The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-10-24

or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
/ -eAn indianapolis lumber dealer
lpsys Hat tlle inhslskion Of ths,cdor u
pine lumber Il the reason WY ftffnbere
yard horses are so healthy.
"a pious old lady at Toronto do
votes the profits accruing from the
safe Of hi the eggs laid by her hens
on Sunday to the missionary cause.
"A very old pear tree is now stand
ing ip Richmond, Me Its exact age
Is n0t knows, but its identity cen be
traced back for Que hundred ana fifty
years. 1t still produces fruit
"A Cadmus, Mich, farmer fed a
flock OF swine several gallons OF cider
which was not soft The hogs went
on glorious old drunk for three days,
and few Of them passed peacefully
away. never realizing what had
touched them. sh sns~y 4. a.. ~. e..arz.
"A miner Of HassA yampa districts
Cal. found bee tree some time since.
fcut 1t down one afternoons went next
day to get the honey, and found that
three bears--two old ones and cub
had been there and taken every Thin
bleful of the sweet stuff.
Prof Hazen, stationed at the Mt.
Washington signal station. has made
ianew sand careful computation of the
height OF the mountain and finds that
/ It has a height OF $500 feet above
mean low tide. This is seven feet
higher than previous measurements
made II.
An English explorer has discov.
cred river which opens route for
ordinary steamers into the Zambesi
delta and, the. Lake Nyassa districts.
Thedtscoveryzis OF gteax Importance
to the development Of trade in Central
Africa. II is called the Chinde river
nnd is forty-five miles south Of the
| Quaqua river on which Quiliimanc
now stands.
A Congo warriors outfit which
has just been received by the Smith
sonian Institution ut Washington from
Lieutenant Taunt. United sStates com
mercial agent in the Congo State, con-
sists of a bamboo shield six feet long
and one wide. spear four feet long, a
knife that looks like a pruning knife
and bow with bamboo strings and
two iron-tipped arrows.
The Chinose.haye barbarons way
Of taking clans, which often grov to
enormous size in the Western Pacifio
Ocean, some weighing twenty pounds
per clam. not including the shell,
which sometimes weighs over 200
pounds. The Chinese fishermen watch
for these clans in clear-shallow water,
as they paddle along shore in fiat
bottom boats, and when they see one
with she'll open they ram q sharp-
pointed stake into The creatures body
and lift it into the boat.
There is stone elephant in Inyo
County, Cal. The rock that has taken
tho form OF an elephant is dark gray
granite thatis almost the color OF the
skin OF IN elephant The first travel
ers in California. it is said, on catch
ing sight of it, thought that they had
found petrified mastodon A Piute
Indian. on being asked II no had ever
seen the .stone elephant replied:
"Yash; me see him many year go.
Long time Injun no sabe himf now see
him allssamesiu big show up VirginnJ
City. ~ A.as-s 4 4k&5 4 gS
Legend tells us OF the lost inven-
ton OF "malleable glass" Tiberius
is said TO have discouraged a genius
who found the secret by bcheading
him. fearing the innovation would re-
duce the value Of gold. 1t is also re-
corded that Cardinal Ricbelieu was
presented with "a bust Sof malleable
glass by q chemist, Nv hoapurpoSely let
1t fall into fragments, and mended it
before his eyes with hammer. The
inventor was promptly rewarded by
perpetual Imprisonment. lest his in
genuity should ruin the '.vested
interests qtFrench manufacturers.
Only one city in the world has
ever undertaken by legal supervision
to put evsryjl,oasel under positive and
absolute sanitary control, and that
city is Buepos Ayres. The purpose is
within three years to have this ac-
complished. By no other means can
city be rendered safe for residence,
,andEinlano otheraway can the Law that
city residence rapidly degenraias the
population be reversed. The matter
Of sanitation can not in any phase of
it he left to individuals; it must be a
public provision, rigidly enforced.
Now that two-ninths OF all our people
live in cities Che subject is one that
can not be deferred.
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