The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

newspaper correspondent recently tounu
| near Kimberley. South Africa. a diamond Of
1lsx carats. that he sold for sls'i55.
| A Chicago man attended ball and, by using
| pedometer, reached the conclusion that girl
dances about 16 miles in the course Of an evening
Frank Rockefeller. of Cleveland. o., brother
| of the Standard Oil king, has purchased a herd
Of buffalo in Iowa. which he will take to his
| Kansas ranch.
| Thomas Tapling. of London, began collecting
/ postage stamps when only 10 years old. and now
| has q collection numbering 100000, which 1t is
estimated is worth $4,000
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, has receded more
than 200 feet within the memory of living men,
and Is now travelling toward Lake Erie at the
rate Of fully 800 feet century.
The Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland have
issued circular to be read In all the cbapels Of
the four provinces, warning the young genera
| ton against the evils of emigration.
Mississippi has adopted law making house
breaking a capital offense, this action having
been prompted by frequent burglaries accom-
panied by shooting at the householders.
During the recent yellow fever epidemic in
New Orleans not one case made its appearance
| among the soldiers of Jackson Barracks, only
$50 feet from the nearest infected point
James Foraker, brother Of the Ohio Senator.
looks so much like the latter that he never goes
to Washington, If he can help it, when Congress
is in session, in order to avoid annoyances.
Admiral Dewey sent Christmas message to
the officers and men Of the American Navy
throughout the world in time 10 reach every
American warship some time Christmas day.
Thousands of farmers answered the advertise
ment of a man who offered to sell receipt
for making pound of butter from pint of
milk and teaspoonful of our preparation"
Vine Hovey has acted as agent for the Bering-
ton at Forest City, NO., for 40 years without
losing a single days work. and in consequence
has been given a two-year vacation with full
pay.
It is asserted that Frank H. Hitchcock, first
assistant to the Postmaster General. has worked
from A. N. until midnight for three years. his
only vacation in this time consisting of two days
to vote.
All Paris is reading and discussing the memoirs
of the Philadelphia dentist, DR.. Evans the friend
of Napoleon III. which have just been publish
cd. and which contain a most excellent descrip-
tion of the last days of the Second Empire.
John W. Kern. former Democratic candidate
for Governor, is credited with the statement
that in one Indiana county with 1900 votes there
are 1900 purchasable Democrats and Republi-
cans, about equally divided as to numbers.
With $500 physicians, Germany has one for
every LOO inhabitants In the city of Berlin 40
per cent. of all the physicians have an income of
less than 500, and per cent. of the whole num-
Der do not have sufficient income to return 1t
for taxation.
The Oldest trio of any family in the United
States celebrated Christmas at Jenkintown, Pa.
| They are Isaac Mather, Charles Mather and Re-
becca s. Kitchener, nee Mather, brothers and
/ sister, whose combined ages are 268 years
months and IS days.
Miss Clarbel David has been appointed assist
ant city attorney In San Francisco this being an
unusual position for woman to occupy. She
graduated at the University of California and at
the Hastings Law School, and has been very sue
cessful in her law practice.
Peter Larson, of Montana, at So years of age,
is held to be the richest man in the Northwest.
next to Senator W. A. Clark. He came here
| from Denmark at 20, an ordinary peasant lad,
empty handed and ignorant of the language, be-
| ginning as q dock laDorer.
Mrs. Fannie Griscom Parsons is to be the first
person to fill the office of director of farm colo
mics in New York city. She will receive salary
| of $500. The New York farm colonies have
raised all sorts of vegetables, besides keeping
the children out of mischief.
Col. A. F. Rogers, of Upper Alton, ILL.,, has re-
covered, after having spent much time and
money, the sword he lost in the battle of Rome,
when he was wounded in the Civil War, AZ years
ago. He finally found it in the possession of
George W. Wood, of Angora, Ok.
An English company has been formed to
| furnish new soap which makes laundry work
will not have to carry from 900 to 100 pieces
of bed and table linen to last during the entire
voyage. Washing can be done aboard.
James B. Mclaughlin is the only member of
the District of Columbia bar with two widely
different and distinct professions. He is an ex-
celent lawyer and an ordained minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. and regularly
breaches to Washington congregations.
Billings Sherman, the 12-year- old son of John
c. Sherman, of Greenwich Washington county,
New York. has become sole heir to the s2,OOO.OO0
estate left by his grandfather, Jesse Billings, a
widower, who died at his home in Northumber-
land Saratoga county, on December last, and
who left no will.
Congressman Miller, of Kansas, hasintroduced
bill increasing from $l2 to $50 month the pen
sion now being received by Jesse Mcdowell. one
of his constituents. The veteran, now In his
one hundred and second year, fought in the
Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars but is still in
fairly good health.
Though an American citizen now Col. John
Sobiesl1. once Prohibition candidate for COVER
nor of Missouri, indisputably is rightful King of
Poland He lives at present in California. He
was born in Poland in 1642, and he and his daugh-
ter are the only known direct descendants of
the warrior King of Poland, John Sobieski.
Emory Gibson, 10 years old, has been chosen
''baby chief'' of the Usage Indians in accordance
with an ancient triennial custom of that tribe.
Every third year a new baby chief is selected,
and this year the title was bestowed on the Glib
son boy, whose father, white man, married a
full-blooded Usage maiden.
d. Taylor, u 7O-year-old farmer of Madison
county, KY, has just returned from a sx-week
visit to each of his nine children tall married),
who live in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
and Texas having completed a remarkable
drive of several thousand miles, which he made
alone in a buggy. His journey consumed two
years.
There is railway over the Egyptian desert
which runs for forty five miles in straight line,
but this is beaten by one in Australia The rail-
way from Nyngan to Bourke, in New South
Wales, runs over plain quite level for 1875 miles,
in automatically straight line. There is
hardly an embankment. not one curve and only
three very slight elevations.
From the best information obtainable the
American capital invested in Sonora, Mexico,
now amounts to $4OOOOOOO. About 70 per cent.
of this is in the mining industry, and recently
much of the new investment has gone into smell
ters. The balance of the capital is in railroads
and cattle and land companies the amount in
vested in commercial enterprise being small.
The ''Silence Club's'' membership is limited to
10, all of whom are season ticket-holders on
London suburban railway, and the subscription