The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


There are 4.o4l muscles in cater.
Pillar
America has zoo, 600 telephones,
more than the rest of the world COM
bined. -
The first locomotive was built by
Richard Trevithick in 1904, but the first
locomotive after the modern idea was
built by'George Stephenson in 1929; the
idea of the construction OF locomotive
was given to the world by James Watt
in 176a, and patented BY him in lTSA
Beaver lake, in Yellowstone park,
has been created by the industrious lit
tie. animal after which 1t is named. A
colony have here built series of thirty
dams, thus forming a sheet OF water
half mile in width and two miles in
length. The dams have falls of from
three to six feet each.
"A dumb woman at Martha's Vine
yard owns and manages small schooner,
living in, it with kitten and huge
Newfoundland dog .for=company She
supports herself by fishing and her lob
ster-pots, and by peddling thread and
buttons and such small wares along thu
coast when the fishing season is over.
"A woman at Great HILL Conn, find
ing snake among her growing cucum-
bers, took an original way of dispatch
ing him. She poured kettle Of boil
ing water over the intruder, and the
dose 80 used him up that she found no
trouble then in finishing him with a
whip He measured, it SIS said, four
feet in length.
Prof Gee, sof Paris, is one more to
conclude from physiological expert
ments that the nutritive value Of coffee
In fact amounts to nothing, that it is
merely stimulantrin that it acts on
the human system as blower on a fire,
to increase the rate of activity of vital
functions, to increase heat production
and heat dissipation To use 1t is, in
short, to dissipate, to put on unnatural
steam pressure and wear out the vital
machinery too fast-Foote's Health
Monthly
1T is most peculiar sight to see the
canal boats which are burdened with ice
coming down the -river.-There are hum
dreds upon hundreds of them now being
hurried to the metropolis The whole
deck Of the boats is covered with earth
several inches in thickness to protect, as
far as possible, the precious commodity
from the ravages of the sun On several
of the boats which passed this city few
days ago grass was luxuriantly growing
from the earth which covered the decks.
Albany Argus.
The low language of a parrot in
Kansas City led to the arrest of the bird
and its owner. The parrot belongs TO a
barber, and it singled out, asan especial
object for its abuse, Colonel w. ]. Nell
-son,-whosa- office is ACROSS street.
For several days, as the journalist en-
tered or left his office, he heard from the
bird expressions like these:-sLook at
old paste pot!" Soak his head" Get
your har cutr' When the bird was
brought into court, it ann used the spec
tators by screeching: Johnny, get your
gum"
No saying is moro common among
physicians than the declaration that
strong physical constitution and good
health are necessary to success in life;
yet there have been many instances in
which this rule does not seem to have
been true. Darwin, the greatest natu-
ralist of his time. was always an invalid,
and Sir Andrew Clark, one of the most
eminent men of the present day, tells
us that he was so sickly that his life
was not deemed worth years purchase
when he began the active work of his
singularly successful career.-N. Y. Sun.
The recent great fire in the Western
Union Telegraph building, in New York.
destroyed instruments and machinery of
great value, which it will require much
time to replace. The great switch
board was especially valuable. 1t was
almost magical piece of mechanical
construction. Into it went all the wires
leading from the batteries, and from it
radiated the wires extending to every
part of the country. 1t was the center
of system of combinations almost as
innumerable as those of an arithmetieal
series. 1t was an instrument which re-
CURED many months to construct and
VIII oh cost when completed, $3.50, 900. 1t
will be at least six months before
another one can be built, and meanwhile
tho company will be subjected to delays
and annoyances which this machine
was constructed. 20 obyiate.