The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-28
ITEMS oF GENERAL INTEREsr.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The average English woman is two inches
taller than the American.
1t was go years ago that the Society of Friends
founded its church in Lynn. Mass.
The town of Riverside. N. j.. with popula-
ton of $4,000. has no paid police force nor
lookup.
school girl in Hutchinson, Kan. defined for
her teacher demagogue as "a vessel holding
beer and other liquids"
George H. Gibson, of Berks county, Pennsyl-
vania, after surviving two divorces, has had
three wives in two years.
On December LIST dealers in apples in New
York State had more than 100000 barrels in |
cold storage waiting for higher prices.
FIRED" A. Shotwell of Pottersville, Mich.
aged 30. and divorced, married his step-grand-
mother, aged II, his grand-father's fourth wife.
George Garfield, a milkman of Caulheld, N. j.,
has horse which lies on lie back, using bag of
hay for a pillow, and holds up its hoofs to be
shod.
Mrs. Anna Stefforn, of Philadelphia it is al
legged, took poison because her husband bought
which he had photographed his face.
Miss Hester B. Young, of Lincoln, Neb., and
Mr.. Oliver Sacks were married in Tecumseh
Neb., after an hours courtship in drawing
room car on the Burlington railroad.
The first silk hat was worn in the streets of
London by John Hetherinton, a haberdasner, on
January 9Th, 1877. He was arrested for melting
a riot. but was dismissed with reprimand.
A Blacksburg, Pa. hog weighing 800 pounds
chewed up dynamite cap which had been
thrown in the pen. and the cap, exploding, tore
of the animals head.
highwayman returned to W. A. Even, of
Minneapolis. S65 which he had secured from him
as "a forced loan," apologizng for not sending
back his watch on the ground that it might lead
to his arrest.
At Ravenna, Ohio, in trying to butcher $50
pound hog, John Bauman was thrown to the
ground by the animal rearing and paving at
him. The knife entered the mans heart, killing
him instantly.
Eighty-one years old, and never toothache
and never a tooth lost-that is, since he lost his
baby teeth This man is Capt. William Dix, of
West fremont, Me-. hale and hearty, who reads
without glasses.
John B. Hill, of Atlanta, is the first negro in
the country to receive Carnegie hero medal.
A check of $500 was sent as a reward for risking
his life in saving several people in danger from
a runaway team.
Medicines are made almost absolutely taste
less, according to new German process, by
causing them, in liquid form, to be absorbed by
natural agaragar, then graduating or pulver-
izng and drying.
On the Pennsylvania Railroads lines, east of
Pittsburg, there are 952 more locomotives than
passenger cars to handle the traffic. There are
| in service on these lines 4.O99 locomotives and
3,147 passenger cars.
hog weighing $40 pounds, fed in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on beer and whisky by some jokers
knocked over two policemen, boarded trolley
car and caused panic, and was finally caught
by reserve force of 20 policemen.
In his wife's suit for divorce at Camden, N. j.,
Benjamin Hartridge's bald head was marked
"Exhibit b. 1t was alleged that the husband
had struck his wife with his hairbrush. and the
jury was asked to look at the head.
Mrs. Frances j. Pray of Hancock county, Mis-
souri, left $1,000 by will, the income of which is
to be used to buy turkeys for Thanksgiving and
Christmas for the poor in Carthage and Month
cello, ILL.,, where she spent her early life.
The immediate future has small promise for
Industrial peace in Germany, nor has it much
promise for the betterment of wages or hours of
labor, as a constantly increasing friction is grow
ing up between employers and employees.
Arthur Wilcox. of Burlington, N. j.. in an
eating contest, disposed of SO ham sandwiches,
dozen small pickles, pounds of cheese and IL
cups of coffee, but was defeated by stranger,
who went him one better through the whole
menu.
The silver separation is cynical imitation of
the silver wedding. A we'll known woman re-
Gently celebrated her silver separation, and her
husband sent her valuable present, I'm mem
Org of the many happy years we have lived
apart"
In the State of New York there are 1900
abandoned farms, representing an area of IL, 000,
600 acres, and capable of caring for population
of 250,OOO. 1t is stated that farm lands in that
State have decreased $17OO 600 in value in the
last 20 years.
Max Duffek. of Munich, Germany, last month
walked on his hands down all the steps of the
| Washington Monument, in Washington, and won
wager of $500. He tainted upon reaching the
bottom and was then ordered off the grounds by
the Waterman.
John L. Kelly, prisoner, handcuffed, leaped
| from train going IS miles an hour in Montana,
and, securing gun, held up locomotive fire.
man and compelled him to file off his shackles.
When captured later he was dressed in the
height of fashion.
A Kentucky negro earns double wages as a
hodcarrier. because he is able to do the work of
two men. He carries from 40 to 80 bricks at
time. He places the bricks upon board which
| he balances upon his head as he climbs to the
tops of high buildings.
| One of the most curious phenomena of geogra-
ply is found on the southern coast of the Island
of Cephalonia, in Greece. It is a stream of salt
water which for an unknown period has left the
almost tideless sea and flowed inland with a vol
ume sufficient to furnish waterpower to two
mills.
The fact that colds are more common in win
ter than in summer is not due simply to the
lower temperature. 1t is mainly because people
spend less of their time in the open air. Dread
ing the chilly air they remain indoors, the health
is proportionately lowered, and they take cold
easily.
Found wandering the streets on July 4th,
man who has been in the Kansas City General
Hospital since that time cannot remember who
he is or where he came from. No one has in
quired for him, and the police cannot learn any
thing about the stranger whose memory has
lapsed.
The most wonderful bird flight noted is the
migratory achievement of the Virginia plover,
which leaves it's haunts in North America and
taking course down the Atlantic, reaches the
coast of Brazil in unbroken flight of Is hours
covering distance of over3 600 miles at the rate
of four miles minute.
Suitable eyeglasses are reported to have re-
Gently cured victim of severe epileptic attacks
after he had undergone two surgical operations
with no relief. The patients own conviction
that his eyes had something to do with his trou-
BILE was entirely disregsrded as quite contrary
to all previous experience.