The Baltimore County union., 1883-01-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


An Illinois physician has been compelled BY
jury to pay 81 600 damages for unskilfally SET
ting broken bone.
WIN. Bair, the pilot Of the Queen Of the Turf
writes 10 Ths Ta.,. Field aad Farm. "Maad $.
never looked better to mo at this time the year
than she does now. am satisfied can beat the
record with her In 1885,
a philadelphia newspaper qualities It's asser-
tion that Il takes lifetime for q man 10 obtain
social footing In that city by adding: "stIll,
money is not bad credential. Decent fellows
with bags Of coin may pass the inner doors with
out knocking very hard"
Seven samples Of qunine pills made by tho
leading philadelphia irms have been analysed by
the Medical Heps, and only two were found Of
full sSish:, the sss; helns deGsiea. from four to
nineteen per cent, and the difference made up by
aduiteratiOn.
The remarkable durability ofmortar in Italy,
a fac, which is well known, Is attributed BY the
London Bniider to the practice Of allowing the
lime TO remain in pit covered with water for two
years before It is used, whereas in England lime
is siakei aud used the same day.
1t is stated that paper made FROM strong
fbres-as linen-can now be compressed into u
substance so hard that II cannot be scratched
with anything but u diamond. In view Of this
tho PaPier Zsi,Hay thinks that before long great
variety Of house furniture will be made Of paper
instead Of wood.
The city Of Rich Hill. No., Is but two years
old. II has population of 5000 people, who
besides enjoying the advantages Of many larger
cities, are engaged In building gas aud water
words. plough, wagon, woollcn, lax aud linseed
oil factories in enlarging their railroad facilitss
and in making additions to their smel,ing works
and rolling mills.
The treasure searchers at Port Jefferson, l..
l., are somewhat mixed in their dates. They
have found jar. We are informed, containing
! $500 in gold aud silver coins dated from 1856 TO
! lsie. The jar was buried during the Rcyoiu-
tionary war" Il vas rather a clever thing TO
bury money during the Revolutionary war that
vas not coined until ISL:
IA London dentist uses a small incandessccnt
carbon lamp TO illuminate the cavity of,he mouth
during dental operations. Il Is ltted into vul-
canite cup and covered for safety with n glass
shade. The lamp is stated by the inventor. who
freely offers it. advantages to his fellow dentists,
"to give bright light jus, where II Is needed,
wiikou; producing undue heat
In .answer to the curious question Of corrcs-
ponden;, scientific journal says: "It /, ,impossi-
bic for man TO kill himself by simply holding
his breath, for the automatic efforts 90 inspire
prove too strong Tor the will to rc,is, but the
head might be held under water till unconscious
ness supcTyened, aud the automatic efforts 10 in
spire would then be Intellectual, aud death would
result.
Il most extraordinary and painful phenome-
non has Lately occurred in Warsaw. 4 lady died
under somewhat peculiar circumstances, which
gave rise to a report that her death had been
caused BY her husband. III treatment. Hence.
several weeks after the in;ermcnt her body was
exhumed for po.t.morten examination. when it
was found ,ha; in ,he'grave a perfectly healthy
child bal been born.
"A new branch Vi Industry has sprung up in
Sweden a,eiy--ihc fabrication of paper from
moss. no, from tie living plant, but from the
bleachcd and b'auchcl remains Of moses that
lived centuries aso, and of which enormous masses
have accumulated in mos; parts Of Sweden. A
nanuiac,ory of paper from this mate:iai has be-
gun operations near Joenkacpin, AMI is turning
out paper in all degrees Of excellence. froia tissue
TO sheets three quarters Of an inch in thickness.
These latter are harder than wood.
NJ. Stanislaus Martin states that, ~ the re-
sui; of al experiment on three diIerCn, criminals
sentenced death who accepted the scientific trial
in preference to hanging. No. |, nOurished ex-
elgsively on tea lived three years, and then died.
lie had become almost a skeleton and was in q
transparent condition. No. ., on coffee, died in
two years, burned as if an interior FIRE had cal
eined him. No. lived on chocolate for eight
Iaon,h', and died in very advanced state Of rot
tenness, and, as it were, deyoured BY worms.
Even sermons have TO be sown in the proper
soil or they may bring forth ,ares instead Of
wheat. The Rev. Mr.. Talmage will be shocked
TO learn that bis sermon the sin Of gossiping
has been scattered By members Of one faction in a
Newark church among the members Of another
faction and tha, the result has been disastrous 10
that church. Chickering'S and hard words have
followed, and a withdrawal Of membership by a
considerable body Of communicates is threatened.
This shows the danger Of making specific applica-
ton Of remark. intended 10 be Of a general
character.
1 Among the various TO which electricity
may be pu, there is of very practical nature,
which promises to eject grca, aying of property
and life. /; consists of an arrangement for the
immediate sioPPase of steam engine BY merely
pressing button similar to those by which elee-
trio bell. or FIRE alarm are sounded. This button
may be placed at any distance from the engine
upon which IL acts aud Mr.. Tate. the inventor.
proPoses that a number Of such ba;tons should be
1 disperstd throughout the factory or elsewhere
where the appara;u. /. in use. In factories acci-
denis occur aIsnos, daily through the impossibi,y
/ Of stopping machinery oa the instant. Such ac
eidents will be readily avoided BY this method Of
ins,an;aneou,ly stopping the engine from any
part Of the building ia which IL works. The prin-
eple of the eon,fiyanee depends on the action Of
an elec;ro.magne, upon the stop valve Of the
engine.
Tho Fast Judge and the Slow Juror.
When was young man spen, several years
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