The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09


one would bet with him, he thrashed the other
three players.
Mrs. o. s. Kistler. of salina. Kas., is sort of
syndicate woman. Over 1.7OO pieces Of flesh
were grated on her body when she was burned
in an explosion.
Mrs. Mary Ann Dickerson, aged LOG. of Belle
fontaine, Ohio, says she has never had the head
ache in her life and for many years has not felt
a pain of any kind.
For the second time in 6s years r. D. eleven
ger, of Clifton Heights, Pa. had birthday on
Easter Sunday. The first was the day he was
born, April 19. 1910.
Sandy Roberts, farmer near German, Texas.
has horse which eats chickens. feathers and
all, as fast as he catches them. He also raids
hens nests and eats the eggs.
L. F. Hatch, of vineland. N. J.. has built
barn in which his horses and COW climb stairs
every night to the second floor. and he has
poultry house on top of the building.
Robert Fisk. having served a term in the
Frankfort (Ky.) penitentiary for horse stealing
was prisoner in two hours after his release for
stealing horse and buggy at Lexington.
The devils darning needle" is the popular
name of several species of the dragon fly. They
are so called from their cylindrical bodies. re-
sembling needles. They are not poisonous.
Two horses belonging to former Minister to
France and kept in luxurious idleness near Mil
ton, DEL, we're shipped to France because the
Minister'S widow desired to see the animals.
Elmer Rantz, of Columbia county, Pennsyl-
vania, rides bull instead of horse, the animal
having made recently, Rantz says, 16 miles in
less than two hours over rough country road.
Ralph Richardson, of Madison, Wis.,, has res
taurant on wheels which cost $1,000. The vehicle
has stoves. chairs, is lighted by electricity and
has a telephone. Cooking is done on large
scale.
The luckiest member of the House must be
Congressman Ralph d. Cole, of the Eighteenth
Ohio district, who hasstwice secured his nomina-
ton as Republican candidate by the flip of a
coin.
Congressman Orlando Burrell. of Carmi, Ill.
who has made one successful campaign riding
large white mule through his district, will use
the animal again this year in his second cam
paign.
Germans are less In hurry than Americans.
Their printing presses are built much heavier
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last long period, even at the sacrifice of speed
and efficiency.
John Rowe, of Chippewa Falls. Wis, applied
to the Sheriff for protection against woman
whom he had never seen before, who called at
his house and refused to leave until he consent
ed to marry her.
Mr.. Thompson, Canadian member of Parlia-
ment for Yukon, declares that within five years
the Klondike gold output will reach $20,O00.000
year as the result of the operations of the big
dredging companies.
Oklahoma is preparing to compel railroads
crossing the State to establish stations on the
State boundary lines at which the trains must
stop long enough to enable passengers to pur-
chase two cent fare tickets.
In the Axial Basin region in Colorado a bob
cat and wolf had fight over jack rabbits
carcass which had been poisoned by a ranchman
The wolf won, ate the rabbit and died, and the
bob cat was later caught in a trap.
A tame rattlesnake belonging to an Arizona
gate and gatepost, SO that lock and chain to
keep out intruders are not needed.
A double distinction belongs to Henry Dor
man, of Liberal, No. he being the Oldest man in
his state and the oldest survivor of the Civil
War. He has lived in three centuries, for lately
he celebrated his one hundred and ninth BIRTH
day.
Moving van records in New York show that
new arrivals in the city who come without advi-
sers seek first the lower stories of apartment
houses. then keep going upward with each sue
cessive move and very frequently go from the
top floors into the suburbs.
A pair of carving shears has been devised es-
pecially for those who find the talent of carving
hard to acquire. The upper blade is carving
knife. and the denied lower blade forms clip.
The shears are easy to handle and permit one to
attack any part of the fowl.
Paris has new kink. 1t is putting girl mod
els in tailors show windows, where they sit and
chat and walk, displaying the latest cut gowns
to the utmost advantage. There is only one
flaw in the lovely plan; the crowd before the
window is wholly masculine.
The world contains at least four mountains
composed of almost solid iron ore. One is in
Mexico, one in the United States, another in
India and a fourth in Africa, just below the
Soudan, and there have been reports of such
mountain existing in Siberia.
The nine largest Presbyterian Sunday schools
are located in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New
York, Chicago, Rochester, Plainfeld, Buffalo,
Harrisburg and Seattle, all having over 1000
members, the first named having nearly $500
and the next two over 1900 each
Jefferson Davis was born on June 8. 1908.
Abraham Lincoln was year younger than Mr..
Davis. A proposition is now under way in the
South to celebrate this year, the centenary of
MIR. Davis in response to the universal sugges-
ton to celebrate Mr.. Lincolns centenary in 1908.
A candidate for county office in New Madrid
county, Mo-, announces himself in the follow
ing manner: lowing to the earnest solicitation
of those whom owe money, have consented
to become candidate for the Office of county
treasurer, subject to the usual disclosure of
character"
Down in Texas an enterprising watermelon
grower has invented machine to seed the mel
ons, and now melon seeds are selling as low as Is
cents pound. Hundreds of acres of melons are
now grown in Lipscombe county each year for
the specific purpose of obtaining seeds, the melon
itself not being used.
Changes on the moons surface, especially near
the crater Linnaeus, are now recognized by
Pickering Barnard and others. 1t is concluded
that the diminution of a white patch must be
melting of boar frost at sunrise, and that the
deposition and melting of frost must be taking
place in other parts of the moon.
At Hopewell, Pa, the other day Mrs. Margaret
Toy, aged 81 years, was seen on the roof of her
house directing carpenters; David Robinson,
her brother. aged 81, was in an apple tree cut
ting of limbs, and near by David F. Cope,
teacher, aged so. was showing some young men
tricks in wrestling used 80 years ago.
Transportation facilities are now inadequate
today than any time in New York's history. The
first omnibuses, put in the streets in 1880, came
nearer to accommodating the travelling public
of those days than the great network of railways
does now, for the demand for transportation
continually keeps ahead of the facilities pro-
vided.
A casualty company refused to pay policy of
$1,000 taken out by II. N. Myers, of Arkansas
City, Kan, who swallowed toothpck which
caused blood poisoning on the ground that the