The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
anNERAL TNTE.

GENERAL lNIEfc
the rent of any othe
Nina ing manufactured from the fiber
case argued in the courts of Portland. Me-.
last week was begun in 1866
Peter of Servia is paid four times the salary of
the President of the United states.
The immigrants landing at New York bring
with them daily average of $4,000
cheap paint may be made from solution of
borax and water, mixed with linseed oil.
Alexander Milne, of Claremont, N. H., has
saddle with known history of 14O years.
A Norwegian Law provides that three saplings
must be planted for every tree cut down.
True, first class Irish potatoes are grown in
this country only in Aristook county, Me.
Robert Merton has grown in Meridian town
ship Illinois, pumpkin which weighs ia
pounds.
Oregon contains an area almost as large as the
State of Ohio untraversed by single mile of
railroad.
Isaac Rash, of Dover. Dell has pair of boots
he has worn SS years, and they are still in good
condition.
An electric locomotive can haul heavier trains
at a faster speed than a steam locomotive of
equal power.
AS health restorative, French medical ex-
pert recommends 10 or Is days. diet of fruit
alone twice year.
William E. Maloney, of Kent county, Della
ware has pear tree laden with fruit, but there
is not leaf on the tree.
The Navy Department figures the distance
from New York to San Francisco by the Pana-
ma Canal to be 5,3O5 miles.
Sand blown from the Sahara desert, 100 miles
away, painted a steel steamer which recently
arrived at Philadelphia dull red
The consumption of lumber in the United
States has reached 400 feet per capita per year,
compared with only go feet in Germany.
Inventors are now combining their attention
almost entirely to three branches airships,auto-
mobiles and improvements in electrical APP
planes.
George d. Chenoweth, of Waukegan, ILL.,, has
written the Lords prayer 100 times on piece of
paper the size of a United States postcard, in all
7,1O0 words.
By new adaptation of the vacuum cleaning
machine horse can be cleaned in less than one
fourth the time that the ordinary curry comb
and brush take.
The value of farm products in this country for
the last year will aggregate more than Ss0OO0OO,
900, breaking all records. The value of the crops
'"ss year was $76OO,OOO,OOO.
,-s.n sas- Then the term of President
ralrOanAe % pi1ss On March next he will 90 to
live on his farm IN Inulaee NJ ITs.u,,a.,1ro :.
reported to be millionaire.
man in Howard, Kan is such rapio >.,,..-
| that book agent who called on him few days
ago not only failed to make sale, but was una
BILE to get away for two hours.
In Denmark artificial butter is made by stir
ring little salt and sugar into cocoanut fat,
then kneading it with milk containing Tactic
acid bacteria yolk of egg and a coloring sub
stance.
A recently patented nonjarring attachment
for tools that must be held in the hand when
struck, such as chisels and drills, consists of
sleeve around which a coil spring is attached to
provide elasticity
Mrs. Alfred G. Finney, an inmate of the South
Mayd Home in Waterbury, Conn.,. who was
stricken with spinal meningitis in June, 1873,
and who had been bedridden for 35 years. is pre-
tically well again.
Among the gifts to bride lately married
Easton, Pa, was package of her favorte bfs
of chewing tobacco. which she is fond of cl
| ing and especially while in bed. She says
| despises chewing gum.
After his conscience had been sticking him 40s
years with no results, @. Vail, of Kansas, sent to
| the clerk of Laporte county, Ind. a check for
| $ll.9O, the interest on $3.50 for money wrong
| fully received for seven fox scalps.
Capt. Nathan Roberts, of East Norwalk, Conn
| 95 years old, the estautomobilist in the
rowed four miles into Long Islanas
caught busheI and q half os oackfish' sew
of which weighed seven pouAos eacn'
The largest lump of anthracite coal ever
mined was recently t.sKen from mine in the
Panther servex~vsa1ey of Pennsylvania. 1t
weighs seven tons. and will be placed in mu-
scum, either in Philadelphia or Boston.
| Nicholes Darrell, fur buyer of Morocco. Ind,
| who has been anxious to get black skunk skins,
paying double on account Of the color, discov-
| cred In a large lot just purchased that two
| DulIuS udu UGH COtOHCu OinOh WIN PAAAeSA @-A'
Suit for $4,000 has been started against drug
| company of Detroit by Mrs. Ellen RENDER, who
| claims she was much disfgured by the use of
bottle of hair dye which she purchased to i'm
| prove her appearance that she might win back
| her husband.
Orderly and well-behaved convicts are now be-
ing employed as agricultural laborers in Austria.
/ owing to the lack of farm hands. The prisoners
are much pleased with the work, and their en-
| ployment is an incentive to others to behave
| we'll In prison.
Roy Mellott. aged Is. of Attica. Ohio, was sud
denly stricken deaf and dumb on November gath,
and remains in that condition, although in other
respects his health is good. A year ago he was
struck on the head with baseball bat and made
| unconscious for short time.
Pearl Fleming, years old. who developed an
abnormal appetite through the habit of eating
mud pies died in the charity hospital at New
Orleans as the result of swallowing nearly all
the hair from her own head. Thesurgeons were
unable to diagnose the malady.
Jabez Medley, 90 years old, of Milan, Mo-, and
Mrs. Jane Kigger, 68 years old, have been mar
ried. Mr.. Medley had previously been married
five times, and his present wife had been mar
ried three times Mr.. Medley was as ardent a
wooer at 90 as most men are at 3d.
Tom Buchanan, of Bloomington, Ind, intend
ing to relieve a sick dog of its misery. tied q
stick of dynamite to it's tail and, lighting fuse,
ran away, but the dog followed him and both
were blown up. Buchanan escaped with many
| cuts but the dog was not so fortunate.
Records of the Treasury Department show
that the port of New York during the fiscal year
1913 has larger balance of trade in its favor
| than ever before. For the entire United States
the balance is $685. 457, 1O3. which exceeds by 81
100000 the largest year before, which was 19OOO1.
Heretofore table salt has been made from rock
salt by the tedious process of dissoving the lat
ter and evaporating the brine. An Englishman
has invented plant by which the rock salt is