The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-22


Nine men constitute jury in Mexico, and a
majority gives the verdict. If the jury is unani-
nous there is no appeal.
The Oldest known manuscript of the Bible is
now being exhibited at the British Museum. 1t
was made in the ninth century.
to men to come to series of Saturday revival
meetings at Moody Bible Institute. Chicago.
The new Missouri River bridge of the Illinois
Central ut Omaha is now in use. 1t Is the long
est drawbridge in the world, and cost 100000.
The iron heel of capital has been set upon the
necks of the workmen Of Baden, Germany.
They have been limited to four quarts of beer a
day.
Joseph Randolph and Mary Elizabeth Cooke,
of Scranton. Pa. aged go years, and both un-
married. are believed to be the oldest single
twins In America.
Alderman Sloan. of Kansas City. No., has
created a distinctive name for frame structures
veneered with brick or stone. He calls them
''shirtwaist buildings
Edward Everett Hale declares that everybody
should sleep ten hours day, going to bed at
o'clock. He never engages in any brain work
after In the afternoon.
England is to have the two largest warships in
the world. Each is to cost 81. 100000 and the dis
placement will be 1880 tons. One of the new
ships is to be called the Lord Nelson"
DR.. william Royal Stokes and DIR. John s. Full
ton, of the Maryland Board of Health. insist that
they have discovered a curative serum for
typhoid fever, after four years. search.
Idaho is larger than New York and Maine
combined, and has inland lakes which cover an
area of $40 square miles. Its smallest county is
about the size of the State of Rhode Island.
Dunkards from Eastern States have bought
1000 acres of farming land in Glenn county,
California, and will settle there with their fami-
lies. The land will be divided into 40 and SOacre
tracts.
Judge Charles Field, of Athol, Mass. who is
said to be the Oldest justice in the country in
active judicial service. celebrated his ninetieth
birthday recently. He holds court several days
q week.
It is to be hoped that the finding of a diamond
weighing pound and half, in the African
diamond fields, will not result in making imita-
ton diamonds of that size popular for hotel clerk
shirt-fronts.
Students at Japanese universities and COM
mercial schools are not obliged to serve in the
army. In Germany it has often happened that
the universities were closed because all the stu
dents and professors had Joined the army.
The Rev. DIR. John Punnett Peters, rector of
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, has
discovered" that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
Joseph, mentioned in Genesis, were not real
people, but composite photographs of Israel.
With reference to the threatened invasion of
the crinoline the London Daily Nescs calls atten-
ton to the fact that since the crinoline was last
in fashion the fiat has become an institution.
How could women wear crinolines and live in a
fat?
In London is man who has been ''best man.
at 800 weddings. The explanation is that he has
been city missionary for many years and in
that time has befriended hundreds of young
couples, helping them to enter the married
state.
Joseph Potter. who settled on the present site
of Potter, Achison county, Kansas, 81 years ago
last month, was the first white man to occupy
the spot where the town now stands. Since that
time he has lived constantly within sight of the
place.
DIR. Henry H. Rasmus, of the First Methodist
Church, Catford, England, objects to the prac-
tice of lowering the lights when the sermon is
preached. He says he wants view of the coun
tenances of his congregation, so that he may see
''when they have had enough"
although work good many hours day.
says Inventor Edison, my life IL. avery quiet
and restful one. 1 do not worry, am fond OF
fun, and like good fellows. do not want to
deal with mean men or men whose whole lives
are devoted to getting money"
The fret execution of Oregon's new law pre-
scribing the lash for wife beating was no farce
The whip used was of braided rawhide, with
four lashes. and the jailer, who did the flashing,
laid on twenty strokes with all his strength,
bringing blood at the fourth blow.
One of the most interesting items in connec-
ton with the meat imports is that of dead rab-
bits. In England rabbits are an article of food
of much greater extent than in the United
States Rabbits are cheap and are considered
to be both nutritious and digestibe.
Last year an Englishman spending his holt
days at Lake windermere bought for S25 an old
tage. It was damaged in transit and the owner
let the express company keep it in payment of
$25. The company has just sold it for $780,
George Standish, a farmer in Wichita county,
Kansas, one morning recently laughed SO hard
because a rain had passed around his wheat field
that he dislocated his jaw. He had to go twelve
miles to Leoti to have 1t fixed. Before he got
home another rain came up and ruined his crop.
In 1900 Andrea Starboro, a wealthy citizen of
San Francisco, bet another Up. c. RossD, din
ner of twenty covers at $40 each that in twenty
five years San Francisco will have population
of 100000. Arrangements have been made for
the payment of the bet by the heirs of the bet
tors, If necessary.
Ex-Congressman Levy, of New York, has pur-
chased tract of ZOO acres in Albemarle county,
Va, which was at one time owned by President
James Monroe, and was part of Ashlawn, his
country home. It is three miles from Month
cello, where Thomas Jefferson lived. Nr. Levy
owns the Jefferson tract.
The Department of Agriculture of South
Carolina has taken up the free distribution of
mulberry trees In that State. &lkworm culture
is an infant industry in this country. but with
proper encouragement it is capable of unlimited
development. Other states might do well to
follow South Cardinals lead.
A Boston scientist says that hypnotism can
develop only natural instincts. and that the best
hypnotist in the world cannot make a really
moral person do wrong. From experiments he
has made he believes that 70 per cent. of the
human race. If unrestrained by family pride and
other like considerations, would steal.
An inventor has hit upon method of putting
what are practically stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixed a waterproof glue with a
suitable quantity of clean quartz sand and
spreads it over the leather sole used as founda-
ton. These quartz soles are said to be very
flexible and practically indestructible.
Great is the helpful hen! According to the
last government census, the American hen pro-
duces annually 1921, 17S,s47 in products. Last
year she produced almost $l37 100000 worth Of
marketable progeny and over $144, 100000 worth
of eggs. She laid over 1,250,OOOOOO dozen of
eggs, or 23 for every inhabitant of this country.
If a Chinaman dies while being tried for MUIR
der the fact of his dying is taken as evidence of
his guilt. He has departed, but somebody must
suffer- and his eldest son, if he has one. is there
fore sent to prison for year. If he has no son