The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-06
or GENERAL INTEREST.

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I'm a revival meeting al Walla Wal
IL, Ore, q man confessed that he was
murderer and asked forgiveness He re
fused TO reveal the circumstances
AN advertisement in the Media
tRa.l Record announces the location of
aPiece Of property up Tor sale as one
and onezqaarter inches from the town
Of Wawa
--''I always return from Europe more
in love with my own country than ever"
says Senator Washburn, OF Minnesota
Europe is nothing but an armed camp"
"A young clerk with tack in his
stomach was an object of discussion at
the recent meeting OF the Pettis County
(Mo.) Medical Association. He was
placed upon diet Of potatoes
"A woman at South Bethlehem, Pa,
offered man thirty dollars to marry her
daughter. He performed his part OF the
contract, but when he attempted to col
lect xhis fee his new mother-in-law
thrashed him soundly. =,
Just what full-grown black bear
can do in the way of hugging was dem
onstrated in Maine week or two ago,
when bruin seized barrel of beef, gave
it squeeze and crushed it in pieces. 1t
was estimated to be squeeze of two
horse power.
-Unacquainted with the game birds
of this country, newly-arriyed Ger
man, living near Scranton, shot a barn
yard turkey under the impression THAT
it was wild fowl. He took it home
and had it cooked, and was about to sit
down at the dinner-table to eat it when
he was arrested for killing his neigh
boris poultry.
"A Saco (Me.) blacksmith is the
latest convert to the belief that early
rising is not always in practice what it
is in theory. He got up dark and early
the other morning, and had his fire
blazing by four o'clock. The next thing
he knew the Saco fire department. had
the hose turned on his blaze, and the
neighbors were Streaming fire" at the
top of their voices.
"A family of Burnside. H., had been
annoyed for many weeks by strange
noises. and suspected that some noxious
animal was in the house. The other
night they discovered the intruder in
the shape of huge rattlesnake, which
had been aroused to fury by a cat.
There was intense excitement, espe-
-eiall y among the ladies' of the house,
hold, until the reptile was -dispatehedr
There are various degrees Of folly
exhibited by individuals in the daily
routine of life; perhaps no greater one
could be adduced than that of search
ing for an escape of gas with naked
light, says the London Lancet A man
of mature age has recently had oeea-
sion to be impressed with the negli-
gence he displayed in his endeavor to
find the origin of an escape of gas in
his house. Besides being badly burnt
on the face, head and arms, he became
aware at the same time of considerable
damage done to his household prop
erty.
-0ne of the Philadelphia. institutes
had pleasant experience the other day
Some years ago the managers admitted
a pupil to its school who was unable at
the time to pay the regular fees. 1t was
understood that he should pay at some
future time, but no account was opened
with him, and the incident had almost
been forgotten, when the pupil returned
to pay the money-fifty dollars. The in
-struction he had received enabled him
to get employment, and when he had
saved enough of his earnings to meet his
obligations he came up manfully and
paid the cost OF his tuition.
Among the curiosities to be found
in the Minnesota State Law Library are
two volumes of the colonial laws of
Massachusetts, 1850 to 1772. They are,
of course, reprints, but rye olden style"
has been faithfully reproduced. Tho
code of laws in vogue in those provincial
days was truly very crude. 1t was then
that the whipping-post was resorted to
as mode of punishment, but it is stipu
lated that mo man shall be beaten with
above forty stripes, nor shall any true
gentleman, nor any man equal to gem
tleman, be punished by whipping unless
his crime be very shameful and his
course of life vicious and prohigate."
Again the code says: IF any man Shall
Blaspheme the name OF god, the father,
Some or Holy ghost. with direct ex
presse, presumptuous or high handed
blasphemie, or shall curse God in the
like manner, he shall be put to death"