The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, favors uniform system in the conferrin
of degrees by American colleges.
One of the new laws of Nebraska prohibits
the marriage of divorced persons within six months
after the granting of the decree, in order to allow
time to be given for setting aside said decree by
proper legal proceedings.
Commodore G. X. Garrison, millionaire
resident of New York, died suddenly on Friday.
He made an assignment some time ago, on &C.
count of financial embarrassments, but he was
still regarded as worth several millions.
The richest colored man in Philadelphia is
John Mckee, real estate dealer, who is estimated
to be worth between 5000, 900 and 100000. There
are two or three others in the same city whose
fortunes run up into the hundred thousands.
The divorce market in indianapolis is thus
sum@aFjjzfd hX a. legal journal: "BIisk copRstid
the prices of divorces. We quote: Common sep
aration, SIS; small alimony, $25; large al;mony,
$50 to 500, according to circumstances"
"A Nebraska jury has awarded 81 900 damages
to parent whose eight year old daughter had
been logged in the public school. The sentiment
of the country is opposed to corporal punishment
in schools. AS this verdict was in part for ex-
emplary damages, probably, we trust the example
will not be UNDECIDED.
There is now living in Pickens county, Ca,
man who during the rebellion donned his wife's
dress, kept his face closely shaved and wore a
ted and sent to the front. The officers in search
of recruits frequently visited the house and asked
his wife where her husband was, and at the very
moment he could be seen working in the field in
female garb. By the time he had worn out seven
of his wifes dresses he became tired of masquerad-
ing, enlisted and became good soldier.
"A gentleman in Germantown, Pa, who was
greatly annoyed by colony of sparrows that had
taken up their quarters in mass of ivy covering
hnusa rid of ham, hu ayal
expedient. One day he purchased half pound
OF red pepper, and, going up to the third story,
opened the windows and sifted the pepper down
through the ivy. The alarm of the sparrows was
evinced by the haste with which they left their
hiding places. Every bird took its departure,
and his premises are now clear of them.
Helen L. Capel, of Pleasantown, Kan
sas, has abandoned the newspaper business, after
some years of successful management. In her
valedictory she says: GAS the editor and business
manager OF newspaper my business is more
with men than with women and my work, to be
done successfully, must be done as men do it. If
do not follow the beaten path, the business must
suffer- If do my work like man, am made
the subject of such continual fusiade ofmalicous
gossip that choose to abandon profitable bust
ness rather than bear it any longer"
On the subject of color blindness, a corres-
pondent writes to the Pail Mall Gazette: "a very
large proportion of the cases of so-called color
blindness is, am convinced, due to ignorance,
and, in confirmation of this opinion, there is the
undoubted fact that it is rarely found in examina-
ton of female candidates. If color blindness is
an organic defect of the visual apparatus, surely
it ought to exist in somewhere about the same
ratio in the male and female. I don't for a mo-
ment deny the existence of genuine color blind
ness; but do contend that the genuine defect is
a rare one. My suggestion is that instruction in
colors and their names ought to form distinct
item in the curriculum of all elementary schools"