The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-16
PERSONAL AND lMpERsoNAl.

An old wooden statue Of GcoEE9
Washington, fully ten feet high, hnS
come to light in New York. u d dir
covered that II used TO stand ii Battery
park
---Israel T. Landis, Of Lancaster, Pa.
an inventor Of some note, has been ho1a<
orcd with q corresponding honorary
membership In the Invcntorns Academy
Of Paris.
The coffin In which the late king "a
Holland is buried Is twice the sixe ~
quired owing to the undertaken CON-
fusing the new Dutch metre and thoi
old in his measurement, which mistake
was discovered too late to DO remedied.
Brigham Young did not possess the
fabulous wealth that was credited TO
him. He left Just 81 200, 900 when he
died, and this sum was divided accord
ing to the strictest laws Of equity
among eighteen wives and their
children.
"A New York letter says: Certain
New York firms have been trying good
looking women as bill collectors. So
far the scheme has been unsuccessful.
Three of the women married inside Q
week, and four more are engaged,
while the balance sympathixe with the
poor fellows who have run into debt
and have not collected cent
TIT Is calculated, says one Of tho
New York kilograms exchanges, 'sthnt
a man walking day and night could
make journey round the Garth In 49,
days" This is the sort of information
the people pine for, although II may DO
months before we can find a man capa-
bic Of walking continually for 42s days
and nights. Zsomnambulist might
succeed if he could only be hypnotized
into going in the right direction while
asleep.
The original Annie Laurie was
one of the four daughters Of Sir Robert
Laurie, first baronet Of Maxwclton, by
his second wife, who was daughter OF
Riddell, of Mimic. The song was writ
ten by a Mr.. Douglas, Of Finland, about
the end of the seventeenth or the boz
ginning Of the eighteenth century; but
it is sad fact that the poetical lover
did not obtain the bonnie Annie for his
wife. She was married to Mr.. Fur
guson, of Craigdar Rock. X. Ledger.
| Prank Moore, compiler of The Re-
bellion Record" and also an enthusi-
astic collector of antiquities and curios-
tiles of the revolutionary period, has So
cured what he is confident IL q genuine
portrait of General George Washington,
engaged in smoking pipe It Is by
Southern artist and was found among
the property Of an old Virginia family.
He will shortly reproduce 1t for public
printing. He says it will not detract
in the least from the generally PREVAIL
ing idea Of the great personal dignity Of
Washington.
king Albert, of Saxony, Is sixty-two
years old and has been on the throne for
seventeen years. He is huntsman Of
note and is at home ON the Bohemiau
frontier. The hunting dinners Mt which
he presides recall the great feasts his
ancestors had on similar occasions. Each
huntsman is hero for the evening 40
cording to the number of the visible
evidences of his prowess in the field.
When man has shot a stag hc Is en-
titled to wear bunch Of fir in his hat,
and branch of oak adorns him If he
has killed deer.
There used to be piece of advice
given by old-time lecturers on health
that In cold weather, and especially In
dusty atmosphere, people should keep
their mouths shut when out of doors
and breathe through the nose. The air
is better warmed in its passage to the
lungs II taken thus than If taken other
wises The particles of DUST also, arc
less likely to get into the lower air
passages by way of the nose than by
way of the mouth. There was good
sense in the advice of the old-time Leo
turerso on this subject. Y. Sun.