The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-04-25

during the Civil War, recently celebrated his
95th birthday. He is the Oldest living ex-
governor.
Fifty-nine pear trees in Washington on less
than an acre produced nearly 1000 boxes of fruit
and netted over $4,000. The trees were the An
jou variety.
The sexes having made pledges to keep out of
debt. the women near Maud, Oklahoma, are do
ing the farm work while the men are cutting
railroad ties.
Mrs. Henrietta Hardel, of Fall Creek, Wis.,.
aged 81, who has had three husbands, fell in love
with g. W. Weir, aged Al years, at first sight and
married him.
William Welsh. of vinelaud, N. j., attacked by
a vicious COW. saved himself by choking the ami
NAL until she weakened sufficiently to enable
him to escape.
A farmer at youngstown, Ohio, won 81 bet
by putting billiard ball in his mouth, but as
physician charged him s. to remove it, he was
out of pocket "a.
Mrs. Frederick Hall, of Wanda, ILL.,, who lost
her voice three months ago on account of an ex-
plosion, suddenly recovered the power of speech
in severe coughing fit.
Christian Heller, in hospital in Cincinnati,
imagines that he is a. dog, and keeps one fore
finger moving all the time, thinking, physicians
say. that it is the dogs tail.
In the course of a discussion on hygiene in one
of the local medical societies speaker, in illus
trating his remarks, said "Many man thinks
he is pious when he is only bilious
A watch belonging to John Shauer, a farmer
near Strouse, Pa, lost year ago, was plowed up
the other day, and was in such good condition
that when wound up it began to rum
Mrs Annie Klemp, Directing in a street car in
st. Louis TO boine struck by the edge of the
Merry Widow hat of Miss Mary Brown, threw
the hat on the floor and was arrested.
When one party testified in court in St. Louis
that he struck the other when called liar, Judge
Tracy said: "That's right. A man who calls
another liar must expect to be struck
The development of the water cress growing
industry in Dorset. England, is enormous. One
farm alone employs 40 persons in picking, pack
ing and preparing the cress for the market.
If all the tenement jewellers in the lower East
Side of New York city should be in the streets
surrounding their homes at one time they would
be so crowded as hardly to be able to move.
.s,e t..s catholic oi..sea. ,rsnip In TINS
country reaches u.szlo70- and the xlethodist
only o,Ooo,CoI, there are more preachers of the
latter denomination than of the Church of Rome.
Having bet $500 that he had seen 1000 snakes
in one day near Martinsburg, Ark, Michael
Kelly, drummer. won the wager when he took
the committee to big cave filed with reptiles.
Edward Guerr, who drove horse attached to
a buggy over railroad trestle $50 feet above the
Cuyahoga river, in Ohio the horse trotting over
plank foot wide, was arrested on a charge of
lunacy
Ink stains on boards may be removed by vine
gar or salts of lemon. Another recipe, If the
above fails is: Scour the board with sand, wet
with water in which few drops of Oil of vitrol
are mixed.
Mrs. Hattie Warren, of Peckville, Pa, was
granted divorce from her husband, whose in
come is $4,000 year. because the court believed
the wife's statement that her spouse gave her
chiefly mush to eat.
One political club in New York city has SS7
members in the fire department, 1874 in the dock
department, 2S7 in the STRENGTHENING depart
ment, and 80 affiliated young women who are
public school teachers.
The wedding presents received by George
Hamilton and jamie Richardson, of Mitchell,
Ind, were almost exclusively chickens, his
friends having learned that he intended to start
in the poultry business.
A minister in Muskogee. Okla. declares that
if the merry Widow" hats continue to be worn
his congregation will be SO reduced that his sala-
ho cd Hr1f
sit in a seat formerly occupied by three.
Probably the most unique position occupied
by any woman in Connecticut is held by Miss
Anna Dargan, II years old. who is the official
germ hunter" at the milk inspection labora-
tory of the Bridgeport health department.
During rivival at Bernard, Kan., gambler
who had been keeping away from the police
year surrendered to the preacher all his gamb-
ling devices, and they were publicly destroyed.
A race man sold his horses at the same time.
The Transvaal government, through the me-
dunn of land bank that is being opened. is about
to lend approximately $12,OOO,OOO to the farmers
of the country to enable them to purchase mod
ern agricultural machinery and implements.
When the secretary of the Kansas Board of
Health examined a library in Topeka drug
store he found inside a volume labeled "Just
Twenty Years Ago, Practically Illustrated"
flask of whisky sent out by Kentucky dis
tillery.
An eagle intending to light in a pen contain
ing 60 young lambs near Dover, DEL, miscalcu
lated, and. getting inside pen where lay lying
an old SOW with a litter of pigs, was thrashed
and so severely disabled that the sow's owner
captured the bird.
There are S2.9s3,156 Christian communicates
in the United States, of whom little more than
one third belong to some branch of the Catholic
Church. The net additions for last year were
B27,546 In the preceding year this net gain
to 93l.740.
The traction facilities of Europe are far be-
hind those of this country. Within a radius of
30 miles of Liverpool there is a population of
!, OOOO 900, the most thickly populated country ia
the world, and not trolley line in existence for
their accommodation.
While advocating cold meals for church-goers
On Sunday, Rev. D. s. Ingram, rector of Great
Oakley Episcopal Church, Essex, England, is
said to have spoken in favor of golf on Sunday
for business men who found no time for amuse
nent during the week.
Sawdust is turned into transportable fuel by
the simple device of being heated under high
pressure steam until the resinous ingredients
become sticky, when it is pressed into bricks.
0ne man with two horsepower machine can
urn out 10000 bricks day.
Mrs. Thomas Ryan. of Valdosta, Ca. was
drowned in the Little River as a result of being
pulled overheard by catfish which she had
hooked on her line. When the body was recov-
,red the line was found wrapped about it and
he fish was caught. 1t weighed 40 pounds.
1t is for the conservation of moisture that we
.eep up the cultivation of the crops in the sum-
ner, but the evaporation which can be checked
" this means is small when compared with the
mount of water taken up from the soil by an
rdinary growth of weeds. We can hardly esti-
nate the importance of killing the weeds. !