The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-12-12
oF GENERAL INrEREsT.


4A~S
A ffty-year-old grapevine grows In
Germantown, Pa. on trunk which
measures two feet and half round.
The mummy market Is now 80
oyerstocked that lovers of the antique
can obtain specimens for less than
800.
The sustaining power OF the Forth
bridge may be imagined from the
statement that each cantelever would
sustain six OF the greatest ironclads.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, who
claims to have travelled great deal,
pronounces New York in point OF mo-
rality superior to any great city OF the
civilized world.
"A Philadelphia inventor is busy
on q street car floor, comprising Stats
laid crosswise on two endless rubber
bands, that revolve as the car moves,
and gradually roll the people up to the
front.
Two brothers down in Tulare
County. California, engaged in quar-
rel while at play, for which their.
mother corrected them. The elder OF
the two at once left the house and
was, found several hours later dead,
hanging to tree.
"A man at Chelsea, Mich, was
awakened one morning by his dog
dragging the clothes from the bed.
He arose and found that his house
was on fire. He had just time to re-
move his family before the whole
| building was in flames.
An Ohio peddler, having fallen
Ill, his seventeen-year-old daughter
mounted the cart and drove about the
country for three weeks. Her sales
| exceeded any thatLher father ever
made in the same length of time. -
| Nilsson remarks that the weight
of the great Greenland or right whale
is 100 tons, or 220, 600 pounds, equal
to that of eighty-three elephants or
| 440 bears. The whalebone in such a
whale may be taken at $500 pounds
and the oil at from 140 to ITO tons.
An East Liverpool family who
gave tramp meal about year ago
were surprised by a=visit ~from~him,
! again the other day. The man came
back. not as a tramp. but as pros
porous man of business. He was on
his way to Cincinnati, and stopped off
| to visit his benefa ctor, to whom he
presented set of gold collar and cuff
buttons. -
In Maine town is very heavy
| girl She is quite sensitive about her
weight and it is not generally known,
but two mischievous young men,
wanting to know it, one OF them per-
suaded her to stop=and speak with
him on the hay scales. The owner of
the scales was in with the plot and
quickly weighed them. The weight
of the man being subtracted. left the
amount of 301 pounds for the girl.
What we call Observation-Disclosures
is temporary suspension of the faculty
of memory. The mind, intent upon
some present though obiiterafes
obscures the record Of the past We
may even regard it as temporary and
partial form of insanity, and if we find
Observation-Disclosures most common with
persons of great mental powers we may,
accept the fact as another illustration
OF the near alliance between great
| genius and madness.
/ America says that the United
States is destined to become a nation
of blondes. The population of Norway
shows a percentage Of 1925 of light
eyes. Flaxen hair appears in 81. per
cent, while absolutely black hair is
| only found In the ratio OF two per cent.
The immigration from Scandinavian
countries in 1883 numbered over 3d.
600, or about one-sixth of the entire
immigration that year. The immigra-
ton from Germany is also very large
ly made up of pure blondes. while that
from the British isles and other Euro
pean countries is very mixed, with
blondes still in the majority.
The, experienced bunco steerer
knows human nature better than he
he does his father, and lays his plans
with nice regard for human weak
nesses. Greed, avarice and love OF
appreciation are taken into account
and used at the right moment. The
victim becomes infatuated with his
deceiver. and when, this state is ar
rived at all warnings or memories OF
warnings are useless. The dupe is
charmed. not so much by the Ingenuity
Of the plot as by the friendly and
plausible manner Of the bunco expert.
| The victim sees things in. their re-
versed order, and, whereas in his fatu-
ity he thinks he is exchanging nothing
for something, he is in reality ex-
changing something for nothing.
LUNG DISEASES.