The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-11-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


-Parisian handles now wear pink,
blue, or red shirts In the evening, With
regular low-cut evening waistcoats.
James Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain, Ca. which measured four
feet seven inches from tip to tip OF
| wings
The tombstone of the late Mrs. Ann
Carter #of@P hiiadeap hias=beafs4the
following lines cut in marble:
Some have CHI ldren and some have none
But here lies the mother Of twenty one
| One Of the dancers in theater in
Berlin was found -dead in her bed and 1t
was supposed that she had committed
suicide, but a post-mortem examination
showed that she died from heart failure,
due to tight lao1ng. The liver Of the
unfortunate young woman was horribly
I deformed and crushed out Of shape.
MANY parents are apt to consider
| their daughters worth their weight in
/ gold but Scotch gentleman estimated
his two daughters value at even higher
/ rate than this, bequathing to each her
weight in Ell notes. The elder seems to
I have been simmer than her sister, for
i she got only e51, 200, while the younger
received EST, 344
"A very miscellaneous cargo was
! taken by a Bangor vessel, the brig
Emma, which has just left that port for
Port of Spain, Trinidad. I consisted of
o38 pounds of ice, 1000 feet pine boards,
,soopounds butter, $50 pounds new cheese,
various vegetables, four half barrels
oysters, 455 pounds fresh fish, two half
barrels beef, 9,275 pounds hay.-Kenne-
bee (Me.) Journal.
One of the peculiar industries of
Kern County California, is the collec-
ton and shipment Of horned toads
| They are sold ito the Chinese, who use
them for medicinal purposes They are
considered especially valuable in the
treatment Of rheumatism. The formula
is as follows: Two parts whisky and
one part horned toad; mix and let it
stand one year. 1t may then be taken
internally or applied externally to tie
rheumatic parts.
a queer history attached to Port
land young woman. When but five
years old, away off on one of the South
Sea Islands, she was sold by her own
people, who are eannibals, to a Portland:
sea captain, and the seller firmly be-
lieved that she was bought to be eaten as
food. She has been educated and treated
kindly and earns her living as servant
in the captains family, realizing every
day, no doubt, how much better 1t Is to
eat than to be eaten.
Lieutenant Seton Karr reports that
during his recent explorations in the
mountains along the British Columbia
Alaskan boundary he killed the largest
cinnamon bear on record. He says:
The tape measurements of the skin give
1T an area of sixty-fiye square feet in
GLIDING head and paws; across the mar
rewest portion it measures six feet, and
in length nine without the head; the
claws of the fore paws measure four
inches round the curve and in fur, size,
and texture the hide strongly reese m bles
that Of a>buffalo..
"A whale thirty-fve feet long got
stranded in shallow water in Manokin
river, Somerset County, Maryland, and
was killed by the Inhabitants. The
creature, when discovered, was furiously
flashing the water in efforts to escape. A
colored man went out in boat and tried
to tie the tail of his whaleship with a
rope. While doing this the whale struck
the boat with his tail, upsetting the
craft and throwing the colored man
about twenty feet in the air. The be-
siegers afterward succeeded in killing
the monster with axes and clubs They
| then haIjlad IL IN On tho abnra
September 6, 1881, is well rememb ered
in New England and parts of New York
and Pennsylvania as the yellow day."
Southern Canada took on some of the
characteristics noted in the States above
mentioned, the yellow in the atmosphere
! having more greenish cast, which
accounts for the Canucks referring to it
as "the green day." In thenorning the
sky had the appearance OF being clouded,
but as the sun arose it was plainly visi-
Bile, and Of the color of brass.-Abont
midday much darker yellow appear
ance prevailed every thing except
leaves and grass had the intense yellow
look, they appearing of rich, velvety
green. The cause Of the phenomenon,
which lasted but one day, has never
been satisfactorily explained.
Recent investigat lions in Indian pris-
ons have revealed curious physiolo-
! gical condition induced by thieves for
the purpose Of secreting valuables
They allow heavy lead bullet to slide
down-the throat, and keep it in position
for half an hour at time. In about a
year pouch is formed; into which any
thing under the size of ten rupees may
| be thrust, without interfering with
speech or breath. A really expert thief,
with some histrionic power, is able to
use the stolen contents of his throat as
an aid to an appearance of innocence
| when he is being searched. AT present
there are in Calcutta Jail twenty prison.
ers who have successfully assimilated
themselves to monkeys, in order that
they might with profit take jewels and
money. Petty larcenists do these things
more ingeniously in the East than in
Europe. r.
Circumventlng smokeIess Powder.
One of the summers exercises at,