The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-07-18


years. enjoyed picnic near Berwick, Pa.
The banks in Colorado have $4,000. 900 in cash.
more than double their total deposits Is years
ago.
Ex-Secretary of War Taft does not smoke. and
never did, and has never been elected to any
office.
The estate of David Valentine was settled at
Fall River, Mass. after having been in the courts
102 years.
Senator Francis Emory Warren. of Wyoming,
o. years Of age. is the owner Of the largest sheep
ranch in the United States.
Miss Lillian Beck of Rockaway Beach. N. Y.
twisted her neck out of joint looking at Merry
Widow hat worn by woman.
1t is said that the use of an oil or gas engine on
the farm results In a saving of from 20 to 50 per
cent. as compared with horses.
In a fight in River View Park. Pittsburg. be-
tween deer and bull dog. valued at $500. the
deer won easily, killing the dog.
The Chinese newspaper is printed in a roll so
that the subscriber may tear of and throw away
that portion which he has read.
George s. Nixon, Senator from Nevada, has a
ranch of $1,000 acres in Wyoming under fence.
and farm of 5000 acres in Nevada.
Mrs. Cecilia Etzler, of Hanover, Pa, died from
the effects of puncture in the side by the point
Of an umbrella received three years ago.
During the turmoil of the Convention at Den
ven last week Gov. John A. Johnson was UNI
piring baseball game at Lady City, Mimi.
A big religiousrev in New York city this
summer will be managed by Rev. David G..
Hughes, father of the Governor of New York.
The hair of Benjamin Rosenberg. of Chester,
Pa, turned gray in day as the result of a shock
to his nerves caused by the drowning of his son.
One gold rivet has been used in the construc-
ton of New York skyscraper. Possibly it was
a wise precaution to put it 700 feet above the
sidewalk.
While it may not be exactly good form for an
automobile to proceed rapidly on its way after
wrecking buggy in the highway, it is extremely
automobilish.
Mrs. John N. Hudson, of Newark. N. J., died
of lockjaw, but there was no wound visible
which might have become inoculated with the
tetanus germ.
Ina cemetery at Middlebury. vt. is stone
erected by widow to her loving husband, bear
ing this inscription: REST in Peace-Until We
Meet Again.
Over 100 tons of coal is being taken daily from
the Susquehanna river in the vicinity of Espy,
Columbia county. Five dredges are being oper-
ated in that section.
A telephone in house at Northport, L. l.,
having stopped working, lineman found IL
pounds of honey in box high on pole in which
the wires centered.
A woman bought of Fritz Weber, grocer
of Bloomfield, N. ]. IA cheese inside of which she
found diamond worth 81 200, which Weber said
was not his property.
Charles d. Jobey, of South Norwalk, Conn.,,
fell asleep on the grass and an adder bit him on
the balled spot on his head, which soon swelled
to twice its natural size.
One of the grounds for divorce alleged by Syl-
vester Brown, of Asbury Park, was that his wife
liked to hear photograph play beside her bed
when he wanted to sleep.
Policeman Ware, of Camden, N. j., suspicious
of the contents of bag carried by man he had
arrested, poked his hand inside and was severely
bitten by snapper turtle.
A newspaper in Atchison, Kan says a woman
in that town gets SO angry when she fails to beat
herself playing solitaire that she cries and throws
the cards out of the window.
President II. l. Miller, of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad, has started a 2OO-acre
farm for producing turtles and guinea pigs near
harrington, suburb of Chicago.
The custom of shaking handscan be traced to
the days of the ancient Israelites. and was in
William Cockburn. a farmer. living near Azure.
liza, Iowa, has a calf of normal size and in good
health, but without hair. Its body is covered
with a shell resembling that of a crocodile.
Half block from the store in st. Louis in
which he bought pair of shoes, John P. Lynott
slipped and fell on the sidewalk, fracturing his
skull, and death followed in a few minutes.
Her farm hand, Charles Drake, having resign
ed, and fearing that she would lose him, Mrs
Lena Adams, young widow of New Hartford
Conn., solved the difficulty by marrying Drake.
The capital invested in breweries in the United
States, according to the last federal census. was
$415000.0OO The experts of the United States
Brewing Association say that it is now nearer
s7OO,OOO,OOO.
There was only one real, blown in the bottle.
rainbow chasing expert at the Denver conven-
ton. He was the chief manager of the Gray
Presidential boom and his name fifty describes
him. It is Marvel
W. D. Sloane. of New York, on his arrival
from Europe paid $4,000 duty on the personal
effects of himself and wife, the highest duty
ever paid in such cases at the port of New Y FORK.
Sloane swore that the purchases cost him
$4,000.
Miss Grace Bryan, second daughter of VIM. ].
Bryan is quite scholarly girl and it is expected
that she will go to college in the fall. she having
been preparing for the last two years at Vir-
ginia school. She is said to resemble her mother
very much.
Thomas H. Thropp, of Trenton, N. j., who
wants much to be sheriff. has made public
promise to give the whole salary of the office to
the three Trenton hospitals and now the news
papers are telling him what the law says about
such ante election promises.
A thrifty Brown county (Kan. FARMER recently
bought eighteen spring bonnets for the women
folks at home. He doesn't have eighteen daugh-
tiers, but the store was closing out and he got
them at bargain. What happened at home has
been kept profound secret.
Massachusetts has town of 600 inhabitants
which receives $2,750 annually from a single
hotel for license to sell liquor. This is believed
to be the highest license fee paid in the United
States. The fee is nearly double the amount
paid in Boston and other large cities.
John Wiley, teamster of Lexington. KY,
was so much attached to a mule that he desired
to have his coffin made out of the animals hide,
but when he learned the cost of tanning the
skin and making the coffin decided that pine
box was cheaper and buried the mule unskinned.
The Southern Illinois penitentiary is now pre-
pairing limestone dust for distribution among
the farmers for fertilizing purposes. This lime
stone dust is put up in sacks at the prison and
sold to the farmers at so cents sack. 1t is said
by the farmers to be one of the finest fertilizers
known.
Many housekeepers are paying from Is to 30
cents pound for paper, Irvine, pasteboard, tin
and cloth, which they take from goods they buy
and throw away, but it is all to the advantage of
the man who sold them the goods and counted
the WrapDers in the weight which the rurcho