The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-01


ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Recently sleet collected on the whistle rope
OF Dilden's MILL at Exchange, Pa, making it so
heavy that It opened valve and started an
alarm Of IRE.
Peter O'Connor. aged 81 years, Of Flint, Mich.
who is averse TO cold weather, goes to bed late
in the fall, encased in blankets, and remains
there all winter.
Mrs. Minnie Horton, Of Beaver, Pa, commit
ted suicide because the win Of her husband could
not be found and she thought she was in danger
of losing all her property.
After studying the case two days, Alderman
Donohue. of Wflkesbarre. a..decided that wife
and husband each owned half Of the presents
given ct the time Of marriage.
Fifty years ago Ember Mason. q Missouri far
mer, began training a walnut tree to be made
into boards for bis coffin. Last week he died,
and bis wishes were respected.
man in Cimarron. Kan. saw another man
throw ton of coal out Of car, frightened him
away by impersonating brakeman. and then
hauled the coal to his own home.
Having found piece Of gold in a chickens
craw, Henry Dunkelbergerof Seven Points. Pa,
was induced TO dig. with the result that he says.
he has found gold mine on his farm.
In defending himself in court in Philadelphia
against nageing wife. John Friel told the judge
that she ordered him to wear Oxford ties instead
Of heavy shoes when rain was falling.
OF the Fetterman family Of Columbia county.
Pennsylvania. consisting Of six brothers and six
sisters, all the brothers are blind and are cared
mfnk - a.
The chimney swift is truly bird Of the air for
II never alights on the fence or building. 1t
drops into the top Of some wide mouthed Chin
ney and cIinss to its rough sides with tiny feet.
John Knoppenberger. carpenter of Allen
town. Pa. in falling from scaffold. landed on
his feet ffacturing the bones in both heels-a
rare occurrence. Conclusion Of the spine re-
suited.
The story Is now going the rounds Of the coun-
try papers about man who visited the paying
teller's window in a bank and asked for one Of
the new coins with "God Bless Our Home"
left on.
Mrs. Anetta E. McCrea. the first woman land
scape architect in this country. is the official
landscape architect for the St. Paul road. and
consulting landscape architect for other West
ern roads.
Highway robbers near Columbus, Ohio, who
had beaten and robbed W. A. Fulmer. when they
saw the man unable to get on the railroad track
as locomotive was approaching. ran back and
helped him.
]. B. Tawney. father of Congressman Tawney,
chairman Of the Committee on Appropriations,
has just died at Cedar BLUFFS, Neb. Mr.. Tawney
owned the farm upon which the battle of Gettys-
burg was fought.
Four years ago Christian Henry, Of Brooklyn,
was bitten By pet dog, but no Ill effects fol-
lowed from the wound. He imagined. however,
that the bite would be fatal, and last week he
died Of hydrophobia.
New York man who has spent 70 years in
making models for inventors to send to the Pat
emit ONCE says that there are 81 men in New
York he knows Of who are working on per
petual motion machines.
Mrs. Carrie Kneisel. of Camden. N. J.. blacked
both Of Harvey Spencer's eyes, scratched his
face, cut his upper lip, gashed his forehead. tore
out section Of his whiskers and put one arm in
sling for robbing her Of II cents.
Six female stenographers employed by the
Victor Talking Machine Company of Philadel
phia have married, and the chair in which the
workers sat has been broken. In order. the mem
bers Of the firm say, to change their luck.
Mrs. Harry Jones' Of Hartford Conn.,, has sued
trolley car company because, in rounding
curve, the conductor lost his balance and fell
into her lap. knocking her head against the side
Of the car and rendering her unconscious.
Judge Shay, of Pottsville, Pa, decided that
John Mcguire. prosecuted by Mrs. ]. @. Corners
to pay attention to the young woman against
her parents wishes, and put him under bond.
George s. Nixon, Senator from Nevada, has
ranch of 1900 acres in Wyoming under fence
& and farm of 5000 acres in Nevada. His mines
in Tonopah. Goldaeld, Columbia, Diamondheld.
Manhattan and Fairview yield enormous wealth.
After watching 152 women alight from street
cars the observer reported that one out of each
IS got Of correctly, facing in the direction the
cars were going and then added that he thought
they intended to make 1t unanimous but made
mistakes.
Oranges, pears. grapes, cherries, etc.. are now
being packed in paper boxes containing nitro
gen, and the exclusion of oxygen seems to keep
the fruit from decay for an indefinite time
Fish shown in Paris in 1900 had been preserved
In nitrogen for seven years.
Undertaken ]. t. Roth, Of Brownsville Pa.
called to embalm the body Of ]. P. Jeffries, who
had taken carbolic acid with suicidal intent. was
surprised when the man leaped from the table
and disappeared through window. Jefrries re-
turned In few hours and died.
The grandest train in the world is said to be
the Kaiser's. 1t cost S1.OO0,O00 and took three
years to build. In the II sumptuous saloons are
two nursery coaches. q gymnasium. MUSHROOM,
drswing-room furnished with oil paintings and
statuary. The treasure-room. with Its two safes,
il burglar-proof.
Biting the nails Is habit that should Gimme
-dsately corrected in children. because it perma-
nently deforms them. Dipping the finger ends
in some bitter tincture will generally prevent
children from putting them in their mouth. IF
this falls each finger should be encased in .
stall until the propensity Is eradicated.
Fourteen members of the National House of
Representatives are oreign-born-Cockrana and
MCMILLAN. Of New York. in Ireland; McKinlay,
Of California; Campbell. of Kansas. and Hughes,
Of West Virginia, In Canada; Karn. of Califor
mia Bartholdt, of Missouri, and Kutermann, of
Wisconsin. in England; McLachlan, Of Califor-
MIA, and Wilson, Of Pennsylvania. in Scotland;
SABBATH, of Illinois, in Bohemia, and Lanberth,
Of Minnesota. in Sweden.