The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
They put an excessive value on sweets out
West. A San Francisco girl wants $l0,OOO Tor
stolen kiss.
William J. Bryan says that he has ceased Civ
ing interviews to newspapers. promiscuously or
He is now writing for pay.
Seven dollars a month, with room and board,
seems to be the highest sum ever. paid to
waiter girl in German hotels and restaurants.
Telephone franchises are sold in Russia by
auction, going to those charging the lowest sub
scriptions, and the government fixing the terms
of rental.
Ten years. immigration, according to the CEN
sus returns. counts up nearly four millions. al
most a million more than the entire population
of the nation at its birth.
A Christmas tree for dogs will be one of the
features of a Chicago mans celebration OF that
holiday. The man has eight dogs, all fond OF
candy. He has no children.
The roads are good and level in Kansas, and as
a result every farmhouse has its bicycle;
farmer in that State would as soon be without
his team as without his wheel.
Possibly the reason why the Japenese are SO
progressive is because they are so cleanly. PUB
lie baths are provided on every street. Japa-
nese workmen battle once or twice every day.
When ale the newly elected governors OF
states have been inaugurated there Will ne
SIlverite, 26 Republicans and Is Democratic ex-
ecutives. The Siverite is Reinhold Sadler, OF
Nevada.
Mrs. Hiram Hinsdale, who distinguished her
self by her heroism during the Civil War and
who rendered valuable service TO the govern
ment as spy, is dead at 81. Mary's hospitai'
Detroit. at the age or W.
Henry A. Little has been for so years recorder
of Madison county, Ill. The lawyers there
aIO hof M pnpVclOnQ0ia
in the county could be more valuable to them
than Mr. Titles wonderfully retentive memory.
William J. Bryan has given assurances that he
will be present at the Jackson Day banquet TO
be held in Chicago, January 9Th. 1t is Thought
that On THIS Of MI nssn
Political buttons cannot be worn in Canada
during the heat of a campaign. This is due to
q clause in the Dominion franchise act, which
says that no person shall exhibit any sign of his
political faith after the official nominations are
made.
The Rev. and Mrs. Elihu Grant, of Revere.
Mass, are preparing to start for Syria, where
they will undertake the education of a class of
native boys. The expenses of the work are to
be borne by branch of the Christian Endeavor
Society.
1t has been ascertained by experiments that
persons who use the telephone habitually hear
better with the left ear than with the right.
The common practice of the telephone COM
panies is to place the telephone so that it will be
applied to the left ear.
There is a street in Chicago named Fake
street, whose residents have petitioned the city
government for a change of name. 1t was
named before the word acquired its popular
signifcance-probably in the Scottish meaning
of stratum of stone.
New York pawnbroker asserts that his bust
ness always improves just before presidential
election, owing to the fact that many so-called
the close of the campaign in order to raise
money to bet on the result.
Cuba will be well represented at the Pan
American Exhibition at Buffalo. General Wood
has asked for plans of O building to be erected
there. This building will be in the Cuban style,
and every effort will be made to give fine dis
play of the resources of the island.
The infant son of Mrs. Natalie Bayard Brown,
of Newport r. l., begins life with fortune in
ventoried at s., 943 69031, which he nherits from
a deceased uncle, and this sum does not repre-
sent more than one-third of what he Will be
worth when he reaches his majority.
Kansas will in 1904 celebrate the fftieth ami
versary of her admission into the Union as a
territory by holding an interstate exposition in
Topeka. The promoters of the enterprise
promise that by this show Kansas will display
herself in very favorable light as great State
Women should not put pins in their mouths.
A lady in Arlington, while assisting compan-
hat pin in her mouth. which she accidentally
swallowed. She was operated upon twice, but
she did not obtain relief and the result was
fatal.
The longest electric railway in the world is to
be built in Montana. 1t is to connect Billings
and Great Falls, which are 200 miles apart The
power is to be supplied from generating stations
on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, and the
line will be utilized principally for the trans
portation of coal, ores and heavy freight.
:
suing for an absolute divorce, alleges that her
husband has been guilty of "fendish cruelty
and barbarism." The particular offense she al
leges is that it has been her husoands habit TO
tuner. They were married in Philadelphia in
1880.
While loading logs near Gettysburg, Charles
Woodward broke his left arm and started for
the house, two miles away He had tak S5e h ds
getting shot at some game On his way home
he caught sight of young doe; which ne shot
carried it to his home. and had his broken arm
attended to.
Job Caslett, of Edwardsville, Pa is a busy
man. Until recently he held six offices in that
town. He was burgess, janitor of the town hall,
keeper of the lookup, town clerk, driver of the
borough team and street commissioner. The
Court thought he was entirely too busy and re-
moved him as burgess, but he still fills the five
other positions.
The boundary line between the United States
marked by stone monuments in the form of
obelisks located about five miles apart. The
shafts are 10 feet high, four feet square at the
lions five feet square and rising six inches above
the surface of the ground.
John Ward, aged 40 years, who left his home
at Indian Springs, Washington county. suddenly
and mysteriously ~ years ago. without notice to
friends or relatives, has just as suddenly re-
nd orriu in Han
versed with friends, who supposed he was dead.
He states he has been engaged in mining in the
West and has made some money.
Shelby Taylor, a well known lawyer of Hart
ford, KY, had The novel experience of posing
for photographs while revolver was held at
his head a few days ago. A man drove to his
office, represented that he was wanted on legal
affair, and drove him off into the woods, where,
at the point of a revolver, he compelled him TO
dismount and submit to a half dozen poses.
American and Canadian capitalists contem-
plate establishing in the rainy lake region of
Western Canada the largest pulp mill in the
world. Spruce in inexhaustible quantities is
found in the region named, and unexcelled
water power is also available. The American
capital for the enterprise will come principally
from the Fox River Valley in Wisconsin.
Washington will see two black bears in the in
auguration parade on March 4th next, as a re-
suit of an election bet between w. NJ. Hooley,
collector of the port of Nogales, Arizona. and
William Taggart OF Une same Town. HOOley
was for Bryan and Taggart for Mckinley, and
the terms of the bet were that in the event of
Republican success Hooley. should take the
bears East and lead them in the parade.
The introduction of trolley roads has not
seriously disturbed the business of steam roads,
as was predicted. Trolley lines are especially
numerous in Connecticut, and the Hartford
COurdnt makes a study of their workings. 1t
finds by an analysis of official reports that while
the trolley relieves the steam roads of some
local travel, it adds to the growth of cities and
towns and largely increases the freight traffic.
The poverty-stricken condition of Adela Bur-
ton who claims to have been confidential SER
Civil War; was brought to the attention of the
police of Chicago a few days ago and her wants