The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-12-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST

Our vasseline is used in Japan 10
soothe the stings Of tattooing.
"A fifty-year-old grapevine grows in
Germantown on q trunk which measures
two feet six inches around
s4szz An eccentric Detroit mi llionaire got
into an argument with woman, one Of
his tenants. and she Snapped his mouth
with dishcloth.
Dentists advertisement in a Read
ing, Pa. daily: Teeth filled and ex-
tracted without pain by the use Of vital
lied air, and made fresh every day and
perfectly harmless.
The total Indian population is less
than 256,000.. OF these 21,235 live in
houses, and 9,612 families are engaged
in agriculture. And among these So
called savages there are 2S,663 church
members.
"A wealthy Nevada man bequeathed
his divorced wife one cent as token Of
the esteem in which he held her. His
will also states that the amount is
greatly in excess of the consideration
she deserved.
1t is curious fact, brought out by
the New York Commissioner of Labor
Statistics, that prison estimates of the
amount OF food needed to sustain life
are more liberal than estimates for per-
sons dependence on public charities.
"A st. Paul jury, during weeks sit
ting on recent case, ran up a bill of
1927 for Turkish baths and S35 for shaw
ing, shampooing and haircutting, which
btff7of 81, was presented eesshe-eonnty
commissioners for payment.
The town of Cullman, thriving
Alabama village, makes the boast that
it has not negro within its borders. It
is named after a rich German who
wished to found colony of his own
race in the Alabama fruit growing re-
gion. 1t has population Of 1900 =
Probably the largest yellow pine
tree in Missouri was cut recently in
Reynolds County. 1t was fourteen feet
six inches in circumference, and made
five thousand feet of lumber. Two sec
tions were cut from the butt, and made
one board forty-two inches wide, and
twelve other wide boards, which were
| shipped to st. Louis to be exhibited to
the honor of Reynolds County.
The newly selected capital of South
Dakota got It's name of Pierre from
Pierre Chouteau, one of the st. Louis
Chouteaus in the days when all that re-
gion traded extensively in furs with st.
EEeuis.. 9idFortP Pierre abandoned
a great many years ago, and scarcely a
vestige of it remains 1t was at Fort
Pierre in 1856 that General Harvey met
the Sioux Indians, whom he had
whipped, and made treaty with them.
A Florida exchange has this tanta-
lining paragraph: THE Annuttelaga
hummock begins at Brooksvi1fe and
stretches far away to the north, a body
OF $4,000 acres so free from underbrush
that carriage can drive through its
length and breadth among trees of enpr-
nous size, live oak, white and water
oak maple, hickory, magnolia and
grandiflora, beautified by the graceful
Spanish moss, clinging vines, fragrant
flowers, brilliant birds, creeks and
springs, with wild turkeys, deer and
small game in abundance"
and the proprietor applied to we'll
known florist to furnish him with stands
of flowers which should be appropriate
for the occasion and yet have some ale
gorical meaning The pieces when
completed represented Columbus dis
covering the land of mixed drinks, Bal
boa refusing to take water when he
came to the Pacific, and Ponce de Leon
pouring water from the fountain OF
youth in glass held above his head,
like a bartender ma king gin fizz. For
some mysterious reason one of the big
| gest floral pieces was scroll bearing
the words: 'sThe Press"
Near Wankeenah, Fla, stands an
A. NJ. e. Church, known as the ''old
Springfield Church. TWAS built by a
| former generation when Indians were
numerous in Florida. The savages were
very hostile, but gave no trouble till
the house was up and the ceiling placed
overhead, when they furiously came
from swamp and massacred three or
four of the mechanics engaged in the
work, and while the remaining two
escaped and fled for assistance, the In
dams dipped their hands in, the blood OF
their victims and entirely covered the
ceiling. Although this occurred many
years ago the prints of the red mems
hands are still plainly to be seen.
"A curious accident which happened
recently in Paris points out possible
danger in the wearing of combs and
bracelets of celluloid. A little girl sat
down before the fire place to prepare
her lessons. Her hair was kept back by
a semi-circle comb of celluloid. As he1
head was bent forward to the fire this
became warm, and suddenly burst into
flames. The child's hair was partly
burned off, and the skin Of the head so
injured that several months after,
though the burn was healed, the cica-
trix formed white patch on which nc
hair would grow. The burning point OF
celluloid is about $50 degrees, and the
comb worn by the girl had attained that
heat as it>was held before the fire.