The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-07

BY an English Humanitarian ~ penal
servitude on azsmall salary =
in each ton Of canphor wood brought
TO this country from Japan there IL
| twenty-five per cent. Of waste More
over one-half OF the camphor evapoe-
ates during the sea voyage. leaving
twelve and one-half per cent Of tho
drug after reduction.
ut Is an interesting point I'M Amer
lean history IL a. stated, the Confedcr-
ate gray uniform was borrowed from the
First Virginia regiment which borrowed
it from the Seventh New York regi-
ment. The Confederate song Dixie"
was of Northern authorship.
In the house OF a.shoplifter appre-
hended In Philadelphia the other day
there were found 1877 packages Of coffee,
20 dress patterns. 90 bonnets innumera-
BILE hats, fine shawls, laces, pocket
books, cans Of jelly, kid gloves, curtains,
satchels and other articles worth IS, 900.
| TO give vividness to l. o00, 900 years,
Darwin, in Origin of Species page
200, gives this; Take narrow strip Of
paper, SO feet inches in length, and
stretch it along the wall Of large hall;
then mark of at one end the 10th part
of an inch. This tenth Of an inch will
represent 100 years, and entire strip L.
! 600, 600 years"
California has a fruit pest in the
gray 1innet far worse and more damag-
| ing to fruit raisers than the English
sparrow. If some means are not SYSTEM
atically and methodically adopted to ex-
terminate this bird there will be very
little profit in fruit raising In those
sections where deciduous fruits are ex-
clusively produced.
An Albany tGa.) man was pestered
with English sparrows. He soaked q
quart Of hominy in strychnine and
baited several places in the yard with
1t. The sparrows gobbled 1t up. but 1t
did not kill them worth cent. About
one hundred of them turned perfectly
snow white in very short VII lie and
became pagnacious and quarrel
some, and whipped of the other spar
rows as fast as they alightcd.
| The Government printing Office in
Washington now employs six hundred
compositors and ninety pressmen. 1t is
the largest printing ofice in the world,
its annual outturn being valued ut about
So, 600, 900. The Public Printer has late
| ly made application for enough addition
al land so that an entire square can be
obtained. He does not believe that pres
emit accommodations are adequate. A
better grade Of work is done there than
formerly, and this includes some very
hne Illustrations.
The survey for a railroad down the
Grand canyon Of Colorado, which has
been in progress for some time, is now
completed, so far as the preliminary
| work is concerned, and from the infor-
nation thus gained 1t seems there will
be tile difficulty in running line
through that awful gorge. as there is a
natural bench from twenty feet to one
hundred and fifty feet above high water
mark. Indeed, 1t is stated that the line
| will not require one-half the heavy work
that has been necessary in construct ny
lines among the mountains of Colorado.
| "A jeweler at Lawrenceburg, O.,
| missed several valuable stones and
couldn't account for their disappear
ance, for he had only opened the safe a
few moments before. He searched in
vain for them, and then, turning to his
three-year-old baby, who had been run
ming about, asked: ..Where are those
little things2" me eat 'em all, was
the baby's answer. A physician was at
once summoned. He did not think any
serious result would follow the costly
feast. An examination of the tray
showed that fourteen pearls and five
diamonds had been swallowed by the
child.