The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-23
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl.


"A doctor ia-A moantain town II
North Carolina has, this sign. DE =
A. Quack, the Pillar Of the Peoples
Hope.
A manufacturer OF one Of the stand
ard typewriters on the market says that
there afc rs, 900 women and sS 600 men
making . living In this country BY
thramming the KEYS % writing ma
chimes
Morrill,. OF Vermont, and
Senator Payne, OF Ohio. arc crack
whist.players, and habitnally beat the
greater number OF their antagonists,
Notwithstanding the fact that they di-
vide more than one hundred and silly
years between them.
jay Cooke hiss become a gentleman
Of elegant leisure again. He owns sew
sral country places, but his favorite rc-
sort Is his farm ~ chelton Hills, n lew
miles ont, from Philadel phia. here ne
spends nearly every afternoon, giving
personal attention to all the necessary
details Of practical farming
Sig. Arrigo, the Italian banker just
ransomed from Sicilian banditti for the
round sum Of twenty-five thousand dol
lars In gold, says that bis capeors kept
him in the bottom Of dry well, where
they furnished him regularly with 1000.
At the end of certain time, unless
ransomed, no was to be killed.
-Frascuelo, Madrid's most famous
buli-fghtcr, has retired from the ring
owing to wounds received during his
career OF twenty years. At his farewell
performance, sixteen thousand persons
from the Infanta Isabella down-were
present and almost went wild in their
efforts to testify their admiration Of
him.
Many persons have expressed aston
ishment at the fact that the Prince OF
Wales speaks German with perfect
fiuency. The truth is that command
Of English is the surprising thing In
the royal nursery German was spoken
until Albert Edward was twelve years
OF age. The Prince is also in thorough
command Of French. 4
Miss Ella Ewing, the seven-feet
eight-inch giant girl OF Scotland coun-
ty, Mo-, read the Declaration OF INDIE,
pendence at a Fourth of July celcbra-
ton at Wyaconda in that county Miss
Ewing is said to be the tallest girl in
America. She Is eighteen years old
and weighs 269 pounds; her foot meas
ures seventeen inches in length and Is
six and quarter inches wide.
Card players who have long thought
that the time spent In shutting was,
NaI ..,i1 ha tnt tnd In
that shutting machine has been in
vented by an Engllshman named Booth.
Two packs are used, and while tho
players are using one pack the machine
effectuafiy shaiiies tho other pack. In
twenty seconds the cards are so thor
oughly shuficd that every card changes
its position.
lis 1t not pity that 80 many OF our
girls take pride in being weakly A
short time ago one little girl said to
another: 81 can run round the house In
just fifteen secondsl' Upon this little
Miss Eight-year-old assumed what was
intended for very melancholy express
sion, and said: "Oh, my! II ! should run
like that my heart would beat so that
couldn't stand it!'' How early these lit
tie folks begin to copy the older ones!
"A lawyer Of ability here in Boston
who had the misfortune to be born else
where once told me that the worst OBJ
stac1es to success In his profession had
come from the competition Of men Of
superior social position who in other
cities would be idlers or men Of elegant
leisure Here, he said, rich mems sons
not only had disposition to work, but
they had brains enough to make their
employment BY members Of their own
families -Boston Post