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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02
HINTS ABOUT sAuCEPANs.
why Food Cooked In Iron Pans Does MOI
Look Appetizing.

s&-Look Appetixing.
English friends often ask me how 1t Is
that one gets in the humblest places in
France appetizing and varied food and
nice-nnades dishes. My answer Is: 1.-THE
French always cook IN copper. All
meat, from veal to game, that is used in
q made dish is first fried in buttef,
which can only be done properly in .
sopper vessel, because its heat is evenly
diffused, and it does pot grow rapidly
very hot or cold. Butter melted in an
iron vessel, even though it have por-
celain lining, soon blackens. Potatoes
fried in butter in copper saucepan
take a beautiful golden tinge. In an
ironsone they get black. That glory Of
the French GORDON 5leu, canned aux
navets," would stick to the bottom of
any but a copper stew-pan, and get
burned If not constantly stirred. Now,
frequent stirring Involves loss of
aroma. What have said of duck stewed
in turnips applies to ''b9uf la mode"
or ''poulet la Marengo,r or shoulder of
mutton braise, or ''gibelotte de lapin.'
When new to France set myself up
with batterie de cuisine, bought in Bel
GUM. 1t was of iron, enameled with
blue without and with white within
Having one day invited dozen or so
friends to dinner, secured the services
of chef. shall never forget how. on
being taken into the kitchen, he folded
his arms and eyed the utensils with
which he was to operate. You want,
seriously he said, s.to lay before yonr
guests dinner which they will eat with
5pteasure?e OF course. s.Well, as it is
impossible to work with that batterie de
cuisine, and it is too late to get another,
! beg leave to go away. However, there
is still time to order your dinner Of
Chevet, or Potil and Chabot, if you make
haste about it. The vessels you have
are only fit to sca1d vegetables. Et m
e0fe!t''
In England there is an exaggerated
fear of yerdigris, which, however sicken-
ing, is really never fatal in its effects.
But as the prejudice is strong, it might
be we'll for manufacturers to guarantee
absolute safety by using nickel instead
Of tin for lining. Nickel hardly ever
wears out, and is easy to keep clean
Paris Letter in London Truth.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Belfast, Me-, merchant recently
hired a new clerk, who Immediately dis
tinguished himself by trying 70 get
those queer chimneys of the incan-
descent electric lamps 30 as to light
them with match. -
The saying that I'VE are wonder
fully and curiously maden GENES home
with force when we examine the skin Of
our bodies with powerful microscope.
We find that 1t is covered with minute
scales like those on a fish. A single
grain Of fine sand wonld cover 100 Of
these tiny scales, yet, small as they are,
each is the covering for from 800 to 500
pores.
The English language is undoubt-
eddy destined to prevail throughout the
world, and may, few hundred years
hence become the universal language.
1t is seriously proposed to adopt it as
the national lang aage of JapanIt=is
the tongue already most widely spoken,
excepting, possibly, the Chinese, and
has elements of progress which that can
never have, -.on account of the lack of
energy and civilization of that people,
In the lower house OF the State
Legislature at Atlanta, Ca, the gallery
was crowded with visitors, and among
the audience was an old countryman
The old man recognized friend among
the members of the House and leaned
over the railing and yelled: Hello,
Bob! Bless my heart, it does me good
to see yer The Speaker raped for
order and one Of the doorkeepers sat
down. on the loquacious countryman.
A ST. Louis lad who was kidnapped
three years ago was lately restored to
his parents, having been found Through
the aid of newspaper picture of him)
on farm near Cairo, Ill. After being
abducted, so the boy states, he was
bound out to a brick ma ker in an ont-of-
the-way spot, reached after fast ride
Of three days He afterward ran away
and engaged with a farmer, who saw the
cut in a ST. Louis paper, and. thinking
it resembled his little employee, looked
into the matter.
"A German forest-keeper, sixty-two
years of age, not wishing to carry to his
grave an important secret, has pub
lished in the Leipsic Journal recipe
he has used for many years, and which.
he says, has saved several men and
great number of animals from horrible
death by hydrophobia. The bite must
be bathed as soon as possible with warm
vinegar and water, and when this has
dried a fewdreps of muriatic acid poured
upon the wound will destroy the poison
of the saliva and relieve the patient from
all present or future danger.
"A celebrated European specialist
for diseases of the throat, nose and ear
asserts that tuberculosis is making
alarming progress among cigar smokers.
He does not attribute this~to the, use of
tobacco, but to the manner in which
cigars are manufactured Rolling the
tobacco leaf is craft that requires
neither strength nor intelligence, con-
sequently in this branch of the opera
ton it is usual to find male and female
operators who are weak and diseased,
and who, in consequence of their infirm-
tiles, are economical employees. Most of
these suffer from scrofula or tubercuio-
sis. They cough, and often give the
finishing touch to cigar with their lips.
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How They Marry In Burmah.

