The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-09-12


twice as much power as starting it.
More than ffty-fve billion cigarettes were
smoked last year in the United States.
Drying fIuit by the suns rays is being scien-
tifically done on an enormous scale at San Jose
California.
Isaiah Tug, of Milton Grove, Pa. has pair OF
Sunday shoes which he has worn once week
for 80 years.
Dr. Max Zieggler, veterinary surgeon of
Long Island, died of acute nepritis caused by the
bite of horse.
An oil pipe line to be built for the Standard
Oil Company from Robinson, ILL.,, to Coal Grove,
Pa, will cost $1S,OOOOOO.
D. W. Pugh, an English farmer, is serving six
months in jail for stealing more than 5000 reli-
gious. books, many Bibles.
The big hat is going out of fashion in Paris.
The next shape to come into vogue will, it is
said, be no larger than saucer.
The new Peoples Opera House in Berlin will
cost 100000 and the best seat will cost SIX
cents and the cheapest 12K cents.
Caleb Watts, of Lilly Pad, Pa, who raises frogs
for the market, gets the best results by feeding
them on liver, corn meal and flies.
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, refuses to
have telephone in his home, saying it causes
more bother than anything else in life.
A darning needle was removed from the ankle
of Miss Fannie Inskeek of East Liberty, Ohio,
which physician said she probably swallowed
when a child.
A st. Louis girl who won the second prize in a
Scriptural contest at Winona lake would have
been first, but could not tell the meaning of the
! word Ebenezer.
wager has been made of $4,000 that YER
mont man can chop five cords of wood in day
and the contest will be decided on September
| Goth at Amsden, vt.
A recent haistorm in South Dakota extended
over an area of 40 miles wide, destroyed crops in
nine counties and in one section swept rs farms
clean of everything.
Wesley Van Auker. farmer living near
| YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, says he lost hen egg 60
years ago and found it the other day under the
henhouse. 1t had become stone.
The Van Dyck picture recently purchased In
| Paris by Peter A. b. widener has been received
| in Philadelphia. The sworn invoice price was
$125 600 and the duty PAID was $2l,4l9.2O.
A man died in Philadelphia the other day
nearly 20 years old who had spent half his life in
| prison for horse stealing, but who was faithful
in taking care of all money and jewelry intrust-
| ed to him.
There are in London number of great houses
| doing a worldwide business in orchids alone.
Most of the plants come from Brazil. In the
| botanical gardens of Rio de Janeiro there are
| over 5000 varieties of orchids.
Alice, 3-year-old child of William Throman, of
Philadelphia, lost all day, was discovered after
several hours search asleep under the lid of
roller-top desk, where she had been placed by
| 5-year-old sister for safe-keeping.
| John Hanson, who was fined in Fulton county
| Illinois, for breaking dishes in his boarding
house. locked the justice in his office after the
sentence and thrashed him, and when he arrived
at the Jail had fight with the turnkey.
In his first accident in more than half-cen-
fury of railroading, SANDY Pollard, veteran of
the Big Four, was hurled to death in the yards
at Berea, o., by the Big Four Flyer" as 1t swept
through at speed of seventy miles an hour.
Surgeons amputated at Edgemont, s. D., the
leg of w. G. Blair near the hip, injured in rail-
road accident, Blair refusing to have an anes-
thetic administered, smoking cigarette and
joking with the surgeons during the operation.
| John E. Hoyt, of Ware, Mass, attempted to
| initiate circus eater of iron, swallowed tackS
on a wager of 800 five months ago, and since
then has lost 40 pounds in weight. Surgeons
who removed the tacks say the man will recover.
Ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle attended the
funeral of ex-President Cleveland and later, at
Washington was asked if he would support the
| Denver ticket. He refused to say and as posi-
| lively declined to be interviewed on the subject.
Henry Scott, of Philadelphia. in celebrating
his thirty-sixth birthday, said "Never had q
sick day in my life." He had hardly uttered the
words before he was seized with lockjaw. AL
though rushed to the hospital, he died in three
| days.
Frank Herman, who was digging a we'll near
Herrick, s. D.. having dug "a feet, says he wa
compelled to stop on account of a heavy thun-
der storm, and on returning found lightning had
completed the job, and the water was flowing
freely.
Samuel Wilson, of wolcott, Conn.,, claims that
| he is growing potatoes above and below ground
| on the same vine, as a result of two years ex-
perimenting. The bush potato is cross be-
tween the Beauty of Hebron and the Delaware
| potato.
The recent death of John ". Farwell, of Chi
cago aged SO, the longtime dry goods merchant
| and influential citizen was of especial interes t
in Texas because Mr.. Farwell furnished the
money to build the big red granite capital build
| ing at Austin.
AIgernon Sartoris, the grandson of President
Grant, has entered the diplomatic service
through appointment by President Roosevelt to
be secretary of the legation at Guatemala in
place of William P. Sands, who was transferred
to Mexico City.
John Henry Porter, who started with his
| family from Redbank, Pa, on March 4th In search
of work, has arrived at Pontiac, Ill, 900 miles,
the father pushing baby carriage containing
15-month-old child all the way. Porter has not
met with success.
DR.. Emma James Townsend, a graduate of the
Woman's Medical College Of Baltimore, wants
to be coroner of her county at Hartford, Ind.
She is also graduate of Wisconsin University
and a very popular woman. Her name is on the
Prohibition ticket.
On the new extension Of the st. Paul road
through the Northwest, in one section, In
stretch of III miles there are lis bridges. the
line going from Fergus county, Montana, into
| 1ellOWbJOu0 % IiAhCoS oh4o .@eSO
Fergus county IS times.
Near Washington, Pa, lightning struck tree,
driving splinter through the house OF John
Mesick some distance away, part of the splinter
passing through Mesick's cheek, knocking out
all his teeth. Another piece of the splinter
fractured Mrs. Mesick's skull.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant does not spend her
summer in seeking her own pleasure. but Is do
ing everything that she can to rescue children
from lives of poverty and crime, TO find homes
for unfortunate little ones. whatever the cir
cumstances that have made them homeless
Fewer New Workers own their own homes
than the residents of any other city in the world
The reason is simple one; the land is 80 valua-
BILE that none but the very wealthy can AFFORD its
purchase. OF the 3s1. 6s7 families living on Man
haitian Island only 16sl6 hold title to the houses
they occupy.
Thomas E. Watson, in speech at Atlanta,
Ga. accepting the Populist nomination for
President, classed many millionaires, whom he
mentioned by name, as criminals, and denounced