The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-16

been warned to sheer out, exclaimed
that It was something alive, and, grasp
ing his rife, fired two shots and killed q
fine buck, which was quickly lowed
ashore.
"A young Russian and his sweet
heart decided to come to this country to
get married. On the way over they had
q quarrel, and after landing here she
would have nothing to do with him
She is without friends and penniless,
and will have to be sent back If she
will not compromise with her lover,
who has precured . clergyman and Is
anxious TO marry her.
The canned fruits and meats ex
ported by the United States have i'm.
proved thirty per cent. in the last two
years, and are again being largely pur.
chased in countries which bad almost
outlawed them. Packers found that
adulterating their goods, in haste to
get rich, simply killed market in ONT
season, and only first-class goods are
now shipped Detroit Free Press.
"A pleasant surprise came to the
I daughter of female miser who closed
her career few weeks ago in Paris.
The woman, it was thought, had died
without funds; and when her relatives
Z drew lots .for.her furniture, a cheap
statnette fell to her daughter The lat
ter was about to dash il to the floor in
vexation, when bank notes and securi-
ties to the amount of $4,000 dropped
out Of the interior.
"A family living in New York own
= small skye terrier which is partially
crippled in his hind legs. When he
moves on all fours his speed is moder-
ate. To get along faster he has taught
himself to walk and run on his front
feet only, balancing the rear part Of
his body boldly aloft. Every once in a
while he will rest himself by getting
down on all tours, but most of his
travelling is done on his front feet.
Public officials will soon have to
have scientific education. Michigan
has law giving bounty of three
cents head for every head of an En-
glish sparrow brought in to an official
In charge of that law. No examination
In ornithology is required of the oficial
and 1t Is said the officials in many cases
are 50 ignorant of the subject that the
heads Of all sorts OF birds are palmed
off on them as the heads Of English
sparrows.
The statue Of William Penn for the
apex Of the iron tower surmounting ths
public building at Philadelphia is be
ing cast in sections at the Tacony
works. 1t will stand ON a space only
Eve feet square, so that one of its feet
will project little over the edge. The
statue will weigh thirty tons and be
held in place by great rod of iron
starting fifty feet below the platform
in the interior Of the tower. The up
per part of this tower is to be clothed
with bronze.
1T was at one time claimed and at
tempted to be shown that the Puritan
Mayfower of 1920 was afterward used
as slave ship. Close research revealed
the fact that the SLAYER was another
ship of the same name and different
burden. Historical records show that
about the year 1874 Richard, Duke of
Gloucester, had ship called the May
flower; and Hunter, in his Founders
of New England" mentions some
twenty ships as bearing that name be-
tween the years 1888 and 1888.
Recent statistics prove that in the
United States 20 women are engaged in
different employments to every 100
men, and in Philadelphia SO women are
employed to every 100 men. Fifty
years ago seven Industries were ac-
knowledged as open to women in Mas
sachusetts. To-day there are 2S4 in
dustries in that State in which women
are engaged, and in % representative
cities of the United States 342 occupa-
lions in which women are successfully
working. Woman's influence as bust
ness partner, too is increased on the
basis of numbers to one-sixteenth, and
as stakeholder to more than one
fourth
The food of humming birds consists
mainly of insects, mostly gathered from
the flowers they visit. An acute OBJ
server writes that even among the COM
mon fiower-frequenting species he has
found the alimentary canal entirely
filled with insects and very rarely a
trace of honey. 1t is this fact doubtless
that has hindered almost all attempts
at keeping them in confinement for any
lengthsof time-nearly every one max
ing the experiment having fed his
captivesj only with sirup, which is
wholly insufficient as sustenance, and
seeing therefore the wretched creatures
gradually sink into inanition and die of
hunger
IN THE QUEENS HOUSEHOLD.