The Burmese marriage is very sim.
pie affair. 1t consists ordinarily Of the
eating of rice together in the presenes
Of friends, and of saying that the two
propose to live together as man and
wife. The matches are sometimes
made by the parents and sometimes by
professional match-makers. The most
common method, however, is by the
young people fixing the arrangement
for themselves and carrying on their
billing and cooling the same as we do at
home. The Burmese groom furnishes the
wedding breakfast, and he carries it to
the house of the bride. After the mar
rage rice is thrown after the
couple as they go to the bridal cham
Der, ard they are expected to pass seven
days In seclusion, though this is not
common. The4newly-married pair live
with the brides parents for several
years at least, and in case that one Of
these parents dies the other becomes an
inmate OF the family for lifetime. IT is
presumptuous for young man to set up
housekeeping immediately after mar
riage, and he is supposed to, work for q
certain time for his wife.-National
Tribune.
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In one Of the law courts of Helsinborg,
Sweden, queer case Of hypnotism has
puzzled the judges. A young medical
student brought suit against a practic-
ing physician in the town for having
hypnotized him several times against his
will, with. the result that his nervous
system was injured and his mind some
what enfeeblad. Several witnesses APP
peared for the plaintiff, and, to the as
constituent Of the court, they all APP
peared to be crazy and gave the most
contradictory and astounding testimony.
Hereupon medical gentleman came
upon the stand and still further aston
ished the court with the announcement
that his conferre, the defendant, had
hypnotixed the Witnesses and made them
say just what he liked. Finally the
court adjourned the case snd appointed
. commission 70 see II NE entire crowd
weee ~ stAnJs>.ogn oet1aSe xln6o.
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BRAVE SELF-sACRIFICE.
The Heroism Of Two Irishinen In the ep-
rising Of 'oS.


The following Is an incident that oc-
Cured In sBurnamdcK. In the glen Of In
male, Ireland, in the memorable year
of ,0s. Captain Michael nmyer knd nine
men, being fatigutd and nearly Elk
hausted with incessant watching and
the extreme cold, stopped one night at
the Close Of winter to take some rest.
They were divided into two parties, six
in one house and for- in the other.
They all retired TO rest early in the
night, and had not long done 50 when
an informer FASTENED to Hacketstown
and gave information about the party.
A large number of the Glengary Fenci-
bles, commanded by Colonel Macdonald,
fastened to Burnamuck. They reached
the place at the dawn of day and pro-
ceeded to the house of the six men,
knocked at the door, and summoned the
inmates TO surrender; which they did
Captain Dwyer and his companions,
who were in the other house, knew
nothing Of the presence Of enemies all
this-time. They were, shortly appraised
of it by a very loud knocking at the door
of their house. He and his men jumped
up and found the house surrounded.
Corporal Dugal Cameron fired into the
window and broke Samuel McAllister's
arm, who was standing beside Dwyer
John Savage, one of the men in the now
burning house, fired and shot Cameron
through the heart. They continued to re-
sist until their ammunition was nearly
expended and the fire had reached the
roof of the room in which they were, and
the heat was so excessive that some tubs
of butter melted and ran over the floor.
At length McAllister, turning to
Dryer, said: Captain, dear, you
see that I am rendered useless
and can fight no longer, as my
arm is shattered, and / would wish to
prove TO you even in death my sincere
affection for you. think it best to open
the door, and on the instant Savage and
will present ourselves at it, when we
are sure to receive the volley of the
Highlanders and fall, but you might
perchance escape by rushing out through
the midst of them, and being concealed
by the smoke and falling snow. be able
to gain the glen in safety"
AS Dryer saw no alternative but to be
burnt alive or submit to the enemy ne
agreed to the proposal Of McAllister,
and having tenderly embraced each
other, McAllister and Savage advanced
to the door, dashed it=open and ran out,
and were instantly shot down. In the
-twinkling Of an eye Dwyer bounded out
through the midst of the soldiers, 1eaped
a -synal II fenee til at aurraundad tho IN rr,.
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

