The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-17


ing cart on the wrong side.
The latest method in hairdressng is to cut
each hair separately, process that takes much
time, but does great good to the hair.
That there are 5000 converts year to Catholi-
cism In the Diocese Of New York was stated in
public address by Archbishop Farley.
Ramon Rivero, of Mexico. eloped in success
sion with four sisters, deserving each in turn.
His mother-in-law has had him put in Jail.
The new Missouri River bridge of the Illinois
Central at Omaha is now in use. tits the longest
drawbridge in the world. and cost 100000.
Free lunch will be offered as an inducement to
men to come to a series of Saturday revival
meetings at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
An English judge recently altered sentence
to IS months of hard labor to five years penal
servitude because the prisoner threw g bottle at
him.
NEARLY every person who commits suicide by
drowning partly undresses before entering the
water" said DR.. Wynn Westcott at an inquest
in London.
One of King Edwards rules is that when
horse has been in his service 1t shall not be sold.
The horses are kept until they no longer can be
used and are then chloroformed.
1t is said that in Benton county. Ind. there
are q million rods of thing under the fields
making them fertile and tillable. The land
averages worth Sis to $1a5 an acre.
new oil district has been struck within 20
miles of Pittsburg, and prospectors are rushing
there In large numbers. Uncle Sans farm is a
good producer, both on and under the surface.
DIR. F. Kennedy, secretary of the Iowa State
Board of Health, has issued an ultimatum to
Iowa doctors and surgeons to remove their
boards, contending they are unsanitary and
carry disease germs.
At the ordinary price of two cents pound for
rice. the Chinese rice farmers make money on
about the same scale as would American farmers
in the Mississippi Valley producing wheat on
basis of 80 cents bushel in Chicago.
The collection of statistics of Irish emigration
was begun May /, 1851, and in the So years since
then the number of emigrants has been 1888, 9lS.
The highest annual emigration was 19O.332, in
1859, and the lowest was 32.241, in 1898.
clothes damper, that sprinkles the clothes
while they are being ironed, comprises reser-
voir attachment for fiatiron, with means for
regulating tho discharge of the water through
the spout, or sprinkler, as desired.
A boy of five years recently killed a baby in
Liverpool by stufHng bread into its throat. He
said he did it ''for fun" The doctors call him
morally insane.' In English law child under
seven is considered incapable of crime.
The deepest gold mine in the world is at Ben
digo, in Australia. The mine in question is
called the New Chun Railway Mine, and its main
shaft is sunk to the depth of $500 feet or only 60
feet short of three quarters of mile.
Among the valuable lessons which most other
nations can advantageously learn from the ex-
perience and practice of Germany is the scien-
tifc treatment of insanity in its incipient stages
as physical and possibly durable disease.
what is thought to be a record clip of mohair
from Angora goats has just been sold by COM
pany which last year started a goat ranch near
Tacoma. The goats yielded from four to nine
pounds of hair each, a total of $500 pounds.
A bolt of lightning which struck the barn of
Joseph Jaggard, at Almonesson, Pa, recently
tore q hole through the roof, passed through the
haymow and out the side Of the building.
Neither the building nor the hay was set afire.
A price has been put on the head of the Ameri-
can eagle in Tehama county, Cal. The board OF
supervisors offers reward of 81 for the head of
each of the great birds on the petition of the
sheep men, who have lost many lambs by eagles.
Three hundred and twenty-three thousand
vigorous young spruce trees, come out from
Germany, recently arrived at Potsdam, N. Y,
where they are to be planted by company that
expects to make cutting from them about 20
years from now.
A Wisconsin woman has patented dough
raiser, consisting of dough-pan, with cover,
and q receptacle beneath for lamp to furnish
the heat necessary to accelerate the raising OF
the dough. The top of the apparatus can be
used as bread board.
At Terre Haute, Ind, last week a party of
practical jokers. who were about to lose one OF
their number in matrimony, caught him just
before the hour for the ceremony and carrying
him Off tied him to chair, where he was not
found for several hours. e
Tiremakers are becoming worried over the
large and constant increases in the price OF
rubber. A corresponding advance in the cost
of tires is sure to come, they say. This state of
affairs is due to the combination of an increased
demand and curtailed production.
The health department will stop the sale of
four brands of condensed cream in Milwaukee.
Samples of these brands have been tested, and
instead of containing Is per cent of butter fats,
as REQUIRED by the standard adopted in Miwau-
kee. they contained only SK per cent
Mrs. Emma Ranslow Allen of Swanton, Yer
mont. aged %, has Joined the woman's Relief
Corps of Jesse A. Jewett Post, G. A. r. Mrs.
Aliens grandfather was with Arnold at Quebec.
She is also grandniece of Samuel Hopkins.
sirner of the Declaration of Independence.
A curious plan for catching fish is used in the
River Columbia. number of wheels are set
up in the middle of the stream, which as they
turn round catch up tho fish and cast them into
troughs by the river banks. AS much as five
tons weight of fish day has thus been taken.
One of the antics of the Shiloh band of reli-
gious fanatics, who are disturbing Maine town
Just now, is to subject 7-months' babies to
fast of forty-eight hours. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of Maine,
would not permit this sort of treatment of
horses. ~
A safe now being made for the Premier Dia-
mond Mining Company is intended to hold $1O,-
100000 worth of diamonds. twill be the strong
est safe ever constructed. Seven feet high, six
feet wide and weighing 81 tons, it will cost be-
tween $500 and $4,000. The steel doors alone
will weigh five tons.
Near the Tonga Islands, in the Pacific, some
time ago fishnet was sunk %, 600 feet below the
surface. This is the deepest haul ever made.
1t took whole day to sink the net and raise it.
Life was found even at that depth. over four
miles, where the temperature was just above
freezing and the pressure 1900 pounds to the
square inch.
A buffalo bull recently slaughtered in Iowa
brought its owner nearly $1,000. The head sold
for $500. the hide for $500. and the meat for so
cents pound. In the year 1877 drove of buffalo
estimated at 100000 head crossed the North
Platte River in Nebraska, and were worth 81
apiece for the poachers who exterminated them
for their hides