The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-21
or GENERAL INTEREST,"

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"A private dinner given 1t Dclmofi.
ic6'x, New York, recently, cost SIG. 900.
The floral decorations alone cost $1,000.
"A resident Of Hartford, Conn, who
Is sstone deaf" declares THAT recently
by the aid Of an ear Trumpet he heard .
heavy clap of thunder.
The town Of Roswell, Lincoln
County, N. M. is 2l6 miles from any
railroad Noother place in the United
States can say as mnch.
lit has become the fashion Chica-
60 for men to buy their wiveS bonnets.
The milliners like the change and say
that as general thing, man knows
better than woman what Is suited for
her. s ~
The bodies OF forty-fve deer were
found piled up in b heap near Weaver
vile, Cal, recently. They lay at tho
bottom OF high bluff, from which they
had apparently fallen during the time
Of the deep snow in California late in
the winter.
Tobacco smoking quickly contami-
mates delicate fruits of all. A-few
whifs blown upon bex OF raspberries
will entirely destroy the delicate flavor.
Of the fruit and render it unpalatable.
The same may in degree be said OF
strawberries.
Two workmen In the Michigan gold
mine at Ishpeming quit work without
any just cause. When the authorities
searched their trunks over g., 900 worth
of gold was found therein. 1t is sus-
pectcd now that many others of the men
have been doing similar business.
An advertisement in a recent issue
Of the Chicago Tribune read: Person
all will donate twenty-five dollars TO
charity, to be named by the Tribune, If
j eau net name-the- place whore you get
the toughest steak and poorest service
on Madison street Y14l. Tribune"
The ancients designated the seven
metals by tho names of the planets, be-
cause each were supposed to have some
hidden relation; each being denoted by
the planet and metal. Gold was the
sun; silver, the NOON; mercury, Mer-
curry; copper, Venus, iron, Mars; tin,
Jupiter; lead, Saturn.
An Australian schooner recently ef-
fected the capture of the father of
sharks He belonged to the species
known as the basking shark, and was
forty-three feet long When his jaws
were pried open a pork barrel could be
rolled in. and there were e,cyen rows of
teeth in his jaws. He had the mouth to
bitea horse in two at clip.
-Quail-fighting was sport once pop
=Hfaf IN ancient Rome in her rl1ost-fux~
urious days. Even in Greece, Where, TO
the honor of the race be it said, the
gladiatorial shows Of the Romans never
became popular, quails were kept for
fighting purposes; in China, sparrows
are set at ono another: and the English
proverb, That beats cock fighting.
tells of the coarse fiber of the Angle
Saxon only few years ago.
"A Finland paper mentions curious
stone in the northern part of the country
which serves the people instead oEsa
barometer. This stone, which they call
"Ilmakiur," turns black, or blacklist
gray, when foul weather is approaching;
ulIt WCuLHtT HAS Jut
almost white. The Firms regard tho
stone with superstitious reverence, but
the scientists say that its changes in
color are due to salts contained in its
composition.
Z "A pasteboa box markcd Flowers, =
was received at Gainesville, Ca, adj
dressed to a lady of that city. Upon
open ng the box she was Mortified to
find reclining on a bed OF crushed roses
! half-grown snake that lay quietly con
cealed and sluggish from its confine-
fmcnt. A member of the sterner sex
pacified the nervous female by again
scaling UP the package and returning 1t
to the post-ofiice, where it remained until
report Of the case could be heard
from. The Acknowledgement, in reply
to query from the inspector, said the
offender could not be punished; that
while the snake was an unavailable
article there was no statute furnishing
the sender. 1t is thought that, the
woman's husband, from whom she has
been separated, was the sender.