The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-17


in the German empire has doubled since 1885,
Out of every million letters that pass through
the postofice it is calculated that only one goes
| astray.
| Thousands of game animals especially young
rabbits, have been killed by forest fires in Penn
| sylvana.
| The Jewish population of the United States in
1878 was about 5000. In 1908 it is estimated at
over 100000.
Vegetarian experts assert that one acre of
land will comfortably support four persons on
vegetable diet.
A palm which fgrows in South America has
leaf measuring so feet long and IL feet broad
the largest in the world.
| In New York city considerably more than one
half of all the people, or about 100000 persons,
| have deposits in the savings banks.
Inside of IL years New York promises to be the
| largest city on the earth. 1t is now growing
| more than six times as fast as London.
A pensioner of the Civil War, well and hearty,
| returned to the Commissioner of Pensions at
Washington S1.l72 as conscience money.
The Argentine Republic contains more horses
] than any other country, the proportion being
about liz to every 100 of the population
There were 2I,329,Sl9 males of voting age in
| the United States at the last census Only 49,
1924 of them voted in the census year.
| A machine to cut grass where lawn mower
cannot go. and at the same time trim the sod
evenly, has been patented by an Indiana man.
Debs, the Socialist candidate for President,
| has so far travelled 5000 miles on his campaign
| ing tour. His train is called "The Red Special"
Mrs. F. B. Robinson, of Ossining N. Y, bailed
her auto driver, charged in New York with
overspeeding, with building valued at $780,
| 0O0
The jaws of Miss Helen Malik, at Allentown,
Pa, became locked when she attempted to bite
pear, and the services of physician were re-
/ quired.
When New York city's Catskill aqueduct is
completed the city will have water enough for
population of 100000, without any cause for
| anxiety.
Hungarian has invented washing machine
| which, with electrified water, will cleanse 800
garments in less than Is minutes without the aid
| of soap.
One of the items in the complaint of James
was that his wife refused to sew buttons on his
/ trousers.
New York city is growing rapidly in its popu-
lation of millionaires. There are about 1900 of
| them now. while there were only 80 quarter of
| a century ago.
Germany is freely initiating American pat
| terms in the manufacture of farm implements
and machinery, though American harvesters
still predominant.
recent hailstorm 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.
Mrs. James Graham, of st. Louis, aged 95, has
just completed trip of 1000 miles. In the last
three years she has visited Dublin Ireland three
times, travelling alone.
At Hammond, Ind, a man cut hole through
the wall of the room in which Leon Wins was
sleeping and, showing dagger in, fatally stab
bed Wins in the face and ear.
Tinfoil which is used extensively for wrap
ping tobacco, certain food products and other
articles of commerce, is a combination of lead
with thin coating of tin on each side.
During the drouth farmers near Kokomo, Ind,
| have been compelled to stop seeding wheat be-
cause the grain was deposited in dust which was
blown away, leaving the wheat exposed.
In response to a summons by telegraph, DR..
Louis L. Nichols, of Brooklyn, N. Y, went all
the way to Juneau, Alaska-4,000 miles-to pre-
scribe for patient. A trained nurse went
along.
The ocean appears blue because deep water
reflects only the blue rays of light. Shallow
water looks green because the blue rays are
1nized with the yellow reflected from the sand
| on the bottom.
Partnership for mutual advantage uas-oa,-
| served when two one-legged men went into q
| Broadway automatic shoe-shining shop and each
| had his one shoe shned for the same nickel
| dropped in the slot.
There has been large increase in the number
| of emigrants from the port of New York during
the last year. but the net result is that the city
| is growing at the rate of about $1,000 month
| through immigration.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing at
| Washington is turning out new emergency notes
under the Aldrich- Vreeland law at the rate of
about $500, 900 day, and new vaults must be
built to store them in.
Miss Helen Taft, who is getting ready her
/ rooms at BTyu nQdWF lOF buo WluIoIs 10 OONOEAhb
| the walls of her den with poster panels and car
toon friezes Of her father, pen and ink sketches
being placed between.
Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme
| Court, is the owner of perhaps one of the most
valuable cats in this country, known as the
| sacred cat,' which was secured in Burmah,
| and is said to be worth $1,000.
1t is announced at Yale that Robert Alphonso
| Taft Oldest son of the Republican candidate for
President. has been the leading scholar of the
class of 1910 for the first two years of bis college
course The class numbers about 365 members.
In his bill for divorce F. A. Dusman, of st.
| Louis, says in the five years of his married life
his wife made Il trips, taking up two years, and
moved into six houses, changing every six
months. The complainant says he wants re-
| pose.
| Rev. Charles Edward Stowe, son of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Toms Cabin,''
has resigned his pastorate at the Central Square
| Conversational Church in Bridgeport, Mass, for
the purpose, it is said of entering the Episcopal
| ministry.
Former Alderman Dotzer, of New York, who
weighs 400 pounds, but is dieting. as his doctor
told him to eat less and oftener, recently order
| ed and ate this breakfast on the Albany boat
Adirondack: Ten cups of coffee, 20 rolls, 20 fried
eggs and 40 slices of bacon.
| turkey buzzard near Fries Mill, N. j.. hav-
| ing seized pig, two crows pursued the thief
| two miles, forcing the buzzard to drop the pig.
| which was restored to its owner; but few
minutes later the bird made another unsuccess-
| full attempt to seize the porker.
While New York and London are talking about
the displacement of horses in the city streets
| and the possibility of their final disappearance
| from the cities through the growing use of cleo
| tricity and of automobiles, the number of horses
| used in Paris grows at a rapid rate.
| Mr.. E. c. Laston, who has just issued chal-
| lenge to the world for the memory champion
ship. although only young man of % years. is a
veritable walking encyclopedia, for he has
memorized 10000 dates of the principal events
| in the worlds history since the creation.
| The Yellowstone National Park, comprising
93,312 square miles, was set apart by act of Con-
gross in 1872 of a national park to preserve from