The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-27
or GENERAL INTEREST.

The weight OF crowd OF men close
I " packed is about eighty-fonr pounds
per superficial foot.
"A fir log was recently taken into a
Tacoma Wash. mill that was ITO feet
long, 50 inches in diameter at the butt
and So inches at the small end. 1t was
cut into ship plank and contained about
10, 600 feet
In Chicago horses are cnrried by
steam. The brush being attached to q
movable shaft revolves rapidly. requir-
ing only guide. A pair OF brushes
puts one hundred and fifty horses
through their toilet in two hours.
An American spent two years in
Belgium, and never saw an umbrella or
a waterproof of any sort. Whenit rains
in that country the people either remain
under cover until the storm is over or
60 out to get soaked.
-. Frankfort. mathematician, Dr.
Bein, calculates that two men playing
dominoes ten hours day and making
four moves a minute, could continue
lis, 900, 900 years without exhausting all
the combinations of the games-the=totaf
number OF which is 24s, 52S, I'll, $40
The citizens of Windham, Me- are
laughing at a newly-married man Of that
town who went to Portland shopping,
taking his bride with him, but who for
got her when he started for home, and
had nearly reached Windham before the
uneasy consciousness that he had for
gotten something fnally resolved itself
into the realization of the fact that it
was his wife who was left behind.
In little town near Chicago there
is school-house close to the tracks of a
trunk-line railroad. The consequence
of this juxtaposition Of the two things
is one which never, would occur to any
but the beyish= mind. Tho boys getnp
game which consisted in their seeing
which one should be the last to jump
across the track in front of the express
train which passes there at fifty miles
an hour just after school lets out This
game has already cost three lives
AT Long Branch, Asbnry Park and
Ocean Grove layers of mari run far out
into the ocean. One Of the beds con-
tains many pieces Of petrified wood,
fossil teeth and casts from clam shells.
After all heavy storms the fossils are
thrown upon the beach. Within the
last two months several remarkably fine
fossil teeth have been found One of
them is perfect, more than four inches
long and weighs a half a pound. Sew.
eral fine specimens of the fossil teeth Of
the mailed sturgeon and the devil=fish
have been secured by curiosity-hunters.
"A novel idea has been suggested as
a solution of a difficulty which has be-
set Congress for some time, in the mat
ter of securing reading clerks with PEN
etrating voices that can be heard above
the buzz and bubble of an exciting ses
sion. 1t is to employ lady readers. 1t
is stated in advocacy Of this plan that
equality of their voices to meet this
need is shown in the practical ex-
perience of persons using telephones, in
which their voices, pitched in high
key, can be heard distinctly, while tho
great, gruff voice of man rumbles into
the. ear of the listener after mass of
confusion of sound.
"A peculiar case was filed the othe,
day in the circuit court of Birmingham
Ala. A young man, twenty-six years OF
age, brought suit for $4,000 against the
Georgia Pacific Railroad Company, ard
alleged that through the carelessness Of
the officers of that corporation his heart
was knocked from the left side of his
body to-the right side mueh-to- his
physical and mental discomfort. He
was employed as brakeman fof&wcom-
pany and was injured in wreck. He
alleges that, his intestines were com
pletely turned around by the injuries
he received, and his heart afterward
changed in sympathy with them.