The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Or GENERAL I'M EHESI.
\ The Piclxwicl club, Louisville, Ky.
is reported to be the SWEETEST organix-
alton Of colored men in the country. It
is literary as well as social and its
leaders set the fashion for the colored
jcunesse doree Of the town.
The city OF Jacksonville, Fla, pro-
tects catfish in the river IS scavcngerS
It Is five-dollar fine to catch one Of
them, and the fish seem to know it
The river Is full of them, and they vary
in size from a baby to two%hundrcd-
pound man.
"A New York youth wrote letter
to his fiancee recently and while on the
way to mail it lost IL in an elevated
railroad car, When the train was re-
turning tho fiancee boarded it and was
surprised to find letter on the seat
addressed to her. She quickly recog-
nized the handwriting, however, and
was quietly reading it while the youth
was writing the same thing over again,
THE most ingenious Of the nickel
in-the-slot machines now plays poker
ON receipt of two half dimes-or four if
as many choose to play the game. 1t
is Enthusiastically called a tell-your-fort-
une machine, but the poker that it
plays is of the genuine kind. which will
bankrupt any man who sticks to it'dur-
ing that distressing period which play
ers speak of as not my day for win
ming"
Mrs. Cunningham, Of Belfast is the
mother Of triplets- bright babies now
two years old When they were young
err these triplets were q source of un-
mixed Joy, but now they are getting to
be something of q nuisance to the
mother, for every time she goes down
town the babies are bound TO go, too,
and admiring crowds follow them from
shop to shop as though they were part
of circus parade.
Undertakes say that it is a common
thing with the families of the poor in
New York to send for them as soon as a
member Of the household is pronounced
to be dying. On recent occasion an
assistant in west side funeral cstab-
lishment waited four hours in the outer
hall for the last breath to be drawn,
and then ventured mild suggestion to
the family that they should wait In
turn and send for him in the morning.
Some water meters recently pur.
chased by the New York City authori-
ties, at $40 each, have been condemned
because they registered three times as
much water as passed through them.
They had evidently been constructed by
q mechanic who had won distinction az
q maker of Industrious gas-meters
which never fail to tick out a big
record II the gas companies know his
address, he will not long rust in idle
ness
Rats are very selfish. A Brooklyn
lady has discovered this fact, and act
ing upon it, placed piece of looking
glass in the side of a trap opposite the
entrance The rat, seeing the refiec-
| ton of an animal of its kind about to
| enter, hastens its movements. and OF
course gets in first. The lady who
thought of this trick has sbeen quite
successful in catching rats, and in the
very trap which before they had studi-
ously Stunned. Hi
AN Atchison man had a"night-
mare after eating lunch of cheese,
mustard and dried beef, and had dis.
agreeable dream that Mis- son was in
great danger instead of being unable
to run FROM ghosts, as is usually the
case in nightmares, he was unable To
get ready to go to the rescue of his son.
Finally he awolxe, and was SO impressed
| with the dream that he went into his
sons room. He found him out of bed
and on the roof of the house, where he
had climbed in his sleep.
lone evening W. T. Reeves, manager
of the Postal Telegraph Co. inMadison,
Fla, found that his wires did not work
between that point and Greensboro, In
the morning Mr.. Reeves started out on
an Investigating tour. When within
six miles of Greensboro he found two
mammoth snakes hanging across the
wires in such a mapner as to connect
the currents of each. The snakes had
been killed, tied together and hung out
to bring rain, the work being done by
darkies in the neighborhood.
A prominent cable car line official
in Pittsburgh said recently: 1.-THE
ropes on cable roads are, rs rule, sold
as soon as they are put in. The rope
upon which we are travelling was SOLD
several weeks ago. The old ropes are
sold for. inclines, elevators,~etc. They
are better for that purpose than II they
were new They have become so thor
oughly soaked with oil and tar, and SC
stretched that they are seasoned. They
| will never wear out on inclines or ele
vators because there is no strain or
them compared with that of cable
road, and they have been tested SO tha'
they may be relied on. After they have
been in use a short time on the cable
| roads, and before they show any signs
of wear, they are replaced by new
ones. "
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