The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-28
IrEMs OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Niagara Falls as power generating plant is
worth s4e,OOO,OOO per year.
In Pickett county. Tenn. there is not negro
between the ages of and 81.
The electric clothes dryer is now being put in
the houses Of the luxuriant class.
Missouri newspaper says that the poultry |
sales in that State last year amounted to s4O,-
100000.
II. C. Alexander died at Pine Bluff. Ark.
aged 70, the first death in the Alexander family
in so years.
Two of the most productive wheat regions in
the State of Washington are named Horse
Heaven and Rattesnake.
An average of 800 persons are killed in the
United States each year by lightning Tnis
means one in every 100000.
A woman in Joplin, Mo-. followed delinquent
boarder week to be sure that he earned some
thing and then attached his salary.
A Belgian poultry expert says tailless hens
are never attacked by foxes. He declares that
fox always seizes hen by the tail.
The expenses of the trip of Secretary Taft
around the world will amount to about S2.5OO,
and will be paid by the War Department
Major Reinhold, who died recently at his home
in Glenolden, Pa, passed through 46 battles OF
the Civil War without receiving wound.
Miss Alta Weiss, 10 years old. is making a roc
ord at vermillion, Ohio. as baseball pitcher.
She also runs bases and bats like veteran.
n aoIl hfo hnnf 6or E
have just met in Pennsylvania after separa-
ton since 1874. o. p. is 81 and his brother 50.
G. M. Huston, of Chicago, has Travelled $4,000
miles in year in an auto visiting SO states and
parts of Canada. The car is 60 horsepower
machine.
There is an escort bureau in Chicago where
man. dressed for any occasion. may be hired
for 81 an hour as an attendant for anybody or
for party.
The population in Oklahoma is about 100000.
and the increase in Oklahoma city, the metropo-
lis. which now has 80 452. has been 1928 per cent.
in seven years.
Quincy Scott and his bride, of Seattle, spent
their honeymoon in the saddle, making journey
of $500 miles to St. Paul and return. which re-
quired liz days.
Bishop Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. has just publicly advised his ministers
to dress WE'LL to wear collars that At and to have
the linen clean.
Mrs. Mary Carman was killed near Usage, N.
j., by freak of the wind which tore up chicken
house, whirled 1t around and threw 1t on the
woman, crushing her SKULL
1t is expected that the State of Washington
,,oh al of uhoQf
One farmer harvested rs bushels an acre of win
ter wheat on 5O-acre field.
The hair of Charles w. Eighty, who has served
three months in the Delta county (MichiRan)
Jail on a charge shown to be false has turned
white. due, it is said, to worry.
In order to raise money for a church at Mat
toon, ILL.,. slips 10 inches long will be used. on
which persons will be asked to paste pennies. A
mile of pennies will be solicited.
Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, il said
to have the most remarkable voice of any mem
Der of the United States Senate. Unkindly
critics call it "boiler factory" voice.
At Indianapolis green bugs, attracted ny
bunch of wild flowers carried by woman ia
street car, bit the shoulders of rs women on the
car who were wearing evening gowns.
Neil Kenny. aged 70 years. before magiira
in Minneapolis on the charge of being drunk.
said it was the first drink he had ever taken in
his life, and the magistrate released him.
After a double wedding in Memphis the BRIDE
grooms put their wives on a steamer to take
| trip to Cincinnati, and the men went to work,
they said, to get sufficient money to furnish their
homes.
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| ed Charles e. Rohman, who had stroke of
paralysis in Kansas City. Rohman's will, just
probated, gives Hunter his entire estate. valued
at $4,000.
Out of 1875 chickens Matched five months ago at
Obey, Pa. five have no feathers, and are no larger
! than when they were Matched. although their
appetites are good. They are Stunned by the
other l20.
Two sisters went from Topeka to Kansas City
to do shopping and became separated. AT the
end of "a hours search they discovered they had
occupied adjoining rooms the previous night in
the same hotel.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has 10 new
lines under construction, representing an en-
penditure of $53,OOO000. Five of the lines, COM
prising the principal part of the work, are in
Southern California.
At the Little Diamond restaurant, on the water
front in Seattle, a customer desiring fish can see
his meal taken by hook and line from the water,
transferred to the frying pan and served in
few moments on the table.
Many believe that cigars marked with light
spots are indicators of the predatory habits of
an insect which attacks only good leaf. but as
matter of fact, these spots are due to the COM
bined action Of sun and rain.
Irrigation has probably been practiced more
extensively in Australia than anywhere else on
the globe. In New South Wales alone more than
100000 acres have been reclaimed by the devel-
opment of the ground water.
Zephaniah Hopper SO years DID, is still teach
ing mathematics in Philadelphia public school.
He has been at 1t since 1843, and q Philadelphia
paper says he hasn't missed day on account of
illness in the last twenty years.
Some thoughtless or malicious person turned
some Belgian hares loose in Argentina. and the
animals threaten to become plague, just as the
rabbits of Australia have been. A hunting party
killed thousand in one day recently.
Alfred Poller, who was ordered to move by his
landlord in New York because he insisted on
having music in his rooms on Sundays, hired a
brass band which played for over an hour while
the wagons were taking away his goods.
? They are discussing in England the compul-
sorry use on automobiles of automatic controllers
to prevent machine from running above a
maximum speed on public roads under any con-
ditions. There is said to be no difficulty in fur
, nishing the device.
4 When President Roosevelt arrives at st. Louis
on his Southern trip 5000 trained voices will Join
in the song "Dig Her Deep Through Dixie"
The allusion is to the schemes of river improve
ment that will be considered at the Deep Water
ways Convention in Memphis.
A committee of prominent educators has been