The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-15

York for spanking his mother-in-law when she
interfered with his domestic affairs.
william Ryan, fake cripple, arrested in New
York, was weighted down with 20 pounds of
small coin, secured under his bandages.
Sister Brother is the name of a woman in Lam
sing, who has brother in the priesthood named
Father Cousin, that being her maiden name.
The New York State excise department re-
ceives from the saloons of Manhattan and the
Bronx boroughs 81, sos each day in the year.
Louisville. the Kentucky center, though not
SO well known as Richmond, the Virginia CEN
ter, is the largest tobacco market in the world.
The two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Rung, of Wiliamsport, Pa, Rugged her baby
sister SO hard that she broke the infants collar
bone.
Army worms are so numerous between Camp
bell, Mo-, and Nemons, Ark, that railway traffic
has been interrupted, the worms making the
rails slippery.
The efficiency of the human heart is greater
than that of any piece of machinery, taking into
consideration the size. 1t pumps nearly eight
tons of blood daily.
A clock 154 years old, quaint old pendulum
swinger, belongs to j. r. Elfresh of Darby, Pa.
Since it was made it has struck over 8,5000C0
times, and is still running
Mattresses of paper shavings are supplied to
the soldiers of the German army. They are said
to be more comfortable than those of straw.
One filling will last three years.
A big snake became entangled in the wheels of
mail cart driven by Thomas Dagg rural mail
carrier, at Washington, Pa, and frightened Dagg
so that he fell out and broke his arm.
The school authorities of the city of Plainfield,
N. J., have raised the pay of the teachers from
25 to 40 per cent. without the least solicitation
by the teachers or the superintendent.
Recent explorers insist that there are three
natural bridges in Southeastern Utah as much
larger than the Natural Bridge in Virginia as
Pixies Peak is than Mount Washington.
Historic names were introduced In Police
Court, Washington, when John Adams charged
George Washington with stealing 81. Washing
ton denied it, and the case was dropped.
Housemen and houseboys are being introduced
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alleviate the domestic-servant problem. Boys
it is found, work more quickly than girls.
sioners of Hamilton county, Ohio. have decided
that goat is not sheep, but is "caprine-hcl-
ow-horned ruminant with chin whiskers."
Senator Nixon, of Nevada is a mining mag
nate in the new goldfeld region. He also runs
string Of newspapers and astring of banks. In
his early days he was telegraph operator.
1t is New York gossip that Charles M. Schwab
is finding no satisfaction in his new $3500,000
palace on Riverside drive, and that it is on the
market for sale at 100000 less than the cost.
A charter has been granted for the first rail-
road that will have an Indian for its president.
The road is the Indian Central Railway, to be
built from Ponca City, Okla, to Paris, Tex, AGO
miles.
King Edwards taste in jewelry is extremely
quiet. A horseshoe or single pearl pin and
plain gold ring on his little finger all that he
ever wears, with the simplest possible links and
studs.
As memorial to her late husband, James A.
Bailey, the circus man, Mrs. Ruth L. Bailey has
contributed 100000 for a memorial hospital at
Mount Vernon, N. Y. She will also endow the
hospital.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has ID new lines
under construction, representing an expendi-
ture of S53,OOO,OOO. Five of the lines comprising
the principal part of the work are in Southern
California
Providence is so wise and kind it seldom allows
any of us to realize our dearest dreams. When
we are allowed to realize any of them we have
to pay the price, and it is heavy one. Expec-
fancy is the salt of life.
Middleton Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, near
longitude lag and not far from the entrance to
Prince William Sound, is becoming known as a
garden spot. Last winter there was no snow and
grass was green every month.
The London Economist states that the remit
tances to Ireland in 1905 from the United States
through banks amounted to s5,374,2O9, and
through the Postofice Department 100000,
making total for the year of s9.374,2O9.
According to Consul A. A. winslow, of valpa-
raise, the earthquake of August 18th, 1906, has
led the architects and builders of Chilli to study
seriously the materials to be used in the future
buildings, and they are more and more settling
down to the use of wood. steel and cement
The native of Borneo prays to pig on all i'm
portaut occasions. If he fears enemies, i'll luck
or sickness in coming, the pig is brought into the
hut with its legs tied together. A lighted brand
is applied to scorch it slightly, then the pig is
asked about the matter which the natives wish
to know.
Hillins Randolph, who has been chosen to read
the Declaration of independence at jamestown
Exposition on July 4th, is an Atlanta attorney,
and the great great grandson of Thomas Jeffer-
son. Mr.. Randolph is a native of Virginia and
graduate of the University of Virginia, of the
class 1895.
In the year 1905 the total amount of beer drunk
in the United Kingdom was equal to an average
of 27.7 gallons for every man. woman and child
in the population, and though this was three
gallons less than in 1901, only four years earlier,
it still maintained margin of 1.5 gallons over
the German average.
The movement inaugurated several weeks ago
by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
of the United States, of which former Secretary
of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert is the acting
president, to have at the jamestown Exposition,
on July 4th, q reunion of the descendants of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence, is
meeting with favor throughout the country.
Point Barrow, Alaska, is Uncle Sans farthest
point north. A letter from indianapolis to Point
Barrow goes first by train to Seattle $500 miles;
then by ocean steamer to Valdez, 1000 miles
farther north and west; then by dog sleds over
ice and snow 2,7OO miles more to the north and
west. The letter travels in one direction $500
miles, all the distance in American territory.
Mrs. John Young, residing near Overfeld in
Barbour county, W. Va, has learned to read and
write at the age of so. She undertook the task
because she desired to write letter to daugh-
ter, Miss Anna Young, in Washington Mrs.
Young's granddaughter was her tutor. When
she began studying Mrs. Young did not know