The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-04-07
CURIOUS FACTS.
They are making glass tombs now.
More male children die than females.

They are making glass tombs now.
More male children die than females.
Modern needles first came into use in
1915.
Pascal, the French mathematician, in
vented the wheelbarrow.
Vienna gets its name from the river
Wien, which flows through the city.
Brunswick, Georgia, has an oak tree
which can shade one hundred teams.
1t is said that for consumptives moth
ing is better ;han raw or half-cooked
snails.
Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Soult,
and Humboldt, were all born in the same
year, 1860.
A Russian law forb;ds the use of ex-
c!amation points in newspaper articles in
that country.
A lady living in Boone, Iowa, has just
completed a crazy quilt with has
"a, ,7S4 pieces in it.
of Theodore, hangman at Tyburn,
England in the seventeenth century.
The oldest known specimen of linen
paper extant is document written A. d.
1908. This was probably made as early
as 1900.
Envelopes for letters are mentioned
by Swift, 1926; but they did not come
into very general use for more than
century later.
George Miller who died in Lancaster
County, Penn, the other day, at the
age Of seventy-five, had attended ZOO
funerals and made that number of collins
Japanese papers tell of a native girl
only twelve years and live months old
who stands eight feet high and weighs
over ere pounds. Her hands are nine
inches long and her feet fifteen irches.
If you will take an old English b, p,
d and q you will see that they are all
one letter in different positions, or
viewed fro n different points. This is
the explanation of "mind your p's and
q's."
- The coldest spot in the world has been
located in Siberia. At tho point desig-
mated the tt crmometer marks so degrees
below zero in winter, at which ttmpera-
ture man would lie struck dead as with
blow.
When Charles Gillem, of st. Louis,
died the other day, his heirs found re-
ceipts for every dollar he had paid out
in tfty-four years. lie even took le-
ceipts from bar-koepers when he paid
for drink.
An English lady who came to this
country in early life says she remembers
when men used to go through the
streets of New York cal ing out ''Ickory
hashes" (hickory ashes(. They we pur-
chased from housekecpers for soapmak-
ing.
The Khcdive of Egypt is styled "Your
Highness," the children OF kings and
queens, "Your Royal Highness," and
the children of emperors, "Your lmpe-
rial Highness." Till the reign of Henry
VIII. the kings of England were styled
"Your Highness, "Your Grace, F" "Iour
Excellent Grace" etc.
When the late D. r. Locke, "Nasby,"
of the Toledo Blade, was alive he took
particular pride in the fact that none of
his buildings had ever been damaged by
fire. 1t is a singular fact that since his
death three of the best edifices erected
by him in Toledo have caught fire, and
in each instance at the top of the build
ing.
B. Napol, an Italian ranchman at Day
ton, New, discovered one of his cows
choking on potato. He thrust in his
hand and succeeded in pushing the OBJ
struction down the cows throat, but
when he undertook to withdraw his arm
the COW shut down on it like wise, and
kept her hold until her jaws were pried
apart with crowbar.. The bones and
flesh of his arm were so crushed that
amnutation was necessary