The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-01
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-=Geoteis bas 800 ffe-same prisoners
hi the penitentinfy.
Nevada Indians predict mild sh5fa
winter on the Pacific Coast
"A thriving mining camp in Cali
fornia is named Gimletyiiis.
The acknowledgements Her
xolich- Bergischen Provincial zeitung''
ID the name Of German newspaper.
Think 81 that, ReNsboysi
French p6fitefiess has never sur
passed that 81 the criminal whd being
placed on the ghif1otfne recently, put
his head in the half moon and, smiling
at the executioner, said: 'sCut sNsT, Il
you please, STRIP
THE Penobscot river, the largest In
Maine, drains I, 400 square miles, a
legion as large az th8 State Of Massar
ehisetts From Old Town to Bangor, a
distance 1T twelve miles. the river falls
more than ninety feet giving several
of the finest water powers In the World
IAN old sea captains argument is
recalled at the completion Of the race
between the steamers City Of New York
and Teutonic. His was the view that
the City Of New York would win the
eastward passage and the Teutonic the
westward, because tho vessels are even
~ matched and one is better adapted to
English and the other to American
Goals
The skeleton OF large anphibious
animal was unearthed at Shellyille,
Cal. It measured twelve feet from the
Uranium to the tip of the tail. The
jawbones are four feet long. The fore
legs are five feet in length. but the hind
legs measure but eightecn inches and
are jointed only at the hip The toes
are five inches long Two strong tusks
project from the upper jaw and on the
skull are two horns OF three branches
each. The skeleton was foupdlin a
stratum of clay twenty feet below the
surface 1t was impossible to preserve
it entire.
"A Bath butcher has fallen victim
to mself He not ced q neat harness
in friends possession-that 1t looked
better than his own. VIII Oh he had not
cleaned since he bought it, and offered
to swap and pay five dollars boot The
friend accepted the offer. Tho butcher
took no better caro- OF this harness than
of the other and itshowed itself rather
poor article. Sometime after he met
his friend with very handsome new
harness on his horse and again offered
to trade. After handing over the old
harness and five dollars more he went
home satisfied with the bargain and all
unconscious that he had paid just ten
dollars to have his original harness
cleaned. Lew ston (Me.) journal.
There is a prejudice in the rural
lors, says the Portland Oregonian.
People in every outlying settlement arc
| opposed to bachelors taking up claims
| in this vicinity An exchange says
There are some splend ella ms OF
Deadwood creek not yet taken. as good
as any on the coast The citizens want
men with families TO settle on them.
Three of these claims were taken by
bachelors last fall. The ladies oil
Deadwood passed a resolution placing a
three-years' limit on celibacy in thai
district, and providing all bachelors
not MARI cd at tho end OF that time be
| run out OF the settlement or hanged. .
Five bachelors moved out, ono got
married, and two OF them have gone
into the sparkling bus moss"
-Anglo-lndian circles in Bengal are
| sounding the praises OF Miss Morey,
whose courageous conduct has III ali
mr. 1ah ~ i 10 - f.4l hon
Well-known p anter in that district
Mr.. Morey was out hunting, attended by
his daughter, on horse back, when boar
suddenly sprang from tho Jungle, and
making for Mr.. Mercy, threw over both
horse and rider with severe crash.
The brute was Tn tho point OF tearing
his victims with his formidable tusks
when this heroic young lady sprang to
the ground and placed herself between
the boar and her insens BILE father. Miss
Morey was wholly anarmed, but fortu-
nately she had with her large grey.
hound, who, making straight for the
boar attracted his attention and drew
him away, London Telegraph.
An American gentleman who was
recently ,at dinner party in London
had rather curious experience. There
was also present an extrsmely aristo
cratic but insular Brfton, with that large
contempt for things American. The
question Of geography came up, and the
Englishman inquired as to the relative
size OF Texas, the largest State .'Well,
replied the American, st is about al
large as England, Ireland, Scotland
Wales, Holland, Belgium, Denmark
Switzerland, Portugal and Greece com
bined." 1t became at once evident thai
the questioner not only disbelieved the
statement but was indignant at what he
regarded as an attempt to chaff him
Indeed, after dinner he complained te
the host about the ill-breeding of the
American in trying to hold up to ridi
Guile an English gentleman,