The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-14
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Ono OF Chicagoss leading general
stores now works $50 cash girls only
eight hours and has them at school tive
hours.
From the notebook of an American
travelling in Germany; The sheets at
the hotels are too large for handke--
chiefs and too small for towels.
AT the depth Of 700 feet in the ocean
the light ceases altege4hefs eHe-half of
the light being absorbed in passing
through seven feet Of the purest water.
"A remarkable coincidence in con-
nection with the death of the president
Of an electric railway in Ohio is that he
was killed while violating rule he him
self had made forbidding passengers to
to get of or on the'front platform while
the car was in motion.
"A citizen OF Charleston, w. Va, has
long been bothered with smoky CHM
ney, and the other day he got a mason
to investigate. In the fue was found
tin box containing $1,000 in cash, which
some one had hid away during the war
and never returned to get it.
Mabel Mason, fourteen years old,
daughter of the Manitou light-keeper,,
was notified the other day that a man
was struggling for his life off Fighting
island, mile away. Mabel launched .
boat and reached the man just in the
nick of time. He was taken tothe light
house, fed and clothed and sent on his
way rejoicing.
An old Belfast sea captain is cred
tied with devising unique barometer.
1t consists of thin strip Of white pine
with number OF cross pieces upon it.
. This is hung on the side of the building,
and when damp weather is approaching
the barometer bulges out in the center,
while in dry weather the center sinks in
and the ends come out.
1T appears from carefully prepared
statistics that when the proportion of
unemployed increases the marriage rate
declines, and vice versa; according to
the figures furnished by the unions, it
is found that the fluctuations in the
amount of employment in few trades
are a close index of the fluctuations in
the marriage rate of the whole country.
When the average man or woman
comes to be fitted with the first pair OF
glasses some curious discoveries are
made. Seven out of ten have stronger
sight in one eye than the other. In two
cases out of five one eye is out of line.
Nearly one-half tho people are color
blind to some extent, and only one pair
Of eyes out Of every fifteen are all right
in all respects.
The announcement that the Quakers
are not dying out is made in letter
from "A Quaker to Marfay,s Magazine.
During the first half of this century
their decline in numbers was very rapid;
but for good many years past the ac-
cessions by CONFINEMENT" have been
every year SO greatly in excess of the
secessions that, notwithsta landing very
low marriage rate and very low birth
rate and some emigration, there is year
ly steady though slight increase in
Great Britain. In the United States the
Quakers, we are told by the same aus
thority, are increasing almost rapidly,
especially in tho South and West, main
~ through accessions from other relig-
ious bodies.
made by Prof. Rein, scientist who has
been investigating the material re-
sources of Japan. They reveal a ma
tieHal frHgality and economy Of a mar
velous type. The area of Japan is less
than that of California. Its cultivated
land Is less than one-tenth of its total
acreage, yet its products support about
IS, 900, 900 people. In japan 1850 per-
sons subsist from each square mile Of
titled land. A people existing in such
circumstances must from necessity of
preservation be provident, painstak ng,
Woodworking, ingenious and frugal,
The Japs appear to deserve all these adj
jectives Agriculture with them is lit
orally market gardening, because the
soil is required to produce more than
any other place in the world.