The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-31

Louisiana has 100000 acres of swamp land,
which are at present totally useless.
The forest fire losses of 1908 directly and indi-
rectly will amount to about $40,0OO,0OO.
1t cost Maine $24,Ols75 to enforce her prohibit
ton laws the first nine months of this year.
Venus is %, 100000 miles away, and Jupiter is
more than Is times further of in the universe.
The total area of the United States is 3OOe.340
square miles; of Canada, 3,SO5,S20 square miles.
The horn of a rhinoceros is not joined to the
bone of the head, but grown on the skin like
wart.
Coal mine accidents in the United States in
1907 cost SIPS human lives, an increase of 1903
over1906.
Joseph II. Choate, famous as lawyer and
diplomat who is not now much in public view,
is n years old.
A device which forces water down to the roots
of plants is said to produce wonderful improve
ment in crops.
Mrs. Lydia Reiff, aged 81 years, of Worcester.
Pa, walked mile. shucked % shocks of corn and
returned home.
Pennsylvania Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine and
Missouri, in the order named, are the greatest
producers of lime.
The average cost for fuel for railroad trainis
10 cents mile and the average fireman burns
$500 worth year.
New York city'S water supply will come from
a watershed of 800 square miles when the Cat
skill system is completed.
1t takes about 1900, 900 cords of wood year to
make the newspapers that go through the
presses of New York city.
Inside of IL years New York promises to be the
largest city on earth. 1t is growing more than
six times as fast as London.
The right hand, which is more sensitive to the
touch than the left, is less sensitive than the lat
ter to the effect of heat aud cold.
If the appetite of a man was as great in pro-
portion to his size as that of the sparrow, he
would eat whole sheep for his dinner.
In Rice county, Kansas, which has popula-
ton of 14.OOO, there was only one criminal case
on the court docket for the April term.
The rural free delivery service in the United
States serves 4,l25,OOO families with 10000 car
riers, who cover in the aggregate $4,000 miles.
inches long. 20 inches high and IL inches broad
and weighs 80 pounds Ithas taken many prizes.
A Pittsburg man has invented machine by
which he claims from 1000 pounds to ton Of
coal can be mined and loaded into car in
minute.
Of three wires of the same size, made, respec-
lively, of gold, copper and iron, the first will
sustain weight of $50 pounds, the second BOZ and
the third $40.
racer black snake coiled around the leg of
Henry Williams horse near Altoona, Pa, and
held on a mile while the terrified animal was
running away.
In his tour in Nebraska just concluded Bryan
travelled 900 miles, made II speeches in " hours.
talking in all 20 hours, and finished with his
voice in fair condition.
John Suttenberger chewed up two whiskey
glasses at youngstown, o., and suffered no eff
fects. He says he has been eating glass 10 years
and his digestion is good.
It costs the Methodist Episcopal Church about
$2s,OOO,OOO annually for its preachers and super
intendents, this including 100000 that Is paid to
superanuuated ministers
Dolphin NJ. Delmas, the California lawyer who
was prominent as Harry K. Thaw's counsel in
his first trial, will live in Hackensack, N. j., and
practice law in New York.
Lightning struck the store of Horace Swan at
Georpetown DEL, and when Swan recovered
from the shock he found one of,his ears had been
scorched until it was brown.
Two years ago party of Minnesota farmers
settled In the wilderness in Alberta, Canada, %
miles from postofice. Today they have vii
lage with a school and q church.
The reason assigned by Otha M. Hartzell,
formerly Pittsburg iron broker, for shooting
himself at a California hotel was that he had too
much money and too few friends.
By kneading together 10 parts of finely sifted
unoxidized iron filings with of perfectly dry
pulverized clay in vinegar spirit, cement is
formed that is both fire and waterproof.
There are now 100000 words in the English
language acknowledged by the best authorities,
or about 1000 more than in the German, French,
Spanish and Italian languages combined.
The life of Isaac Sprenkle, of Snyder county,
Pa, who was shot through the mouth while
hunting rabbits, was saved by astoutset of false
teeth which diverted the shot from the brain.
designed 10 DC SAFER Lnhu huu eQudAy cuJOy-
able with roller skates, Texas man has secured
patent on spring boards to attach to the feet.
enabling the wearer to leap for long distances.
Buckwheat is now being sold in parts of Penn
sylvania for $3.50 hundred pounds. The brew
ers are buying it to make beer that doesn't con-
tain alcohol, to be sold in local option districts
A recently patented roller skate carries fifth
wheel under the toe, slightly raised above the
ground, and revolving transversely, to enable
the skater to execute fancy figures and to stop
suddenly.
Mrs.. Lottie johnson, of Beachmont, Mass,
dreamed that she saw her husband clinginR to
an overturned boat, and it developed later that
he was drowned just at the hour she was aroused
from the dream.
The Laguna Dam on the Colorado river, which
the government is building to reclaim 10000
acres OF land for settlement, weighs 100000 tons
and rests on shifting sands The engineers could
not find solid foundation.
Pennsylvania leads all the States In the
amount of personal property within the States
borders subject to taxation. The report made
for the Board of Review Commissioners shows
the amount to be $1,1O4,5l3, 1884.
On one variety of winter shoes for men three
nickle- plated padlocks buckle across the instep.
and a key is sold with every pair of shoes. If
the key is lost the wearer must sleep with the
shoes on or sacrifice the buckles.
An eagle intending to light in pen contain
ing 60 young lambs near Dover, Dell miscalcu-
lated, and, getting inside pen where lay an old
sow with a litter of pigs, was thrashed and 80
severely disabled that the sows owner captured
the bird.
Frank Lees, In a railroad station at Scranton,
Pa, about to start away, asked stranger for
match. Something in the mans face attracted
him, and on inquiring his name discovered he
was his brother William, whom he had not seen
in 30 years.
On the occasion of the late jubilee Of the town
of Williamsburg, in Germany, the burgermeis-
ter received telegram, signed by all the I'M
married girls of the place, advising him to get
married and saying that none of the under
signed had any objection to becoming bis wife.