The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-07
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Giant honey bees of India build combs IS feet

cans spent S7,5OO,OOO in London.
true beer, which is non-alcoholie, has been
invented by Pttsburg brewer.
One train pulled into Bangor last week with
$4,000 bushels of potatoes aboard.
The Bible is still the book in greatest demand.
Last year there we're 5,6SS,3S1 sold.
An association taught 1000 school children of
Fyulham Eng, to swim last summer.
Autumn leaves in England do not have the
brilliant coloring that they do in America.
The oldest apple tree in the country stands In
Wethersfeld, Ct where it was planted in 1885,
Five hundred and fifty dollars have been paid
for single specimen of the Antimacus butterfly.
Out of every million letters that pass through
the postoffice it is calculated that only one goes
astray.
A man in Marion, O., who fought for nine days
in the Civil War, has just been paid $4.96 for his
services.
Nearly third of all the children born in
New York city die before they become three
years old.
Capt. James M. Gayetty, aged 80 years, hunt
ing in Forest county, Pennsylvania, killed bear
weighing $50 pounds.
In new automobile the dust it creates is
sucked up by pipe into a box. moistened and
returned to the road.
Louisiana's sulphur deposits have cut our i'm
portations 70 per cent. in two years and built up
totally new export trade.
Wages in this country were 81 per cent. higher
in 1907 than in 1906. but had one-half Of per
cent. less purchasing power.
The Argentine ant, which has wrought havoc
with the Louisiana sugar plantations, has now
appeared on the Pacific coast.
A barn in Cornish, N. H., has sloping roof 40
feet long. When one side of the roof was shin
gled it required 23,5OO shingles.
The electrical equipment of the Cunard liner
Mauritania includes over $50 miles of cables and
more than 5000 15-cande- power lamps.
neanut plant. with roots, leaves and four
| full-grown peanuts was found in Pennington,
| Me-, where some one had dropped a peanut last
fall
| For the first time in over 40 years tobacco of
fine quality was raised last summer in Mont
gomery county, Pa, few miles from Phiiadel-
phia.
Lightning struck the house of William Heck
man. near Hazleton, Pa, and tore up several
carpets and pulled stone out of the cellar
wall.
william H. Harrington, of Claremont, N. H.,
at the age of 81 is cutting third set of teeth.
| He has never had the toothache nor the help OF
dentist.
A new monkey, recently brought to the Bronx
Torvo IN aOTn n
| to the 'missing link" than any other similar
animal ever seen.
In order to be in perfect health one must be
| temperate in eating. The meals also should be
regular. Regularity is one of the golden rules
| of a well-ordered life.
An endless roll of linoleum, charged with
| electricity, is used in the Paris Postofhce to
| pick I'D letters from drop boxes and convey
| them to the sorting Office.
william shaner, of Roaring Creek, Pa. aged
| g.. tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself
| in the breast, but he didn't know his heart was
| on the right side and failed.
The last available statistics show that in one
| year in Germany the sum of about $3OOO was
paid to invalid workmen to the number OF S7l,-
| OOO in the form of old age pensions.
| Cooper Horner, living near Camden, N j., was
| fined $40 for wounding dog that had killed his
| chickens. The court said If he had killed the
dog he could not have been punished.
The Boston Society of the Daughters of Yer
mont have presented the schools of their native
| State portrait of George Washington so large
| and heavy that no school will have it.
Three European scientists-a German,
Frenchman and an Italian-who speak ten IAN
guages among them, are touring the united
States on foot studying chronological questions'
Experiments in Europe show that balloons
travelling at heights of from 600 to 2,UOO yards
can be hit with rifle only once in six times at
an elevation of 5000 yards they are absolutely
safe.
Louisiana man has invented machine for
measuring and recording the measurements OF
lumber. Panks passed through it engage
roller attached to a registering device on the
side.
Coal ashes are being washed in spaces in Penn
sylyania mines from which the coal has been re-
moved. AS the water recedes they form solid
mass. strong enough to hold up the earth ana
prevent cave-ins.
James Thorn, farmer living near RUSSELL
vile. Ala, while attempting to run mule out
of the yard, threw a small stone at the animal.
Int missed the mule and hit his 2-year-old son,
killing him instantly.
If DR.. James Curtis Hepburn, of Orange, N.
T. attends commencement at Princeton next
lime he will celebrate the seventy sixth anni-
versarv of his graduation from college. He re-
ceived his diploma in 1882.
At Altoona, Pa just as Jacob Akers, notel
| man, let fall the axe which was INTENDED 10 CUT
of the head of hen, his prize fox terrier sprans
| at the chicken and received the blow across the
nose, all but cutting it off.
The ivory nut, which is so much used by but
ton manufacturers, is the fruit of species OF
palm which grows in Central and South America
II forms valuable crop, particularly In Panama.
Colombia Ecuador and Peru.
A practical farmer says that his COWS produce
,, more milk when provided with warm water DUR
ing cold weather, the principal cause IN SHRINK
ace of milk being that ice-cold water interfercs
, with the digestion of food, whereas warm water
. promotes it.
, Wilbur Bowser living near Pittsburg. has con-
structed a frame house, built in sections, which
he has moved in a freight car with all his house
! hold goods to Wyoming, where he has acquired
a section of 100 acres of land. Even his cattle
, | were taken along.
The department at Washington engaged in
checking up Uncle Sans resources have sent
out letters by the million asking for informa-
, ton. They have already learned that the nation
uses annually for fuel, fence posts and rails on
farms something like 100000 cords of wood.
Miss Ruth Durant Evans, of South Carolina
will receive her degree from the Chattanooga
University of Law early in June, and few days
later her license to practice at the Chattanooga
bar. She is reported to stand at the head OF
class of $780, although the only girl In the Glass;
Arkansas claims to have the largest peach
orchard in the world and 1000 men and 300 teami
! harvested the crop this year. The orchard is II
: SEWER county and has 100000 trees. 1t coveri
1900 acres and 1000 trees are bearing. Five hun
g bred freight cars were used to haul the crop &c
market
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