The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-12-03
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

Father Mollingerysvhosem miraculous
cures It Troy Hill shrine have made
him famous, has accumulated . fortune
Of S, 000, 900. e. =
A Michigan man tumbled into .
hole four feet deep one evening and
supposing himself at the bottom or q
mine shaft forty feet deep he put in
the night praying and halloing.
"A Dane arrested in Merfden. Conn.
for theft is said to be heir to $3.50. 000
He was banished from Denmark in 1859.
tho story goes. and II prevented from
claiming the property BY the fact Of
his Punishment
"A Lewiston, Me-, man, who worlxs
In cotton mill at Midtown, N. b, has
been In the habit Of sending home by
post Office money orders to his wife .
part Of his earnings each month. Great
was his surprise when the tax collector
at Milltcwn came round with bill Of
between three and four dollars ~
aessed on the money RENTED.
"A Holloway, Mich, druggist used
tartar emetic instead Of tartaric acid In
his new soda fountain and invited the
crowd, which had come in to see the
new concern, to have one with him,
and all joined in the reveiry. They
subsequently, all leaned over fence
and disgorged. That soda fountain
has not been bowling success.
A Belfast, Me-, young man met On
acquaintance ON the street one day
and, assuming . savage look, said:
TEN years ago you licked me. have
always remembered II, and now am
going to return the compliment. He
had hardly got the words out Of his
mouth before he landed In q heap in
the gutter, while the other fellow
walked off muttering something about
waiting twenty years for the next
round.
"A correspondent who visited the
Cornte de Lesseps depicts touching
domestic scene. In ono corner by the
window on sofa, rug over his knees,
the old man, erect, bright-eyed as Of
yore, but pale and weary looking.
Facing him the beautiful and devoted
wife in black. and all about the little
room the most delightful bevy of little
folks that one might wish to see They
are beautiful children, with great
Spanish eyes and curly hair. De Les
seps is now 81 years yld.
Two young women who were pass
ing the summer at Goose Rocks, Me-,
one of them worth quarter of mill
ion in her own name, INDUCED in an
escapade which afforded them lots of
fun and relieved the monotony of life
for other people. Both are skilled musi-
clans, one playing the banjo and the
otherthe guitar. They attired them
selves as gypsies and went over to Ken.
nebunk Beach to entertain the sojourn-
ers there. In return for their music
they secured about eight dollars in sill
yer, which they gave to a man whose
house had been burned.
1T is related of Mr.. Moody that the
evangelist was sitting In his family
carriage at the Mortified station re-
Gently as train came in. A stranger,
installing him for a hackman, ordered
him to drive to the hotel, and without
a word of dissent the great preacher
did as he was hidden. He refused to
take pay for his services and this ex-
cited the curiosity of the man. He was
dunn bfounded to learn that the hack
man, to whom he had also made free
comments on Mr. fdoody's work in the
course of the drive, was none other
than the evangelist himself.
When Hannibal Hamlin was a lad
ten years old he broke his arm; and
when, upon removing the splints and
bandages 1t was found that the bone
had slipped out of place before knitting,
a surgeon was summoned again. With
out giving the boy q hint of what was
coming, he broke the bone again, SO as
TO set It properly. Thereupon. with no
warning whatever. his youthful patient,
who still had one sound arm, drew off
and struck the doctor in the face,
which was excused, but
with the remark: 'sWhen operate on
you again, young man, I'll have you
strapped down."