The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-11

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The latest royal convert to the automobile is
the Sultan of Turkey, who has hitherto express
ed the greatest horror of the devil wagons of
any and all kinds.
In the course Of the trial of case in London
court recently it came out that imported canned
fruit Is often stored in London warehouses for
as long as 10 years.
Lullington Church, near Eastbourne. England,
is said to be the smallest church in England;
perhaps there is none smaller in the world. 1t
seats eight persons.
A few years ago only men of great fortune
possessed private cars. Nowadays there are so
many of these palaces on wheels that their value
is estimated at $72,OOOOOO.
Four finger rings and II brooches were used in
the construction of martens nest which has
been dislodged from beneath the caves Of a
house in Frogmore, England.
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara. has receded more
than 200 feet within the memory of living men,
and is now travelling toward Lake Erie at the
rate of fully 800 feet century.
Thomas Tapling, of London, began collecting
has collection numbering about 100000, which
it is estimated is worth 100000.
Ira D. Sankey has started to rewrite his I'M
published book "The Story of the Gospel
Hymns" the original manuscript of which was
destroyed by fire few years ago.
Two kinds of living creatures only, men and
dogs, can stand an instantaneous change from
Arctic cold to tropical heat without suffering
deterioration or losing their health.
Records of Fairfax county, Virginia, show
that George Washington owned at the age of 81
$1,000 acres of land. and in 179O the Washington
family had killed $50 hogs for their use.
The mother Of the late General Walter Q.
Gresham is still living, hale and hearty at the
age of 9S, five miles from Louisville. KY, in the
same house where General Gresham was born.
1t is usually imagined that the incandescent
electric light gives out very little heat. AS a
matter Of fact, only per cent. of its energy
goes to make light, while o. per cent. goes into
heat.
Miss Josephine Northmore, of Lakeside, MIMI,
has genuine tenor voice, with range from
fat to high c. Any attempt to make her sing
soprano in the same range or contralto has prov
ed unsuccessful.
A curious well in Canada produces sand instead
of water The sand comes up in a fine stream
like fountain. The force which drives it to
the surface from depth of 100 feet has not yet
been discovered.
Wadsworth, New, once lively railroad town
of 1000 population, but now collection of de-
serted shanties. is overrun by thousands of wild
cats. the descendants of two or three hundred
abandoned house cats.
About 20 to 25 years ago the United States was
the principal foreign contributor to the cheese
supply of Great Britain, but today Canada has
taken the lead and outstripped the United States
as an exporter of cheese.
Vincent f. Martin, of Walhalla, s. c., writes
to the Columbia State that the first gun in the
Civil War was fired on January o. 1851, by the
Citadel Cadets from battery on Morris Island,
at the steamer Star of the West.
Highest of all trees in the world is specimen
of the eucalyptus colossal, in the Dandenong
Mountains, near Melbourne, Australia. It has
a height of 494 feet, exceeding by % feet the
highest of the big trees in California.
The first verse of the fifty-frst Psalm is called
the meek Verse;" for the reason that in former
times man condemned to death sometimes had
chance to save his life by proving that he could
read, and this verse was used as test
Real restitution is rarely seen in Japan, though
some of its inhabitants are very poor, yet all
seem to be fairly well fed, clothed and housed,
and are invariably cheerful. Nearly all Japan
ese are of clearly habits and rarely untidy.
When prince of the Austrian royal family
dies his horse follows the funeral, covered with
black cloth, and lame in one hoof. The lame
ness is produced by driving nail through the
horseshoe. This is a sign Of the deepest possible
mourning.
Army surgeons state that the expressions on
the faces of soldiers killed In battle indicate the
cause of death. Those who have persisted from
sword wounds have look of repose, while there
is an expression of pain on the countenance of
those slain by bullets.
Oysters, even after they have been brought
away from the sea, know by instinct the exact
hour when the tide is rising and approaching
their beds, and so, of their own accord, open
their shells to receive their food from the sea,
as though still at home.
Prairie chickens are so thick in Western Kan
sas this year that passing trains kill them daily
One engineer out of Ellis says he has killed
more than 20 with his engine already. The birds
seem to revel in daring flights across the tracks
ahead of moving trains.
Alfred Towns, of Silverton, Ore, returned the
other day from trip into the hills and told his
brother Robert that he had shot two deer.
Robert is game warden and at once arrested
Alfred for shooting without license, and Al
fred served five days in Jail.
One of the facts established within a few years
d that mosquitoes are the deadliest of all crea-
lures. A writer in the Lancet adduces evidence
which indicates that flies, too, cause thousands
of deaths, especially of infants. every summer,
by communicating food with diarrheal germs.
President Eliot, of Harvard, lives life of the
greatest possible simplicity. After 20 years of
life, more than half passed as head Of the uni
versity, he declares that one of the most desira-
BILE satisfacticns of his life comes from having
had nothing to do with the attainment of wealth.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of former
President Cleveland, is now wealthy woman.
A score of years ago she invested $500 In an
island OF the Maine coast near Camden. Fashion
Cleveland has just sold part of her island for
100000.
When q Dover IN. H. man finished planting
his pole beans, he left the bag containing the
leftover seed in the grass beside tree. He
found the bag the other day firmly rooted to the
ground. The bottom layer of the beans had
sprouted, and the roots embedded themselves in
the turf.
The Presbyterians Of Kansas have endowed
chair at the State University. and elected DIR.
Francis WILDER to the position. His duties will
be to give instruction in the Bible and related
subjects and to look after the spiritual welfare
of the 260 Presbyterian students attending the
University.
Although the flea holds the record for agility
of movement among insects, and is capable of
speed of nearly 10 miles an hour, could it con-
tinue jumping without cessation and without
firing, it has little the better of the jumping
mouse found in the African deserts, which clears
10 feet at jump at the rate of 800 feet second.