The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-11-26
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To punish two disobedient pupils u
ool-mistress in Chillicothc, o., tied
their hands against stovepipe. She
then deliberately consumed paper in the
stove until the childrcn's hands were
severely burned.
~un4uT he-- German emperor his 'ussScsf
permission Of the king of Sweden to
erect a monument at the North Cape,
in conimemoration Of his voyage in
those regions and to encourage naviga-
tors in the north.
One man in Oxford county, Me-,
can appreciate the practical as we'll rs
the aesthetic advantages Of doing with
out fences His next neighbor hired =
man to hoe his crops. and the man, know
ing no meets and bounds, works away
until fence confronts him, the result
being that Edward gets his crops hoed
as well as the man who hired the la
borer.
Walter Winans. the American
mil lienaire whose deer=forest in Scot
land has so often formed the theme Of
parliamentary debates and whose re-
volver shooting is remarkable, has
made wonderful record with his IA
vorite weapon. At distance of twenty
yards. with disappearing target, he
scored forty points out Of possible
forty-two.
"A philanthropic Portlanddady who
earns her own living became interested
in family that lived in great misery
and restitution. She almost supported
them and took time that she could i'll
afford to spare to cook for them. es-
pecially for the aged grandmother,
who was bedridden and died soon
after. Sewed up in a mattress was
found 81. 300 which her misery nature
had kept secreted while she accepted
the lady's charity.
This is one of the stories that they
tell of Vivian Burnett, the prototype of
Little Lord Fauntleroy." When
about eight years old he noticed one
day seamstress at work in the family
and asked her If she never got tired Of
sewing. Yes" she replied, Il do get
tired; indeed, my head aches now"
why do you sew, then?' because /
must have to work to earn my liv-
ingp WELL" declared Vivian in
princely dignity, when am president
of the United States no woman shall
work.
Sir John Everett Millais, the great
painter. is never SO happy as when
sketching from nature in Scotland.
Seated beside some whipping burn,
with an old pipe in his mouth, he will
work all day without eating. He long
ago learned the art of painting in the
rain. An American artist, who painted
with him for two seasons, says that
they sat in their wet clothes, drenched
by the thick Scotch mist, day after day,
wholly engrossed in reproducing the
greens and browns ofAmosses and the
grays and reds of trees. G
-Muskrats became so annoying to a
farmer in Yardley, Pa, that he offered
stranger twenty-five cents apiece for
all he captured on his farm. On the
first night the stranger caught four; on
several succeeding nights the same good
luck rewarded his efforts, he each morn
ing showing four entrapped animals
The farmer has since learned that not
one of them was caught on his place,
that he paid every morning for the same
four muskrats and that the artful
stranger brought them there.
"A Pennsylvania lawyer of the last
century, who was as fertile in resource
as he was strong in personality, was re-
tanned for the defendant in Islander
case. The plaintiffs case was so clear
that it was no use attempting to dis
pute the facts; so the defendants coun-
sci called witnesses to prove that his
client ives such notorious liar that no
one in his neighborhood would believe
word he said, and he put to the jury
that nothing such man could say
would injure anyone. The verdict was
for the defendant London Jurist