The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

The. Princess of Wales numbers among her
other attributes of royalty eighty dogs of various
breeds and sizes.
Mr.. Talmage has missed but one Sunday in
the pulpit on account of ill-health in the thirty
years of his ministry.
"A Chicago good liver says that Worcester
shire sauce is made from the formula of noted
glish doctor, who prescribed it for noble pa
tient whose digestion was bad. He says that one
of the in gradients is assafoetida.
Senator Logans "Great Conspiracy" has
found 1--WE hundred more purchasers at Washing
ton than Mr.. Blaine's "Twenty Years." When
this fact arrives in Bar Harbor there will be a
temporary forgetfuness of the noise of the waves.
"A Chicago jeweler has invented self-wind-
ing watch. By an arrangement something like
this carefully balanced lever of pedometor, the
watch is wound by the motion of the wearer when
walking. A walk of seven minutes will wind the
watch to 60 for forty-two hours.
Cole Younger, one of those celebrated Mime
sofa bandits, the Younger brother, is said to be
man of great ability and considerable education.
Since his imprisonment he has studied the Bible
carefully and now regularly breaches to his fellow
convicts in the Saltwater penitentiary.
The military guard at Lakeview Cemetery,
Cleveland, which has watched Garfeld's tomb for
nearly five years, has been withdrawn. The lid
of the casket was removed, and the features of
Garfield were found to be- unchanged. The cas-
ket was removed to the public vault, where guard
will watch until the monument is completed.
Mrs. Nina Bachman of Logansport, Ind, has
begun suit for $1,000 damages against the Ger
man Lutheran church of that place, and also asks
for an injunction restraining the pastor and trus-
tees from ringing the chime of bells of the church.
She complains that her daughter, who is an inva-
lid, suffers severely at each ringing of the bells.
The Rev. ]. H. Munro, of Philadelphia, says
that the reason why so many clergymen go to
10 hiatt Of ho
trip are but little if any more than those covering
a summer jannt in this country; and that the
great advantage is that when once across the
water they are not likely to be recalled on "any
little emergency"
Jeremiah Long of Fairfax Court House, Va,
wrote recently to j. T. Hill of Alexandria, calling
his attention to the fact that in 1851, while Con-
federate troops were at Fairfax Court House, he
(Long) mended two canteens and candestick
for him (HilD. The bill, 60 cents, had never been
paid, hence Mr.. Longs letter. He said that
though interest was due on the amount he would
be satisfied with the 60 cents. Mr.. Hill sent Mr..
Long the 60 cents.
Robert NJ. 7. Hunter, Secretary of State
urdar tho nnnredaraoy a-I oraa q ieod;ns U.;t.l
States Senator, was appointed the other day Col
lector of Customs at small Virginia port at the
mouth of the Rappahannock river. The salary
and fees amount to $3.50 year. Mr.. Hunter is
now over seventy years of age and is not in very
good health. He is very poor He has small
farm near the Rappahannock and the income from
his recent appointment will now enable him to
live comfortably.
-Apropos of David Davis death the following
possesses peculiar interest; Though in posses
sion of ample means-his wealth was rated in the
millions-David Davis continued to observe the
frugal manners of his early days, even after being
appointed Justice of the Supreme Court and
elected Senator. Punctually at l o'clock every
day he made his way to the stand, kept for many
years by woman called Dyspepsia Mary" and
there ate his lunch which consisted of two apples,
ginger cookie and glass of milk, costing him
fifteen cents in all.