The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-04-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS
A frkin of butter weighs Sc pounds.

Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
A largo sawish, IA feet in length, was
caught In the bay at the mouth of the
Myalkka river, in Florida.
At the Irregular rabbit drive" near
Bakersville, CAL, the other day, over
1000 rabbits were slaughtered.
An Albany IN. ~ boy Iut $14
worth of postage stamps on 100 letters
which his father gave him to pest.
On the great irrigation farm OF A. N.
Cole in Wellsville, N. Y, they grow
strawberries foot in circumference.
''Hibcrnia,' means utmost, or last in
habitation; for beyond this, westward,
the Phenicians never extended their
voyages.
In one of the districts of Shawnee
county, Kansas, mother and daughter
are pupils in the same school, and both
are of school age.
Mendoza, first viceroy sent out as the
governor of New Spain, established
mint in Mexico in 1886, which was the
earliest institution of the kind in the
New World.
Wilson Crawford of Coitsvillc, near
Youngstown, Ohio, was Frustrated by
severe attack of hiccoughing few days
ago, and died of exhaustion before he
could be relieved.
A large copper medal, minted in King
Georges time and evidently worn by
some British soldier in the Revolution
airy war, was recently ploughed up in
field near Monroe, N. G.
''Pilgrim's Progress has just been
translated into the language of the
Fantes, tribe occupying district in
Upper Guinea, on the gold coast. This
is the eighty-frst foreign version of
Bunyan's work.
There is still in force in Rhode Island
law forbidding the smoking of a cigar
on the main street of any city in this
State, and in Vermont the smoking of
cigar on the street on Sunday is made
misdemeaaor.
A woman recently sent to her son, a
youthful desperate of fourteen sum-
mers, ircarccratcd in the Jail at Santa
Rosa CAL, Bible, bunch of cigar
cites, piece of sausage and Police
G,zctte to relieve the tedium of prison
lie.
The periods of time known in Greek
history as the O;ympiads began July 1,
776 B. c., the year in which Chorebus
was successful at the Olympic games,
and tho computation of Olympiads
ceased with the 350th. A d. 440. An
Oiympiad consisted of period of four
years.
In tho old palace of Catherine the
Great at Tsarska-S:lo, near st. Peters
walls and ceiling, with the finest amber.
As the room is half as large as the
great East Room in the White House at
Washington, its value is purely mat
ter of speculation. This amber was a
gift from Frederick the Great to Cath
crime IL
The owners of one of tho largest
ranches in Texas has contracted with
Chicago firm to have the top wire all
around their pasture-fence charged
with electricity, so as to give shock to
all animals touching it, and to enable
their cowboys to telephone to them by
attaching a portable instrument to the
wire. A break in the fence will ring
bell at headquarters.
Some one has made study of the
different pig ca Is in different sections
of the country, and says that in Penn
sylvania the farmer calls 'Pig- pig, pig,
pig-gie, pig-gis;" in North Carolina he
shouts "Pig-cye, pig-eye," dwelling on
the 'eye;" the Hoosier whoops "Whoo-
ee, whoo-ce," and the hogs answer
gladly; the Buckeye calls $500 $500, 500,
500, soo-o;" the Blue Grass pork raiser
shouts 'Poo-hec, poo-he-e," and the
Dakota man brings his hogs with a
whistle