The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-16

Prisoners In Morocco must pay the policeman
for bis work In taking them to jail.
The railway scrap heap Of the country last
year reached the value Of sl.25O.0OO. &
&. L. Harness and Gertrude Cart wererecently
married in Christian county. Missouri.
A sunfsh weighing over 1000 pounds was
caught recently at Santa Barbara, Cal. 1t was
IL feet long.
DR.. Andrew Jackson Barchfeld, one Of the
newly elected representatives in Congress from
Pittsburgh, is feet inches tall.
Rear Admiral Schley says that this nation has
had i've wars within l25 years. and that in these
wars 2.607 battles had been fought.
The vestrymen of old Trinity Church. on
Broadway. New York. recently refused $780,,
600 for the cite, which was wanted for skyscraper
Office buildings.
On board the Pacific Mail liner China, which
sailed from San Francisco recently for the ORR
emf. were 50 tons of Mexican silver dollars. worth
s750000 in gold.
Thomas Garfield. the only brother of the mar
tyred President, lives on little farm about FIVE
miles from Jacksonville, Mich. He is SO years of
age and typical farmer.
In Switzerland every male between the ages
of twenty and sixty-five is obliged TO vote, un-
less he be a pauper, criminal or a bankrupt.
These have not the right of voting.
Recently sacred white bull was brought from
India for exhibition at the Crystal Palace. near
London. But the British authorities refused to
let 1t be landed, except in the form of beef
r.
a Methodist preacher on $500 a year. says he has
just refused an offer of 81 100 year from noted
stable owner who wanted his services as horse
trainer.
Prices up in Nome correspond with the lati-
tude. The Semi Weekly Ne,Us sells for rs cents
a copy, or 81 month. 1t appears from adver-
tisements that milk brings rs cents quart, and
eggs dollar dozen.
Hetty Green keeps about 100000 worth of
diamonds on hand at all times. She never wears
any of them, but she knows that they increase
in value at the rate of per cent. year, and
holds them as an investment.
Miss Minnetta Taylor, of Greencastle, Ind. for
years professor of Romance languages in De
Pauw University. speaks fiuently % different
tongues, is able to converse fairly well in nine
others, and can read four more.
California has just made her biggest shipment
of potatoes from Stockton. 1t consisted of
train of thirty-five cars. loaded with 9450 sacks
of potatoes, which went by the Santa Fe route
to Texas, Arkansas and Missouri river points.
Senator Allison leads the list in the new Con-
gressional directory as respects length of SER
vice, and Senator Morgan of Alabama. is close
second. Allison's continuous service dates from
March 4, 1873. and Morgan's from March, 5, 1877.
Since the final products of the perfect COM
bustion of any fuel are water and carbon diox-
ide,neither of which constitutes or makes smoke.
the existence of smoke is proof of the imperfect
burning of whatever substance is consumed for
heat or power.
Archbishop Glennon. of st. Louis. has started
a gigantic scheme for the colonization of thous-
ands of Catholics in the southwestern part of
Missouri The land will be purchased cheap.
and the families will make their homes as set
tiers did 100 years ago.
Dismissed because he had married. johann
nesburg bank clerk obtained three months
salary and $165 for libel contained in the letter
of dismissal, the court remarking that any agree
ment in restraint of marriage was void, immoral
and contrary to public policy.
BERT White. the champion corn husker of
Warren county, Indiana, after husking 1921
bushels of corn and cribbing it in 10 hours, be-
came paralyzed in both arms. The record was
made on wager of $40. His opponent husked
14O bushels during the same time.
Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the
Pension office, Washington, claims to have been
the youngest regularly enlisted and mustered
soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War.
He enlisted at indianapolis on October Is, 1851.
at the age of II years and months.
The Health Department will stop the sale of
four brands of condensed cream in Milwaukee.
Samples of these brands have been tested, and
instead of containing IS per cent of butter fats,
as required by the standard adopted in Milwau-
kee, they contained only 8x per cent.
Gen. Pleasant Porter, chief of the Creeks,
may be the first Indian to sit in the U. 8.
Senate. He will be one of the leading men of
the new State, composed of Indian Territory
and Oklahoma, when it is created. He is 65 years
old. One of his grandparents was white.
G. e. Townsend, who is in his second term as
member of the House of Representatives from
the Second Michigan District, is already recog-
nized as strong force in national legislation.
His grandfather emigrated to Michigan all the
way from New Jersey by OK team in 1884.
George Standish, a farmer in Wichita county,
Kan, one morning recently laughed so hard
because a rain had passed around his wheatfield
that he dislocated his jaw. He had to go IL miles
to Leoti to have it fixed. Before he got home
another rain came up and ruined his crop.
Three new Congressman. Ralph Cole, Beman
G. Dawes and Edward L. Taylor, are already
known as "the Ohio kids The three cannot
boast of very much more than 100 years in the
aggregate, but they are all hustlers from State
that has turned out some pretty swift movers in
its day.
DR.. Heber JONES' to whom the citizens of
Memphis recently presented a purse of $4,000
for his care of the quarantine this year, has
weathered five epidemics in the city, and yet IL
is recorded that he was greatly embarrassed"
when the leading woman who presented the
check kissed him full upon the lips.
William Thompson, who died the other day at
Shelbyville, Ind, aged II. was known as 1.-THE
man who sold his gold at $2.75." During the
Civil War Mr.. Thompson accumulated $500 in
gold which he carried to Indianapolis and sold at
premium of $o.75, netting him 81 ,525, within 10
cents of the highest price ever paid for gold.
A large proportion of the ivory supply comes
from Africa. but this is obtained mainly from
the vast stores which have been laid up for
generations past by native chiefs The natives
also know where the so-called elephant GENE
teries are-for elephants always go to certain
places to die-and there they find great num-
bers of tusks.
1t is go years since Rev. Henry Francis Lyle,
who wrote the beautiful hymn, abide With
Me-" died at Nice, and this year final effort is
being made in the far distant little seaport in
Devonshire where he lived and ministered for
rs years. to complete the rebuilding of the little
memorial church which has taken the fishermen
30 years to build.
Joseph g. Cannoni is the Oldest man ever elected
speaker of the House of Representatives. He
was also longer a member of that body before
becoming speaker than any other presiding Off
Ger. Theyoungest speaker the House has ever
had was r. M. T. Hunter. of Virginia, who was
only so years old and in his second term when
chosen to preside.
Led by Mrs. Roosevelt, the wives of Cabinet
officers have decided to raise the standard of the
culinary art in Washington. With this end in