The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-24


proposaf TO cnange the name Of Smith street
in Middletown, N. Y, is opposed because 133
persons named Smith live on that thoroughfare.
In excavating for sewer at Seneca Falls, N.
Y, a skeleton five feet long, with 14-inch legs,
was discovered. The head resembles that of
horse.
More than 5000 bicycles were recently pur-
chased in a fortnight in johannesburg because
of a breakdown in the electric street railway
system.
1t is estimated that 100 600 600 bushels of wheat
will be available for export from the Northwest
Province of Canada at the close of this years
harvest.
At Derby, Conn.,, Alexander A. Katz broke his
engagement to Miss Frances Dubb because, he
says. his fancee asked to see record of his
savings.
The disposition of an estate in South Dakota
depends upon whether in a tornado, which
wrecked their house, e. NJ. Atkinson or his wife
was killed first.
Within the borders of Iowa is an area of more
than 35,OOO.OOO acres. fully 95 per cent. of which
is arabic land which may be made to produce
something of value.
A tame crow escaped from cage at Poole
England. and tried to join colony of crows in
neighboring grove. But the wild crows resent
ed the intrusion and killed it.
The largest sum of money ever paid for col
lie was paid recently to an English breeder, Mr..
Mason, of Southport, when he received $6,25O for
the champion Squire of Tytton.
Wbila Tobn Padfarn of Rridoahoro N 7 was
being shaved, his dog, being suspicious of the
BARRIERS actions, attacked him. and the barber
was compelled to kill the animal.
A Pittsburg newspaper says society women in
that city have adopted fad of having the YER
inform appendix removed without cause and
even against the advice of physicians.
Since the foundation of the government, in
1885, three states have furnished 20 of the 4S at
torneys general. Pennsylvania supplying eight,
Massachusetts seven and Maryland five.
During a thunderstorm remarkable incident
happened at house near Deal, England, the
lightning imprinting perfect photograph of a
flower vase on a mirror before which it stood.
Rev. Abraham c. Ruebush, a Methodist minis
ter of Port Lavaca, Texas, aged So years, has IL
boys and l6 girls. In the Confederate army he
was in Al battles and was wounded five times.
In biting off piece of tobacco Policeman
Grant Snowdan. of Carlisle, Pa. encountered a
hard substance in his plug, which he found was
the dried tip of finger as far back as the second
joint
The wife of Russell HulicS, of Hishtown, N.
j., identified body in the morgue as that of her
husband. When Russell, who is much alive,
heard of it, he went to the morgue to see how he
looked. 3N
Jacob Kurtz. an evangelist. is going through
York county. Pennsylvania, putting cards bear
ing texts to the mirrors of all houses. He works
in harvest fields free if allowed to preach as he
works.
George II. Ware, 70 years old, an expert ac-
countant of Providence, r. l.. figures that in the
last 40 years he has smoked nearly three tons of
tobacco in his meerschaum pipe, from which he
is inseparable.
Place twelve onions in row on Christmas Day,
name each after month and put salt on their
tops. Those on which the salt is melted inside
of II days will be wet months, according to Long
Island weather science.
well, one thing is sure ; you amt no lady,
nohow," was what Connecticut lady" said as
she stood with arms akimbo looking at Mrs.
Grace Thompson Seton, as she saw her out in
the Rockies riding horse astride.
The severe drought on Long Island has pro-
duced a new industry-that of selling water to
the farmers, whose cisterns and wells have be-
come dry. The farmers are paying 10 cents
barrel for water, which they have to haul them
selves.
The record power transmission is that of the
Kern River plant in Southern California, where
5000 horsepower is sent III miles at pressure
of 5000 volts. Extensions of this plantare con-
templated which will increase the horsepower
to 60, 600.
case of long welded life is recorded by the
announcement that Mr.. and Mrs. John Ander-
son, of Orange, N. j., have just celebrated the
SEVENTEEN anniversary of their marriage. Mr..
Anderson is SO and his wife 90. The couple were
married in New York city in 1887.
Mrs. Thomas Ryan, of valdosta, Ca, was
drowned in the Little river as result of being
pulled overheard by catfish which she had
hooked on her line. When the body was recov-
ed the line was found wrapped about it and the
fish was caught. 1t weighed 40 pounds.
In certain town in Indiana man brought
suit against hardware company for $4,000
damages. He claimed that a rope he had bought
to commit suicide with broke and thus foiled his
plans After the rope broke, he said, he could
not get up courage enough to try itover.
Miss Bertha volker, Miss Frederika VoIker
and Miss Kenton Kepner, three young women
residing in Helena, Mont, have been notified.
after three years litigation in the courts of Ger
many, that they are the heirs to the estate OF
their late grandfather, estimated at $40,OOO,OOO
1t is said that bees must take the nectar from
g., 900 clover blossoms to make one pound of
honey. This means that they must make 2,75O,-
600 trips from the hive to the flowers. And when
the price of honey is taken into consideration it
will readily be seen that the price of bee labor is
too cheap.
Dan. r. Hanna, son of the late Senator, Is
about to erect costly monument of gray gran
ite at his Cottage Hill farm, Ravenna, to the
of Bapton Diamond, an imported bull
that was the pride of his famous short-horn
stables and was prize winner at leading stock
shows in the country.
The other Sunday evening an Anderson QndO
preacher held up a bottle of beer in his pulpit
and said it had been bought that very day. con-
trary to law. "Where and by whom, and from
whom ?"asked constituted authority next morn
ing. The reverend man wouldn't tell. Then
constituted authority fined him.
Miss Hulda b. White, of Philadelphia, has pur
chased the firelock used by Alexander S'.lkirk.
Defoe's original of Robinson Crusoe. on the
Island of Juan Fernandez. at sale in Edin
burgh The relic has an authentic pedigree and
for long time was in the possession of Selkirk's
relatives in Fifeshire, Scotland. The price paid
for the gem was $16O.
Paper bags are absolutely necessary In certain
lines of business, and, considering that there Is
no cash return, constitute probably o'e of the
large items of expense to stores and market
stalls. The expenditure for ordinary paper bags,
such as are used in grocery stores, during 1906
reached nearly $92OO,OOO. The outlay for all bags
IF various kinds amounted to $95,OOO,OOO.