The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-14


Mrs. Mary Nettie, of Philadelphia. was struck
by lightning on a street car. One index finger
was cut of as with knife and her clothing was
set on fire.
A pear growing on grape vine is a curiosity
at Birdsboro. Pa. 1t is supposed that the pollen
of the pear was carried by the wind to blossom
on the vine.
Germany uses two and one-Quarter million
tons of potatoes yearly in the manufacture of
alcohol, and only $4,000 tons of grain for the
same purpose.
The largest serpent ever measured was an
anaconda, which DIR. Gardner found dead in
Mexico. 1t was 81 feet long and it took two
horses TO drag it.
A policeman in firing at a negro in Macon, Ca.
struck a bystander, who put in claim for
damages amounting to $l1s, which the city was
compelled to pay.
At Poughkeepsie, for 20 minutes, 1000 volts
passed through the body of lineman, two of
whose fingers were burned of. 1t is thought
the man will recover.
Along the upper Red river, in Oklahoma and
Texas, farmers are putting trousers on the legs
of their horses to prevent the animals being
poisoned by milk weed.
Joseph Cowan, a laborer, saved boy from
drowning in the East river, New York, and when
the boy was landed on the pier he stole Cowans
vest containing all his money.
From one bush this year Robert Bowker, of
winslow, Me-, has plucked 1881 roses. while he
figures that passing people have taken enough
to make the total an even 2,0OO
Alfred Bliss, of Brookfeld, Mass, is injecting
a half-pint of milk into the vine of huge pump
kin daily in the hope that it will take first prize
in a vegetable exhibition this fall.
Patrick Doyle and Francis Lenderfein. boys
were thrown out of brass bed near Brattle-
boro, VT, by a bolt of lightning. They were not
injured, but the bed was wrecked.
Archbishop Glennon,of Milwaukee, has strong
ly expressed his disapproval of the raising OF
money for the erection of churches by giving
ice-cream suppers and dancing parties.
In the Lehigh canal, near Bethlehem, Pa.
Erwin Albrecht. good swimmer, struck 9
spring of cold water, which chilled him so that
he was seized with cramps and was drowned.
An old "Stigel stove" made in 1880 with the
inscriptions Elizabeth Furnace, $780," and
UNITED We Stand, Divided We FALL" is used by
Abram Hartman on his farm, near Schaffers
town. Pa. -z,,,,w-v,,.,,rn,,,, ,-rus ptex,car
War in Vermont is John Merrill Goodwin, OF
Ryegate. His four great-erandfathers served
in the Revolutionary War and his father in the
War of 1912.
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troduced by New Jersey legislator. The pro-
posed tax is to range from S. for the ordinary
whiskers to $50 for goatee, and red whiskers
20 per cent. extra.
) Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, of Webster City, Iowa,
will be paid 5000 life insurance on her hus-
band, who has been dead II years. She didn't
know that her husband carried policy until in
formed by the company.
A prominent resident of Shamokin, Pa, who
owns farm near Trevorton, thinks there is a
greater demand for frogs than grain, dairy pro-
ducts or garden sauce, and will devote his atten-
ton to frog raising on large scale.
Prof. Thaddeus s. G. Lowe, of Pasadena, CAL,
who recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birth
day anniversary, is the inventor of the COM
pressed ice machine, and in 1855 made the first
artificial ice ever produced in the United States.
Keep a supply of asbestos paper in your
kitchen. If the oven is too hot and the cake
likely TO burn at the top, put sheet of the paper
on the CRATE over the tin. If there is danger of
burning at the bottom, put sheet under the
tin.
complete set of the signatures of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence recently
sold in New York for $3.50. A Portsmouth IN.
H. man has a nearly complete set and which in
cludes that of Button Gwinnett, which is very
rare.
One of the most interesting societies of New
York city is called the 'Shut-Ins," and it has a
membership of over 1000. 'Shut-Ins" are the
the chronic invalids. most of whom
have, in addition to their other burdens, that of
poverty.
Miss Mary Claiming, dressed in mans clothes,
obtained entrance to the monastery of the Trap
pist monks, near Dubuque. Iowa, and was shown
through the institution by the monks, who were
deceived. She is said to be the only
woman who ever entered the place.
The roof of ben" Galloups stable in Allen
county, Missouri, fell, and the ridge pole lodged
On the back of mule, which held up the roof
until daylight. Galloup says that but for the
heroism of the mule all the animals in the stable
would have been smothered to death.
In his own houses King Edward has thought
fully tried to do away, as far as possible--it is
impossible to do away with it entirely-with
tipping, which in last years has grown to such
IN outrageous extent that all but rich men find
It a tax to accept invitations at country houses.
Gen. William ]. Palmer, multimillionaire,
founder of Colorado Springs. former railroad
nagnate and philanthropist, has arranged for
Colorado Springs park system embracing l.
100 acres, also the Boulevard Paseo and high
irive roadways connecting them, and $4,000 an
nually for maintenance.
Peter West, of Pendleton, Ore., probably holds
,he worlds record in the divorce business He
S an attorney and has tried 307 divorce cases in
Umatilla county. Besides his professional work
'or clients, he has had some personal experience,
having been divorced eight times, and is now
living with his tenth wife.
Western maker of automobiles says that
iome machines cost from $4,000 to $4,000 be-
,ause there is little demand for cars of that
lind. Such car, he says, should not cost more
han $500 to build. The price of autos, he de-
,lares, will soon fall, just as an American buggy
hat formerly cost 500 can now be had for $35.
In the care of the British Court of Cbancery
1t the present time there is about $500, 10000.
he greater portion of which lies In what is cali
ID the dormant funds" That is to say, money
placed permanently in the care of the court and
is paymaster general through the dccease of
she parties Immediately interested and the alb
ence of their next of kin.
Mrs. w. ]. Bryan can swim mile. She is a
splendid walker. She rides bicycle with ease.
She can drive mettlesome horses, put them in
he barn, come into the house aud bake, cook
ind sew. She knows how to keep house, and all
Ter home expenses are recorded, SO that she
Znows from day to day. and week to week, how
matters stand. She is well read. not only in cur
emit literature. but in the good things of the
,ast.