The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-08-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Queen Victoria is four feet eight inches high.
Prince Albert was fifteen inches taller.
The new high license liquor law in Ohio viii
yield s., OO00 900 to the State in its first year.
Mr.. Blaine will spend the entire summer at
his home in Augusta, Maine. He dislikes seaside
resorts and does not care for the mountains
1t is Chicago scientists prediction that if
pointed shoes remain in use human toes will event
ualy be obliterated among civilized people
Colonel King, of Texas, has sold his ranch
and CATTLE near San Antonio, for 81, 600 OOO to an
English syndicate. This is said to be the largest
ranch in the world.
Elk Treasurer Polk, who embezzled 1886, $40
of the State of Tennessee's money, has been sem
fenced to twenty years imprisonment and fined
the exact sum that he stole.
English persons who want to get married
are obliged to do so before noon unless they can
obtain a special license. A bill extending the
hour to O'Clock is under consideration.
An Illinois woman has done no work since
her conversion to shouting Methodsm, and her
husband has sued the revivalist who was instru-
mental in destroying her household usefulness.
John II. Parnel's peach orchard at West
Point, Ca, is the largest in the world. The trees
are planted upon different slopes, so that when all
are bearing a crop is certain in one place an
other every year. There are $4,000 trees
"A rare case is that of Andrew Carnegie Of
Pittsburgh, head of the largest iron manufactur-
ing concern in this country. After accommodating
a great fortune, he has returned to his native
Scotland, and it is said will seek for election to Par
lament.
Mr.. M. Blair's death leaves but few old Cab
met officers alive. Among these are Mr.. A. II. H.
Stuart, Secretary of the Navy under President
Zachary Taylor Jefferson Davis, Secretary of
War under President Pierce; and jeremiah S.
Black Attorney General during the latter part of
President Buchanan's term.
The Davenport brothers were once noted as
Spirituaist mediums. One died few years ago,
and the other retired from the business but now
the survivor has started out again. His feats
show no variation from the familiar doings in
cabinets, but he will travel in gorgeously paint
ed car, and thus possibly get renewal of public
attention.
DR.. w. C. Palmer, who died at Ocean Grove
recently, claimed that the last fifty years of his
life passed, not only free from sin, but also
from the smallest inclination to wrong doing. He
the foremost advocate of the doctrine of per-
feet holiness and travelled for four years through
Great Britain holding religious services. Every
summer for eight years he has held revival meet
ings daily at Ocean Grove.
In the comparatively cool climate of Califor-
MIA, the ostrich accommodates itself to natural
conditions, and matches its eggs in the manner
usual to fowls, the female occupying the nest in
the daytime and the male at night. In Africa,
where such continual incubation is rendered I'M
necessary by the great heat during the day of the
sun and of the sand, the ostrich leaves its nest
for hours together or depends wholly upon solar
heat for the evolution of its eggs. But the birds
transported to the Pacific coast quickly compre-
hended the differences in circumstances.