The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-02
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III ron want to set your inexperi.
enced son up in business start him on y
and make him double this before you
give him another cent. II he doubles
it, give him S.. Few men succeed who
begin business at the top. Galveston
NewA
The richest marble quarry in Yer
mont was Formerly #ewned= BY an old
farmer. He wanted grindstone and
after digging all over his farm and find
ing all the stones too hard he became
disguised with such farm and sold Il
out for so an acre.
The alligator II one Of those ami
mails which, like the parrot and tor
toise, live for an indefinite term. II h
never full grown at less than twenty
years, and may grow after that II is
not known how long it may live, but 4
commonly attains the age Of 100 years
John Wells, d Colorado man, sat in
chair in his cabin the other night 20
sore with rheumatism that he could not
stand. A big mountain lion looked In
at the window en- John, and the sight Of
the beasts fiery eyes sent such chill
over the man that he got up and
skipped for upstairs and hasn't felt q
twinge since.
Said tired-loolxing book-agent 70
me after had given him chair on the
front porch: 4 am not afraid they will
set the dog on me when see flowers In
the window. There is something in the
care Of plants that makes people kind
hearted. They may not buy my books,
but they always give me q kind word. /"
Popular Gardening.
-0ne defect in public school teaching
! is the failure to train the pupils In read-
ing handwriting. Itwould be an excel
lent exercise and no little fun II the
teacher would occasionally bring q
bundle Of business mems script and set
the children to puzzling out just as they
will have to do little later in life.-
Augusta (Me.) Farmer.
HI s. Beers, of Brookfeld, Conn.,,
has clock that is said to be over two
hundred years old. When the British
went through that section In Revolu-
tionary times they took the two heavy
lead weights that run the clock to use
in the manufacture of bullets, and left
four six-pound iron shot In their place.
The shot are still used as weights.
--Housekeepers will appreciate re.
cent invention for Smelling peas. In
this machine green peas in the pod may
be introduced in quantities, and the peas
are cleaned and expeditiously separated
from the pods, irrespective of size. The
machine is provided with a means for
discharging the pods and the shelled
peas separately into convenient receipt
acles-
An old hen in one of the suburbs OF
Chicago has been trying, with all the
earnestness OF her nature, for several
weeks to hatch something from a ball
of Irvine, piece OF corncob and piece
Of dry putty. Her owner has given up
trying to dissuade her from the job,
and is now awaiting the result of the
incubation with as much anxiety as the
| old hen herself.
-"Girls." said bachelor named Per
ry, at corn-huslxing in Missouri, the
othernight, Il wants wife. If any ofyou
will have me please stand up There
were eighteen girls in the crowd, and
every one stood up, and then seventeen
young fellows pitched into Perry, and
eighteen girls began pulling hair, and
the party broke up and sadness reigned
supreme.-Detroit Free Press.
! Turtles are numerous on the west
coast of st. Helena, and some of them
each weigh as much as $50 pounds. An
dozen Of these sea monsters, intending
to deliver them alive to provision
dealer in Liverpool. But before they
reached English water one of the turtles
was taken sick and was thrown over.
board, after having been branded with
the name of the ship. Next year the
| same steamer came across the same
turtle on the coast Of st. Helena, more
than 1000 miles from the point where
the homesick creature was flung over
board.
IF there is any thing practical about
those people who weld fortune to BAG
luck by pawning what they happen te
have saved or bought, it is the growing
custom of selling pawn tickets before
| their value ceases. 1t used to be the
rule that If man or woman could MOI
redeem what he or she had pawned, the
goods were lost. Now there is one large
storekeeper on Broadway and host Of
smaller ones all over the city who buy
these tickets of those who know they
can not raise the sum the pawnbrolSer.