The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-11-12

An Interesting relic 81 the past a1
old Remnqnid, Me-. Is q street thirty
fset wide paved with nedium-sized hat
stones raised in the middle and having
good cutters and cs1rbs of large stones,
besides fine sidewalk eleven and one
half fcctwide. The street was built
IN f690 49,, ..-a.-,------ =
"a chapter Of condolences Is given
IN the Savannah News: Thomas
Cooper and wife, who live near
= Flowery Branch, have four daughters.
All except one married Widows sons,
all Of their husbands being named Will
liam, and all Of the youngest 81 the
family. and all married on the third
Sunday in the month. 2
Explorers have discovered in San
Bernardino county, California, great
mass Of moving ice in canyon on Gray
back mountain The formation is about
TWENTY-FIVE feet thick and sixty feet
wide. Immense rocks have been pushed
from their beds by the moving of the
mass and lie upon top Of il Sun docs
not reach the ice more than one hour q
day.
"A man bought a loaf of bread of q
Lewiston baker Saturday night, says
the Journal, and finding he could not
eat it all up he brought part of it back
Monday. and asked to have it exchanged
for hot biscuits IF that don't beat
all" remarked the baker, .and the
man has much OF this worlds goods,
too The baker wasn't soft enough to
exchange.
AN English druggist presented.
after the death Of an old customer, i
bill according to which the poor man
had swallowed in twenty-five years
ZIG, 1874 pills, an average of twenty-nine
"a day. For five years he had used
seventy eight pills daily, and in one
year swallowed 81, 500 pills. Besides he
bad taken 40, 600 bottles OF mixtures,
and juleps and electuaries in proper
ton.
Lack of work among the laboring
classes has many curious euphemistic
synonyms, among which are the fol-
lowing: Logging it; on ones uppers;
on the loose pulley; got steady job of
loaffng; wheeling light into Flat Rock
Tunnel; shoveling smoke out Of gas
house; pressing bricks and turning
corners; holding on the slack; living on
ones intellect; living on the interest of
ones debts
The twisted wire nail--a cross be-
tween a screw and the ordinary wire
Nails said to be working its way into
popular favor, and is believed To repre-
sent as great an improvement upon the
plain wire nail as that useful invention
is over the old cut nail. The twisted
wire nail not only brushes the fibers OF
the wood less than the two other forms
Of nail, but by its screw shape pos
sssses a much greater holding power
than the other forms.
"A German authority says that al
most third Of all humanity--that is,
400, o00, 0O0--speak the Chinese lang
uage. Then the Hindoo language is
spoken by more than 100, 900. 600 In
the third place stands the English,
spoken by almost 100, 1000, 900. Fourth,
the Russian, with SO, 900, 600, while the
German language is spoken by 81. 600. :
600 tongues and the Spanish by about
s4s, 100000 OF the European languages
the French is fifth in place.
ssassPhiladelphia is to have a clock
which, for size, will be one of the won
ders of the world. 1t is to be placed on
the tower Of a public building now in
course of erection. The dial is to be
twenty-five feet in diameter. The dis
tafce from the street to the center dial
will be S51 feet The bell is to weigh
between 10000 and IS. 600 pounds. The
minute hand is to be twelve feet and
the hour hand nine feet in length, while
the Roman figures on the dial will
measure two feet eight inches In length.