The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-09-24
or GENERAL INTEREST.


Baggs & Co : fou tdry at Martins Fer
ry for John Farmhouse, Of Charlotte. N.
c. The last was c0sl inches long and
TX inches wide. The colorcd preacher
who owns the big foot is feet 10 inches
high and weighs 40 pounds
1t is said that the torpedo boat
Bathurst, that recently made mean
speed of "a 45 knots per hour, repre-
sents the last refinement Of mechanical
engineering, and that it hardly seems
possible to improve upon her as long as
steel remains the chief material Of cons
struction.
There are eighteen counties in Penn
sylvania that have no debt They are
Lehigh, Beaver. Cameron, Center, Co.
lumbia, Erie, Foster. Franklin, Green,
Lawrence, Mercer, Montour, Perry,
Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming
and York. The combined debt Of all
other counties is SIS, orc. or
John Anderson, of Hastain, Mo-,
recently removed three hard, finty
stones from gathering lacls pf the
lower jaw of a fine mare which hc pur-
chased in Kansas last springA The
largest of the stones measurcs-Sone AND
sone-hsn by threc-fourth inches. and tSe
othert about =one-half that szes sEhc
gathering commenced two yeats ago.
The total mum Der Of insane persons
treated in both public, and. private in
situations during the year 1889, as given
in census bulletin No. go, was 1885,
while during the year 1881 there were
SO, 205 treated, showing an increase in
the nine years Of 4i,330, or 1888 per
cent. This percentage of increase,
when compared with the percentage of
increase Of population in the last de-
cade, namely, 1896, does not indicate
an increase in the proportion of insane
persons to population, but rather a
great increase in the amount Of asylum
accommodation provided.
A lawyer tells story showing how
easy it is, with slight changes of sound,
for the whole meaning of language to
be altered. He dictated to his stenog-
rapher the phrase, And dcponent
verify believes. She took II down in
shorthand, emitting the vowels.s. When
1t was printed the phrase appeared:
And it would not verify place. if
you are familiar with phonograpbic
signs, and know how nearly alike they
are for similar sounds, YOU will not
wonder how the correct notes should
be translated so far away from their
original meaning. ''Grimm's Law is
still at work on language.
After young woman in Philndel-
phia had made purchase and had gone
the druggist remarked: That's the
first time in Ave years I've had u call
for dragons blood What is It? Well,
it's a vegetable substance, obtained
from the fruits of several small palms
in the East Indies. Many years ago it
was in great demand among women
who wished to win back their recreant
lovers, they burning small lump Of it
with certain form of incarnation. 1t
was also used as an astringent That
girl has probably heard OF it from her
grandmother, and has determined to
test its virtues Which one? Well,
that can't say. . ----------------
"A clock that bespoke the hour to
John Knox, of Scotland, three centuries
ago has come into view in the town of
Huntington, Pa, where it remains the
property of lineal descendant of the
Scotch reformer. The clock was built
in 1860 for Knox in Paisley, Scotland,
and it was handed down from genera
ton to generation for $50 years before
1t finally came into the possession Of
John Wifherspoon. John Witherspoon
No e took the old relic to America
when he accepted the presidency of
Princeton college. This signer of the
Declaration Of Independence stipulated
that the clock should always go to the
first born of each succeeding genera
ton, which accounts for the present
ownership of John Knox's eight-foot
timeniece