The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-28
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Of the Brooklyn police got hold Of q
case the other day where q broker had
paid man 5000 q year for thirteen years
because he one day complimented HIS
wife and chucked her under the chin in
fatherly way. The chuclxer had sub
mitted to be blackmailed rather than
be exposed, but his prosecutor stands y
good show Of going to prison.
Blacksmiths win be apt to view
with alarm the introduction Of paper
horseshoes just approved for use in the
German army. They are made Of lay
ers Of compressed parchment, cemented
with q preparation Of turpentine, Span
ish white, lac and boiled linseed oil.
The separate layers are stamped out,
cenented and consolidated by q hy-
draulic press When dry the shoe Is
rasped to At each horse.
"A Polish wedding took place at
Hurley, Wis, recently, at which q
curious proceeding, said to be q custom,
was noticed. Instead Of the invited
guests each bringing present, they
waited until the wedding-dinner was
over, then the plates were removed,
washed and brought back, when the as
scmbled guests threw silver dollars
against the plates until all Of them were
broken. The couple received nearly
seven hundred dollars in this manner
AT St Paul, Mimi. the other day, .
police captain, who had got locked up
in room while making search, actu-
ally sent a message by an outsider to
the city attorney, who lived two miles
away, asking him If he had authority to
break out of the ROOM The attorney
was wroth at being disturbed at an nm
timely hour in the night, and sent word
to tear out OF the house. Thereupon
the brilliant officer broke out and ar
rested the man who locked him in.
The mysterious canyon in southern
California, which is known as the VAL
ley of Death, is said to be, in some
parts, fully 500 feet below the sea level.
The heat is so intense that dead bodies
do not deeompose, but become mummi-
fed, the heat rapidly causing all their
moisture to evaporate. The valley Is
said to be rich in deposits of gold, al
though it is not known that any person
has ever returned alive from this un-
healthy region, which seems to be
Stunned by allanimal life.
The price of seal-skins all over the
world depends on the auction sales Of
these furs which take place in London
twice each year. At the October sale
of the present season, prices were near
ly doubled, because, while the demand
has rapidly increased. the supply has
diminished. The great North American
Co. offered only twenty-one thousand
skins for sale this year, and buyers from
the large European cities and from New
York bid heavily because the demands
of their customers compelled them to
do so.
AN old soldier of the Massachusetts
Thirty-fifth regiment gives the following
advice regarding cold feet: SAT one
time while | was stamping upon the
ground, in the effort to warm my ex-
tremities, a comrade in the same regi-
ment said to me; II your feet are cold
try this He raised his foot from the
ground, and struck some light blows
with his hand on the upper part of his
leg, just above the knee, Ibid the same
with both legs, and instantaneously felt
a flow of warm blood coursing DOWN
ward, and the feet soon became com.
fortably warm r.
The origin of the name america"
has recently been discussed by the
Geographical society of Berlin. Semc-
held that IL comes from a range OF
mountains in Central mer;ca c.llad ~,