The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


for accepting rebates from the New York Cen
trail Railroad.
Paris cab horses work only every other day,
and are fed on the days they work only, net on
the days they rest"
Before Listers antiseptic inventions the death
rate in amputations of the thigh was Al per cent.
1t is now about per cent.
New York city has more telephones than Lon
don, though London has 100000 more inhabi-
tants than New York city.
The National Convention of Tramps has just
ended at Chippewa Falls, Wis, with rousing
endorsement of Foraker for the Presidency.
New York city's milk supply comes from &c.
600 FARMS situated in six states, varying in dis
lance from the metropolis from 10 to 400 miles.
Both in the United Kingdom and the United
States alcoholic beverages contribute more than
a fourth-about rs per cent of the total receipts
into the treasury.
From Nebraska comes a story that Albert and
Walter Lynch, of Sioux City, twin brothers. are
going to marry Gertrude and Agnes Lynch, of
Omaha, twin sisters.
Fifty years ago Mrs. Mary D. Richman and
Arthur 1. Kinsey quarreled and separated. Now
her husband is dead, and these two have married
at Des Moines, Iowa.
Three good washes are received by an Abyssi-
MAN during his career-at his birth, on his mar
rage morn and at his death. At all other times
he shuns soap and water.
Many peculiar forms of animal life are fur
nished by the sea, not the least remarkable being
certain species of fish that readily swallow other
fish twice their own size.
Montpelier. VT, with 6,OOO population, holds
more than $6OOO,OOO of Kansas mortgages. This
is an average of over $1,000 for every man, wo-
man and child in the town.
Isaac Victor Slifenstein of the Rutgers gradua-
ting class changed his name to Stone. in court.
whereupon his college mates buried him with an
elaborate funeral procession.
OF a consignment of rat traps to G. E. Harris,
Winsted, Conn.,, one trap was missing, and when
it was found in the corner of the car there were
Is rats in it, caught without bait.
clock once owned by John Wesley and pre-
sented by him to the John Street Methodist
Church, in New York city, is still doing good ser
vice in the church, at "A John street.
Since the foundation of the government, in
$780, three states have furnished 20 of the 4s at
torneys general. Pennsylvania supplying eight,
Massachusetts, seven and Maryland five.
1t is New York gossip that Charles M. Schwab
is finding no satisfaction in his new $3,5O0,0OO
palace on Riverside Drive, and that it is on the
market for sale at 81 900 less than the cost.
Evelyn Chandler, of Norway, Me-, eight years
old, is said to have peculiar power over rep
tiles. She is a natural snake charmer, and ham
dies the most venomous serpents with impunity.
1t is predicted that cement will soon be ship
ped largely in bulk on account of the increas-
ing cost of bags and barrels. There were 10000
600 barrels of cement made in this country last
year.
1t has turned out that the ban against visitors
at the Rockefeller estate, Cleveland, was the re-
suit of impertinence on the part of some who
stood at the dining-room table and watched Mr..
Rockefeller eat.
Rev. George E. Eckman, of New York. declar-
ed before the Methodist Social Union of Chicago
that the gospel must be dramatized to carry on
the work of salvation as this is the day of ac-
ton, not preaching.
down chestnut tree on a neighbours property.
Last week the heirs of the two farmers paid the
costs upon final decision of the suit. The total
expenses have been $4,000. 4
Rev. Mr.. Mason, new Methodist pastor in
Iola Kan invited the congregation at the close
of last Sundays service to come forward and
have good old-fashioned Methodist handshake.
''And." he added, adjust your finger rings to
avoid injury"
Nevin and Peter Kerr, of Worthington, Arm
strong county, are probably the Oldest pair of
twins in Pennsylvania. They are 81 years of age
and still vigorous and hearty. having visited
Kittaming to transact some necessary legal bust
ness few days ago.
The fertilizing value of bran is about 81 per
ton. After the food properties have been alb
sorbed, there remains so pounds of nitrogen,
worth 16 cents pound SO pounds of phosphoric
acid and 80 pounds of potash, most of which is
available for fertilizer.
DIR. W. E. Chancellor, the new superintendent
of schools at Washington, d. c., decided to ask
Congress for the retirement of aged teachers on
half pay. This in conjunction with voluntary
retirement fund would provide the full salary
for the retiring teacher.
In the Indian Territory there is an estate of
100000 acres of exceedingly rich and fertile
land, much of it underlaid with mineral and oil
deposits of fabulous value, being divided among
some 100000 citizens and freedmen of the five
civilized tribes of Indians.
Mrs. Ella Eelman of Sioux City, Ia, decided
to go to the high school with her son, just to
prove to him that the work might be more in
teresting than she thought it to be. She keeps
up with him and hires some ono to do her house.
work while she is taking the course.
While digging wall excavation along the pub
lie road between Williamsport and Montours-
vile, Pa, recently. men unearthed the skeleton
of man, with an old iint-lock gun alongside
The skull, which is quite well preserved, has the
appearance of having been pierced by bullet.
William ]. Bryan has grown quite stout within
the past few years. His present weight is 234
pounds, while at the time he entered the cam
paign in 1895 he tipped the beam at exactly 1855.
He was then SO and consequently his avordu-
pois in the last II years has increased SO pounds
New York passed the child labor bill withou ut
opposition. The bill provides that women or
minors shall not be employed before Z A. M. or
after 10 P. NJ, nor more than ten hours in any
one day, except on Saturday, or for the purpose
of making shorter work day some one day in
the week.
James G. Parkerson, Jr., a Louisiana man, has
invented new railroad tie, which the experts
say will aid materially in reducing the consump-
tion of wood, if it is generally adopted by the
railroads. The tie is of metal, with the excep-
tion of those portions on which the rail rests,
which are of wood.
Although living within four miles of Wood
bury, N. J., ]. r. Craig, farmer. went into town
May 18th for the first time since 1878. Although
in good health, he simply had no business" and
stayed home. He admitted there had been many
changes there since his last visit to Woodbury.,
twenty-nine years ago.
There are telephone girls in Manila, and they
come from the best families. Each girl has
servant, who accompanies her, as no woman
over the age of IL ever goes out alone. The ser
want carries the lunch and waits upon her mis-
tress, and as nobody is ever in hurry the girls
have a very pleasant time of it.
Mrs. Eleanor Doe Stetson, of San Francisco,
wants to be divorced from Mr.. Stetson, street
railway magnate. She alleges among other