The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-12-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

IL tAc AIt8rGblo OCEAN the Ice UcrKH
that have been noticed from time to
time rose 500. $50, roo and esen@1. 600
feet about the water, and were from
three 10 1--WE miles long. Their enor-
nous bulk may be inferred from the
fact that the part nnder water is about
seven times as large rs that above.
The record for speed by railroad
train was broken. it. is said, on the
Bound Brook railroad, between Nesha-
miny Falls and Langhorne, Pa En-
CINE No. FOG. drawing two ordinary
coaches and q heavy private car ofo
OF the officers, succeeded in running a
mile in 80 IS seconds. five miles in 8
minutes 90 3-5 seconds, and ten miles in
7 minutes 10 seconds.
There is on exhibition in q show
window in Butte, Mont, a very ldrge
moose horn grated into the base Of q
tree It has been in that position for
yearx, as the tree has grown around IL
so as to get such grip on it that cut
ting the wood away Is the only means
of separating the two. u is evident
that at some remote period the
monarch of the woods was caught in a
tree, and in trying to extricate himself
the horn was broken off.
An enthusiast on the subject states
that each head of clover is composed of
about sixty distinct flower tubes, and
each of these contains sugar not to ex-
coed the five hundredth part of grain.
The proboscis of the honey bee must
therefore be inserted into 500 clover
tubes before one grain of sugar can be
obtained There are 1000 grains in a
pound, and as honey contains three
fourths OF its weight of dry sugar, each
pound of clover honey would represent
the insertion Of the proboscis into
2, 500, 600 clover heads
Stone Mountain, Ca. has remark
able pony. He has not only almost
human intelligence. the power of
knowing to the minute his feeding
hour. and an ability to distinguish per-
sons he has met before, but can run err
rands. His owner has small bag,
which he hangs on the pony's neck.
and on being told to s'bring the mali
the pony marches off with much Dig
nifty to the post Office, where the genial
postmaster receives the bag. and upon
depositing the mail tells him to take
it home" which he does without mis-
take.
Fort Worth can boast of the larg-
est flowing well in existence. the larg-
est hitherto known being at Bourne,
Lincolnshire, England, which dis
charges half-million gallons daily.
At Aire, in the province of Artois,
France, from which province is derived
the name of artesian wells, there is a
well from which the water has con-
tinued to How for more than century,
and at the old Carthusian convent at
Lille there is another which dates
from the twelfth century. But Fort
Worth's. we'll breaks the record. 1t
gives 900 gallons per minute, which
makes S64,O0 daily.
The Philadelphia Ledger takes the
loftincss out of word that is in very
frequent use. "Styling public dinner
banquet is something of mistake;
that is, if the use of the word banquet
is to add more dignity to the occasion
or even to be more uppish or bumptious
or 'toplofty.' Banquet, from the
French and Spanish, means small
bench, little seat and when spelled
banqueta means three-legged STOOL
1t has reference to sitting while eating.
instead of taking refreshment in
'stand-up' fashion, as at one of our
Wistar parties or at a free-lunch coun-
ter. The truth is that banquet is
simply a grandiose xpression-ambi-
tious and somewhat affected. ''-a-Fs'-
All the queen bees of Williamsport,
Pa, ought to be indicted for high trea-
son and for permitting one of their
subjects to interfere with the United
States mail service. William H. DAN
ley, mail carrier, was on duty when
honey bee. attracted by a mail pack
age of candied violets he was about to
deliver at Miss Lovell's residence,
stung him on one of his fingers Dam
ley complained of cxcruciating pain.
His hand at once began swelling rapid
ly, and in few minutes his whole sys-
tenn was affected Ten minutes after
icing stung he fell into comatose
condition, and before aid could be sum-
moned he was dead. only fifteen min
utes having elapsed from the time he
was stung.