1t is never too late to mend-except
when your trousers button breaks off in
a mad rush for the train.-Puek.
The childish miss resents kiss and
runs the other way, but when at last
some years have passed it's different,
they ay.-F'ranklin pa News.
Poets Wife--ssWhat are you think
ing SO deeply about, Algernon?1 Poet
81 am trying to get head for this
little poem OF mine" P. W.-'Let the
editor put a head on it. You attend to
its feet. = Boston Courier.
-0'Riordan- How are yez, Boloney?"
Maloney-"Don't be after calm me
Bologna. Do yez take me for Dooteh
sausidge?" O'Riordan = EXCUSE be,
BIKE is the diyils own cold | have. =,
--Terre Haute Express.
-Sadie-'I think billiards must be a
very nice game, Robert. = Robert
''Why, what do you know of itas Sadie
(demurely)-'I hear there are kisses in
it." Then they had some without play
ing billiards. Woolf's Monthly.
Kentucky Guide - .sOyer in that
small house lives the most remarkable
man in Kentucky" Tourist .sYou
don't say SO. Who in the dickens is hep
Guide (solemnly) the only man
in the whole State that isn't called
Colonel. a-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Talk about cheap postal rates. I've
seen one hundred and twenty-five pounds
go for two-cent stamp remarked Mr.
Recipient. "When was that?" said Mrs.
K, laying down her paper. ssThis
morning, my dear, when you went to
the corner drug store for stamp
Chicago Herald.
Teacher Ito class in arithmetic)-
sJohn goes marketing. He buys two
and quarter pounds Of sugar at eleven
cents pound, two dozen eggs at sixteen
cents dozen, and gallon and half OF
milk. at twenty cents a gallon. What
does it all make?" Smallest boy (hug-
ging himself ecstatically) 'Custard. p,
Chicago Tribune.
Kirby Stone-sI don't see you al
the cafe where you used to take lunch
with the boys, Youngloye.7 Younglove
s--=-ssN Me- am eating very light lunches
now. / sit on high stool and chew
a sandwich" Kirby Stone .Econo-
MIXING, eh?" Yotpglove-"Y Yes, n am
saving up enough to pay for the present
that my wife is going to give me nexi
Christmas. America.
81 don't think Jones has been in.
dulging too much" said his kindly-be.
lieving spouse; but, still, thought il
rather odd of him that he should wrench
the knocker of the front door and bring
1t up to me as ! sat in bed, saying that
he'd gathered another rose for me out OF
the garden, poor, dear, simple boy; he's
just as loving and sentimental as ever
he was London Punch.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

