The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-23
or GENITAL INTEREST.

1T has been figured out that no less
than 1928, ZIG divorces were granted in
the United States from 1867 to 1885
For compelling cadet 10 chew pa
per while standing on his head, two
Naval Academy cadets have been found
guilty Of haxing and sentenced TO dis
missal.
"A Pottstown pal man was re-
warded with ten cents for restoring :
stray $1,000 team he had found and re-
turned to the owner, whom he spent an
hour in finding.
"A mistake Of one word cost mer-
chant Of West Bay City the price Of
fifty bushels OF potatoes. He told his
clerk to write to a Grayling man for
twenty-five or thirty bushels, and the
clerk wrote for barrels.
Two co..ored persons recently tray-
eled from Lagos to Liverpool, dis
lance of 5000 miles, in order that the
wedding ceremony might be performed
by Rev. L. Nicholson, Of Brighton. for
merly chaplain at Lagos.
An Ohio paper prints the following
notice under the head Of s'Obituaries:'
"Mr. William Jones, Of Malta township,
aged eighty-three, passed peacefully
away on Tuesday last, from single bles-
sedness to matrimonial bliss, after q
short but sudden attack by Alice Bios
som, blooming widow Of thirty-ive.
"A Cincinnati physician left his horse
united and It ran away. The doctor sent
messages all over town and had about
given up all hope Of ever seeing his rig
again when he was called to the tele-
phone. He recognized the voice of his
affianced, and was rejoiced to learn that
the animal was standing patiently in
front of her residence.
The ordinary duration OF bows
musical usefulness is five years, his
voice becoming OF value at about ten
years OF age and continuing until he is
fifteen, although in some instances boys
have sung until they were nearly eight
cen years Of age, but this has been in
the case of solo singers, and because Of
special care and training.
The boys of the College for the Blind,
of Worcester, Eng, indulge in cricket,
and are reported to play very fair
game. The ball used is made of wicker,
with bell inside OF 1t, which rings
when it is thrown. The wicket-keeper.
claps his hand behind the stumps to
guide the bowler, and 50 expert are the
=bewlers that they -ean-hit=the wicket.
with three balls out of six.
An advertisement appeared IN
New York paper the other day calling
for information concerning los persons
whose residences at certain dates were
mentioned. Some of them were last
heard of in 1885. On inquiry it was
learned that all were depositors in the
Bowery Savings Bank, and that there
was money in that institution which
they or their heirs had neglected to re-
move.
The much-maligned compositor and
proof-reader have saved one newspaper
from serious loss. The Gazette de France
Is the lucky sheet. Accused with sew
eral other papers of printing without au-
thority the act Of accusation against
General Boulanger. the Gazette escaped
on showing that, owing to serious mis-
takes in composition and proof-reading.
the document it published was not q
true copy of the act, and that the offense
contemplated by law had not been COM
mitted. The other papers whose COM
positors and proof-readers were above
reproach were convicted and fined.
No variety Of chrysanthemum is
more widely known than the Mrs. Al
'pheus Hardy, an exquisite feathery
white. The story of the lady and the
flower is somewhat romantic. Years ago
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy and her husband
We're on vessel coming from Japan to
this country. After the vessel had been
several days out little Japanese stow
away was found among some goods. The
Hardys became interested in him, and
on the landing of the vessel took the lit
tie fellow to their home in Boston and
educated him. He afterward returned
to his country as Rev. Neesema, ma
tive missionary, whence he sent back to-
Mrs. Hardy the most magnificent col
lection of chrysanthemum roots that the
country possesses to-day.