The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-02-05

PERSONAL AND .MpERsoNAL.

Tho Drown which the nerus 81
Abynsinia ordered to be made at Milan
i. nearly completed and has already
been paid for. ftis Of the parest Rolts
contains 100 precious stones, and weighs
three pounds
"A correspondent Of the London
Spectator chains that by : mere sua-
restlon OF are he can npske hypnotixci
ycrth suddenly look old. TO the extent
Of his face muscles failing Id. and the
'shuo Of ago 0verspreading II
A French attorney was writing ort
brief He was in splendid hsAtths
only. forty years old, and was writing
rapidly. when all ~ once he stopped
and from that moment could not tell bis
own names Memory went out from him
like flash Of lightning.
The Better Man.--An American
thief who got safely 10 Bnenos Ayres
with his Doodle. asked messenger one
day to do an errand for him, and the
haif-clad, half-starved native, who new
or had ten dollars in his lffe, drew him
self up and replied: Not for you. sirl
You are arunaway thief while am an
-ooIinsf man. Detroit Froe Press
"A German nobleman recently adj.
dre.sed his worlzmen on the OCCASION Of
4 harvest festival. and announced that
no would reward two OF them who had
worked for him for forty years With =
present which would stimulate all OF
them to do their best in the future
And then he handed each OF tho lucky
toilers sum OF money equivalents 70
s. GO Of American money.
Doctors the world over treat DOCTORS
for nothing. A surgeon in Dover, how
ever. charged q doctor f9f for attend
ance ana the latter refused to pay and
went to court Tho plaintiff pleaded
that, though physicians treat their col
leagues free whom in active practice, re-E
tired medical men, like the defendant
have to pay like other people, and the
Judge accepted that view
by the death Of . relative In
Munich, Anna Holt young Basarian,
is heiress to fortune Of S1oo. 900. Five
years age she was q chambermaid In the
Palmer House, Chicago. She came TO
this country in 1884, at the request Of
former lover whom she had known
in Munich. He failed TO meet her in
New York, as promised, and Anna had
to 60 to work to maintain herself Now
fortune awaits her. but the lawyers
have SO far been unable to find her.
The late Sir Richard Burton, British
Consul at Trieste, the distinguished ex-
plorer, was q remarkable man. While
in the army in India he developed his
skill in linguistics SO far that he could
speak twenty-nine languages and dia-
lects Saying nothing Of his discovery
OF Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa,
he made, in 1853, the first authentic
visit Of Christian to the holy cities Of
Mecca and Medina. As Government
official, Burton was cantankerouss and
egotistical.
III, as has been estimated, the popu-
lation Of the United States is twelve
times as great as that OF the Dominion
il will be seen that the divorce ratio IL
Immensely greater here than there, due.
no doubt to tho difference in the sys-
TENS OF the two countries. and to the
higher estimate placed by our Northern
ne ghbors on tho inviolability Of the tie
than we do It is indeed, startling to
realize that, while the populations OF
the two countries are as ~ to l, the d.
vorces are as q roo to l.