The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-12-04
or GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
There il wheat enough at Portland.
Ore. to load fifty-seven ships and to
give 81, 00O. 600 to the farmers
There are IS many cities with pop.
ulation of Loco. 900 aud over in this coun.
try as there are in Europe, yet we are
only century old:
The '0ld Witch House," In Salem.
Mass, Is still standing. just as in the
days Of Hawthorne. and by sort Of
grim wooing OF circumstance. almost
opposite tt there Id on . door sign
which reads like this: sClairvoyant
and Business Medium
lin the days Of Columbus learned
men boldly asserted that II . ship should
reach India she would never get back
again, because the rotundity of the
globe would present a kind Of mountain.
up which 1t would be impossible to sail
even with the most favorable wind.
AT Lake Pearl, Mass-. recently, A.
81. Heilborn and Thomas Richards made
an attempt to swim q mile, run mile,
walk mile and ride . bicycle mile
inside Of one hour. Heilborn accom-
plished the feat In "a minutes . 3-5 sec
onds and Richards In 81 minutes 10
seconds.
r Lyman. OF St Johns N. B., il the
possessor Of dog that he claims has
quite keen instinct for business A
few days ago. when the dogs license
needed renewing, he turned up with q
81 bill and placed 1t at the feet OF the
owner Mr.. L. Immediately went and
took out the license
1t Is not often that grain Is found to
grow in mans boots, but such case
is reported. A farmer brought pair Of
boots to q Guelph, Ont, cobbler to be
repaired When the shoemaker COM
menced operations on them he found
grain growing to the length OF several
inches. Such is certainly curiosity.
People have no idea OF the fatal
speed of express trains. Itisa common
thing to see their buffers despatched
with blood after long and quick run.
The noise Of their approach disturbs the
small birds from the hedge-rows, and as
they, fly across the line along comes the
| thunderer at speed OF which they have
no conception and dashes them to
| pieces.
There is an enterprising photog-
rapher in the Isle Of Wight He posts
| himself at the stopping place of coach
and photographs the vehicle and pas
sengers at about eleven o'clock in the
| morning. By FIVE in the afternoon, on
the return journey. the passengers are
met, 1t is said, with supply OF mounted
| prints made from the negatives taken
only few hours earlier
The average life OF arabbit ispat al
about nine years. The doe may have
young eight times year. averaging
eighteach time. The first litter Is pro
duced when but four months old. The
| progressions based on these figures lead
to astound ng results. For three years
tho poss BILE progeny OF two rabbits has
been calculated at over Is, 600, 600 and
for seven years at 1, SOC, 600, 900.
Every traveller has noticed that the
railroads get rid Of their old discarded
ties by burning them up. The ordinary
practice is to place them in piles as near
the rails as possible and then set FIRE to
them, to the great annoyance and dis.
comfort of passengers At the same
mo there are thousands of families on
the line of the road who would be glad
to take these ties away and use them
for fuel
The other day A. Strachan, music
seller of Galashiels, N. B. received an
unsigned letter written in red ink, con-
tanning the following: ..Sir-Seven
years ago stole a concertina from your
workshop which was getting repaired.
| Some time ago joined the Salvation
Army, and Christ has pardoned all my
sins. think it right that should let
you know May God bless YOU and meet
me in Heaven"
Certificates of character given to
| servants are someti times misused. Not
long since lady was speaking OF hav.
| ing taken a girl who was highly rec
commended by a well-known lady. To
her surprise her friend informed her
that girl with tho same name recon-
mended by the same lady was living
with her. Upon investigation it was
found that the writer. character had
oeeh uSea Dy DOM parties
The Dominion experimental farms
are said not to be very helpful to agri.
culturists. On the contrary, they have
a discouraging effect When farmer
of moderate means visits one of these
farms he sees large number OF dwell
| ing houses, barns. stables, ETC., erected
| at enormous cost He sees valuable
horses, a large staff OF men and fancy
farming" on a large scale. He con-
cludes that II such costly Injuries are
necessary in order to make farming pay
he can not afford them and he gives up
agriculture to try something else
~ have made a discovery" said
Colonel Glenn this morning. whats
that?" why that the most terrible
habit man can have is the habit, OF
having regular habits. ! moan, to get
into the habit of doing certain things
at certain times without variation, day
in and day out My idea is that the
best way for man to do Is to eat when
he's hungry, go to bed when he's sleepy,
drink when he's thirsty no matter
when. and so on. have also found out
that the habit most easily gotten out of
s that of going to church. Atlanta
journal.
Wonders OF tho weather Plant.
According to an English botanical
authority, that remarkable specimen Of
the vegetable world, the weather
plant" continues to excite considerable
interest abroad. Men Of science, who
on its first discovery were unwilling to
express an opinion in regard to its
prognosticating virtues, now agree,
after extensive experiments that the
shrubs inftruth prophetic. Thirty-two
thousand trials made during some three
years past tend to prove its infallibility.
The plant itself is legune. commonly