The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-06-12
or GENERAL INTEREST.
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nge Of about s.. 80 each.
AN English naval officer has I'm
vented pneumatic line-throwsag gun,
very light and portable. which fires 8
hollow shell bearing the cord to Q
wrecked vessel, OF into burning build
ings on dry land
"A Graysville Gal young man who
advertised in, the Cincinnati Enquirer
for q. lady correspondent received 4
proposal OF marriage from hinlatt0
girl, who described herself as bright
pretty and sweet sixteen"
AT Aspinwall, on the Atlantic SIDE
Of the Isthmus Of Panama, the rise of
the tide is only one foot and half, but
at Panama. on the Pacific side, there Is
at times difference Of twenty-one feet
between high and low water.
Clot hey, the founder of modern
medicine in Egypt says that 1t requires
as mutsh surgery to kill one Egyptian as
seven Europeans, and there is no doubt
that Egyptians bear surgical operations
with extraordinary pluck and success. "
"A mining claim was taken up re-
Gently in Hawthorne district, New, and.
the following notice was posted: we
clame de lege from thd law Of the Amer
lean Congress and the United States be
gin at these noticia and run 1900 feet to
the first day of January"
The Spanish tongue completes with
the English for the mastery Of the New
World. With the exception Of Brazil
and the Guianas, the language Of the
South American States is Spanish. 1t is
also the dominant languagelof the West
Indies Central America and Mexico
The vitality OF snails is remarkable
One that had been glued toa card in
the British Museum for four years came
to life upon being immersed in warm
water Some specimens in the collee-
ton Of naturalist revived after they
had apparently been dead for fifteen
years
Small mules, as wellas small horses,
are going out of use. The day was
when railroad graders used small mules.
on scrapers. But since the old-fashioned
scrapers are giving way to the heavy,
of dirt at load the little mule has had
to take rest and let one of substance
and weight step to the front. An |, 100
or 1,200-pound mule is now required to
draw the pfow and do railroad work.
-Smugglers are reaping q rich harvest
near the Canadian frontier. They pur-
sue their unlawful work in houses built
on the boundary line, half in Canada
and the other half in the United States
Generally these houses contain tram
way, upon which cars, containing con-
traband goods can be moved from one
country to the other. When United
States officers make raid the cars are
pushed into Canadian territory and vice
versa.
A Cleveland artist says that genn-
Inc artist is very much like singed
cat. He is better than he looks In
speaking of artists in general he says
that the artist of ability does not differ
in appearance from the ordinary man.
He says that in Munich when the stu
dent begins to draw from the antique he
lets his hair grow long and carries a
paint box around with him. When he
enters more advanced class he cuts his
hair reasonably short, and leaves the
paint box at home. When he gets down
to genuine painting he wears his hair in
the ordinary style and dresses like the
ordinary mortal.
I'm consideration of erecting the
Texas State Capitol building, Senator
Farwell, of Illinois, his brother and
Congressman Abner Taylor are in pos
session Of 5000, 900 acres of land, tract
larger than the States of Delaware and
Rhode Island combined, and nearly as
large as Connecticut This ''Farwell
empire" as it has been called, II as
densely populated as the United States
would have 100, 900 people, or $780, 600 il
as thickly peopled as Illinois. The land
is now fenced off into tracts Of thou
sand acres and used for cattle ranches.
1t is estimated that in ten years it will
be worth thirty or forty million dollars.