The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-09
or GENERAL INTEREST.

"A curious wedding was celebrated
the, other day at Ottawa. Kan. The
bridegroom is four feet high and the
bride six.
"A mental task that has been COM
fnended for breaking up the habit Of
dreaming Is that Of compelling ones
self 20 sleep cross-legged.
z2rrAn Allentown lPa.) tailor has in
vented a shoulder protector to pre-
vent the powder on the girls faces
from selling the young mems coats.
A Mauch Chunk juryman was ex-
cused that he might go and get mar
ried, the lawyers agreeing to continue
their case before eleven good men and
true.
The women members Of house,
hold in Wrentham, Mass, nursed pet
mastif which had suddenly been taken
sick for half day before discovering he
had hydrophobia. They then had him
shot.
"A cat which was carried from
Omaha to Idaho by rail in box was
five months in making her way back on
foot, but she got there in good time and
Immediately resumed business at the
old stand.
Next to England little Holland is
the greatest colonial power in the
world. The Dutch colonies have an
area Of nearly eighty thousand square
miles, which includes some OF the
finest colonial possessions in the world.
Two maudlin miners lying on the
roadside at Easton, Pa, were mistaken
for bear by passer-by and the alarm
was spread through the country. The
dogs Of a hunting party got on the scent
of a skunk and ran it out and the hunt
ers were very mad when they found
there was no bear.
1t is now d French law that every
child born in France of a foreign father
likewise born in France is French citi-
zen; while tho child born in France Of a
foreigner, no matter where born, is a
French citizen If domiciled there at the
time of his majority, unless he formally
decline to be SO regarded.
According to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, since 1869 more than
60, 600 bodies have been buried in the
Potter's field on Harris Island. There
are no single interments- The bodies
are placed in trenches, dug in regular
rows, forty-five feet long, fourteen feet
wide and ten feet deep Each of these
pits will hold $50 bodies.
AT recent sale OF antique furniture
in New York was pair OF old ormoiu
candelabra that were once owned by
General Lafayette. They stood about
three and half feet high and repre-
scented cupids. The figures stood on
short pedestals of twisted futed work
and gave very pleasing effect. Tho
bidding began at $75 and rose rapidly to
$3.50, 5000 and 1925 each.
"A Maine constable had hard ex-
perience the other day. He went out
after gang of poachers, and was not
only cordially received by them but was
invited to accompany them on a hunting
expedition. The reason for SO much
cordiality was not apparent until the
officer found that his late companions
had managed to leave him alone on an
uninhabited island, where they kept
him for two days and nights
The peculiar methods Of voodoo
doctor practicing at Madison, Ca, are
thus described: When he begins his
practice on patient he gets pot and
fills it with water and roots and puts 1t
s,on the fire to boil. While the
water boils he gets out on the floor
and shakes himself and says: "1'm a
buzzard, I'm crow, I'm an eagle, I'm a
kingfsher," then goes over lot of un-
Ineligible incantations. He then
makes the patient look into the pot Of
boiling water until he can see the one
who tricked him The patient is visited
frequently at night. The pot with
roots and medicine is boiled and the
patient must undergo a thorough rub
bing with the contents of the pot, while
the doctor, doing the ru bling, goes over
his lamentations.