The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01

and two steers which had taken refuge under
the tree.
The net enrolment of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor is now 70, 4O4 societies, gain
of 1895, with about $1,000 members during the
last year.
A jury at st. Louis decided that Otto w Freu-
denstein can collect wager of $3.50 from William
Claus, who bet Freudenstein that he could not
keep sober year.
Although 1900 native Christians have been
massacred in China in the last eight years there
have been over 100000 added to the Protestant
mission churches.
H. R. Campbell, of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, estimated that at the rate of produc-
ton in 1907 the available coal supply in Penn
sylvania will last 406 years
John Parish and Henry Bender, of Elmer, Pa,
saw two big snapper turtles, weighing So and Al
pounds, in fierce duel in pond and captured
them before the battle was ended.
When Otto Kisler told Supreme Court Justice
Morschauser, at Poughkeepsie, that he was not
sure he could keep sober, the Judge refused his
application for naturalization
Charles Cummings. of St. Louis. who has the
runaway udDlCs ude DccH OpeTaIeO ON IOuf times
on the skull by surgeons in the hope that his de-
sire to wander might be cured, but all in vain.
A baby months old held in a woman's arms
was struck by a batted ball during game at
Pittsburg and killed, the sixth life lost in that
city in this way since the baseball season began.
Charles Hoffman, mail collector in St. Louis,
found new gold watch in street mailbox with
a note attached asking that it be sold and the
money applied to charity, as the watch had been
stolen.
The starish, netted commits suicide. It dis
solves into many pieces. which escape through
the meshes of the net. Then kind of resurrec-
ton takes place, each piece growing into per-
feet starfish.
A clam in the restaurant of William Spangler,
at Voc, Pa, caught the foot of sparrow which
had lighted on its shell, and it was necessary to
pry open the shell with a knife before the bird
could be released.
2Miss Minnie A. Tyler has just been re- elected
town clerk of South Londonderry. VT. This is
the thirteenth successive term of Miss Tyler in
that office. Her predecessors we're her father
and her grandfather
A chicken hawk picked up a weasel near spring
IT'S BODY reached the ground. and the weasel ex-
pired few minutes later. -
Capt. s. ]. Mckinley, who died the other day
at Charles City, Iowa, aged 70, was shot 16 times
during the American Civil War, four times in
one battle. AS the result of wounds 20 bones
were taken from his body.
Seeing finger of the body of her son, Charles
Balcolm, lying in his coffin at Worcester Mass,
move, his mother gave the alarm and physi-
clan, by using powerful restoratives, brought
the young man back to life
peculiar fact is that cattle fed with a GER
tain amount of bean cake in their food produce
milk which contains from to per cent. butter
fat. while the ordinary cows milk contains only
about to per cent. of fat.
Mrs. Caroline Ferguson, living near Margue-
retta Furnace, Pa, declares she saw frog leap
out of pond, seize one of her chickens and leap
back with it. Since the pond was drained no
more chickens have disappeared.
The mapping of the United States by Geologi-
cal Survey has been in progress since 1879, and
so far somewhat more than la third of the country
has been surveyed. or about 1,O5OOOO square
miles. exclusive of parts of Alaska.
Miss Sadie Roland, who died recently near
Xenia, Ohio, aged So years. was only So inches in
height and weighed but 80 pounds. She was
very skillful with the needle, although her hands
were no larger than those of child.
A COW attempted to fight locomotive near
Bloomfield, N. j.. holding up the train half an
hour and refused to get of the track until her
owner was summoned. He called the COW by
her name and she followed him home.
Experiment shows that, with the exception of
a small portion of the air near an open window
and what might be called the leakage of air at
the rear end, or when both doors are open, the
draft Of air through the car moves with the car.
After hunting three months for a thief sup
posed to be stealing flowers and flags from graves
in Woodlawn Cemetery in Boston, detectives
saw black spaniel, owned by an italian, sneak
over to grave, grab bunch of flowers and run.
DIR. W. W. Fletcher, physician of Williams
port, Pa, had presentment that he would die
when he had his teeth extracted and made his
will. The dentist removed Is teeth, and shortly
after Fletcher recovered from the anesthetic he
expired.
OF the 10000 school boys to whom Lord
Roberts letter on the harmful effects of smok-
ing have been read by the Rev. ]. M. Dryerre
during his anti-smoking lectures, 10000 have
pieOReO themselves HOb u eIuOke uuJll Ju0y are
81 years of age.
Since the United States Government began to
patronize expeditions. down to the jamestown
Fair, Congress has appropriated total of $685.
752,25l for worlds fairs, of which only $4,000
has been spent west of the rocky Mountains. at
the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
There were $780,, $50 cords Of wood used in the
United States in the manufacture of paper pulp
last year, just twice as much as was used in
1899. More than 900 tons of pulp were pro-
duced. The pulp mills used 100000 more cords
of wood in 1907 than in the previous year.
King Edward is a model landlord, and when at
Sandringham spends some time every day with
bis agent, and takes an active personal interest
in the estate and in the well being of the people,
Most affectionate relations exist between the
royal landlord and his tenants and employees.
Calico will be higher than since 1866, the manu-
facturers Inform us, 10 cents being the limit.
The same calico sold a year ago for four or five
cents. The cost of cotton and the increased cost
of manufacture are said to be responsible for
the high price. which will be a serious item in
the living expenses of the poor.
Failing to bite sugar from several Jumps, some
marked bees under observation by CASTOR Bon
nier, a French naturalist, flew away, returning
in an hour or two with other workers, after first
visiting fountain. Settling on the sugar. they
were seen to pump water from their crops, when
they sucked up the syrup so formed.
Waycross, Ga, with population of 1900, has
no poorhouse out of 10 of the white population
own their homes and SO per cent. of the children
attend school. Incidentally it may be stated |
that the saloon license has annually for the last
l6 years been fixed at $3O.OOO-and no one has
offered to pay the amount for the saloon |