The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-08
of GENERAL INTEREST.

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There are seven or eight negroes ID
Texas, most Of them ex-slayes, who are
worth about Sf00. 900 each.
AN 0sNsg6 ibhhf ,lAds made ZOO
words Of the letters contained in toori-
servatory," while her mother wrestled
with the weeks washing unaided.
The life Of q locomotive crank-pin,
which 10 almost the first thing about an
engine to wear out Is 90, 0Oe miles, and
the life &ak 5S4inch wheel Is 66 7S3
miles #ss=s==A'=@s's=a===
During her voyage Of Les days ffon
Calcutta to New York the Timandra ran
through four hurricanes Oil bags hung
over the bows, sides and stern saved the
ship as Captain Mowatt verify believes
Sixty years ago railroads were UNI
known in the United States, and the
population Consisted OF IL, 600, 900 PEG.
pie; to-day there are upward Of 165, 900
miles of railroad. and the population
has increased to 81. 000. 900.
Iron Mountain, Mich, has . COW
club. On joining each COW owner pays
into the treasury rs cents for each cow
in his possession, and when a members
cow dies an assessment Is made and $40
is paid to the loser. After the initiation
fee the assessments are all the members
pay into the club.
The ostrich farm at Oceanside was
raised recently by California lion. He
got into the pen where sixteen ostriches
I were kept and scattered them right and
left The men in charge secured the
country and secured all but one, which
Is still at large. The ostrlches were
valued at 81, 900 each.
Some of the bar-tenders in Derby,
Conn, have live snakes within easy
reach When man has imbibed too
freely, and desires more liquor, tho bar
tender puts small live snake on a
plate and quietly places 1t before him.
The patron thinks it snake Of the
imagination--a premonition of a VIC
lent attack OF the jim ams-and sud
denly decides that he isnot very thirsty.
Did you ever think Of how much
space the people who die every year re-
quire for decent burial? If one could
be content with grave two by six feet,
$3.50 bodies could be inferred in one
acre Of ground, allowing nothing for
walks, monuments, roads, etc On this
| crowded plan London's annual dead,
numbering about 81, 900, would fill a
cemetery Of about twenty-three acres.
AN utterly unprecedented accident
was caused by freak 9th wind In
Paxton, Ill. During heavy wRdstorm
as,fr IF N Al n 4,
was raised on the wings Of the wind,
elevated to considerable height and
then plunged point foremost through
the roof The novel sight drew vast
crowds of spectators who were anxious
to behold church steeple wrong end
upward.
"A preventive Of hydrophobia has
been discovered by Colonel w. G. Hill,
OF Georgia Some time since his dog.
with several others, was bitten by a
rabid canine, and remembering rem
edy which he had often successfully
used for rattfesnake bites; he drenched
the dog with alum water. All the other
dogs bitten developed hydrophobia,
while his has never shown the slightest
symptom Of rabies.
The latest fad in medicine is known
as .orificial surgery" The disciples of
this new cult look chiefly to the OPEN
ings in the human form, believing, with
the great bard, that all men have their
exits and their entrances, and that IL
these are preserved in normal condi-
ton the internal regions will take care
OF themselves The New York Medical
Record styles the practitioners Of this
art "oriphysioianss
If we reckon the population OF the
globe at 1, 400, 600, 900 of human beings,
there would be room for them all on
the frozen surface of the lake of Com
stance (Switzerland), and the crush
would not be SO very great eith6r, as
there would be a space Of four square
feet for each person; II the ice wore to
break and the whole human race were
thus to sink into watery grave, the
level OF the lake would only be raised
six inches III
"A modern Darius Green is Mr.. Pat
rick Peters, of Prince Edwards Island,
who has modelled q flying machine after
the wings and motion of bird. anil con-
fldently expects to solve with 1t the
problem of aerial navigation. The
bird" as he calls it weighs thirty
eight pounds is very easily managed,
and claims interest from the rumor that
it has carried Mr.. Peters two miles in
four minutes 1t Is soon to be exhibited
in the States. .
An example of blind and unthink-
ing mimicry, such as most folks suppose
the Chinese alone are given to, is seen
in the little tool which fish dealers use
for scraping the scales off fish. The
man who invented this scraper, a, few
years ago, made it by tearing apart q
horse comb and attaching one smooth
blade to the handle in place OF the row
OF toothed blades which had formed the
comb. Other fish dealers saw him using
his invention, and borrowed it to have
others made like 1t The copies were
made with the useless earmarks OF the
horse comb, like the original. Now the
article is a staple, and thousands are
turned out but the purposeless relics OF
the comb are reproduced in every one
N. Y Sun.
THE CRuCIFIxlON NAILS.
They Are Said to BE Part Of Very Ancient
Lombard Crown.
One OF the most curious relics pre-
served in the Ashmolean Museum, at
Oxford, England, is crown having a