The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-12-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Or GENERAL INTEREST.
"A patient figurer has found that
In II, 900. 900 years the sun will be 40
dense as the earth.
SHOW me man who rides a ve-
locipede= or asbicyese apd Eli show you
. caseeo Of spinal complaint" says DR..
Agnew.
"A candidate for the coronership in
Natchez. Miss, exhibited his marriage
certificate as one Of the proofs OF his
qualification.
according to recent estimate the
number. OF war vessels launched last
year by the naval powers Of the world
WIS sixty. while more than one hun
dred were building when it closed.
A Maine man was mad recently
because his lost trunk. was found. He
had presented bill of $77 for the lost
box when a=railroad employee found it
in the Bangor depot, and the box CON
tanned peck Of peanuts, monkey
wrench and a jack for lifting wagons
-ohly these and nothing more.
-Cygnet, o., has an oil we'll that
has periodical fits Of flowing at inter-
walls of about three months. What il
particularly strange about its work
ings is the fact that it performs it's
freaks always on Sunday, and never
misses the hour eleven a. m. to begin.
Beet sugar is almost the only
sugar used in Europe, where the man
ufacture Of it is carefully encouraged
by the various governments. tits not
cheap sugar, forwhile the price per
pound is nearly the same as refined
cane sugar in this country, its sweet
ening power is, roughly speaking. only
about half great
The largest republic in the world
is that OF the United States of Amer
lea 1t contains $500, 600 square miles,
being almost equal in extent to Eu-
rope, which has SO kingdoms, empires.
municipalities and republics. The
largest State is Texas, which contains
ga, 456 square miles. capable of sus-
tanning 20. 600. 900 Of people, and then
be not more crowded than Scotland is
at present
An Albany physician says that the
most curious prescription he ever gave
to a patient was one he prepared for a
lady. 1t was stop walking up and
down stairs.Th he only way this pre-
scription could be taken was by chang
cling her house, as she lived in one of
the three-story and basement houses
so peculiar to Albany architecture.
Her husband secured roomy cottage
of two stories. and within year the
invalid's health was almost completes
ly restored.
There is steady Importation to
this country of Irish jaunting cars.
According to the carriage makers.
certain number of enthusiastic Irish
men have yearning after their ma
tive form Of conveyance at certain
periods of their lives. and straight
away send over to Ireland for car.
Once here. however, the cars are usu-
ally laid aside after the novelty has
worn off. Enterprising hackmen have
occasionally appeared with the cars,
but, although they are all right in Ire
land, they seem decidedly uneomfort-
able in this country.
There was romantic wedding the
other day on top. of the Allegheny
mountain. The bride was truly fair
to behold, being one OF the rosy mount
ain girls. The groom was a splendid
specimen of manhood. The mountain
selected is directly upon the border
between the Virginias. The bride and
groom rode up and dismounted. They
were met there by a Methodist minis
ter from White Sulphur Springs The
welded couple stood upon the Vir-
ginia side, while the clergymen stood
over the line in West Virginia, as he
could not perform the ceremony in
Virginia.
The proprietor of large gents
furnishing goods store in New York
City says that clergymen are among
the most particular and fastidious of
his customers. They are very much
restricted. of course. in the kind OF
garments they can wear, every thing
Of a fiashy nature being barred out.
but they always select other goods OF
the finest material. Silk underwear
made to order at great cost is a favor
lite thing with them. He finds also
that famous or wealthy men care the
least about dress. Wall street men
dress the most brilliantly, and actors
dress most showily.
The young ladies of a certain in
stitution located at Macon, Ca, lately
played a practical joke upon the prin-
cipal professor, They bundled up
pillow and dressed it in a shape that
would cause any gallant man to lift
his hat to it, and then out OF the win
dow just above that Of the professor
they dropped it. with a piercing
shrek. The professor, who was at that
time engaged upon abstruse problems
and the like, heard the shrek that put
his marrow on cold storage and then,s
as he saw what he supposed to be the
form OF one of his pupils fall downward
past his window, he ran out, expect
ing to see the mangled remains OF
some rash girl. In less than minute
he was bending over the lifeless pillow
murmuring his grief. Then he at
tempted to lift the supposed corpse
and found the fraud.
One Way to Woo Morpheus.
Be so good as to try my method,
and promise you'll never want to try