The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

AT Red Bank, n. j., man claimed
that Goliah was eleven feet high. This
was disputed, and in the row which re-
suited three men were badly hurt
The Lewiston journal says itwould
seem as if nobody need go with an
empty stomach in Maine " hen SUMMARIZED
apples are selling for four cents pound
in the country stores and there's min
eral spring on every hillside.
The eastern end~of Long Island il
now overrun with rabbits. 1t is only
necessary to board any Of the incoming
trains of an afternoon to see how the
rabbit is being bounded and mutilated
by ''gunnersn who chase him with
'sya1ler" dogs.
English as she is advertised in a
Japanese paper: This teeth powder
is not common thing, as be SEIZED in the
world, it is powerful to hold the health
of teeth, and recover the teeth from its
sick. If you-o only examine should find
that it never tell lie. y
I'm the Cascade Noun tains, about
seventy-fve miles from Jacksonville,
Ore, is to be found the Great Sunken
Lake, the deepest lake in this world. 1t
is said to average 1000 feet down to the
water on all Sides The depth of the
water is unknown. 1t is, about fifteen
miles long by four and half wide.
"A Russian paper notes the termi-
nation recently of lawsuit begun in
1890, or four centuries ago. The litiga-
ton was over forty-acre tract Of I'M
cultivated land, has been handed down
through numberless genera tions, and,
curiously enough, has been finally set
tied by peaceful arbitration.
"A New London (Conn.) sportsman
spent q day in the woods and=bagged a
black Brahma hen belonging to farm
er, who charged him seventy-ffve cents
for it, The fowl few out of a bush like
partridge. The hunter took the hen
home and his wife cooked it. He fancied
the Brahma would haunt him no more,
but next day in came the farmer who
said he found out the fowl was of a SUI
perior breed, and he wanted seventy-five
cents more. He got it.
"A livestock train on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was wrecked the other
| night at Pemeroy- Pa. and a car CON
tanning ninety-nine pigs was torn open
and the pigs allowed to escape. The
porkers galloped through fields and
meadows for miles, and the mystified
residents concluded that there had been
"a shower Of pigs--The- next morning
the railroad hands were set to work,
and after securing the country succeeded
in recovering every one of the tftan6
ninety-nine.
A lunch was given at Flushing, l..
l., recently to celebrate the turning of
the leaves. The walls of the dining
room into which the guests were ush-
cred were painted a yellowish cream,
with brown tones in the. frieze, and a
flush of red in the cornice warming the
brown. The fireplace and the deep win
dow seats were filled with maple boughs
flashing from yellow into the most vivid
I crimson Maple bougns hung from the
| chandeliers, and twigs of. maple and
oak and hrownish-yellow chestnut leaves
filled huge old yellow bowl that stood
in the middle of the table. 80
There is no immediate danger of
the United States becoming overcrowd-
ed, for Joseph Mimmo, Jr., shows in
Frank Leslie's paper that since indie
pendence was achieved the United
States Government has been the largest
owner Of arabic land on the earth. Z he
total area of the public domain sold
and gunsold, amounts to 1,S49, 072,5 S7
acres, and constitutes 70 per cent. of
the total area of the United States, in
Guiding Alaska. About 700, 900, 900 acres
of land have been sold and donated;
about 1,150, 600, 900 acres remain unsold.
AS the area of Alaska is 800, $50, 900
acres, the area unsold exclusive of that
territory is about 7S0, 900, o0O. acres.