The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-10-06

hXcureiona from London TO Raf13 ana return,
allowing 10 hours in Paris, are advertised at
SAGE.
Germany Is now making 100000 tons of beet
sugar yearly, and exporting more than 100000
tons.
George Irving, the last surviving nephew of
Washington Irving, marvelously hale and active
at 50, is living in New York.
American shoes are so popular In Germany
that many manufacturers In that country sell
their goods as American made"
A London furniture dealer who committed
suicide tho other day left note explaining that
him.
The longest fence in the world, it Is thought,
is one Of wire netting in Australia. 1926 miles
long. Its object is to keep rabbits from the cul-
tivated fields.
Where London consumes 100000 gallons Of
water a day. New York consumes 100000.
Where London has an area of 118 square miles,
New York has 326.
Police of New York city arrest. on an average,
95 persons each month for the crime of burglary.
There is no record of the burglaries for which
there are no arrests.
Senator Benson, the successor of Senator Bur
ton, of Kansas, was one of the three lawyers in
the State Senate In 1881 who framed the first
prohibition law the State ever had.
Thus far the opium poppy is found to thrive
better in Vermont than in either Texas or Cali
fornia-the other states in which the Depart
ment of Agriculture is experimenting with it.
After taking measurements of the height of
women in France, England and America. doc
tor announces that an English woman Is the
tallest and the American woman comes next.
So long as the pastoral and agricultural indus
tries remain the backbone of Australia the rab-
bit must be regarded as pest and his wholesale
destroyer benefactor of the commonwealth.
Having tasted the flesh of various animals. q
Northampton gentleman declares that a donkey
makes the most excellent eating of any animal,
the flavor resembling that of a young turkey.
A camel begins work at four years old, and
frequently continues in use for over half CEN
fury. 1t will carry 1000 pounds on its back.
while few horses can carry more than 25O pounds.
In New York every minute two immigrants
arrive-more than 10000 in year. Every six
minutes child lie born. Every seven minutes
there is funeral. Every hour new building
is erected.
1t is some 70 years since the first Mormon mis-
sionaries-Brieham Young was one of the num-
ber-preached their tenets in England. and it is
claimed that they have in the interim converted
over l25,OOO in this country.
The production of gold in the mines Of South
T,sv ho foof
ever recorded. In the first six months of the
current year the production was nearly $6,OOO,-
600 greater than in the corresponding time last
year.
In parts of Australia where the average yearly
rainfall is not more than 10 inches square mile
of land will support only eight or nine sheep.
In the Argentine Republic, South America, the
same area with "a inches of rain supports $500
sheep.
The chief of police at Seattle. believing fna'
prize fighters bring criminals and other rnuo
srables in their train, has ordered al pueiiists
trainers and others connected with JUG rug "
leave the CITY or take I'D some Respectable en-
ployment.
I'D. McFall. of Wichita han.' mas nad mar o.
a Rrapeshot removed from ms rignt ieg. Inc
ball entered his leg ~ INC Daeeie VI 9nAlon, W
49,, e. ices. a years ago. After carrying this
~. ND all these years, it began to hurt
~. sor the first time recently.
when writer's speak of waves "mountain high"
they are merely indulging in poetic extrava-
gance. A wave exceeding 30 feet in height is
seldom encountered. Some have been seen on
the Atlantic that reached height of A to As
feet, but that was entirely exceptional.
King Edward of England has ordered his string
of horses to appear at the royal show at Kansas
City next month. The string is now in Canada.
Kansas City will be the only city in the United
States where they will show. Other cities want
ed the string, but King Edward said NO"
Farmers down in Richmond county, on Dry
Creek, North Carolina, are blowing up coins.
On the south side of the creek copper pieces
bearing the name of George Washington are
being found, and on the north side the coins I'M
earthed bear the names of kings of England
There is almost plague of field mice on Lin
colnshire farms. 1t has been estimated that
single pair of field mice and its progeny would,
in five seasons. amount to over 1000 and 1t is
estimated that each mouse eats from "a pounds
to SO pounds of green vegetable food year.
In Alaska is found kind of fish that makes
capital candle when it is dried. The tail Of the
fish is stuck into the crack of wooden table to
hold it upright and its nose is lighted. 1t gives
good, steady light of three candlepower and
considerable heat and will burn for about three
hours.
Astrange malady is killing hogs in Cerro Gordo
county, Ia, resembling cholera but without the
same symptoms. Hogs grow poor, lose appetite
and eyesight. have running sores on head, linger
two or three months. and die in torture. All
remedies seem to fail. Some farmers have lost
100 head.
Harry G. Selfridge, who is at present in Lon
don organizing great department store upon
the American plan. has loaned his extensive
collection of orchids from his three greenhouses
on Lake Geneva, which he has been seven years
in collecting, to Lincoln Park, Chicago, where
they will be placed on exhibition.
Mass-meetings of tradesmen are being held in
Havana to urge the Cuban adoption of Ameri-
can money. It is also desired by various guilds
and merchants associations of the island. The
change, according to Havana newspaper, will
benefit all except the money changers, who
would be put out Of business.
1t is said that in Yorkshire, England. there is
an organization known as the Henpecked Club.
Each candidate for membership is required to
prove that he has been in the habit of taking his
wife's breakfast to her in bed, backing the stove
carrying up the coal and nursing the baby every
night while his wife goes out.
Captain Dolly, of Fort Leavenworth, has been
struck by lightning three times. He received
his first shock 20 years ago. At that time one Of
his knees had been crooked by rheumatism and
one finger was so badly out of shape that he had
planned to have it amputated. After the stroke
his joints limbered up and got well.
A California ostrich farmer is about to open
branch Office in London, where he will have a
collection of ostriches, and incredulous Gus
toners will be treated to feathers cut direct
from the backs of the ostriches. manufactured
under the customers eyes and sold to them
across the counter 'at price they never heard
of.'
In the books when a girl marries and goes
away her old room is left just as she left it. that
The may come back to it at any time. Not so in
real life the other brothers and sisters have q
quarrel as to which shall have her room the day