The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-04-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

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time of it with his hens during the late floods
He had better keep ducks if he is going to stay in
Ohio.
1t is said that when the recent tornado blew
down the Baptist church in Mt. Carmel, S. c., the
pulpit was left standing and the Bible and all the
hymn books were left undisturbed.
DIR. Milton Valentine, President of Pennsyl-
vania College, at Gettysburg, has been elected
President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary,
to succeed the late DR.. Charles A. Stork.
Fred Douglass red-headed white wife not only
parts her hair one side half an inch above her
left ear, but she sits by the stove hours at time
reading the Atlantic Monthly. The enemies of
Douglass feel fully avenged.
F. Theodore Walton has just sent to England
$4,000 in payment for five horses. Mr.. Walton
sails himself about the 9th of April and is report
ed as saying that he will not return until he has
fully recovered all that he lost during his last
visit.
j. B. Kerns, of Stokes county, N. c., went
there from Pittsburgh, Pa, four years ago. In
that time six children have been added to his
family. He has been married to the same wife
eighteen years, and has twenty three children
living. Seventeen of them are boys and six girls.
His wife is As and and he as.
The largest bell in the world is now said to
be that at Kioto, Japan. 1t is twenty-four feet
high and sixteen inches thick at the rim. 1t is
sounded by suspended piece of wood, like a
battering ram, which strikes it on the outside, and
its booming can be heard for miles.
1T is said that Mrs. Hester Charles, the "blue
woman" who died in Worcester county, Nd,
- recently, was closely related to James X. Polk.
When a child she had clear and beautiful COM
plexion, but she was dosed with so much sulphate
Of copper during an extended illness that she
turned to a dark blue color. Her skin never
covered its normal hue.
The latest social CONFUSION in New York is
because of the once devoted friends, the Belmonts
and the Astors, making mouths at each other, or
practicing the refined art of ''cutting" at dinner
parties. All that could be avoided by doing
sensible people do when they quarrel-avoiding
disagreeable associations and publicity in the
newspapers.
Years ago John Q. Adams loved the prettiest
girl in Alabama Her parents forced her to mar
ry a man named Jackson, who took her to Texas,
where she became the mother of nineteen children.
A year ago her husband died. Meanwhile John
@. Adams, who had married early, had not been
idle. He acquired considerable local renown by
becoming the father of twenty -one children. Re-
Gently his wife died. He has gone to Texas to
marry Mrs. Jackson. The families will live on
the cooperative plan.
DR.. j. E. Renner left Indianapolis in the
summer of 1878 and rolled up his sleeves in the
cause of humanity at Memphis. His work dur
ing the epidemic was heroic and he fell in the
cause, dying of yellow fever in the latter part of
September Of that year. Now his grave is an I'M
marked spot of desolaton, and near him ethirty-
two other volunteer physicians and forty-two
nurses, none honored in marble, though all gave
their lives for the public good.
1t is proposed by the Germans of New York
to raise purse of 100000 to present to Carl
Schurz and the movement is taking serious shape.
1t is credtabe to Mr.. Schurz that, after his long
experience in public life in a corrupt time he is
still poor man. He has reflected the highest
credit sr. .na 81
There is no reason why it should not be raised
and presented, unless Mr.. Schurz himself inter-
poses.
"A curious circumstance occurred the other
day ct meet of the Kildare hounds, in ireland
They drew a cover near the river Liffey, found
in due course, and hunted the fugitive fox for
few minutes, till he ran to a cottage and claimed
sanctuary. Nor was his claim disregarded, for the
= owner of the cottage recognized in the quarry
fox whom he had rescued from drowning when
cub, and who had become quite domesticated, till
some impulse a few weeks ago led him to forsake
the haunts and ways of civilization, and to join
his wilder brethren. He was protected from the
fury of the pack but his owner and champion
offered to sacrifice him for the small sum Of f2
The Disease of the Money-Counters.
A Washington correspondent visiting the Treas
ury Department noticed that many of the wo-
men employed in counting bank notes looked i'll,
and had sores upon their hands or heads. The
superintendent gave the following account of the
trouble: "Very few" he said, "who spend any
considerable time in counting, escape the sores;
they generally appear first on their hands, but
frequently they break out on the head, sometimes
the eyes are affected. We can do nothing to
prevent this. All Of the ladies take the greatest
ff afsr they are afflicted with sores. The direct
cause of the sores is the arsenic employed in the
manufacture of money. If the skin is the least
abraded, and the arsenic gets under the flesh, a
sore will appear the next morning. The habit
that every one has of putting the hand to the
head or face is the way the arsenic poisoning is
carried to those portions of the body. "See here"
said one of the officials, stopping by the side of
young lady and picking up glass vessel con-
tanning sponge; "this sponge is wet, and is
used to moisten the fingers while counting the
money. You see how black it is. That's arsenic.
Every morning new piece of sponge is placed on
the desk of each employee, but before the day is
over it is as black as this. 1 have known half
dozen cases where ladies have been compelled to
resign their positions. There are three ladies
who were here six years before they were afflicted
with sores. About three months ago they were so
visited by them that they had to quit work. They
have been away ever since, and the physicians
certificate in each case says that their blood is
poisoned with arsenic.