Twas talking with Treasury Official
on the subject Of forgery. ibid it ever
occur to you" said the official, .sthat q
forger has half his work done when he
can get hold Of the identical pen with
which the owner of the signature habit
ually writes? A great many men, bank
presidents and the like, use the pen for
their names only for year or two with
out change. A pen that has been used
by man in writing his name hundreds
Of times, and never used for any thing
else, will almost write the name itself.
1t gets imbued with tho spirit OF the sig
nature. In the hands Of q fairly-good
forger It will preserve the characteristics
Of the original. The reason for this Is
that the point OF the pen has been
ground down In peculiar way, from
being used always BY the same hand and
for the same combination Of letters. ii
would splutter II held At wrong angle
Or forced ON lines against is Will. II
almost guides the sensitive haikof ia
forgsr whom 10 attempts y krits "
sAnes H. M Mall oaSs>>n.
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has an opportunity he attends profess
sional game. 80
Mrs Groundwater, the new police
her administration by filming plain
drunk five dollars and COSTS The
same day she set hen, made two ging.
ham aprons and returned five calls
AUNT Hannah" Guinea negress,
living at Springfield, Mo-, is reputed to
be one hundred and twenty years old.
She has living great-grandchildren who
have attained middle age. She uses
both whisky and tobacco to excess.
The author OF the well-known hymn,
There Is Happy Land, Far, Far
Away Andrew Young, Is still living
in vigorous health at the age Of eighty.
He wrote the hymn in 1888, and it
has been translated into nineteen Ian.
gnages.
The oldest Morse telegrapher in
the world is j. D. Reed, the statistician
Of the Western Union Company at New
York. Mr.. Reed is seventy-one years Of
age, Scotchman by birth, and is1as
vigorous and cheerful as man Of
twenty-five.
John |. Blair, of Blairstown, N. j.,
is reputed to be worth $50, 000, 900, yet
such is his strong sense of merely hold
ing his wealth in trust for the benefit OF
his fellow men that he spends upon him
self less, almost, than is paid to his
hImbfest workman.
"A vocabulary of physical terms,
styled .tBntsurigaku Jutsugo Jisho,n has
been issued in Japan. 1t gives the
authoritative Japanese equivalents Of
an important group of Western scien-
tific terms. In all thirty-six Japanese
gentlemen have been engaged in its
preparation for the past six years.
Brooklyn woman named Mo11ia
Fancher, who has been an invalid nearly
all herlife, is vice-president of manu-
featuring company which makes and
deals in goods designed for the comfort
of sick people. She has not been out Of
he- room for twenty-three years, and all
meetings Of the company are held in her
darkened room.
king Kalakaua, Of the Sandwich
Islands, has become prey to the cigar
cite habit. He awakens in the night to
puff his paper-covered weed, he smokes
between courses at meals, and is, IN
fact, during his waking hours always
surrounded by cloud of i1l=smeffing
smoke. The influence of his example
has affected Queen Kapiolani, and she
rolls a cigarette with the skill Of a
Spanish senorita
Horace Greeley once wrote note to
> brother editor in New York, whose
writing was equally illegib1e with his
own. The recipientof the note not be-
ing able to read it sent 1t back by the
same messenger to Mr.. Greeley for
elucidation. Surprising it to be an an
swer to his own note, Mr.. Greeley looked
over 1t, but was likewise unable to read
1t, and said to the boy: $50; take it
back. What does the fool mean?, Eyes,
sir,' said the boy; that's just what he
says"
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ELEPHANTS AT WORK.
How the Owner of a Lumber-Yard Ut
Ives the Huge Animals.

How the Owner of Lumber-Yard IT'LL
Ives the Huge Animals.
"A. Philadelphia, travelling around the
world, found nothing to interest him
more than the celebrated trained ele-
plants of India, which he saw at Moul-
mein, seaport town on the Bay OF
Bengal. In writing to a friend he thus
describes their wonderful intel1igence:
''Here you see the trained elephants
at work, piling up teak timber in the
numerous timber-yards that line the
river. Their knowledge and intelli-
.genee are simply wonderful. They arc
guided7by native called mahout, who
is pefThed on the neck, and who gives
all the necessary orders, assisted byshis
heel and an iron sharp-pointedg oad very
much like small pick-axe.
.sThe elephants thoroughly under
stand, what is required of them. Think
of their piling up square timber to the
heightoof fortyefeet, every stick of which
Is in line and in Its proper place, each
piece Weighing from two to three tons.
They carry the timber on their
tusks, holding it in place by their trunk,
to the place of piling. When the pile is
too high for them to build upon COM
fortably, they build a staging for them
selves out of the same material and do
not hesitate to mount it with their load.
.'Mr. Findlay- oMner-of-one of the
largest yards, had his force of elephants
put through their various forms of work
for our benefit, such as piling up the
logs and tumbling them down, as we'll as
drawing by chain harness and pushing
with their trunks and tusks from three
to five of these logs end to end, tandem
fashion. When drawing the logs the
elephants, at the word of command, I'M
hitch the chain or hook, but can not be
made to couple it.
when pulling down the timber he
had just put in place thought one of
them cast suspicious eye in our direc-
ton, as much as to say: You people are
at the bottom Of this
ssThey are at times very troublesome
and dangerous, and great care is taken
to keep strangers at respectful dis
lance. They are immense in size, and
each; that is to say, from 5000 to 1850
each.-
s'When the bell rings for dinner or
quitting time they quit at once what
they are at, and can not be induced to
go on, but bolt Immediately to theiI
quarters for their meal.
"Woe to the feeder should any of them
be cut short in their food. They never
forget it, and revenge themselves at the
first opportunity.
They battle in the river every.
evening. and know as well as man when
Sunday comes. On that day they make
for the mud pits, and, like pigs, wallow
here all day."-N. Y. Exami err
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A oneer Conductor.

