The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

HUSBANDS In LuneDurg, PRUSSIA, must be nome
at II O'Clock at night, or pay fine OF about $3.50,
half of which goes to the complainant, who is
usually the wife.
The City Council of Des Moines Iowa, has de-
cided to close all churches and theatres and to
prohibit all public gatherings until the small
pox epidemic shall have abated.
Rev. John Herr, of Lima ILL.,. is the owner of
the Oldest Bible in the United states. 1t was
printed in 1853 at Zurich, and has been in Mr..
Heirs family for twelve generations.
Hon. J. T. Gautt, is at the head of a move
ment in that State to have built at the st. Louis
Exposition a reproduction of the cabin in which
President Andrew Jackson was born.
Governor Mcbride, of the State of Washing
ton, has announced his intention to dismiss any
State employe who accepts pass over rail-
road and declares he will push out the railway
lobby.
The law of Montana regulates the fees of doc
tors when called away from home. If they
travel by rail 81 mile shall be the charge to
the patient. Out of this the doctor must pay
his fare.
Lieutenant Won Eichel Streiber, of the Third
Uhlans, German army, recently wagered that
he could drink quart bottle of brandy in ten
minutes. He did so, and was buried with full
military honors.
Capt. Joseph J. b. Ball, one of the doorkeepers
of the United States Senate for nearly % years,
died on the l4th inst. During the Civil War he
and hazardous work.
OF the 10000 American soldiers who partici-
pated in the Mexican War only about 5000 are
living. At a reunion held in Independence, Mo-,
recently there were present AZ of these veterans,
whose average age was 70 years.
Edward westlake. of Marysville, Ohio, who
deals in live stock, has taken up novel branch
pure white horses for undertakes, who have
great difficulty in securing them.
In Los Angeles, CAL, there is an ordinance
imposing fine of So for allowing chickens to
run on the streets and other peoples property.
The success of the ordinance is such that the
city of Oakland will adopt one similar to it.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is one
cause of great activity in building operations in
st. Louis. The building permits issued there in
the year just closed aggregated S13,207, 1901 in
value, being an increase of $7,29lOO7 over 1900.
Postmaster T. L. Garter, of Orange Courthouse.
Va, was one of Mosby g men who was reported
to have been killed at Front Royal during the
Civil War, and his name appears on the monu-
ment at that place in honor of the dead Con-
federates.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould has been chosen vice
president of the Agricultural Society of Oneon-
ia, and next fall she will have charge of the
Otsego County Fair, which will be run on lines
suggested by her. She will have the aid of a
committee.
PD. Gwatney. of Smithfeld, Va known as
1.-The peanut king owns the largest peanut
farm in the world. He was in the Confederate
Army and after the surrender at Appomattox
began the work which has earned him the nick
name quoted.
Physicians say that if vaccination does not
take it does not prove that the person vacci-
immune from vaccination or smallpox this week
and not the next; today and not tomorrow: this
morning and not this afternoon.
Us. j. Monks, the American painter of sheep,
has pursued his favorite subject on two CONT
nents, in the New England hills and the Swiss
mountains, and has slept with the shepherds and
lived with the farmers in his efforts to study
this most difficult of animals for painting.
California is to have unique phlanthropic
institution in the girls homes which are being
built by Mrs. F. NJ. Smith, wife of the ''borax
king" Mrs Smith has resolved to provide for
100 girls, housing them in 10 cottages. Home
less girls of all ages will compose the colony.
A school teacher in Newark, N. j., received
the following letter from the father of pupil !:
Dear Teacher-Please don't teach Johnny any
more about his insides It makes him sassy :"
scientific and critical concerning the family bill
of fare.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. had as his maxim that mo
man mas right to consume more than he pro-
duces," and. living up to that principle, he edu-
Gated his chldren's hands as well as their heads,
and when they left school he required each to
learn a trade.
In re- separate and distinct national cemeteries
the bodies of nearly 100000 soldiers who died
during the Civil War are inferred. Some of the
cemeteries contain each silent army of over
10000 soldiers, in serred ranks, marked by the
white headstones, on nearly half of which is in
scribed unknown"
Capt. Robert A. Abbot president of the JEFF
ferson Coal Company, Bethlehem, Pa, died a
den death of two grandchildren from scarlet
fever. He was 70 years old, and while leading
his company at the battle of Antietam, had his
lower jaw shot away.
Physicians, while operating upon her for the
removal of a tumor, discovered that the heart of
Mrs. Henry Hawk, of Hazleton, Pa, is on the
right side. She had suffered no inconvenience
been suspected until the surgeons knife dis
closed the position of the heart.
A Chandler 20. IT, paper says that Kansas
City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine
teeth possessed by one of the local bellies. She
offered the belle 500 for two of the teeth, be-
sides all of her expenses in coming to Kansas
City to have them extracted, and it is under
stood that the offer was accepted.
Charles Edgar Jennings. a cousin of w. J.
Bryan, is an aspirant to the Democratic nomi-
trict of Illinois. Gov. William Sherman Jen-
nngs, of Florida, is a brother, and his law part
ner at one time was Judge Silas Bryan, father
of the recent presidential candidate.
The German Emperor is reported to have
made an order for commission of experts to
be appointed with a view to the most radical and
exhaustive investigation of cancer that can pos
sibly be made. The deaths of his father. mother
and uncle from this cause have naturally given
this scourge a terrible interest in his eyes.
1t is estimated that the cost of ceremonies at
tendant upon King Edwards coronation will be
5000 100000. More than million will be spent by
persons directly and officially interested on gold
lace, furs. dresses, uniforms, court swords. coro-
rio0o all innd and 70
make them plump, besides sealing wax and red
tape.
suburb of Chicago, has been conducting
strenuous campaign against the comic valen-
tine 1t is urged that the car1catures and the
verses that accompany them are not funny, but
vicious and that they tend to prevent child's
notion of art and to suggest evil and malicious
thoughts.
The Chickahominy tribe of Indians of Charles
for their Children. At present the Indians and
the negro children are required to attend the
same school. William Adkins, of the Charles
City tribe, has called upon the Governor and
asked that the two races be separated in the
public schools.
Emile waldteufel, the waltz writer, though an
old man of so, still composes dance music. He
is said to have piano in every room of his mag
nificent house in Paris, and compOses first at
one and then at another, just as the fancy takes
him. Over 800 waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and
other dances have been written and published
by M. Waldteufel.
Capt. Louis N. Stodder. at present supervisor
of anchorage at the port of New York and
veteran of the United States revenue service. is
the last surviving officer of the Monitor He
was in the gunnery school at Brooklyn when
call for volunteers was made to work the guns
of the ''cheesebox on raft" and Immediately
offered his services.
The quality which makes gold the most valua-
BILE is its docility. The cunning hammer of the
smith can teach it almost anything. The
more stubborn metals crumble after they have
been reduced to certain point of fineness, but
gold can be hammered into sheet so infinitely
thin that PSF, 600 of them piled one upon the
other would not be an inch thick.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's new
cars are the acme of perfection as regards the
comfort of passengers. These cars are. first of
all, of semiconvertibe type, so that they can
be changed readily from an open to closed car.
Then, too, individual chair seats, arranged in
pairs, are provided, which are also reversible. so
that they can be made to face in either direc-
ton. The revolving chair seats are the greatest
novelty in these cars.
For using an old United States flag bag in
his business of collecting rags, Meyer Ratzman,