The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-23

More than 100000 Of food animals were
slaughtered in the United States during the last
calendar year.
Lewis Staples of sayre, Pa. aged II, died of
Breht's disease having smoked so cigarettes
day since be was years old.
Mrs. Sarah Bradley, who lives at the Old
Peoples Home, near Darby, Pa, at the age of
81, is fond of playing the piano.
Rub fork. spade. ak and other tool handles
with linseed oil on hot days. They last longer
and are pleasanter to the hands.
The largest plow ever built has been success
fully used on a Texas ranch. The implement
clears a strip Of ground seven feet wide.
At public sale at Darby, Pa. on election day
of antique goods a cherry bedstead 200 years old
was knocked down to a negro for cents.
senator-elect JEFF Davis, of Arkansas. is said
to like to have his constituents, particularly in
the rural districts. call him by his first name.
John Roberts of Port Huron, Mich, on the eve
of being taken to prison for stealing chickens.
received word that he had fallen heir to $4,000
After trial lasting an hour in a police court
in St. Louis deaf and dumb couple were re-
united after the husband had agreed to sign the
A $4,000 bill was received by the United States
Internal Revenue Collector at st. Louis in pay
ment for the revenue stamps for a brewing
company.
In a violent fit of coughing. Rev. DIR. Thomas
H. Baragamath of New York dislodged nail an
inch and quarter long which had been in his
right lung 16 months.
Carl Hoffman of Point Pleasant, Texas, aged
years. shot gray eagle measuring feet inches
from tip to tip with single-barreled shotgun at
distance of rs yards.
Cotton natures rapidly, requiring about a
month from the time of blooming till the boil
bursts and the crop is ready for picking. April
is cotton planting time.
An X-ray machine disclosed that chestnut
was lodged in the lung of William Walaski of
Minersville, Pa, who had been suffering for two
years with lung trouble.
In many Dutch kitchens the kettle still is
hung on a crane above the open fireplace, not
for artistic reasons, but because the housewife
never has tried any other way.
Rev. DR.. william Gerhardt, of Martinsburg.
W. Va, has planned to celebrate bis Goth birth
day by going out cunning in Pennsy lvania
neck of woods with son of his.
There is being built in the City of Mexico the
largest bull ring in the world. When completed
it will seat 1900 people. The framework is of
steel and the cost will be 100000.
In a trolley car accident near Chester. Pa,
Mrs. William Hurd was saved from being dis
figured for life by her big hat protecting her
face from being cut by broken glass.
The Catskill extension of the New York water
supply, on which work was recently begun, will
cost $10.OOOOOO. and will give the city an addi-
tional supply of 5OO.OO0,OO0 gallons a day.
The one thousandth anniversary of the found
ing of st. Peters Church, Chester, England,
finds the structure in good condition, portions
of it having been rebuilt in 1440 and 1878.
Mrs. Lucy Burris, owner of two fine farms
near Wabash, Ind, was fined one cent for as
sault and battery against one of her tenants
and went to jail in preference to paying the fine.
Ivy growing over the walls of house renders
the structure cool in summer and warm in win
ter. It also keeps the walls dry. tits. however,,
very destructive to woodwork, forcing the Joints
apart.
William Gummow, Of Galya. Iowa, has raised
triplet steers which weigh $50 pounds and will
exhibit them at the fat-stock show in Chicago
in December. The animals are high-grade short
horns.
Unable to keep his hired men on the farm by
the inducements of high wages and dances given
Wagner, s. D., offers to purchase an automobile
for their exclusive use.
The smoke from the bowl of ones pipe is blue,
because, coming direct from the red hot tobac-
co. it is very highly oxidized; but the smoke
from ones lips is gray, because it is highly wa
tered and hydro-carbonized.
An enterprising scissors-grinder of Los An
mobile, using the cars power to also run the
grinder, and now rides from place to place in
stead of walking, as formerly.
The Union Pacific railroad paid Charles era
mer, of Mitchell county. $500 for three and
half fingers it cut off for him. and the Jewell
remarks: ut pays pretty near as
well to raise fingers as alfalfa"
John ]. Evans, who boarded with Charles
Goodwin at Washington. Pa. in his defense in
the Criminal Court for shooting Goodwin said
Goodwin's food was so bad that he was compell-
ed to shoot him or starve to death.
At Hartford City, Ind, Henry Goddard found
$3.50 in notes in shoe that was sent to him to be
repaired. The owner of the shoe, Mrs. James
Parker, distrusting banks, had put the money in
the shoe and forgotten all about it.
In Germany, if doctor is wanted suddenly in
the night. instead of flying round in cab or
rushing wildly from house to house, one goes to
the nearest emergency station, and fetches one
Of the several doctors who are always on night
duty in their turn.
A thief after robbing Mrs. w. e. veeder, of
Denver, of valuable sewe,s left a note saying.
Il am a well-known ladies' thief. 1 got your
watch and other things, and will keep the ring
because it suits me. seen you when you went
put the back door,
At wedding banquet near Philadelphia the
loor was suddenly opened and gust of wind
carried in hundreds of autumn leaves, which
got into the soup, put out the candles and COW
cred the guests, who were compelled to clear
the shower of the table.
Walter Miller, jockey. has received from Jas.
R. Keene $l2 O9O.SS, this being per cent. of the
,hree years of his greatest success Miller has
earned more than 100000. all of which he has
,urned over to his mother.
The resignation of David Hutchinson. super
of the reading-room at the Library of
congress, Washington, removes an employee of
he library who served for 80 years, most of the
line in charge of the reading-room and serving
n the capacity of vice librarian.
William E. Corey, head of the Steel Trust, who
married Mabelle Gilman, the actress. weighs 2l0
pounds, and is so much worried by his size that
le is said to have offered Turkish bath rubber
n New York his salary for one year (S10000O If
le would take off the surplus flesh.
The sum of money which the government is
alled upon to redeem in the course of the year
caches an almost fabulous amount. In 1904, for
Instance, it totaled S912, 100000. This redemp-
ion is either for the purpose of securing clean,
resh notes or to get change of some other de-
nomination.
The little Crown Prince of Spain, in pursuance
# an ancient custom, holds reception during
lis morning nap nearly every day. The minis
ers in attendance and other high officials assem-
lie in the palace at a fixed hour and are admit
ed in body to the nursery to gaze upon the