The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-05-15
or GENERAL INTEREST.

: s'asSSrr Sesasy sslssh grow quite lux
afiantly N Kansas, 6fSng - = bushel
and yield twelve bushels 70 the acre.
The hen Of the United States was
worth 10 this country on her own per.
sofial account last year 500, 600, 900, &C
cording TO the bureau Of industrial sta
itlstic6
"A London actor gave dinftcr 70
number Of friends recently ut which, in
stead Of nosegays. false noses were fur
hished % the guests which they were
fequestsd % wear during tho 'banqaet
"A man and his wife, OF Carondelet,
Mo-, in celebrating their twenty-ffth
wedding anniversary lately also cele-
brated the flftieth birthday Of each, and
the birthday Of each of their three chill
dren fall also upon the wedding ami.
xersary.
AN Indiana man, who was aIsoldier
in the Mexican war and who has recent
ly revisited the scenes of the conflict,
says that on the battlefield Of Buena
Vista, where the armies OF Taylor and
Santa Anna met, he was shocked to see
the ground thfckly strewn with the
whitened bones OF the soldiers who fell
An electrician has just patented
something as new as it is unique in the
way Of clock. Aside from being q
regular Hmepiece and calendar, 1t is also
provided with system Of keys making
double circuit around the outside OF
the clock, the first one to denote the
hour and the minute. and the other the
day OF the month. The object is TO fur
nish thereby regulator for business APP
pointments.
The buffalo has about gone, but it is
gratifying to know that the deer is in
creasing in the Adirondacks In fact, II
Is said that in five years the deer in that
region has doubled, tho good result
being attributed to the protection af-
forded by the amended game laws as en-
forced by the watchful care of the State
game protectors assisted by the efforts
Of the several sportsmen's clubs in the
localities where game abounds.
"A maiden lady who lives in New
York lately visited two sisters who live
at Danbury, Conn.s staying with each
Z two days. and assuring them that she
had lost all her money. After she went
back to New York her maid returned
and informed one OF tho sisters that her
mistress had hidden IS, 900 in an empty
butter jar in sister No. rs cellar. In
yestigation showed the statement to be
correct, and the s.. 900 was found, all in
81 bills
"A marvellous lace wonder Is reported
as recently landed in tho United States.
1t is unique specimen of embroidery
and Irish lace, specially manufactured
for the great international exhibition OF
1851, at which it took first prize. II
took twelve girls twelve months to make
this perfect specimen of the old hand
embroidery and lace trade of Ireland.
The cost was 81, 000 No work OF to-day
Is so fine and exquisite as the drawn
and embroidered border of this wonder.
Tho main design is chaplet Of fern
leaves, entwined with tho rose, the
shamrock and the thistle.
The pony is the horse OF hardsbips,
says o horseman in an exchange, and
one that has sprung from some poor
country where he has ever been purely
the child of neglect, he and all the pre-
decessars of his race. In a rich country
like the horse regions Of Kentucky, fol
instance, his pony characteristics would
invariably run out in the course OF Q
generations, He Is not distinct
strain, as many would seem to suppose
He doubtless sprang originsfly from al
good a strain of horses as the world
knew of at the time. and his present re-
duced size and characteristic toughness
have resulted unquestionably from loca'
circumstances.
"A rustic bridge at Beach Haven
Ca, contains fifty-seven kinds OF woot
and vines, grown on the fifty acres o.
Beach Haven Park. Following is a lis
of the woods and vines: Short leaf pine
long leaf pine, post oak, white oak
Spanish oak, water oak, red oak, poplar
sweet gum, black gum, red haw, blacl
haw, red bud, prickly ash, chinquapin
wild plum, persimmon, cedar, wild sloe
wahoo, sumac, red elm, pig hickory
scalybark hickory, hook or, sugar berry
willow. china, black alder, crab apple
wild mulberry, wild cherry, dogwood
sourwood, winter whortleberry, blacl
| locust. sassafras, cottonwood. buckeye
cypress. laurel, beech, holly, ash, iron
wood, birch, magnolia, sycamore, wal
nut, sweet bay, evergreen, spruce
Yines-Grape, muscadine, bellfo wer
rattan, bamboo.