The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14
"A careless hunter shot and killed a valua

bio trotting horse in Charlton, N. Y.
For some years past there has been an
nual emigration Of 10000 persons from Italy
At Camp Grant, Arizona, soldier was bit
ten to DEATH recently, by enraged cavalry
horse.
OF 100 postDistresses in Pennsylvania not
one has ever proved defaultcr to the Govern.
ment.
A society for the introduction of temper
ance literature III the public schools has been
formed in Chicago.
"A schoolboy spelled sob, and then defined
it thus: at means when Teller don't want X
cry and it bursts out itself"
According to the Pailadclphia Chronich
Mrs. Fred Grants wedding stockings cost ST.
| 3 pair; and she got em cheap.
"A man in Knox county, KY, killed ten
rattlesnakes the other day right at his own
door. a pleasant place TO live in.
One of the speakers at a Democratic ratih
cation meeting in Darlington, last week, in
| Weighed fercely against the "Mobie Creditor.
The prevalent superstition that to spill
| salt is unlucky, arises from the well known
legend that Judas, the betrayor, spilled the
salt at the Last Supper"
John Brady of Minneapolis has had one Of
his thumbs amputated three times. 1t was
crushed in a mill, and the surgeon twice made
the error of not cutting off enough
"A Minnesota paper plantvely says:
The Democratic days have come,
The saddest of the year.
And like the leaves in autumn,
Our hopes are brown and sere
In q Hyde Park barn a leather bag wa
| found containing three hundred pieces of banl
bills These bits We're round and had beer
cut out with punch-but for what purpose
The detectiv. cannot tell.
Connecticut seriously feels the drought
Many mills are idle for lack Of water, and Hart
ford, Meriden, and other towns are afraid OF
having their drinking water cut off. Rain
would make work for thousands of unemploy
cd orbng people.
Several persons in South Norwalk, Conn.,,
SfavS died I'D others are sick from drinking
The water - a well into which currents from a
kitchen cesspool had filtered. The soil was
loose, porous gravel, and the poison easily
made its way into the we'll.
"A Vermont editor named Clarke went off
on his vacation recently, and while he was
away his assistant accepted and published some
poetry, ITO October" The paper had tre-
mendous sale, and after the edition was ex
hausted, some one discovered that the poem
was an acrostic, reading "Albert Clarke is an
ass"
According to a Pittsburg newspaper, the
gray squirrels in the Allegheny Valley are en-
gagged in a general migration. They draw their
recruits from all points, and may be seen daily
swimming the river in large numbers, and
that such a migration has not taken place since
1916, and regard it as the forerunner of an ex-
tremely severe winter.
The police boundaries of London cover SO
square miles and hasa population of 4, 900 900 of
inhabitants. Here are gathered more Jews
than there are in Palestine, more Scotch than
there in Edinburgh, more Irish than there
are in Dnblin, more Roman Catholics than
there are in Rome, and there is great variety
in the languages spoken. There is a birth in
London every five minutes and death every
eight minu'e s.
Baby shows are believed to be an American
invention, but it was left to Austria to get up q
nose show. Eighty persons, we are told, CON :
peted for the prize offered for the most extra
ordinary nasal prominence in form, size, and
color. The jury decided that only three out of
the whole could be admitted to compete for the
prize, which was finally adjudged to a compel
tor from Vienna, possessed of what stated to
be ga gigantic nose, of deep violet blue"
"A Western editor having been invited to a
masquerade bail given by club in the town
where be lived, in acknowledging tho invita-
ton, said: "There is quiet sarcasm, though
of course not intended, in inviting q country
editor who has but one suit, and that poor
one, to such an affair without accompan wing
the compliment with the necessary clothes.
Were we to accept, we should be compelled to
appear in the character of adam before the
fall This, though painful to admit, is literal
ly the naked truth"
A strange incident is reported from Lyons
On Oct. 6, two young people were married in
that town, Within few hours of the ceremo-
ny they became insensiblc, and have remain
ed so ever since. The Lyonese doctors have
exhausted their science in this case, and the
luckless pair, though alive yet, are evidently
sinking from mere starvation. There can be
no question bit that some narcotic of the most
violent class has been given them, probably as
joke. young man, apprentced to a chem
ist, has bsen arrested on suspicion. But it is
believed that several of the marriage guests
bore part in the flair, which was meant as a
jest only.