The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-30
In 0ntonagon, Mich, the

In 0ntonagon, Mich, the snow was report
ed to be nine feet deep last week.
A Western city proposes to erect "life-size
statue, sixteen feet high" of one of its eminent
citizens.
"A Georgetown (Ky.) dentist advertses to
extract teeth "without pain to the operator and
very little to the bystanders."
The pension appropriation bill as it passed
the United States Senate appropriated 500, $780,
600 for pensions for this year.
1t is not larceny to steal ten cent notes in
Hartford county. Rogues will be likely to make
a speciality of this business now.
Edwards county, ILL.,, boasts of not having
contained a grog shop for fifteen years. The
drug stores do a flourishing business.
--Lincoln's monument at Springfield, Ill,
will be dedicated next October. President
Grant will be asked to deliver the grafton.
-Asanei Nix Of Pclk-.iI~-ne,...->. spright
ly youth of so, was married the other day to
Bella Landon, aged IA. Who says that "crab-
bed age and youth cannot live together?"
The Providence Journal thinks that the cru
not the miserable license ridden keepers of rum
shops. Many of the ladies could do that with
out going out of doors.
There is woman living in Pencader Hun
dred, New Castle county, Del, who has been
married twenty four years, and who last week
gave birth to her twenty third child, which
makes her record one child per year since her
marriage
The House of Representatives on Thursday
of last week passed the bill for the admission
of New Mexico as State by vote of 100 to 81.
When New Mexico comes into the fold of the
Union she will make the thirty eighth pillar to
the national fabric.
In the course of experiments with manu-.
featured ice in Philadelphia the other day, a
curious and beautiful result was produced by
enclosing a bouquet of fresh flowers in the CEN
ire Of block of the translucent MATERIAL
Every leaf and blossom was perfectly visible,
while the brilliancy of the colors was enhanced
by the refraction through the ice.
"A distinguished English physician writes
that he has observed that peculiar anil rather
common deformity of the chest is caused by the
habit of sucking the thumb in infancy and early
childhood. He says that the weight of the arm
on the thorax of the child, during sleep, pro-
duces depression of the ribs in the line occupied
by the arm when the thumb is placed in the
mouth.
We learn from the Territorial Enterprise
hot ofh nod 90 nh;
little game of draw poker at Salem, Oregon, the
other evening, moved a little in his chair, when
the hammer of his pistol caught in his pocket
in some way and the weapon was discharged,
frightening the divine's opponent in the game
very badly. He wants to know what preachers
carry pistols for?
Hugh Donahue of Chicopee, Mass, proposes
TO walk 900 miles in 1000 consecutive hours
on Hampden Park, Springfield. He is an Eng
lishman. twenty mine years old, weighs about
$50 pounds, is nearly five feet eleven inches
tall, and spare, wiry in build. and man of in
domitable pluck. He claims to have walked
500 miles in 500 hours nine years ago at Black
burn in England.
Mr.. Beecher recently announced from his
pulpit that he wished tn raise $500 for a benev-
olent purpose "Now," said he, "there are
about 900 persons present, and if all pay
half dollar that will he too much. We have
some dollar men, some half-dolIar men, some
quarter dollar men, some shilling men, some
sxpenny men, some three cent men, and there
some mean they will not give penny"
The Supplementary Civil Rights bill of
the late Senator Sumner was passed by the
United States Senate Saturday of last week
and it was sent to the House of Representa-
tives. and on Monday in that body Gen. But
Ter moved to suspend the rules and take the
bill from the Speakers desk and haveit made
the order Of the day for Wednesday The yeas
and nays were taken on this motion which re
suited in 153 yeas to 81 nays mot quite the
requisite two thirds necessary to suspend the
rules. The bill now takes its turn with others
in the regular routine and may not be reached
this session
"A firm in Pittsburg, dealing largely in
photographs. lately received letter from cor
RESPONDENT in an adjoining county, with the
following singular request: " Mr.. -, living
here wants pictureo his W fe. She has been
dead forty-f'nr years, was medium-s;zed wo-
man, Ii. ht sandy complexion. hair little on
the dark sandy order. blue eyes. weight 40
pounds, red cheeks and thirty years old
when she died. Enclosed find fifty rents for
the picture This bona fide request was COM
piled with. A picture was selected from the
large assortment in stock near the descrip-
ton as possible, and forwarded on. Singular
ly enough it proved entirely satisfactory.