The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-11
or GENERAL INTEREST.


Elk Rapids, Mich. has mammoth
| pine tree m which an eagle has nested
regularly for twenty-six successive
years. 1t is baldheaded bird.
"A marriage In. Minneapolis WAS de-
|lAyed several hours recently after the
guests had assembled. because the
groom had forg6tte1 70 take out i mar
Rage hcknse Ass
The old treasury vaiilt At washing,
ton, oontai ming $500. 900, 600. was bored
through BY an expert in seventeen geo
onds and an aperture large enough ia
admit : man was made In seventeen
minutes M .,7.ss :
IRA postage stamp was recently found
bys Connecticut physician in the ear Of
little patient. and on its removal Sc
we're pain. from which the child had
suffered and which csused the visit to
We doctor. disappeared.
New York has quite large and In
portant Japanese colony, with clubs
and herinstitutfons for mutual bene-
fit There is not single Japanese
pauper in the city, and every Japanese
resident possesses ct least moderate
means M
"A Waynesburg Pa) man found 9
hens egg which measured one inch in
circumference one way and 81 inches
the other. The inequalities IN its
make up gave 1.-THE exact appearance o.
meccasin, showing the opening for Q
foot, the broad heel, contraction at In
step and expansion at ball Of foot ssss
"A recently returned Mexican tour
list says that the average Mexican senior
tia Is ugly, and that a beautiful woman
is as great . rarity there as truth tell
ing native. Many OF the women look
picturesque in their mantillas. but on
close inspection their beauty proves D
delusion and a snare.
While little twe-year-old girl was
playing in yard at Lethonia, Ga. re.
Gently abe suddenly called .'Ma," but
the mother paid no attention to her. In
Short time the little girl went to the
front porch, where the mother was.
having Q small black snake ftnnIy
grasped in her little hands Tho woman
was badly frightened, but managed te
release the child's grasp and kill the
reptile. The snake did not bite the
child or make any attempt to do SO.
This year is the two,hundredth an,
niversary Of the Invention Of the, I'm.
proved tobacco pipe-the bowl, the tube
and the mouthpiece. Up to the year
1890, the onlysmedium of enjoying the
fragrant weed was by means OF a cylin,
dricaf instrument fashioned from the
crude clay, and smelling of the earth,
earthly. The inventor Of the present
combination pipe was. physician, DR..
Johann Franz Jakob Villains, of Wien.
ma. The frst tobacco-pipe mandatory
was established in 1890. 81
Recently several gentlemen met IN
hotel at Kingston, Ont One of them
received in ohangea ten cent piece on
which was inscribed the mystic sym bols
"H-7s" "By lover said he, there is q
ten-center that some fellow has marked
to see if 1t will ever come back.
.Iet's see it, " said o gentleman of the
party. Gentlemen, nhe said, my name
is Harry Dermond. Twelve years age
at Halifax, N. S., marked twenty ten
cent pieces as this is marked. This Is
the third one that has turned up" He
offered the ewner of the eein 81 for 1t
and got it.
"A singular life history is recorded
BY an exchanges: 'Hiram Samp, who
from being q rising lawyer Of North.
western Pennsylvania and man Of the
most fiattering political prospects, sud
denly abandoned his profession and be-
came q recluse Of the most exclusive
kind, died In his hut near Waterville,
Pa, on May 80, aged eighty-three years
He had lived the life OF hermit in a
miserable howell for over fifty years. Nc
reason for his singular retirement and
Wretched lseclusion was aver known. He
represented the Warren district in the
Legislature, and would have been sent
to the Senate the fall he took up the
life of hermit, and was to have been
married to o daughter of Judge Lap
ham. Miss Lapham is, still living, aged
eighty years, having never gone into so
ciety since her strange Abandonment by
her affianced lover" GSh