Little Eddie Howard liked to ride In
the open horse-cars, and his mother
used to take him out Of town almost
every day when 1t was hot In the city.
One. day, as they were riding along.
the whistle blew and the car stopped.
The driver looked, but NO one wanted to
get out. why did you blow your
whistler he said to the conductor.
II didn't WHISTLE" said the conductor,
and the car went on again.
Pretty soon the whistle soundcd'again,
and the driver stopped the car again
But no one wanted TO get out. The
driver was angry. Don't stop this car
again" he said, unless some one wants
to get out Of it.
ssfsdidn't.stop the car" said the con-
ductor. / didn't blow the whistle
once. -----
Somebody did" said the driver.
81 don't know who it was" said the
conductor.
The car went on again. Pretty soon
the whistle blew again. Little Eddie
Howard was sitting near the conductor.
HE didn't blow it, he said to hil
mother, .'for / was looking at his moutt
all the time" The driver was cross at
tho time.
Hurry up! hurry upl hurry upF was
the next thing they heard, and then
they found that the words came from
parrot under one OF. the seats in big
basket. He had whistled so much like
the conductor that no one could tell the
difference. Christian at Work.
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Boys and Girls, SIT Erect.


One of the worst habits young people
form Is that Of leaning forward tor
much while at work or study. It IL
much less tiresome and more healthy u
sit or stand erect. The round-shoul-
dered, hollow-chested, and almost de-
formed persons one meets every day
could have avoided al the bad results
from which they now suffer, had they
always kept the BODY erect, the chest
full, and shoulders thrown back. A
simple rule is, that II the head Is mot
thrown forward, but II held erect, the
shoulders will drop back to their
natural position, giving the lungs full
play. The injury dous by carelessness
in this respect is that. by compressing
the lungs and preventing their full and
natural action, lung diseases ensno.
usually consumption Sit erect, boya
and girls, and look .he world in th+
face. sunshine.
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4 though 1t Gums long ev'ry year,
il aiFhs makes me feel fhef queer
M sort O juicy round the eyes
The time, mean, when dead leaves dies.
An when the birds hex lost Their tune.
- kra q, when the dark edraps down too soon.
An through tho boughs an all erlong
The road, the wind its dismal song
Jrs' kind o. howls an kicks up tricks
With all the crisped-up leaves an sticks.
An filings the dust right In yer eyes;
And when the dull clouds heavy lies
Aerost the sky and makes you think
The ole years jes begun ter sink
Wall, that's erbout the time o. year
allus feel 80 kind o. queer,
The summer days hez up and fed,
An most the trees In painted red:
The jay birds stopped his little flute
An skipped of in his bed tick suit:
The lily,s head hez drapped down low
As'o'er II now the chill streams flow,
And through the ARA suddint qnack
Gums teilin' ifs the WIZ duck Il back
The hick'ry nuts draps on the trees,
An makes Teller think he sees
The woods -sheddin' OF her tears
thinkini Of the passin' years;
Cos when the wind blows s'rill an cold
bfellcr feels he's CROWN old;
Hes sort o juicy round the eyes
The time, / mean, when dead leaves flies
*. G. TapIey In Judge.
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THE MooNsToNE.
1t IL TraditionaIly Lucky and Most Suit
able for Souvenirs.

able for Souvenirs.
"The word precious can not be APP
piled to moonstones," said a well-known
dealer in jewelry, their mar
.ketable value is relatively small at all
times, and is still further influenced by
the DEGREES of fashion. For some years
past we have had but few calls for moon
stones, but about twelve months ago
they were restored to popular favor, and
will probably continue to be much used
for some time to- come. The stones
come from India, are easily procured,
and there is but little waste in cutting.
They are almost invariably of blush
white tint, the rays Of the most perfect
stones much resembling moonlight
thence the name), those of less clear
or yellowish hue being of but little
value. When carved, the clear trans
parency OF the stone is Of course married,
but many Of them are so embellished,
the man in the moon being favorite
device, and baby's face surrounded
with a. cap Of pearls or diamonds
another
The moonstone is seldom worn alone
by fashionable people, having usually
an accompanying setting Of diamonds or
other precious stones. In response to
question the dealer added: sThe largest
have ever seen was one Of
oblong shape about ~ inches in length
and " Of an inch in width. This was
set to represent butterfly with partially
closed wings Of brilliantly colored
stones, and was intended to he worn as
. pendant. These stones are not valued
by weight as others are, but simply BY
appearance and size. perfectly round
ltone being more desirable than fat
Ter one and more rare"
As the moonstone Is additionally
lucky it is most suitable for souvenirs,
parting and anniversary gifts, and from
present indications viii Be- much used
Ior fevofs md wedding presents during
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