The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

st Louis has = dog that Is q FREE
quehter OF funerals, seeking them out
andmaking tfiema speciality In his diver
sions.
Chinese women, TO secure the bless
ing of children, get shoe at the temple
OF the goddess of children. and return 1t
to the temple If the. object is accom-
plished.
"A farmer who resides near Lewis
item, Mes-=says thatasome. years@ago he
planted beans the first day OF May, and
that In less than six weeks they were
Smelling them out.
A woman in Ohio not long since
lost child through. ,diphtheria, and
forced her other ldren to kiss the
dead body. They alt grew sick with the
same disease and died.
An Irish boy in New York City
court recently pleaded guilty ste burg
larry to save his guilty brother, but the
brother came forward when he saw the
innocent one convicted, and insisted on
being sent to prison in his stead.
Rocky mountain sheep are not very
numerous, and the handsome, head of
that animal brings from SIS to stee.
Mountain sheep are sold in pairs, when
the taxidermist has saved the whole
an NAL, and they sell for $3.50 pair.
The statement is made that at least
seventy letters a day miscarry because
of the similarity in the names OF Oswego
and OWego. For this reason each town
wants the other town to change its name;
but of course neither town will do 50.
Some one has figured that there are
! in Denver, Col, thirty-one millionaires
whose aggregate wealth is SAC, 500, 600,
and thirty-five semi-millionaires whose
wealth aggregates sta, 500, 900, making
in all S64, o0o,o 600 owned by sixty-six
men.
IL is an Interesting point in Ameri-
can history if, as stated, the Confederate
gray niform was borrowed from the
First Virginia Regiment, which borrow
| ed it from the Seventh New York Regi
mont The Confederate song Dixie
! was Of Northern authorship.
t-=--=sF hat-the Is a great deal of exag.
geration in almost all the stories that
come from Russia can not be doubted. Il
is quite certain that the country is in 6
| disturbed, or, perhaps, even in adanger
Gus state; but the bulk of the people are
| unconscious that the Gar is really the
| tyrannical monster which most of the
European journals represent him to be
There is very curious stone about
which very little IS ever heard. It i
called the .Alexandriten in honor Of
Alexander of Russia, who was very fond
of it. In the daytime the stones resemble
an emerald, except that they are some
what darker, but at night they are E
deep purplish red. They are found II
India, and, like all rare stones, vary
much in their qualities.
One reason why France, Germany
and Russia discourage immigration t
the United States is because foreigner.
who come here soon drop into tbs
English language and discard their own
thus making loss of number to the
ether language. This feeble check vii
not delay the inevitable month
English as she is spoken will be the
universal language Of the world in time
/ More than century before thu
! Christian era there were many beauti1n
cups in China. The Portuguese, It Il
said, introduced the ware into Europe
about 1918, called it Sch ma, after thu
country so long pre-eminent in its pro
duction. Tho first English manufact
DRY of earthenware found place a
Standardization. in Elizabeth's reign
The Shakespeare jug Is the best known
of Elizabethan pottery.
Batting in his s'Legends o
the Patriarchs," says: "The custom oi
saying God bless your when person
sneezes, dates from Jacob. The Rabbi
say that before this time men sneezet
once aud that was the end of them--th,
shock slew them; but the patriarch, b!
his intercession, obtained relaxation
of this law, subject to the condition
that in all nations sneeze should b
consecrated by sacred aspiration"
/ German explorers last summe
found reindeer on the little Ryk Us is
lands, which are, so small that the en-
tire area Of the three-islands is not owe
three or four square miles, There the,
were in the Arctic Ocean, thirty mile
from the nearest land, one of the larges
Spitzbergen islands, from which the,
are supposed. to have migrated. O
course the islands were not within sigh
OF the mainland, and the appearance o
reindeer on these little rocks shows tina
1 they are great ice travellers.
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