The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-04-04
rrEMs OF eENERA1 INrBREsr.
Holt county, Missouri, which went dry at re-
cent election, had only one saloon.

Holt county, MISSOURI. winch went dry at q re-
cent election, had only one saloon.
! Glass telephone poles, reinforced by wire are
being used in some parts of Germany.
Ice enc and half inches thick will support a
man eight inches thick will support a railway
train.
At Kansas City Joseph Burns was sent to the
penitentiary for FIVE years Tor stealing loco
motive.
The water in a well in Piqua, Ohio, suddenly
turned hot the other day. The cause is unex-
planned.
vegetarians assert that one acre of land will
comfortably support four persons on a vegeta-
BILE diet.
Owing to shortage in small coins, seven tons
of pennies were turned out in a single day by an
English mint.
The Democratic candidate for prothonotary
of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, is named
Freeze Quick.
Louisiana has steel sawmill with capacity
of 6O0OC feet day. which is said to be the largest
in this country.
In falling down stairs at Oil City, Pa, the
tongue of John Migas was caught between his
teeth and cut off.
During the last six months 1920 children I'M
der five years old have died in the tenement dis
tricts of New York city.
Within year all the Davidson family of Char
don, Ohio-mother, father and two sons-were
found dead in their beds.
The machine which cuts up wood to make
matches turns out 10000 "plints," as they are
called, in single minute.
Wherever snow has melted and bare ground
is exposed around Sheridan, Wyo., thousands of
grasshoppers have appeared.
meteor fell in the town of Mount Victory,
Ohio, tearing up the pavement and narrowly
missing several pedestrians.
Safe blowers used lot of nitro glycerine in
blowing open four safes in Youngstown, Ohio,
and got Is cents for their labor
There are nearly 100000 subscribers tele-
phones in operation in the United States, or one
for every Is persons in the country.
The right hand, which is more sensitive to the
touch than the left, is less sensitive than the
latter to the effect of heat and cold.
w. Is. Bancroft, OF ALTOONA, "a, refuses TO run
on a Legislative ticket because he says the
weather is too wet to make canvass.
The most recent church census of this country
shows 40 denominations, with 16l, 731 minister's
210,l99 churches and 81 1856, 156 members.
The oldest man ever sentenced to the Michi-
gan Penitentiary, Thomas Payne, is dead, aged
SS. He committed wife murder in 1904.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth can sail boat ride
to hounds, bind books. drive four-in-hand, run
an automobile and speak five languages.
The Board of Trade of Wilmington, DEL, is
planning how to destroy 100000 CATS or 100000
lives, each cat being credited with nine.
After search of "a hours MIR. and Mrs. Chas.
Click, of Tower Hill, ILL.,, found their 2year-old
son asleep between two big hogs IN a pen.
In divorce court at Detroit Charles f. Hig-
gins produced box of his own needle work to
show that he spent his spare time at home.
New York city has the largest savings bank in
the world. with more than 10000 depositors and
deposits amounting to more than S100OO0,OOO.
Joseph Romine. aged S. of Ficklin, ILL.,, whose
health has always been good, has slept but
hours day out of the "a since he was a child.
Rice paper with which cigarettes are made has
nothing to do with rice, but is made from the
inner lining of the bark of the bread fruit tree.
Hiram Stillings, of Pigeon Roost, Pa. says he
has hen that lays colored eggs. The hen, he
declares, eats onion skins, indigo and calico print
cloth.
James Martin, aged 90, of Delaware, headed
band of 20 foxhunters that caught fox after
chase of 10 miles. Martin has been foxhunter
70 years.
Bees frequently fly three miles in search of
supplies, and sometimes, when
compelled to do SO through scarcity Of material,
"A leading Swiss scientist declared that the
Roentgen rays can be so applied that white
horses become black. He is now experimenting
on old gentlemen's boards.
An employee of matrimonial bureau in Chi
cago testified on the stand that only 10 photo
graphs of men and women out of 10000 are of
sufficient merit to attract.
Walter Wycoff, a farmer. while waiting his
turn to be operated on in the Creston Qowa)
Hospital and In position to see other patients
under the knife, died of fright.
A saloon keeper in Dalton, Ohio, seeks to avoid
compliance with law requiring the removal of
screens by having umbrellas near the door, be-
hind which customers can be hid.
New York has ISIS, 45Oacres of timber reserve,
mostly In the Adirondacks, and in his late mes
sage Governor Hughes recommended that the
State purchase a large amount more.
At Youngstown, Ohio, County Auditor VIM.
B. Jones came near being sent to Jail for offer
ing Judge Robinson a cigar after case had been
dismissed in which Jones was interested.
rooster. the property of William Spangler
of Red Lion, Pa, smashed two panes of thick
glass in fighting his reflection and nearly bled to
death from the wounds made by the glass.
The sons of Governor McCord. of Arizona, and
Commodore Kitson, of st. Paul, are earning
their living as laborers in Everett, Wash. Young
Kitson's part of his fathers estate was 81 100000.
Eighty-one years old and never a tcothache
and never a tooth lost-that is, since he lost his
baby teeth This man is Capt. William Dix, of
West fremont, Me-, hale and hearty, who reads
without glasses.
The tiny stormy petrol is bird of immense
wing power; it belongs to every sea, and, al
though so seemingly frail, it easily breasts furi
GUS storms. Petrels have been observed 1000
miles from nearest land.
Paper manufactured from the fiber of trees
began to be a commercial product in 1868, but
did not assume great Importance until 1890.
During the II years which have elapsed from
that date, this branch of paper has grown to such
proportions that it overshadows all others.
The German Emperor hunts in coat and cape
of pale blue trimmed with green, red trousers.
high patent leather boots with gold spursa green
leather belt containing a gold-handled hunting
knife and green felt hat with feather in the
side. Though he must manage his gun with one
hand, he is a superb shot.
The world has never learned the name of the
genius who conceived the idea of spreading but
ter upon his bread, a combination of food ele-
ments more palatable. more wholesome and
more universally popular than any that the COM
bined wisdom of all the professors who have ever
lived has been able to devise.
Some varieties of fish can stand any amount of
cold without harm. Perch will live in ponds
which are frozen practically solid in every hard
winter. The white1sh of Canada caught through
holes in the ice, have been picked up frozen so
stiff that they would break like brittle sticks,