The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-11

body of lawmakers.
Milk bottles or tumblers which have contained
milk should always be rinsed in cold water be-
fore they are washed.
Inability to find tree suitable for his pur-
pose prevented John Holenburg of Lorain,
| Ohio from committing suicide.
Fred" Walter, of Cincinnati, has not spoken
to his father for 81 years, although the two have
lived in the same house for 10 years.
The barber shops in Falls Village and Ashley
Falls, Conn.,, have been closed for lack of patron
age. as all the men are growing boards.
The largest pillow ever built has been success
fully used on Texas ranch. The implement
clears strip of ground seven feet wide.
Edward Arthur Robinson, of London, who in
herited in 1903 81 OOO OO0 spent $4,000 week for
four years, finally reaching bankruptcy.
The Seven Stars Hotel at Village Green. Pa,
has been a public house for 145 years. 1t was
the headquarters of General CORVALLIS in 1777
Albert Mathey, aged years. of Kansas City,
collected 800 one-cent pieces in three years and
offered the money to a music dealer for violin.
William and Samuel Muncy, twins, aged SO
years, celebrated their birthday at Babylon. L.
1. Both men have always been total abstainers.
Statistics show that, though fair haired people
are as rule less strong than those who have
dark hair, yet the former live longer than the
latter.
1t cost her accuser $50 to bring Edna Park a
nurse. from Sewickey, Pa, to Philadelphia to
answer charge of stealing corset cover worth
so cents.
Edward G. Myers, of McKeesport, Pa. a brake
man, drew his pay and stopped work to get mar
ried, and short time later was instantly killed
by train.
Eliza Damon, school girl of Darby, Pa, in
falling down stairs split her tongue the entire
length, and physicians say her speech may be
permanently affected.
Charles Martens won place on the Spring
field (Mass) police force by having his neck
stretched three tenths of an inch in five weeks
by means of weights.
valuable brooch. lost 80 years, was returned
to Mrs. Galen Hanley of Shamokin, Pa, by
person whose conscience, it is thought was
touched by a sermon.
Mrs. Anna Jenkins. of wanamie, Pa, has been
forced to appeal to charity after she has raised
of them will now assist her.
Lewis H. Austin, young man of Mays Land
ing, N. j., who was kind to John Caywood, of
Lewistown, Pa, in bis old age, has received as
legacy from Caywood $15O,OOO.
Five miles west of Paducah, KY, Rev. J. R.
Stewart stood at a telephone and married Tbos.
Brown and Miss Mary Murphy in Paducah after
requesting them so ioin hands,
For eight years past Representative Lamb, of
Richmond, Va, district, has been unavailingly
asking Congress to place a suitable monument
over the grave of President John Tyler.
Frank E. West, former Mayor of Mound Val
ley, Kan, 4 feet inches high, weight 80 pounds,
has just married Miss Mamie Patterson. of
Texas, feet inches high, weight SO pounds.
At Sioux Rapids, Iowa. G. NJ. Vail, a railroad
| conductor, and Miss Laura Patterson were mar
ried in caboose of a freight train. They fiirted
| on the train, and the whole courtship took less
than two hours
1t is asserted that the saving over steam by
the use of electric power on the railways of the
United States average S638 mile, which, if ap-
piled to the entire railway system, would effect
saving of S13s.5OO.OOOa year.
One primitive method of getting water for
irrigating vegetable gardens in China is to dig a
hole in shallow river bed and carry the water
to fields in American coal oil tins. The well. of
course, is lost the next time the river rises.
Twenty-Five men of Abba, Iowa, angered be-
cause H. G. Wilson filed petition to have his
wife sent to an insane asylum, took him out of
bed at night, broke the ice on pond and duck
ed him until he promised to treat his wife
properly.
Mary Soho, sweetheart of John Dobonac. of
Harmony. Pa from whom he had parted, had
him arrested as bank robber, but in court the
girl admitted the charge was trumped up to
prevent the man from leaving. A wedding will
shortly take place.
That which is popularity known as the Sunny
bone," just at the point of the elbow, is in re-
atty not bone at all, but nerve that lies near
the surface, and which, on getting a knock or
blow, causes the well known tingling sensation
in the arms and fingers
Rhode Island, which has 400 persons to the
square mile, is the most densely populated State
in the Union. There are only seven other states
with more than 100 to the square mile. Rhode
Island leads not only in density of population,
but in increase in density.
A curious insect has arrived from Brazil at
the South Kensington Museum. 1t is beetle.
At its head CLEANS a red ruby lamp, and II green
lights glow forth from each side of the little
creature. These peculiarities have earned it
the name of the railway BEETLE"
James H. Stevenson, millionaire mining en-
gineer and landowner, of Pueblo, COL, was in
speeding land in Meeard county, Texas, when he
accidentally met Wilbur Stevenson, a farm la
borer, who proved to be his own brother, whom
he had not seen or heard from for 40 years.
Since 1890. when the Grand Army of the Re-
public had 400, 4s9 members enrolled, its numer-
ical strength has been cut down almost one half
There are only about 212 900 comrades now. The
losses by death run up to 1900 or 10000 year.
There is practically no chance to gain recruits.
Charles P. Taft, half-brother of william H., is
credited with an ambition not only to see the
latter President of the United States, but Presi-
dent without the Indebtedness of penny to
anybody except himself for campaign contribu-
tions He is willing and able to foot all the
bills. '7
Many old houses in Holland have a special
door which is never opened save on special oc-
casions-when there is a marriage or a death in
the family. The bride and bridegroom enter by
this door, and it is then nailed or barred up until
death occurs, when it is opened and the body
is removed by this exit.
Street railways with cars operated by manual
power are in use at Mombasa, in East Africa
The light narrow gauge tracks are laid through
the streets, and the cars are for hire, like cabs
or are the private property of officials and
wealthy residents. They are four-wheel cars
with one or two cross seats, and each is propell-
ed by two natives.
The humming bird in Australia, no less than
man, protects its habitation with a lightning
rod. The humming bird before a devastating
thunderstorm bursts prudently covers the out
side of its little nest with cobweb. Silk is nom
conductor of electricity, and since cobweb is
silk the humming birds nest is thereby rem
dered lightning proof.
1t is proposed to name Representative Dem
ver Democrat, from the Sixth Congressional