The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-10
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Gainesville ella furniture com
pany has completed . table composed Of
1000 pieces Of wood Of different kinds
and colors.
We have the authority Of Dickens
for Ii that not the door-nail but the
cofiih-nsil ID the deadest piece Of IRON
tnohgefy known In some parts Of the
West cigarettes are called cofIin-naila
=A=ss II Small PeiHts Mes,h reports 4
Boston newspaper. 1.-THE prospectors fot
coal are contemplating exploring the
bottom of the sea A large scow has
been engaged, and ON it will be placed
the engine which will drive the electric
dynamo to furnish q light for . diver,
who is to explore the submarine depths
at Small Point
"A prisoner in Bohemia recently con-
structed q watch eight centimeters
(three and one-quarter inches) in diam
eter, with no tools or materials except
two needles, spool Of thread, q news
paper and some rye straw. The wheels,
posts and cogs are OF rye straw; the
watch runs six hours without winding
and keeps good time.
Living on claim eight miles north
of Rocky Ford, Col, is Emma Aiken and
her three daughters. All three ladies
are widows. The mother is ninety years
Of age, the eldest daughter sixty-eight
and the youngest sixty-four. Not man
has ever been employed about the place,
and during their two years residence
they have done all Of their own work
and truck gardening.
"A middle-aged woman stepped into
drug store in Westerviile, o., one day
recently and purchased five sets OF rub
bers for the purpose Of making ''slings''
for her FIVE boys She says they are
more useful and less expensive than
shotguns, as her boys can kill birds on
the wing, knock rabbits silly on the run
and pick squirrels from the tops Of the
tallest trees in tho woods with single
shot.
The man who blows out the gas has
q rival. He recently stopped over ght
at Cadillac Mich hotel and the smell
OF burning cloth prompted search for
him. After rapping up several guests,
this man finally peered out of the dark
ness OF his room and confessed that he
had tied towel around the electric
light, and the latter had scorched it. u
tried to blow it out" he said, butt
wouldn't go out I"
I'm Switzerland and other mountain
GUS countries the goat leads long strings
of animals daily to and from the mount.
aims, but 1t is in South Africa that 1t is
regularly kept and employed as leader
of focks Of sheep. Should binding
storm Of rain or haildrive the silly sheer
gether in corner SO as to suffocate each
other, the trained goat will wake them
J up, and, by a method best known to him
self will induce them to follow him to a
place Of safety.
| "A miserly bachelor, who died al
Newton, Conn, recently, could not bear
the idea Of leaving his wealth behind
him, but when he found that he was
obliged to do so he willed the property
so that no one can spend it for fourteen
years. At the end of this time it will
60 to his brothers grandchildren. The
estate is valued at 100000. He once
walked from New York to Newton te
save the dollar for passage, and during
his entire lifetime denied himself every
thing but actual necessaries in order tt
accumulate fortune.
Two German engineers propose rap
i'd transit by means OF three continuous
platforms moving along the street side
by side. The lowest of these platform.
is four inches high and moves at a uni
form speed of five feet per second. ANY
ordinary pedestrian can, they state
mount this platform from the ground
without difficulty, and from this he car
with equal ease step on to second plat
form four inches higher than the frs
and moving twice as fast The passen
ger thus acquires speed Of ten feet pei
second, and stepping on to the, third
platform in the same way, he is carried
at speed of fifteen feet per second. o.
ten miles per hour to his destination
where he steps off by degrees as he go
! on.