The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-02
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Kentucky woman. only 50 years old, has just
acquired her ninth husband.
The small steel screws used in matchmaking
are worth six times their weight In gold.
Mrs. W. 8. Pratt, Of Atlanta, Ga. is head of 9
firm handling 100 cars of lumber monthly.
The English money denomination pound was
once pound weight Of silver in its pure state.
Ohio's Legislature. attempting salary grab,
bungled it SO that next Assembly will get no pay
at all.
The telephone and rural free delivery of mail
have increased Georgia farm lands from $40 to
800 an acre.
Cloves are unopened flowers gathered in the
green-bud stage, smoked by a wood fire and
dried in the sun.
Bright red spectacles accompanied by internal
doses Of calomel, form a new German specific
against seasickness.
A motor driver was fined $1l5 in the town of
East Wolseley England, the other day for pass
ing cart on the wrong side.
Rev. DIR. Simpson, of New York. raised at the
camp meetingof the Christian Alliance at Port
land. Me-, $4,000 for foreign missions.
Admiral Togo, when in England in the EOS. was
commented on by a critic, who said "Mr. Togo
quite annoys himself with his politeness."
Philadelphia leads the world in the manufac-
ture of carpets. with yearly output worth ST.
$4,000. and employing IL, persons in SO mills.
Mr.. Cleveland has survived his entire first
cabinet, with the exception Of Mr.. Villas, who
presided over the convention which nominated
him.
Mrs Gondel, the 45-year old wife of Hamburg
millionaire, has been married % years and has
had thirty-three children, including five sets of
triplets.
The late G. J. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N. Y, the
veteran trotting horseman, left an estate of
$1,543OOO. mostly in gilt-edged bonds, to his wife
and three sons.
In the United States last year there were 1905
strikes, involving 145,l74 persons. The number
benefited was 121 340 The total cost of the strikes
was S2S6O. 62O.6S.
Thomas TAPPING, of London, began collecting
postage stamps when only 10 years old and now
has collection of about 100000 which, it is esti
mated, is worth $5OO,OOO
The boots of Cromwell's soldiers weighed 10
pounds apiece, being made of the thickest
leather, lined and padded, with rowelled spurs
attached by steel chains.
The first bull fight in Madrid after the repeal
of the Sunday law was witnessed by 10000 per-
sons, and $1,000 more waited outside the ring to
get prompt news of the result.
Charles F. Holm, of Massachusetts,, the father
of "a children by one wife, enlisted in the Navy
in 1887. This date of enlistment probably is
earlier than that of any living man.
A. s. Barnes of Elkins, W. Va, is in point of
service the Oldest railway postal clerk in the
service of this Government. He was born in
Connellsville. Pa, and has served under every
President since Lincoln
The Pope. in receiving in private audience
Bishop Cunningham. of Concordia, Kan, ex-
pressed surprise and qualification on hearing
that 80 churches had been built in seven years
in the Concordia diocese.
Secretary Dudley. of the Civil Service Com
mission, has an answer that he treasures. by
what means are infectious diseases communi-
Gated ?" and the candidate replied: "By mails,
telephone and telegraph"
| Excluding officials and clerks. the number of
persons engaged in street railway transporta-
ton in America in 1902 was 1884, or almost
one-eighth the number employed upon the 2O0,-
600 miles of steam railroads.
The State of New York. under the provisions
| of the Radford Beaver Restoration Act, has
purchased several live wild beavers, to be liber-
ated in the Adirondack wilds some time this
month. Others will be liberated later.
One of his clerical friends reports Mr.. John D.
| Rockefeller as observing that he had helped
| large number of young men and women through
| college, and not one of them ever called upon
| him afterward to thank him for his assistance.
| The women of Wenatchee, WASH, have formed
| local floral association and introduced plant
and flower culture into many homes. The sue
cess has been so great that midwinter fair is
planned to properly exhibit flowers produced.
A lineman at Reno, New, came in contact with
heavily charged wire at the top of 6O-foot
electric light pole and fell to the ground. When
| he recovered consciousness he wished to return
to work at once, but was persuaded to call it a
| day.
Robert Hoe, the famous builder of printing
presses, has this for his favorite maxim: ut is
better to get behind a thing and push it along
tudu W Bcb III lEOub VI duu uEdB III d1tCE yOus
| In other words, it is the work. not the man, that
should attract attention"
The Dean of Canterbury says he has heard,
and he believes there is great truth in it, that
the practical wisdom of the Scottish people is
due to the fact that at the time of the reforma-
ton the Book of Proverbs was hammered into
the heads of the children.
Mrs. Ellis Rowan. the famous flower artist,
has received an offer of $4,000 by the German
| government for her 500 Australian flower pic
lures the condition being that she shall take up
her residence in that country and devote her
talents exclusively to Germany.
| Miss Margaret Aston Chaner, great-gran
daughter of the original John Jacob Aston, with
an income of $4,000 year, intends to start a
model dairy, creamery and stock farm at her
summer estate, Rokoby. near Tarrytown- on-the-
| Hudson, to be conducted strictly as business
venture.
The new Oregon law that went into effect last
month provides that man convicted of wife
beating may be punished with whipping, not
to exceed twenty lashes. This is, however, adj
ditional punishment only, and exclusive of the
old-time punishment by fine or imprisonment,
which is still ia force.
Once upon time, as far back as the EOS, Susan
B. Anthony wore bloomers, but she declared it
mental crucihxion" and gave itup. She is very
fond of pretty clothes but only buys one new
dress annually and never wears fiannels or furs.
Her silk petticoats are marvels of prettiness,
and she is most dainty in all her dress Access
series.
John Farson. the Chicago banker is to build
garden adjoining his beautiful Oak Park resi-
dence that will rival even the famous Grove of
Daphne Of the days of the Caesars. There will
be hanging garden, a sunken garden, Roman
outdoor bath and rivulet that will wind in and
out among the flowers and the statues of the
garden.
raoarso T,rof ID n uoldan of tho Iowa 0ri-