The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-05
ITEMS OF GENERAL rNrRRnar.


Birds, when perched on trees or bushes, are
natural weathercocks, as they invariably roost
with their heads to the wind.
Judge Bacon, London magistrate, remarked
the other day from the bench: There is many
a true word spoken by accident"
New and heavy all-steel cars are about to be
put into service for the transportation of mail
between Boston and New York
The wanamaker family in Philadelphia car
ries total of SSs55,OOO in life insurance. proba-
bly, more than any other in the world.
Less than one-tenth of the area of Texas is
under cultivation and yet in 1905 the State pro-
duced agricultural products valued at 5000
600.
Rev. Frank G. Elicit, a Presbyterian minister
of Mason, Mich. has announced his candidacy
for General Alger's seat in the United States
Senate.
Although vice-P President Fairbanks is the tall
est man in the Senate, his third son. Frederick,
who is his private secretary, now overtops him
by half an inch.
A firm of London florists employs a staff of
milliners who will trim any hat with natural
flowers from SLIPS up, according to the value of
| the blossoms used.
| Miss Lizzie johnson, the 'shut-in," who lives
| in Casey, Ill, is reported to have earned over
| $l1,COO for missions by the sale of bookmarks
which she has made.
Fred. Chadwick, an 1l-year- old boy, of North
whitefeld, Mass. is acquiring some reputation
as pulpit orator. His father is a hotelkeeper
| in North Whitefeld.
10 ffarva 11u
| the strings of which, in several instances, were
intact and gave forth distinct sounds, after an
estimated silence of 5000 years.
Although she is SO years old. Miss serepta
Pratt, of East Brook, Delaware county, N. Y,
is hustling travelling saleswoman for Phila
delphia house, with good income.
The air is SO pure in the polar regions, so free
from harmful microbes, that throat and lung
diseases are unknown there. That section is
also entirely free from contagious maladies.
Mrs. w. E. Morgan, of Missouri, is boss of one
of the richest zinc mines in that State The en-
ployes call her the "sun- bonnet boss" and they
are said to like her and work well under her di-
rection.
A letter from Mark Twain to Thomas Mast
brought $43 at New York auction. while
| O0duQCey Oep6W l6Ibtr W buC uutuOAAoO oAOu6nO
only cents, and a Richard A. McCurdy poem
only 30 cents.
Daniel Jones, the last survivor but one of the
detail of 20 Union soldiers which captured Jeh
Davis in 1866. has just died at Kokomo, Ind. He
was member of the Seventy second Indiana
Mounted Infantry.
The Emperor of China has household con-
I sisting of 500 persons, including 30 hearers of
State umbrellas an equal number of fan bearers,
80 physicians and surgeons, rs astrologers, 70
cooks aud 60 priests.
The gross earnings of United States railroads
for the month of January show an increase over
January 1905 of no less than $2l 1874 9S8. or 2044
per cent, and the gain in the net foots up $l1,-
e76497, or 1926 per cent.
william c. Clark, a patrolman on the Wash
ington police force, has received notice from
Mexico that gold mine in which he is interested
has turned out to be a fine property. and that
the stock he owns is worth $50O,0O0.
For DAYS millions of robins flew south bound
I over Yuba, Nevada and Placer counties, Califor-
mia. at night they aighted on trees, shrubs and
rocks and at daybreak resumed their flight
Nothing has ever been seen in California like IT.
Women and young girls do all the work OF
| porters in Java. They carry heavy loads on
their heads, balancing them with great skill
From the time a Japanese girl is able to walk
| she is taught the art of carrying things on heI
head.
An extraordinary executorship has just been
wound up in Paterson, N. ]. John V. Beam. OF
Pompton. died Is years ago, leaving property
worth 100000. The executor has just been re-
| leased from his charge, and the estate Is now
worth 100000.
TT all of the Larvae of the common fly came tC
I maturity and nothing happened to cut down the
maximum natural rate of increase one pair OF
insects might multiply to 10O,OOO,OOO, according
to eminent scientific authorities, in single halt
year of warm weather.
The great planet Jupiter is farther north now
than at any time for the last seven or eight years
b and il visible this month throughout the night
The opportunities for studying the largest o.
the planets are better. therefore, than they evel
are, except at long intervals.
There are more than 2,OOO,O 900 negro Baptists II
this country, with 50 institutions of learning
and 40 UNCONVENTIONAL papers. They have ma
, tional organization, with boards TOR missions
home and foreign; education, publication ano
the young peoples societies.
Accompanied only by an Indian half breed
Lillian K Malcolm, woman mining prospectol
in Nevada says she discovered in the foothills o.
the Funeral Mountains of Death Valley ledge
of rich copper and gold ores. If her story of the
I find be correct it is worth millions.
If the world were birdless, naturalist de
clares, man could not inhabt it after nine years
Time in spite of all the sprays and poisons thai
could be manufactured for the destruction Of
insects The insects and slugs would simply cal
all the orchards and crops in that time.
3 Rev. Edward Mitchell Barney. of Pawtucket
RI, is the most popular marrying pastor in the
} State. and his business has increased rapidly
since he has kept himself well supplied with
books and statuary which he gives away as 9
wedding present with every knot he ties.
IF. Petrie. of GAINESVILLE, Ark, who has just
turned q, made whirwind campaign Oh one
day for mayor of his city, and won by a good
majority over a middle-aged business man. He
was persuaded to run for the office the day
before the election by the young men of the
city.
Methodist preacher, who has been preach
ing for n years, is worth some little attention
This distinction belongs to the Rev. Richard
Rymer, of Brixton, England. who was preacher
when William Nv. was Ming Oh Eu8lduu auO AL
drew Jackson was President of the United
States.
Sarah Herring Sorrin, of Tucson, Ariz., has
been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court
of the United States. She makes the twenty
fifth woman admitted to practice in the court
Mrs. Belva Lockwood the first admitted, was
present when the motion was made in Washing
ton in Mrs. Sorrin's behalf.
Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarily sleep
with their eyes open they swallow their food
whole, having no dental machinery. Frogs
toads and serpents never take food except that
which they are certain is alive. Serpents are so
tenacious of life that they will live for six
months or longer without food.
Griffith ]. Griffith is now serving the last
months of two-year sentence in San Quentin
prison, California, for shooting his wife. His
large investments in land in Los Angeles and
vicinity, made before his imprisonment began,
| have fncraaaad in value TO such extent that they