The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
or. GENERAL INTEREST.

.,..... or GENERAL INTEREST.
Tho greatest prodsction Of the mod.
ern loom, the Alteration OF the Magi,
designed by Burne Jones and worked
out by William Morris, Is to be present.
ed to the chapel Of Exeter College, Ok
ford.
To induce country custom. an enter
prising Chicago hotel man has issued
the following advertisements: '.If your
lungs are too weak to blow out the gasa
please use hand-bellows, which you will
lind in the washstand ers.=-Arkan=
saw Traveller.
The boy with knee breaches is
poor marble player generally. 1t Is the
boy with the baggy trousers, who wipes
his nose on his coat sleeve and rubs his
hands in dirt before shooting that has
the most marbles in his pocket-A
lanta Journal
years ago, Miss Mary Ann
Rhoades, Of Greenpoint, N. Y, suffered
from complaint which injured the coat
Of her stomach, since which time she
has been unable to eat solid food. Her
only diet is milk punch, three glasses
Of which she drinks daily.
"A Cincinnati man lugged. fifty feet
OF garden hose mile and half, and
then spent three hours watering his
grass plat Half an hour after he had
quit work it set in to rain and rained
all night, and in his disgust he tried to
commit suicide and very nearly accom-
plished it.-Norristown Herald.
AT ten years Of age boy thinks his
father knows great deal; at fifteen, he
knows as much as his father; at twenty,
he knows twice as much; at thirty, he
is willing to take his advice; at forty,
he begins to think his father knows
mething, after all; at fifty, he begins
to seek his advice, and at sixty-after
his father is dead-he thinks he was the
smartest man that ever lived. -Atchison
Globe.
-Harper's Bazaar prints this 'scompo-
sition" on George Washington, the work
OF nine-year-old boy: George WASH
ingten was the father Of his country
one day he went to his fathers yard and
cut down tree What are you doing
asked his. father i am trying to tell a
lie and can not when he grew up he
was president and was killed by man
named getto who was jellish of him and
the no engine house was draped in
black"
The total number OF persons killed
on railroads in Great Britain last year
was 1,139, and the number Of in ured
i-10, 9s1.= This is an increase over the
previous year of 266 fatalities and Of
l, 500 injuries. The London papers ex-
| plain that the cause of a great part of
the increase is to be found in the acct
dent on the Great Northern railway OF
Ireland last June, at which seventy
eight persons were killed and 200 IL
| jured. News. zs-s
The Italian who runs the peanut
stand on Fourth street was turning his
peanut rooster the other afternoon with
slow and measured hand, when AN old
woman came to halt and carefully OBJ
served the operation. After scrutiniE
ing the rooster from every side, she
finally gave it up, and remarked: mo
| sir; you don't get cent out Of me fol
no such music as that. Why, can
catch half Of any of the tunes, and II
smells as if some thing was burning in
side. Lake City Citizen.
Late one night a young woman, who
was lettering in the evening air on the
piazza of her home in Preston, dis
covered, by the lightning flash, mar
in suspicious attitude near the pantry
4 Nd hn I'd Nv boil
possible, but a second flash of lightning
reassured her. She did not scream, o.
futter, but walked calmly into the house
and let out the dog. A minute later
stampede proved that the dog had found
something to chase, and in few min
utes the animal returned with recog
nizable portion of the mans trousers ii
his mouth. The bold Preston girl will
add this tropy to her crazy quilt Nor
witch Comm Bulletin.
The first cargo of ice that ha
| passed through the Narrows from thu
remote Northern land for nearly nine
years arrived recently on the bark Nor
men. The original weight Of the carg'
was 9S6 tons. 1t will probably be
little less than that when it is removed
The shippers say they believe they will
be able to make a. profit by the sale o
the cargo. They say Also that more ICE
/ will doubtless be imported from Norwa,
II the wholesale price doesn't drop
Dealers in London are paying five dol
lars ton for ice, and Norwegian vessel
are doing big business carrying /
there. The bark Normen made the voy
age from Brebig, where she took the lie,
on board, in thirty-one days.-N. Y
Times.
"A musical gas machine, called tn,
pyrophone, has been brought out in En-
and it has keyboard and Is played IL
the same manner as an organ. 1t ha
thirty-seyen glass tubes, in which Xix,
number OF gas jets burn. These Jets
placed in circle, contract and expand
When the small burners separate tn,
sound is. produced; when they close to
gether the sound ceases. The tone de
ponds upon the number of burners ant
the size of the tubes in which the,
burn, so that by careful arrangement
and selection all the notes of the m usic
al scale may be produced in several oc
taves. Some of the glass tubes in which
the jets burn are nearly eleven fee
long. -National Publisher and Printer
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A Huge Mountain of Salt.
A mass Of 1000, 900 tons OF pure
solid, compact rock salt, located on al
Island 1s5 feet high, which rises from
miserable sea marsh on the route from