The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-16
or GENERAL INTEREST.


--Immenss quantities OF apricots are
beffg canned In California
ss-lt is said that The city Of Richmond,
Va. With foe,o60 Inhabitants, hiss NO
ofty hospital OF pdtffc disrefissfy
~ Kansas man who went to wash.
lngton to secure foreign appointment
Il Manipulating grip on cable train
The schooues Pcflv, Of Owls Head.
Me-, is said to be the Oldest wooden
vessel afioat She was built In 1904. ).
Amesbury, Mass
1~IH Port Lincoln, Australia, are
I found the fatgess edible ~oystsrssin the
world. Some OF thetH ktesssre foot
ACROSS tho shell. and their flavor n Do
iiciotsi
Florida pinssrpis sroxers are said
10 have Melted from "a to $3.50 ger sore
on their crops this season. A much
| larger acreage will be devoted to the
crop ffext season.
"A farmer u Montgomery County.
Ohio, IL moving sr6iind wheat held so
as to set reaper 70 Work uncovered q
nest from which three quail hens flew,
retsaliug ninety quail eggs.
1t is said 81 l.dsstance Fenimore
Woolson that she has a dee,sibH Of
speech, downrightness, q charming
way of going to the root Of "a matter that
thakes her = delightful companion.
"A Plaifivie# adams County, Pa IMAM
Is the possessof Of a turkey hen that
laid ten eggs while she was Matching;
she Matched cat all even dozen OF voting
turkeys, and she still laying all egg
every day.
There is large farm in Mississippi
IN which there is only one old whip
and that \. not nsed. The owner will
not permit the Whip 10 ne ssed on any
OF the stock. and the farm does We'll and
the animals work with will without
feeling the lash.
"A Georgia editor, says the Atlanta
Constitution, borrowed mule to pillow
his garden. When quiet was restored
the editor was found titidef a n outhouse,
four panels of fence we're gone and the
little was eating roasting ears in d
neigh boring truck patch.
The st. James Gazette tflakes the
statement that there is a.schfsm IN the
English Church as to what ones ghost
is one side holding that it has an ex-
istence of its own, and can walk abroad
Is 1t likes, the other party thinking
that it Is begotten by the relation be-
tween the m nds of two living persoils---
ahatit Is, In fact cooperative hallti~
cination,"
-NIneteen years ago a-Gratiet
County. Mich, farmer refused to let his
daughter go to candy pull She went
though and remained away. Last week
she drove up to her fathers door, lifted
out her eleven children, coolly took of
her wraps and astonished her father by
declaring that she had concluded TO re-
turn and stay home, and hereafter be
an obedient daughter. =-
Captain Frank Cunningham, collect
or Of. taxes at Richmond, Va, intends to
sing at his own funeral. He has sung
at 1856 funerals during the last two years.
lie intends to sing certain songs into o
monograph and let the instrument Of
fciate at the ceremonies preceding his
burial. He has chosen Home OF the
Soul" and Good Night as the songs to
be delivered at that time
The best feature of modern philan-
thropy is what it is doing for the chill
dren. The little ones never had so good
time as they have now. Men and
womeneof means and leisure are striving
to lift the shadow from the lives of the
offspring of the poor, and among the
happy movements of the day are those
which go in the direction Of giving them
days and weeks in the ountry.-London
Edition Herald.
In Geneva, at circus, female
trapeze performer, Mile. Mathilde, as
tonished the natives every night by her
performance with youth of about sew
enteen high up in the air. One evening
this youth, by his own carelessness,
slipped from the hands Of the girl, who
hung by her knees A dry of horror
arose from the audience, when she luck
lily caught him with her teeth by the
embroidery over the breast OF his tights.
She pulled him up into sitting position
on the trapeze. then boxed his ears Wig
orously and made him go through the
performance again--thfs time without
fault.
The new Boston city directory con-
taips some interesting names Among
them may be mentioned George Wash
ington. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James. Madison, James Monroe, John
Quincy Adams: Andrew Jackson, Mar
tin Van Buren,, William Ii. Harrison,
John Tyler Franklin Pierce, James
Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln and Ben
jamin Harrison. Literature Is repre-
scented by William Shakespeare Walter
Scott, Sydney Smith. Robert Burns,
Charles and Mary Lamb. Thomas Moore,
George Eliot Alexander Pope. John
Milton. Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison
and Henry w, Longfellow. Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay and BENJAMIN
Franklin are also alive and we'll.
Some weeks ago John Krieger, an
aged pauper, died at the county hospital.
says the-Milw ESentinel@He
always claimed to have wealthy relat-
ives in Europe, but was communicative
only to q slight extent upon the subject.
Before he, died he made two wills, one
bequeathing all his belongings to Fred
Metz and another giving them to a
South Side saloonkeeper. Each had be-
friended him. 1t is now reported that
Krieger had a. family in Chicago, with
whom he had not lived for eighteen
years, and that relative in France has
died within few days, leaving him
$4,000 The family will probably get
the money. Krieger spent several years
in the county almshouse and was eighty
seven years of age.
Advice.
As general thing, 1t is worth advice
as it is with taxation-we can endure
very little of either II they come to us
in the direct way. They must not