The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08
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Kanearoos readily leap from 90 feet to 20 feet.
The greatest recorded leap of horse is 81 feet.
Dan Patch, In his attempt against time at the
Minnesota State Fair on Monday, paced mile in
1.56K.
February holds the record as the month in
which most children are born; June as that in
which there are fewest births.
During the lifetime of healthy hen she will
lay from 900 to 500 eggs. Her best laying capa-
city is during her second year.
Gibraltar is the smallest British possession.
1t measures less than two square miles. Canada
is the biggest, with s.s4s,OOO square miles.
The population of the United states is esti-
mated ar 100000. and only 100000 are con-
nected with any church-Catholic or Protestant
Increased cost of wire netting is proving
heavy burden on Australian farmers. In Vic
toria the price per ton has raised from sos to
$257.
Russell Arnold. of Barre, Mass, is a Mexican
and Civil War veteran, and fought in 81 battles.
Last week he celebrated his seventy-seventh
birthday.
| fast penmah will write at the rate of thirty
words a minute, which means that in an hours
steady writing he has drawn his pen space of
| 800 yards.
Aluminium paper, which is practically a new
article of production. is said to preserve lthe
sweetness Of butter that is wrapped In it for a
very long time.
The consumption of wine averages only three
pints year head of the population of Great
Britain. 1t has decreased nearly 80 per cent. in
the last six years.
A wine merchant of Edingen, found guilty by
the courts of adulteration. was punished by hav-
ing his stock of 1900 gallons of wine poured into
the River Eeckar.
The raft spider gets its name from its habit of
building raft of dry leaves and other light ma
terials fastened together by threads of silk, in
order to pursue its prey in water.
A constable who arrested four men on a
| country road in England the other day for
gambling told the magistrate the men played
cards as they walked along. stopping to deal.
When King Victor Emanuel. of Italy, visited
Aneona on a recent Sunday to lay the corner
stone of a hospital he was attended by 28O de-
tectives. 500 policemen, 800 carbineers and 1900
soldiers.
John Pierson. a former member of the State
| CcudtCs ulcu 6b ulS uOLu6 III 6W0QcSDOrO. N. de-,
on Monday. He was 100 years, months and 20
days old. He was said to have been the oldest
man in New Jersey.
]. B. Martin, an Ohio man, who owns large
mining properties in Alaska, asserts he will give
$500,0O0 year to advance the cause of prohibit
ton. Heretofore the party has never had at its
disposal more than $4,000 in any of its national
| campaigns.
The winter wheat estimate is 429 534 600 bushels,
| or about 1,0C00 900 more than last year. Spring
wheat promises 100000 bushels more than in
the 1905 harvest, so that the combined wheat
outlook is for a harvest of 100000 bushels
greater than last year.
The three richest men in the House of Repre-
sentatives are John E. Andrus, of New York !:
William B. Mckinley, of Illinois, and William
r. Hearst, of New York. with George f. HUFF
and Edward de v. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, a
close fourth and fifth.
James Bellows McGregor, the Oldest Mason in
years and In point of membership in the United
States, will celebrate, on September 9th, his one
hundred and fifth birthday and the eighty-frst
anniversary of his entrance into Masonry. His
home is at Newport, N. n.
Miss Nellie White, niece of Ex-Governor John
d. Long and heress of the late Nelson W. White,
has left her home and wealth to travel 5000
miles and wed DIR. Walter r. Brinckerhoff, who
is in charge of the United States leprosy camp
| at Molokai, Hawaiian Islands.
Bishop Joseph Staunton Key, of Texas, one of
| the foremost men of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the South, is a direct lineal descen-
dant of Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star-
| Spangled Banner" At present he is attending
conferences of his church in the North.
Both steel and gold pens are, apparently,
| doomed. Dr.Werner Won Bolton delivered before
| the Electro Technical Association, in Berlin,
| the other day, an address in which he described
the new metal tantalite, which is so hard that
diamond drill makes no impression on it.
Pupils in the English national schools are
being taught the American custom of saluting
the flag. But they do so on national anniversa-
ries only. April 23d, st. Georges Day, the pu-
pills in one of the schools sang patriotic songs
while so of their fellow-pupils accompanied on
the violin.
A nervous old lady who had been reading ac-
counts of the Chicago timed meat scandals re-
Gently asked her milkman If he was quite sure
the milk was pure. 'sOh. yes, lady," replied the
man, whose mind was full of stories of bomb
outrages, etc., "it's been paralyzed by the pub
lie anarchist
Official statistics show an increasing number
of cattle and decreasing number of sheep and
hogs in England. In view of the multiplication
of automobiles and motor omnibuses these sta
tistics surprise the reader with the information
that the number of horses steadily increases in
Great Britain. ~
The environs of Antioch are particularly inter-
It,
picturesque scenery. such as Daphne with its
beautiful falls and luxuriant gardens of oranges,
lemons, etc. 1t is in the vilayet of Aleppo and
is distant from the city of that name about two
days travel by carriage.
Probably the heaviest man in Europe was the
late Hans Fromm, of Willenberg, in Eastern
Prussia, a hotelkeeper. He weighed 525 pounds.
A Snowman in Paris once offered him a large
sum, and he was willing to accept it, but he
could not enter any passenger car and refused
to travel in freight car.
Judge Charles Field, of Athol, Mass, is still
dispensing justice, although 81 years of age.
Recently he disposed of three cases in one morn
ing, then went to Gardiner, 10 miles away and
disposed of eight cases. He walked mile from
the courtroom to the railroad station. His
figure is erect and his step firm.
1t has been proved beyond doubt that incu-
bators were in successful operation among the
ancient Egyptians. The original Matching ma
chimes were about nine feet high, and were ar
ranged with galleries for holding the eggs, which
were heated from central oven. About 400 in
cubators have been discovered in Egypt.
Unslacked lime is useful in preventing rust
because of its extraordinary capacity for alb
sorbing moisture. Some careful workmen who
take pains that their tools shall always be in the
best condition make q practice of keeping
piece Of lime in their tool boxes to absorb any
moisture which might otherwise cause rust.
Captain Cooks chest, the one which he carried
with him on his voyage of discovery over 100
years ago, occupies a conspicuous place in the
home of Rev. R. Crosby, of North Branch, Mich.
The chest has been in the possession of the
Crosby family for many years, but was recently
shipped to America by the English branch of
the family.
Charles Payne, naturalist from Wichita, KAN.