobody but the
family goes to the Exposition it will be big
success.
Tiverton has the Oldest water works OF any
English town. They were made by Amicia,
Countess of Devon, in 1910, and presented to the
town. The water is brought from distance Of
FIVE miles.
| up to this time the diameter of the globe has
| not been arrived at within 1000 feet, but Nikola
| Tesla says that his system Of wireless teegraphy
will be the means Of reducing this margin of
error to within so feet or less.
The dreaded nun butterfly is appearing every
| where in Bohemia, threatening the devastation
of the forests. The neighboring woods of Saxony
and Silesia are also threatened. The Ministry of
! Agriculture has named a commission to investi-
gate.
| A Partisan couple, NJ Lebon and his wife, who
are being divorced and dividing their effects,
have spent $4,000 at law in a wrangle over tho
possession of a collection of postage stamps. An
expert is to be engaged to divide the collection
equitably.
| A staircase has been invented which plays
tunes as it is walked up and down upon. A
series of pins is pressed by the feet and plays
songs and drums while others are connected
with collapsible chambers, which blow various
instruments.
Frau Foros, the wife of a Hungarian farmer,
seeing that he had fallen under the charms of q
| young widow with considerable fortune. offer
ed to sell him. The widow offered SIPS. but Frau
Foros wanted $500. Ultimately they compro-
missed for $780,
| Albert Roath, of Worcester, who is said to be
| the holder of the American record for continu-
GUS railroad service has just been retired on a
| pension by the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford. His age is 70, and he has served SO years
| 81 as conductor.
Disappearing paper is novelty for use by
those whose correspondents forget to burn the
letters after their utility has ceased. 1t is steep
ed in sulphuric acid. dried and glazed. the acid
being partly neutralized by ammonia vapor. 1t
falls to pieces after given time.
In order to avoid railroad wrecks as the result
of the incompetency of telegraph operators it
is proposed in the State of Indiana to subject all
operators to an examination as to their ability.
The tests will be conducted under the auspices
| of the State Railroad Commission.
| Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, only few years ago
| the Joan of Arc of Populism, and who, after that
| party's decline and fall, migrated FROM the war
| inspiring atmosphere of Kansas to New York. is
now a regular lecturer on Sunday for one of the
big ethical culture societies of the city named.
The proprietors of an Austrian carpet factory
| at Maffersdorf are stated to have acquired Ger
man patents which embody method Of manu-
featuring carpets or floor coverings from paper.
The new material can be made in all colors, is
washable, and will probably prove itself rival
to linoleum.
There is to be an underground railway across
busy, crowded Toxic. The distance is to be IL
miles. and the cost of construction will not be
less than S625,OOO a mile. The railway company
will have $37,5OO,OO0 capital. uniform fare of
2K cents will produce dividend of per cent.
| for the shareholders.
There is a movement on foot in England to
! have the wife adopt her husbands name, but at
the same time keep her own. Miss Mary Cotton
then would become Mrs. Cotton Sparks and SO
on. This would give her friends an idea of her
identity as her fathers daughter, which is often
lost after marriage.
| Good returns come from the United States
| Governments search for valuable foodstufs.
| Macaroni wheat imported from Prussia at cost
! of $4,000 annually yields $10,00 600. Sorghum
| was brought from China in 1854. at cost of ST.
| OOO The nations source of income from that
crop is $4O,OOO,OOO annually.
| Electric cooking may be the rule in the mod
ern kitchen should the experiments now being
| made prove Of practical value. new type Of
| electric furnace has been invented and so i'm
| proved that it can now be used for cooking. The
| heat can be reguatedto within less than one de-
| gree and maintained indefinitely.
Forestry experts in the Department of Agri-
| culture have figured out that since 1880 the
amount of lumber used in the United States
! from timber cut in this country has been SUM-
cient to make floor one inch thick over YER
mont. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Delaware, an area of about %, 600 miles,
| The work of restoring the interior of the
| United States Capitol Building at Washington,
even to Details according to the original plan,
has begun. Visitors during the past few weeks
have been greatly disappointed to find that all
the statues in Statuary Hall have been boxed
and scanolding erected over the entire space.
Francis Murphy, the noted temperance leo
turer is believed to be going blind, at the age of
II. In 80 years of work in his choice field he has
addressed about %, 900 meetings, travelled nearly
100000 miles and persuaded IL coo, 600 persons to
take the pledge. Mr. Murphy is the father of
| the present lieutenant governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
| Z There is only one representative of the Wash
ington family now in the army or navy of the
l United States-Capt. MervynsC C. BucKey of the
artillery corps. now on duty as an engineer in
4 the Puget Sound district. Captain Buckley is
4 the great great grandson of Samuel Washing
| ton, brother of George Washington, and colo
h mel on his staff.
| A new and simple proceeding to cope with the
| smoke nuisance, invented by Munich mechanic
| consists of series of small tanks, filed with
water, over which the smoke escapes. It is
claimed that by this arrangement smoke and
| SCOT are absorbed by the water. the remaining
| gases escaping in the form of small transparent
| cloud of white steam.
There are few flies or mosquitoes in Jamaica,
but there are swarms of the most villainous
ticks, which have to be guarded against continu-
ally. To walk across 2 pasture, or. in fact, to
step of a beaten path or roadway is regarded as
very foolish performance by Jamaican.
Strangers usually begin by running headlong
| into danger and then repenting in haste.
Miss Lavinia wentzell, of Elmer, N. j., has a
silver dollar which she prizes highly. Fifteen
years ago when Miss Wentzell was but 2 years
old the coin was given her by her mother to play
WITH but it disappeared as if by magic and in all
these years its whereabouts has been a mystery
Recently, while an upholsterer wasrepairing an
old rocking chair, the coin was found in the
cushion and given Miss Wentzell.
Thousands of horses and cattle in the Hawai-
ian Islands never take drink of water through
out the whole course of their lives. The upper
attitudes are given up to cattle ranges and the
stock runs wild. Except for brief rainy sea
son, there are no streams or pools of water in
the ranges, but everywhere is grass which
furnishes both food and drink. Horses and cat
tie grazing on this grass will not drink water
| when offered to them.
Senator William Warner, of Missouri, proba
bly, gets the largest mail of any member of the
| Tnitad States Sonata II Is not unusual for him