The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-07-04

Chicago.
DIR. Maitland Alexander, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg. never takes
any of his salary of $4,000 year. but givesita all
to charity.
Eifty-nine pear trees in Washington on less
than an acre produced nearly 1000 boxes of fruit
and netted over $780, The trees were the An
jou variety.
Watch glass crystals are made by hand. and in
consequence Of the lower prices paid for labor
in Germany the American manufacturers can
not compete.
A plate-glass company at Pittsburg is manu-
featuring headstones of glass to mark graves.
photograph of the deceased person can be
blown into the glass.
Blind and not wealthy. Mrs. Ella Compton. of
Washington has received judgment against the
Wabash Railroad for $s6OOOO on a claim that has
been pending 30 years.
A busy woman in Solomon. Kan, went to
funeral and utilized her spare time in picking
over quart of gooseberries which she took from
her home to the house of death.
Mrs. Mary Hunter, of Zion City, ILL.,. who is
trying to starve herself to death, has been ar
hospital will force her to take food
A ship has taken from Seattle to Fairbanks,
Alaska-220O miles-1500 chickens intended for
breeding purposes. The freight bill was $500,
and three tons of food was taken to last So days.
When the Live Stock National Bank of Chicago
was recognized it was discovered that Rev.
Maurice J. Dorsey, who had received 20 years ago
a present of $6S,OO0 in stock. had forgotten all
about it.
Judge Crick. of independence, Mo-, says that
when lightning struck him his umbrella acted
as a lightning rod. A cigar was knocked out of
his mouth and he was deprived of feeling in his
right arm.
When the Pennsylvania Railroad completes a
two-mile section between Vineyard and Newton
Hamilton, Miffin county, it will have complete
four-track system between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg
The combined weight of William Howard Taft
and James s. Sherman is about quarter of
ton, the heaviest ticket on record. The weight
of the Cleveland-Stevenson ticket was about
425 pounds RE
OF Mrs. Susan Bush, aged 65 and a grandmother,
in order to force her to say "Yes'' to proposal
of marriage.
Sleeplessness is often caused by the head be-
ing exposed to the cold, while the rest of the
body is warm. In nine cases out of ten, if the
head is covered with a silk handkerchief it will
induce sleep.
Electric cars were held up in Danville, ILL.,, by
a swarm of bees which settled on the trolley
wire and could not be disodged until the trouble
wagon was summoned, when the bees were taken
down by their owner.
Since he has been vice-Prssident Mr. Fair
banks is said to have spent $4,000 of his own
money besides his salary to maintain the dignity
of his Office. He is amillionaire. Mr.. Sherman's
fortune is estimated at 100000.
Seven thousand frogs have been placed in the
bitches, pools and small lakes at Finkenburg
small place in the woods to the west of Berlin,
in the hope Of reducing the plague of mosquito
like gnats which breed in millions.
Dogs locked in a drug store in Darby Pa,
thinking dummy rats used in the show windows
to display an DISCRIMINATING powder were the
real thing, attacked the collection, and every
thing in the window was wrecked.
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt declares: "The
happiest time in my life was when 1 was wear
ing overalls in the Baldwin Locomotive Works
in Philadelphia one hot summer a few years ago
studying locomotive construction"
Criminal records kept in New York county for
the last six years show that a trifie more than
one-half of the persons charged with crimes are
found guilty, while expert opinion is agreed
that not two out of 100 are innocent.
In paying bet, Michael Jordon of Roxbor-
ough, Pa, was compelled to wear heavy winter
suit overcoat included, when the thermometer
was 90 degrees. He was SO nearly exhausted
that it was necessary to give him an ice bath.
Owing to dispute about contributions to st.
Cashiers Church, in Worcester, Mass, Bishop
Beaver has ordered cash registers to be put at
the church doors next Sunday so that church
goers can pay as they enter and see their money
registered.
Thomas Wilkinson, whose proudest boast was
that his face had not been touched by razor or
shears since the Civil War, is dead at Adrian
Mich. His whiskers measured about IS feet, and
he formerly travelled with side show exhibiting
them. He was a veteran of the Civil War.
Mrs. Abraham Israel, of Evansville, Ind.
weight 800 pounds fell off a second-story balus-
trade ,strikinga telephone wire, bouncing thence
against cistern, causing fracture of three
ribs. The crossarm of the telephone pole was
cracked and business on the line suspended.
The Primitive Baptists of Georgia have split
on the use of organs in churches. In one district
four churches were recently expelled for using
such instruments. Another point of contention
is taking out insurance policies of any kind, the
anti organists condemning such things, too.
Rear Admiral Evans is an expert with knitting
and crochet needles, and his embroidery is said
to be as wonderful and varied as is his vocabu-
larry. Some of his most intimate friends have
been favored with gifts the product of his skill
ut embroidery, which they naturally treasure
very highly.
1t is reported, with entire FEASIBILITY. that
practically every of the 5000 $50 gold-pieces
that formed what may be called the first edition
Of the Saint-Gaudens eagles has already been
withdrawn from circulation. and, having been
carefully laid away by coin collectors. will never
again serve as currency.
Ivy Baldwin walks across South Boulder |
Canon, at Eldorado Springs, COL, 5S2 feet above
the creek, on a wire cable stretched from one |
mountain peak to the other, and it has been es
timated that if he should fall his body would |
reach the canon below in four seconds. with a |
momentum that would drive it fourteen feet |
into the ground.
David Rankin member of the Missouri dele |
CATION to the Republican National Convention, |
is said to be the largest individual farmer in the
world. He was the Oldest delegate in the con-
vention. having passed his eighty-third year.
His farm in Atchison county, Mo-, comprises
q, 600 acres, 1900 acres being given to the cult-
vation of corn and the other 1000 to pasturage.
Last year his corn crop reached 900 600 bushels.