The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-27
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AT Keyport, N. j.. the other day :
brother and sister met for the first time
since their parting in Germany twenty
i've years ago. VI
An Alabama youth willed SO, 90 -
the Young Mems Christian Association
Of his town and then deliberately
smoked himself to death With cigarettes.
1T takes over 800. 900 birds to sup
ply the demand of American dealers for
birds and bird plumage for bonnets and
gowns, and as many more for the export
trade. One Highland dealer alone sends
every month thousand beautiful sea
birds, which abound in the Hebrides and
Orxneys, to France.
Physicians appear to conform quite
generally to the familiar injunction to
heal themselves, save where the COM
plant is old age. The average age Of
the decedents Of the Massachusetts
Medical Society during tho year 1859
reached the high figure Of sixty-eight
and half years, which comes very close
to the span Of life allotted to man by the
Psalmist
The United States Of America are
practically owned by less than 250, 000
persons, constituting less than one In
sixty OF it's adult male population. With
in thirty years, the present methods Of
taxation being continued, the United
States OF America will be substantially
owned by less than 10000 persons, con-
shutting less than one in 500 of the
adult male population.
When they give man charivari
In the neighborhood OF Central Lake,
Mich, they do not make an internal din
with lot of tin horns, muskets and
horse fiddles, but the serenaders take
each other by the hand, form q circle
around their victims house and sing;
sBeer, beer, give us some beer, shell 'er
out quick or we'll stay here year. We
know you're dandy, and with your fms
are quite handy, but we're just sandy
enough to want beer"
1t will, perhaps, interest some read
ers to know how much fuel a locomotive
burns On freight trains an average
consumption may be taken at about one
to one and one-half pounds of coal con-
sumed per car per mile. With passenger
trains, the cars of which are heavier and
the speed higher, the coal consumption
is greater. A freight. train of thirty
cars, at speed of thirty miles per hour,
would, therefore, burn from 900 toll $50
pounds of coal per hour.
E-7=--0ur present methods Of embalming
are so superior to those of the ancient
Egyptians that modern emba1mef
might leave a human body so perfect
that, after 3, 00@ years, says the Lancet,
mot a. lineament need be wanting for
Identification that would not satisfy even
the contemporary Of the dead person."
The mummies unrolled nowadays are
dried up out of recognition. But the
embalming process Is liable to go out Of
use before the advancing practice of Gre
nation.
There Is young man working in an
Office in Atlanta, Ca, who once had a
coffin bought for him. During the war,
when very young, he was thought to be
dying A friend of the family passed
his fathers house on his way to the
nearest place where baskets we're made,
and, by request, ordered one for the
child. The lads mother, however, re-
fused to allow it to enter her house, and
the uggestively-shaped box remained
on the fence posts for hours. The boy
declined to die, and week later the
eeffinsw was buried without any corpse in
it.
There Is said to be large band Of
wild horses, led by thoroughbred
known to the stoclzmen as the Outlaw
Stud" ranging between Truckee, Ne
vada County, and Peavine, New, says
the Grass Valley Tidings. Years ago
the stud, fine racer, escaped to the
mountains, and has since defied capture.
By desperate riding stockmen manage to
get into the band every year and drive
out the colts. The horses range on the
highest peaks, beyond where cattle or
sheep often go. They only go to water
once day, and then in single file down
the mountain trail as fast as they can
run. They go back at their leisure.
There is species of acacia which is
commonly called the angry tree. 1t
reaches the height Of eighty feet after a
rapid growth and somewhat resembles
the century plant. One of these curious
plants was brought from Australia and
set out at Virginia, New, where it has
been seen by many persons. When the
sun sets the leaves fold up and the
tender twigs coil tightly, like little
pigs tail. If the shoots are handled the
leaves rustic and move uneasily for a
time. If this queer plant is removed
from one pot to another, it seems angry,
and the leaves stand out in all directions
like quilts on porcupine. A most pun
gent and sickening odor, said to resem-
BILE that given off by rattlesnakes when
annoyed, fills the air, and it is only after
an hour or SO that the leaves fold in the
natural way.