The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-10-26


This year the area in Kansas in alfalfa is 49,
900 acres, an increase of over 20 per cent. over
1905.
Fifteen carloads of apples and pears, worth n
$4,000, were sent from Grand Junction, Col,
East lately.
1t took "A men 30 days to count the Ss67 1886, 1885,,
26 in the New York Sub-treasury. The cash bal +
anced to a cent.
An elephant works from the age of IL to 80.
He can haul Is tons, lift half ton and carry /
three tons on his back.
Every renter of flats in Des Moines, Iowa. is
required to sign an agreement not to cook onions
or cabbage in the rooms.
Records of the homes for the aged in New York .
city show that all of the 40 institutions are now
full and have long waiting lists.
King Leopold has offered prize of $4,000 for
4 remedy for the sleeping sickness, which is
wiping out his subjects in Africa.
"ten- penny nail means that one thousand
nails weigh 10 pounds. The word penny in .
this case is a corruption of pound
The Seven Stars Hotel at Village Green, Pa.
has been public house for 145 years. 1t was
the headquarters of General CORVALLIS in TIT.
Statistics show that, though fair-haired people n
are as a rule less strong than those who have
dark hair. yet the former live longer than the
latter.
Secretary Of State Root while in Richmond
stated emphatically that he has no Presidential
aspirations and that the Presidency has no allur-
ments for him.
farmer near Osceola, Mo-, had pair Of frac=
tious mules which became docile, he says. after
he had presented them to "Sam" Eaton, Bap-
fist missionary.
Robert Raines, in repairing bridge across the
hot-water canon at Arrowhead Hot Springs CAL.
fell in the stream, and was badly scalded before
he was rescued.
The druggists of Winfield, Kan, have agreed +
that all drug stores, except one, shall be closed
on Sunday, and each druggist shall have turn
in keeping open.
At the National Corn Exposition at Chicago 40
ears of corn won four farms in the Panhandle
region of Texas, worth $4,000, each farm con-
sisting of 100 acres
piece of slate fell four feet in mine at Ed
wardsvile, ILL.,. struck collar button resting on
the small bone of Anton Kovanta's neck and
killed him instantly.
The United States has more newspapers than
any other country. Every week day there are
100000 copies issued and on Sunday the num-
Der is II 100000 COPIES
Mrs. Hannah Goodrich, who is said to be 1913
years old, conducts a small farm near Tracey,
MIMI, cares for 1000 chickens, 80 hogs and
flock of sheep without aid.
A boy in Butler, NO., Q years old, smokes from
four to six strong cigars day, the father per-
hitting it in the hope he will be made sick, but
the boy appears to like the weed.
The Iowa State Board Of Health has created
CONSERVATION by declaring that exposure Of the
arms, demanded by the short-sleeve fashion,
causes fuzz to grow on the skin.
Mrs. Anna Brooks. in applying for a divorce at
Denver. said one of the amusements of her hus-
band was to pelt the pictures of her ancestors
on the walls with her homemade biscuits.
The Agricultural Department has made ship
ment of humble bees to Manila for purposes of
experiment. The bees will be kept on ice on the
transport in an inert state during the voyage.
Ifa guest at the Belevue-Stratford Hotel, in
Philadelphia, is annoyed by noise, he can have a
room with the Campers Club on the roof of the
twenty third story, 80 feet above the pavement
The cloud formation known as mares tails"
and smackerel sky are invariably three miles
high. The highest clouds are 10 miles high and
these are composed of minute particles of ice
A woman in Boone county, Missouri, dropped
bottle of milk in a well seven years ago, and
recently when the well was cleaned out the
milk it is said, was found to be in perfect con-
dition.
Swedes in the United States chiefly the West
| ern section, number more than 100000 and are
! among the thriftiest people in the country.
| They are much pleased with American AgFfUul-
tural implements.
Mrs. Rebecca VENTED, Of Pittsburg, who has
made a business Of attending funerals, and is
said to have been present at no less than 3O02 of
them, has been obliged to give up the practice,
owing to the infrmities Of age.
The per capita circulation of money in the
United States on June 1st was 1920, the highest
point ever reached, and an increase of four cents
| in the month of May. On June LIST of last year
the per capita circulation was SSS45.
| In Belgium girls are expected to give nve
| weeks out of each school year to learning house
work. The girl is required to know not only
how to cook dinner, but to clean up and care
for a kitchen, do marketing. wash and iron.
prisoner brought before Justice Perry Will
lams of Maricopa Okla, gave the name of Teddy
| Rockefeller, and the judge imposed fine of $780,
| 100000 giving him the option of paying or work.
| ing two hours digging in the streets. He chose
| to dig.
In recent single issue of the New York
Herald, among the personal advertisements,
| were 70 which asked information Of the present
| whereabouts Of certain persons, some of whom
have been absentees for more than half
century.
Physicians. chemists and psychologists (many
OF them smokers themselves) agree that smoking
before maturity is reached always leads to waste
of nerve power and brain force, and thus squan-
ders life by weakening the very center Of
strength.
An effort is being made to get the worlds tall
est building for Pittsburg. Application has been
made for structure which will have 40 stories
and will tower 700 feet above the sidewalk This
is AZ feet higher than astructure now under way
| in New York.
In the State of New York there are 1000
| abandoned farms, representing an area of H.
100000 acres and capable of caring for popula-l
ton of 25O,OOO It is stated that farm lands in
that State have deceased $l7O, 100000 in value in
! the last 20 years.
Instead Of being in the custody Of 1.-THE trusted
body servant" Of Jefferson Davis, with the in
junction never to reveal its whereabouts, it is
now asserted that the great seal of the Southern
Confederacy is in possession of Miss Belle Black
shear, of Waycross, Ga.
In the last year the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has purchased about 10000 cats. from
two to six, TO put In each freight house on the
various lines to destroy rats and mice. The
freight agents are instructed to provide quart
of milk day for each cat.
Rhode Island. which has 400 persons to the
square mile, is the most densely populated State
in the Union. There are only seven other states
with more than 100 to the square mile. Rhode
Island leads not only in density of population,
| but in increase In density.
Miss Jennie Winslow Bubler, who has charge
of the room OF happiness in the Lynn (Mass.)
Public Library is said to be the only blind libra
| rian in the world. Besides performing the du-
&so. lf,ro Misc RtlhIar teaches fha Hind