The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-09
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21Accor1gng 10 "A Agricultural D.
paftment report, nuts improve q
readily a. fruit By selection and culture.
The most common results Of cultivation
Are thinner shells and increased size.
An enterprising Contemporary in
forms its readers that . ton Of gold Ri
worth sCU2, 7eo. 30 but with exasperating
carelessness neglects to inform them
where it may be got. Chicago Timcsa
The white mourning Of the youth
full Queen of the Netherlands Is re-
vival Of an old custom. Some ancient
orders of nuns, corresponding to the
passionate one for men, used to dress In
white.
"A negrcss named Caroline Jenkins,
living near Houston, Tex, is a veritable
Samson. Four police officers went to
arrest her, when she took them one by
one, threw them out Of the house and
locked the doors upon them. She can
break half inch rope with ease by
stretching it from hand 10 hand.
"A chemical analysis Of tho food
cooked by our grandmothcrs, which
men sigh for once in awhile, would
show it IS per cent more dangerous to
the stomach than food prepared in the
modern kitchen. As matter Of fact
American women knew nothing Of
cookery up to acknowledgements ago.
-Guttapercha derives its name from
the Malayan words quota, gum, and
pertcAa, q cloth, and was introduced to
the civilized world in 1912 by DR.. Mont
gomery, Scotch surgeon. The first
specimens were taken to London from
Singapore by Jose Almeida, and the
properties of the gum were announced
by Hancock, Wheatstone and Faraday.
Boston Transcript.
Tho New Jersey philanthropist who
started retreat" for homeless men
hnd warm welcome for the first dozen
tramps who piled in, but when seventy
eight came along in one day and told
him that one hundred and forty more
would arrive on the next, and that he
was expected to trot out his best and do
the right thing. he closed and nailed up
the door. Detroit Free Press.
"A Wapakoncta, o., dispatch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: There was
born to-dayrto Mr.. and Mrs. Adam OBJ
erhoizer, of this city, boy. Mr.. Ober-
hoizer is eighty years of age. He is the
| gentleman who gave his wife $1,000
cash and a large oil farm on the day Of
their marriage, and for the first time is
a father. He came up the street to-day
singing at the top Of his voice"
The custom of throwing slipper
after a bride is said to come down from
| ancient times Long before the Chris
| tian era defeated chief would take off
his shoes and hand them to the victor ia
show that the loser of the shoes yielded
up all authority over his subjects.
Therefore, when the family Of bride
throw slippers after her they mean that
they renounce all authority over her
- drink, remarked gentleman &c
me recently, -four OF five cups of coffee
daily If stop drinking coffee, get 9
headache" Another gentleman of my
acquaintance, on the other hand, gets a
racSing neuralgia headache every time
that he. takes even a very small quaint.
| ty of coffee, and Bostonian who be.
came blind, u film having formed before
his eyes, found that his sight was re
stored when he stopped drinking coffee
| Epoch.
The Indian Engineering says thai
experiments have been making at the
Rangoon oil refinery with view of OBJ
tanning cheap and solid fuel from pc
troleum, and very good result wa,
obtained by heating the oilsand dissolv
ing three per cent. common soap. The
product was found hard to ignite, burn,
slowly, causes barely any smoke, ane
pr oduces great heat. In fact, a clear
and convenient fuel and superior to al
other fuel obtained from mineral OIL
| The great seal of the Confederate
States is now in the office of the South
Carolina Secretary Of State, says the st
Louis Globe Democrat. The seal ant
its press are of silver. The handle il
ivory and the seal itself bears like
ness of Washington, modelled after tn.
equestrian statue in Richmond, wreath
composed of leaves and flowers of ths
staple crops of the South, an inscrip
ton, THE Confederate States of Amer
lea, % February, 1862" and the motto
"Deo Vindice."a
miss Maggie Respess, a girl of fifteeI
who lives near Adel, Ga, went to tn,
spring recently armed with her father,
hunting for protection. She foune
a bear in her path, and the animal
rising upon his launches, let fall his bis
paws upon the girls shoulders as sh.
simultaneously buried the knife in hi
throat With a convulsive shudder tn.
bear fell backward, Miss Maggie Their
sent another thrust into his heart ant
left him for dead and went to bed ane
slept for the remainder of the night
At daylight she arose, and, with ths
| aid of the other children, skinned ant
dressed the carcass for market