The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-03-07
IrEMs OF eBNnRAI. INTEREsr.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In favorable wind fox can scent man one
quarter Of mile away.
Edward George was fined in Georgetown, Del,
80 cents an oath for swearing, the bill amount
ing to e15.
No wine may hereafter be sold in Spain on
Sundays, and the inns must be closed on week
days at midnight.
In the family Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Miller,
of Niles, Mich, are four sets of twins. Each set
was born on Sunday.
By decision Of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court, Mrs. lutte, widow Of William @. lutte. of
Pittsbur9, loses 100000.
The bone from the leg of dog was success
fully grated to the arm of Vernon Wolfe, boy
IA years old. Of Oaktown. Ind.
John Blue, a boy of Natalie, Pa, ate quarter
of pound of smoking tobacco, which caused
his death after great suffering.
Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor. 20 years in Con-
gress from Ohio, says he will run for Congress
next fall on an independent ticket.
In order to cure her husband of drunkenness,
Mrs. Ivan 0ldgrey, Of Gowrie, Iowa. sewed him
between two blankets and horsewhipped him.
The sight of one eye of R. G. Mann. of Allan
tic City, was destroyed by bristle from hair
brush thrown at him in fun by his 3-year old
son.
David Rankin, of Tarkio the richest and most
important working farmer in the world, will be
one Of Missouri's exhibits at the Chicago Repub
lican Convention.
Mrs. Mary s. Price, of Council Bluffs. Iowa,
aged 70 years. and Miss George Schaap, living
near Gallon, Ohio, aged so years, are cutting
third sets of teeth. s1 ~
Some of the things the clubwomen of Illinois
are going to fight this year are the cigarette
habit, the cocaine habit. the 5hveeent theatre
and unlicensed hotels.
An invalid in st. Joseph, No.. keeps in happy
mental condition by sitting at window all day
and imagining what he would do with the money
If he had million dollars.
While laughing at joke Mrs. Eta Holmes. of
Camden. N. J., suddenly found that her jaws
became rigidly open, and surgeons at hospital
found the jaws dislocated.
Business is so dull at Nodo, N. Y, that Sheriff
Sells has proposed to resign, as he is losing
money, but the judge saysif he tries it he will
fine him for contempt of court.
In Philadelphia the 13-month-old infant of
George Carr was seized with commissions while
being danced on the fathers knee and died be-
fore physician could be called.
william williamson, of Planheld, N. J., says
he found black snake frozen so hard that it
stood in the corner like cane. He revived it
with warm water and then killed it.
Mrs. Wallace N. Fiesler. of Cleveland. has ap-
piled for divorce on the ground that her hue
band worried her by singing. One of the songs
FiesIer sang was Home, Sweet Home.''
Police in three Wisconsin towns got from
barber shop the whiskers of Frank Anklan,
charged with murder who tried to disguise him
self, and with this evidence ran him down.
The cloud formation known as mares tails"
and "mackercl sky are invariably three miles
high. The highest clouds are 10 miles high, and
these are composed of minute particles of ice.
Attorney General Jackson, of New York State.
commenting on his experience when investi-
eating embarrassed banks, says II never be-
~
Alleging that her husband spent all his waking
hours in prayer after he got religion. instead Of
providing for his family, Mrs. Rachel Barrett. of
Wayne county, Michigan. was granted divorce.
Certain kinds of noises attract snakes. The
whirr of the moving machine is one, and in six
months as many as 100 cobras alone have been
killed on grass farm in India by the advancing
machine.
Examining John Segrofe, a Greek in hospi-
tai in Kansas City, the surgeons found all the
internal organs arranged opposite to those in a
normal body. The Greek knew nothing of his
peculiar condition.
Wyoming experiments in preserving fence
posts show that when the posts were dipped In
crude petroleum and burned of SO that the char
comes above the ground when posts ARE set. thar
win keep indefinitely. "
Mrs. Clarence P. Monday, of Liberty, NO., TAX
ing pity on tramp who asked for food, seated
him at the table. and the knight of the road ate
a quart of preserves, pound of butter and
dozen or two of biscuits.
At6P. M. Mrs. James Thompson, of Kenneth
Square, Pa, fell in her home and broke her leg
while preparing for her wedding, scheduled for
hour lying On a stretcher.
Louis Louden, Crow Indian, in preparing for
the funeral of relative on the reservation in
South Dakota, bought IL photograph records,
and 1.-THE Holy City" and "a Hot Time'' were
played during the ceremony.
In a lot of a dozen eggs sold in the suburbs of
Pittsburg as strictly fresh'' was one on which
William Thompson, of Yincennes, Ind. had
written his name in 1906, asking the woman who
should buy it to be his correspondent.
James Wilson has been Secretary of Agricul
ture since March, 1897, but he has held on to his
farm and his legal domicile in Tama county,
Iowa. By March 4, 1909, he will have served
through the terms of two Presidents -12 years.
The robe of which John Wesley wore when he
was christened, over 200 years ago, is now the
property of Miss Emily Pashley, of Worksop,
England, it having come to her from her grand
father, at whose house Wesley lived for time
when but an infant.
Unnerved by the news of his brothers death
in a hospital, Charles Arner, railroad conduc-
tor, fell at Mahonoy City, Pa, as he was about
to board a train and was killed. His brother
Henry, also conductor, was killed in the same
Golf, baseball and kindred sports are not
foreign to the Mexican, and sporting goods of
all kinds will find good market there Electric
signs and electric novelties for advertising pur-
poses afford good opening to American manu-
facturers of these goods.
A compilation made by the Rev. Dr. d. L.
Leonard, of foreign missionary statistics of the
world, shows that the total contributions of the
missionary societies to foreign missions last
year amounted to So, 459,6SO, an increase over
the previous year of almost 81 100000
During 1907 the number of Jersey cattle ex-
ported to the United States was 446, valued at
$67 1871 against 241 head valued at $50 1885, in the
preceding year. The island authorities contin-
ne to take the most stringent precaution against
infection from the Continent of cattle diseases.
To command great ocean steamship is one of
the highest honors that can befall seaman.