The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-12-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

NJ 0GNEnAI tNlEnESts
Charles q. Leland first gained
fame BY his Hans Breitman Ballads
He has studied palmistry. made El4-
lish poetry out Of German verses
learned wood-carving, established art
schools. and written various charming
volumes about gypsies and other vag.
rom men.
by placing two iron bars at seven
or eight yards distance from each
other, and putting them in communica-
ton on one side by an insulated copper
wire and the other side with a tele-
phone, 1t is said that storm can be
predicted twelve hours ahead. through
q certain dead sound heard in the re.
ceiver.
Printers in this town, says the New
York Sun. and elsewhere. have an odd
fashion Of using type for dice. Each
type has on one side small notches de-
signed to guide the printer SO that he
may set the letter right side up, or
rather upside down, as is the manner
Of printers-M hen type are thrown- as.
dice they are simply shaken in the
palm of the hand and cast upon table.
The value Of the cast is determined by
the number Of notches turnedaup.
The Danish society for the culture
of heaths, with the support of the gov
ernment is rewooding one hundred
square miles of heath in Jutland. The
work was begun in 1885 with one
square mile. The society now num-
bers fourteen thousand members and
is enthusiastically supported by COM
munities and private individuals Last
year it purchased plants to the value OF
sixteen thousand dollars, and about
sixty-seven thousand dollars are an
nually expended for planting and Guilt
walton of heaths-
Mime. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the
second wife of Frances "Grand Old
Man." is just four decades younger
than her illustrious husband, and is de-
scribed as LIVELY and vivacious matron,
in whose veins run a mixture of En-
glish and Creole blood. She made her
future husbands acquaintance at a
country home where he was visiting,
and where she was engaged as gov
erness, and the great engineer declares
that to her encouraging letters, mdi1ed
to him weekly whilst he was engaged
in fighting the sand, the world owes
the Suez canal
-Ringgold, Ga. was visited by a
wonderful phenomenon recently. Mil
lions upon millions OF fire-fies issued
from neigbboring mountain ridges and
took down the course of the Chicka-
manga river, which skirts the city on
the southern border. The pyrotechnic
display was grand. Trunks of trees
skirting the river were plainly visible
quarter of q mile distant, and the en-
tire mountain side was illuminated
The horde Of fire-flies was fully forty
feet high, and it took quarter of an
hour to pass down the stream. extend
ing over mile along its course.
An enthusiastic fisherman in Con-
necticut enjovs the sport without sac
rificing any Of his home comforts. His
residence is on the Willimantic river.
From back window he has strung a
wire across to the top of a tree Just
over very good ''fshing hole" he has
blocked the wire, and with carrier
and reel he slides his baited hook.
sinlxer and line down the wire to the
block The contact releases the reel
and as it UNIV inds the baited hook
drops into the water and "fshingv be-
gins. Sitting at home he can feel the
nibbles and bites. and quick motion
secures his prey and pulls it along the
wire to the house.
"A negro was thrashed in Galveston
by another negro on the ground that
he had attempted to separate the latter
from his wife through voudooism.
While he was on his way to hospital
in a patrol wagon he gave to detective
what is known among the negroes as a
Jack" which is thus described: ut is
composed of several items, among
others certain bone of graveyard
rabbit, finger nail taken from off the
finger of dead man. some hair, load
stone, bone Of a jet black cat, all
sewed up in small red flannel bag
about the size of a very large straw
berry, and having some OF the same
shape and appearance"
"A number of persons living In the
vicinity of Reedley, Fresno county,
CAL, all reputable citizens. too, declare
that. they have.seen and hunted two
dragons with wings fifteen feet long,
bodies without covering of hair or
feathers, head broad. bills long and
wide, eyes not less than four inches in
diameter and with feet like those of an
alligator, though more circular in
form. They had five toes on each foot
with strong claw on each toe, and
the track is eleven inches wide and
nineteen inches long These monsters
were first seen near Selma, Cal, on the
night of July II. After they had made
several appearances a party was
organized to hunt them. One Of them
was wounded ana cracked. several
miles and his track in the mud secured.
THE FARMER WAS FIRM.
But His Geese Wore a Great Deal
Ffrn,er.
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