The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-06-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The highest railroad bridge in the
United States 10 the Kinzna yiaduct On
the Erie road-305 feet high.
| AN English railway company has set
apart special fund from which to re-
ward nets Of bravery on the part Of its
employees
4 --Stlence for ten. days, speaking only
I'M Whispers for ten days more, then
gradual return to the ordinary voice, Is
. Recommendation for stammerers.
IAN Irish land bailiff, who had been.
boycotted for ten years, and was con-
stently guarded by the police while he
lived, died a few days ago, and the
guard being relaxed . Little, some per-
sons unknown stole his body and made
awsygwith u 50 effectually that It has
not stnce been found.
~ youth Of sixteen, at Fort Benton,
Mont, recently performed difficult
feat of capturing ,. gray wolf with q
1affat from his horse. Twice the ami
NAL got away BY biting the moose in
two. But the third time 1t was caught
firmly around the body and dragged be-
hind the speedy broncho until it was
dead.
"A Partisan lately made an Easter
egg, intended for wealthy Spanish
lady at cost 81 "a 200. 1t is q most in
genius piece Of mechanism and is made
entirely OF pure white enamel. It Is
provided with doors and slides, the in
side being engraved with Easter gospels.
The opening of door sets tiny bird
singing and musical apparatus going,
which is capable of playing twelve airs.
"A recent railway accident in On
tario, in which train rolled down a
twenty-five foot embankment, was
marked by this incident: Among the
passengers on the train was convict,
in charge Of bailiff. He was chained
to a seat, and when the car turned over
he hung in mid-air He managed, after
considerable effort, to free himself, and
then went to the assistance of his keep
er and helped him from the wreck.
"A Georgia fisherman recently baited
his set hooks with small green frogs.
He left his hooksin the water 81 nicely
floating having been told that this was
the best of bait-expecting to return
next morning and find fish by the Dozen.
He returned and to his surprise all of
his baited hooks were setting out on the
banks looking at him, and as he came
close to them they would jump back into
the water "ker chunk. He had expe-
rience, but no fish.
The great siphon in tho new aque-
duct for tho water supply of New York
City is considered aImost wonderful
piece Of hydraulic engineering. 1t con-
sveys the metropolitan water supply
across the Harlem at a depth OF 3o7 feet
beneath the river bed. Certain advan-
tages were gained by this method over a
stone or steel viaduct, which it is be-
lieped will counterbalance its greater
cost. Not the least of these is thes inn
munity from danger of foreign attack.
"A correspondent of the London
Times thus destroys the old legend of
the DEVILS Bridge in the Pyrenees:
1.-THE popular legend about this bridge,
which spans mountain torrent called
the Tech, near the small town of Ceret
was that 1t had been built during one
night by Satan and his myrmidons, and
the fact that the particulars as to its
construction had never been found in
any Of the local archives gave additional
strength to this legend. But the regis
trar of neighboring town called Prats
de Mollo, close to the Spanish frontier,
has just unearthed manuscript, dated
1921, which relates how the notables of
that town contributed ten golden
crownsof Barcelona toward the building
OF. the bridge at ceret upon condition
that the inhabitants of Prats de Mollo
were exempted from paying TOLL"