The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-10-31
or GENERAL INTEREST.


lin New Hampshire graveyard
there is q tomb marked: Sacred to
70 the memory Of three twins"
"A kitchen table with as many
drawers beneath it as writing desk
and having high back like o side
board, full of pigeon holes for kitchen
utensils. to a recent addition to the
hired girls comfort.
The average annual death rate In
this country from cholera, yellow
fever. smallpox, typhoid fever. diph-
liberia and scarlet fever, all combined,
does not reach the enormous total OF
deaths from consumption.
A California paper reports that
several bee-keepers OF San Diego
County lost both bees and honey re-
Gently. The weather was SO warm as
to melt the combs and drown the busy
little workers in their own sweets.
"A correspondent OF the New York
Tribune writes: No wooden craft OF
any account disgraces this enlightened
age in carrying human beings across
the ocean. Steel vessels have super
seeded the old-style fleets OF wood''
France has the largest national
debt in the world. During the CEN
fury she has changed her government
again and again. Her cities are heav-
lily garrisoned and her people are bur-
dened by the expense Of peace"
army OF more than 500, 900 soldiers.
Mrs Elizabeth Faith, who died
recently at Louisville, had her coffin
made under her own personal direc-
tion more than three years ago. 1t
was made OF solid walnut lined with
zinc, and trimmed with white silk. 1t
was inclosed in q strong cedar book,
and this in still another box made OF
thick oak lumber.
The Baltimore Baptist strongly
condemns the practice OF extending
sympathy and friendly aid to men
whose sole claim to such attention is
based upon the commission OF some
terrible crime. "Such things" it
says, "are blot upon our civiliza-
ton, and it is time good people
frowned this maudlin sympathy out
of existence.
THE Religious Herald of Hart
ford, thinks the custom of darkening
the rooms of a house where people are
gathered to attend a burial service
ought to be abolished. The'surround-
ings at such time, it thinks, ought to
be bright and cheerful, .'in harmony
with the sentiments suggestive Of the
resurrection, the life and the blessed
ness OF the heavenly home to which
the departed have gone"
The rapid growth of italian bar
Der shops in New York City is alarm
ing the old-time BARRIERS. The Italian
five-cent shaving shops are now to be
found not only in Little italy, and
other quarters in which swarms OF
Italians have taken up their abode, but
also in other localities up town, down
town and on both sides of the CITY,
For many years great part of the
trade has been in the hands of German
philosophers, who now find it hard to
compete with the Italians, even when
they charge dime for using the
=lather brush and razor. OH.
There have been big gold nuggets
found in various countries. but the
largest that was ever discovered. the
Silver Dollar states, was found in New
South Wales, Australia. 1t was I'M
earthed on May 10. 1872. Itssweight
was GAO pounds. height four feet nine
inches, width three feet two inches,
average thickness four inches, and i.
was worth 81 AS, 800 1t was found i'm
bedded in saNthick wall OF blue slate at
a depth of $50 feet from the surface.
An interesting feature of it's history
was that the owners OF the mine were
living on charity when. they found it,
"A man at Covington, Pa, who was
fattening a twenty-pound swapping
turtle, was aroused early by the noise
of scuffle in his yard. Repairing
there he found the turtle hanging
to the nose of a 300-pound
bear. Bruin was near the fence, en-
deayoring to get over, but his efforts
were, interfered with by the turtle.
Eventually the bear reached the next
yard, but the man followed and shot
him dead The turtle all the time re-
tanned his hold, and refused to let &c
until the dead beasts nose was cut off.
Then it crawled off, carrying the. piece
| of flesh in its mouth.