The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-08
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A New York woman has been married seven
times.
1t is said that the Southern textile mills en-
ploy 5000 children under 16 years OF age.
The only way to tell birdseye maple tree is
to cut it. There are no outward signs by wnlcn
one can judge.
cattleman says that all cows lie down on
their left side, and never on their rgnt, unless
the left is injured.
If hen lays an egg week the year through 1t
will just about pay for her feed, and every extra
egg will yield profit.
The assessed value of real estate in the State
of New York, according to the Board OF Equail-
zation, is $685. 09O.
Henry NJ. Fagler has had built in his new home
at Palm Beach, Fla, the largest pipe organ ever
placed in private house in this country.
The st. Lawrence river is frozen four months
of the year, and its navigation is SO dincut tnaI
an average of one steamer month is wrecked
in its waters.
The local carpenters union of Colorado
Springs Col, has decided to build $2OO,OO0 me
mortal hall in honor of the late multi-mllilon-
aire, W. s. Stratton.
John Bierson, of Swedesboro, N. j., who was
member of the New Jersey Senate during Presi,,
dent Lincoln's term, is 81 years old and mas hveu
in his present home for % years.
English health authorities are making cru,
SADIE against cheap chocolate. sweetmeats ana
adulterated paraffn wax, which has tendency
when eaten to bring on appendicitis.
Thirty-eiQbt Russian Orloff carriage horses.
Just imported, have been auctioned of in New
York. One fourth hand team sold for 1880.
Many sales were made around $l,5OO
At the Chicago Horse Show last Saturday
night Heatherbloom. owned by Howard Willets.
of White Plains, N. r.. broke the Worlo : recoru
of feet SIX inches, jumping feet inches.
PHI. Harrison, of Manchester. N: H., is COM
Milling history of battle flags of this country,
especially of those carried in what he inciden-
tally calls 1.-THE Brothers Quarrel" in 1879.
Emerson Etheridge, who died at Dresden,
Tenn last week, was one of the last, II not the
last. of the Wings who sat in Congress. He
was one of Tennessee's most powerful orators
50 years ago.
Judge NJ. NJ. Sheldon, of Macon, Mo-, married
young couple and left out the word obey" IA
the ceremony. In order to make sure that both
parties should be aware of the omission he called
attention to 1t.
man claims that he has made the discovery
that if grain of any sort is soaked and matted
and then ground and fed to stock there IS great
saving in the amount OF grain required 10 pro-
duce pound of meat.
Judge C. NJ Tompkins is the oldest pension
office clerk in Washington. He was appointed
in 1871 and saw the department grow from a
little bureau to one of the largest and most in
fiuential branches of the Government.
When ordering two boys to be birched for
stealing apples the Norwich (England) magis-
trafes said the lads parents might inf1ict the
punishment, if they desired, in the presence of
the police. The offer was not accepted.
10 ifa
in women than single life is shown by the fact
that of the 81 women of over 100 years revealed
by Germany's last census, ~ were WIDOWS ana
one married, leaving only Two ola maids.
w. E. Chandlee, well known resident of
Washington, has just died. he carried the mes
sage to President Lincoln before the outbreak
of the Civil War warning him not to come
through Baltimore on his way to Washington.
The estate of the late Pierre Lorillard like that
of most other reported multi-millionaires. does
not inventory as we'll as expected. The hnaI re-
port of his executors places its value at 81, 1877
925 In his lifetime he was thought to be worth
many millions.
Dr. John Matthews, pastor of McKendree
Church, Nashville, Tenn, has just finished the
first vacation he has taken since he entered the
ministry, fifty seven years ago. he grleves be-
cause no one joined the church in the five weeks
of his absence.
I'M. Hutchings, who discovered the Yosemite
Valley and opened it for tourists, has been killed
by his team going over the grade while he was
on his way into the famous valley. He was near
ly 9Oyears old and had until recently spent every
winter in the Yosemite.
A portion of a tusk of an American mastodon
was recently discovered IA feet below the surface
conference of the tusk at either end is II inches
and the unbroken portion is 8 feet in length and
weighs about 80 pounds
The new issue of 13-cent postage stamps is out.
The Postmaster General has received the first
sheet of the printed stamps and the stamps
shortly will be on sale in all the postofficeS in
the country. The issue bears the portrait OF
| the late President Harrison
The University of Nebraska has decided upon
a course of study in forestry. which Will be open
! to students this year for the frst time; IL IS
| four years in length and the conditions for ad-
| mission to the freshman year are the same as for
admission to other university courses.
Joseph Shirk, formerly of Lancaster, Pa, the
man who made the first revolver, died the other
time Wien there was rs fe066favefiH 5d III pI
| it is modern weapon and in its real efficiency
only few years old, not to exceed ~.
Edmund Bersch, of ST. Louis. former member
! of the house of delegates, has been found guilty
| jury as to the $4,000 Doodle fund raised to Sc
| cure the passage of the suburban franchise bill,
and given five years in the penitentiary.
| Rev. David Worsley, who has just died at
| Neosho Rapids, Kan, after preaching in that
State for thirty-ive years, had eight sons in the
Union army during the Civil War. Six were in
| the Third Iowa Cavalry and two in the Ninth
Kansas. Their average stature was feet
inches.
The Oldest man in West Virginia has been
engaged for several weeks in helping to cut
corn He is Freeman Coulter and lives near
Woodland, Marshall county. He was 102 years
old last May, but refuses to give up his farm
work. He is in good health and can see as well
as young man.
Three old settlers of Minneapolis-John Tap
pen Simon Stevens and Horace Webster-met
the other day for the first time in many years
and INDUCED in "reminiscences OF the days, sixty
years ago, when the present site of that city,
with population of over 100000, was their
favorite hunting ground.
Several candidates for office wrote letters to
President Roosevelt congratulating him on his
efforts to settle the coal strike. These commu-
nications were followed by requests for their
return to be copied and used as campaign dOcu-
ments. The PRECEDENT, however, refused to al
low the mixing of the strike and politics.
A man named Bassoff for some time has been
working as a laborer in mine near Butte, Mont.
1t has just been learned that he is in reality
Count Valdemar de Rasoff, a splendidly educa-
ted Russian nobleman, who, having lost great
deal of money in Alaska mines, has gone to work
rather than ask his arstocratic relatives for help
The choir of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Jersey City, N j., has drawn up and signed a
unique resolution. The conditions are that any
member of the choir, which is composed of
seven young women and two young men, who
marries within one year from October 2Sth,