The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

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more passengers daily than they did one year
| ago.
Three daughters and one son of Samuel W.
| Carpenter of Allegheny. Pa, have eloped in
| year.
Boys in Camden, N. j., are trapping and skim
ming cats for their hides which sell for 80 cents
| apiece.
each day than do all of the other railways in the
| United States.
A horse in good condition can exist about %
days without food, SO long as he has plenty of
water to drink.
The average hand of the man is from one inch
to an inch and three quarters longer than the
woman's average.
When minister of Bridgeton, N. j., returned
home the other day he found in an envelope ID
cents as a marriage fee.
Five of our presidents only we're under so years
old when inaugurated-Pierce, Grant, Garfield,
Cleveland and Roosevelt.
Bass were put into the river near Norristown,
Pa, SO years ago, and only recently have fsh
been caught in the stream.
A woman at Marion, Ohio. in getting loan of
so gave as security $50 gold piece she said she
was saving for Christmas gift.
Charles Cannon, living near Bristol, Pa, has
cut 325 shocks of corn-flve acres-in ID hours.
In one day he disposed of 200 shocks.
Public school teachers in Lawton. Oklahoma,
are not allowed to use such phrases as mot ON
your tintype" or You bet'' in the schoolroom.
In Linn county, Missouri, COW attempted to
get salt out of gallon bucket filled with water;
| the bucket became wedged on her nose and she
| was drowned.
Rev. F. W. Schenck. well-known clergyman
of Little Falls N. Y. has written public letter
| in which he advocates starving tramps out of
| their bad habits.
| BENJAMIN Snodgrass, aged Is years, living near
Sharon, Pa, broke fast of SO days by eating
ears of roasted corn and pie and died from the
| effects of the meal.
In Centralia Township, Indian Territory, H.
| A. Kelley, Republican, and his son, Harry,
| Democrat ran against each other for justice of
the peace. The son won.
1T Cohoe dug up three pots of money in Ne
maha county, Nebraska, and was giving every
redheaded girl he could find a fve-dollar gold
| piece when he was arrested.
| James Monk, farmer of Centerville town
| ship, No. escaped jury service by telling the
Judge that he was compelled to cook for his
hands or they would leave him.
| On a wager, Meyer Block. in New York, ate 10
| bananas, Is rolls Z cups of coffee, eggs and
behring's, and topped off the whole with bottle
of soda water which held quart.
| When Rudolph Neis of 6teubenville. Ohio, ex-
postulated with his wife for paying 90 cents for
| piece of lamb he choked on piece he was
| chewing, and In two minutes was dead.
Michael oakleaf, living near Canton, s. D.,
was stung by bee, and, dropping shrieking to
the ground, was dead in ten minutes. 1t is
thought the shock caused heart failure.
Each incoming transatlantic frst-cabin pas
senger landing in New York has an average of
five trunks. Many have 25, some have 70, and
now and then one has a hundred or more.
The salary Of the Lord Mayor OF London is
| $4,000 year. but the place costs the occupant
| 100000 q year. Sir Charles Bell, the present
Lord Mayor, is a rich brewer, SO years old.
| ]. O. Marks, of Hood River, Oregon, received
| $57O.75 for two loads of apples from two-acre
| orchard of fve-year-old trees. This was from
first grade fruit. the second grade paying the
| cost of production.
A turkey famine confronts Louisiana for
| THANKSGIVING time. The price is already up to
| SO cents pound, and dependence for supply is
| on Western shipments, as homegrown turkeys
| are unusually scarce.
| WilIiam Butler of indianapolis. complained,
in filing suit for divorce, that his wife used too
much water in cooking cabbage, but the Judge
didn't think that sufficient to disrupt the family
and dismissed the case.
| Capt. D. ]. johnson, of Brunswick county,
Virginia. has been voting the Democratic ticket
| So years and never missed Presidential cleo
ton in all that time. He is now SO, but says he
feels as young as ever.
The record of the six ducks which laid 2O7 eggs
between March and May II is beaten by the
| performance of four ducks belonging to Mr..
| Albert Allmutt, Wittenham, Abingdon. Eng
land. In the same period they laid S4O eggs.
John Mitchell. president of the United Nine
| workers. has been such successful labor leader
| that in the nine years since he became the head
of the mineworkers the membership of the
organization has grown from 1900 to 100000.
Nicholas Bruehl of Sherwood, Wis, a skilled
farmer who has won many prizes in photogra-
ply has succeeded in printing photograph on
the skin of a red apple. No chemicals are neces-
sary, as the apple skin resembles Photographic
plate.
After "a years of service in the United States
Treasury Department at Washington, Thomas
j. Hobbs one of the disbursing officers. will re-
tire. About S2OO,OOO,OOO has passed through his
hands since he began HIS duties as disbursing
officer.
During a thunderstorm nearsGasgow a golf
player named George Harrie was struck and
killed by lightning, which ripped OF his cloth
ing. including his boots. and extracted all his
teeth. It made hole three feet.deep where he
had been standing.
What is known as the Peck and Borden case
has reached a final settlement in the Staunton
Cva.) courts, after litigation lasting over 100
years. Strange to say, as much as $lOOOOO re-
NAMED for final distribution, but there were
over 300 benefciaries
hobo wearing railroad gloves and overallsto
nrotect his good clothes was discovered the other
day in Cleveland. Aftera trip he washes up and
appears like dandy. He is SO years old. speaks
four languages and has Travelled widely In this
country and Europe.
Some years ago Miss Fannie B. Johnson's
father of Houma, La. killed B. r. johnson be-
| cause he would not marry her. Then breach
| of promise suit was brought against his heirs,
| and recently a verdict was obtained for $4,000
and per cent. interest.
| A bear hunt arranged to take place at Reid's
Station, Georgia. is planned for business reasons.
| The organizer of it publishes card saying that
| wild animals so abound in that region that stock
raising is almost impossible. Everybody who \
can get q gun is invited to come and join in the
| hunt
| Some Missouri farmers who have raised 400
bushels of onions to the acre are not only adding
to the good health Of their fellow sojourners on f
| earth who eat onions, according to the latest
scientific theories but are adding largely to their
bank accounts by selling "injuns'' at $l.25 per
| bushel
Mrs. Richard B. Chew, who originated the
Teddy bear to sell at one of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution fairs several years
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