The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
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Tampa Fla. has hotel with the
appropriate name Of Booze House
The greatest city park In tho world
10 Paramount park, in Philadelphis,
containing over z, 200 acres.
The best dressed men on the other
side arc having their trousers cut two
inches longer than they have any use
for and turning them up
-Across the water and possibly here
there are men who undertake to make
pretended wormholes in varions objects
Of furniture TO give them due appear
ance Of antiquity.
Nearly one-sixth Of the total popu-
lation of our forty-four States and
several Territories lives In thirty-five
cities and one-sixth of these cities is
supplied BY single State, New York.
The fisheries division of the census
received the following from . town in
Western Kansas: 1--WE have no fish
here. rs We have not yet succeeded In
finding . variety that could live on
sprairie grass- - 4fsA.sassll
The lumber cut this year viii exceed
that Of last year by several million feet
The estimate places 1t at not less than
1926, 000, 600 feet and not more than $780,
100000. The season as whole has
been prosperous, the demand for lumber
being good and the price profitable.
What this country seems to need is
National law on the subject Of kiss
ing. An Ohio court has just fined o
man 1000 for kissing woman against
her will, while an Illinois man has been
mulcted only fifteen dollars for taking
a similar liberty Either the Ohio man
got too much justice or the Illinois man
too little.
Some people have q queer idea OF
the function OF the Census Bureau. The
other day the superintendent received
the following letter from Oroville, Col:
Can you inform me how can get on to
inforce the lobster law? ! hat been on
the police force here Eve years and last
week was discharged by rum Bord we
was put in BY q temperans Bord and
now the rum Bord -is goin' to have Its
own way THIS year.
AN English scientist, John Aitken,
f. R. S, demolishes the popular notion
that dew falls from the clouds II is
no such celestial visitor, but an exuda-
ton from growing vegetation itself He
has carried out a series of experiments
which remorsely exclude all doubt, for
even the leaf inclosed in an air-tight
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bright, translucent drop One state
ment which any inquirer may verify for
himself is that these liquid crystals are
always found poised OF the extremity of
vein, and in a position where they
could not have remained under the laws
of gravity If poured downward from the
air.
from Mr.. P. R. Gordon, Chief Inspector
OF Stock. Queensland, states that the
experience Of tho colony is strongly in
favor Of incubation as protective
against pleuro-pneumonia The prac-
tice has now twenty-eight years sue
cess to show. A very practical testi-
mony is the fact that inocu ated cattle
are worth more than fifteen per cent in
price over uninocnlated. In New Zea-
land incubation is reported to have
practically stamped out" the disease.
1t Is strange that with this experience,
we'll attested, many agriculturists con-
tinue to advocate the killing OF sthe dis
eased animals as the only remedy.
I'm Parsonfeld, Me-, there was cat
not many years ago cursed by the name
of Calvin because of the gravity of his
demeanor and the severity. of his coun-
tenance. who was won't TO- let himself
into the house by jumping upon and
pressing down with his paw the thumb
piece Of the old-fashioned door-latch.
When he wanted to go out he ordered
one of his servants, in which body was
included the whole family, to open the
door for him. Cornish, few years ago,
had cat that could talk, If DR.. ROBBIE
Blake, its master, may be believed.
And it's not such an Incredible story to
ears that have lain awake nights listen
ing to amorous conversations on neigh
boring ridgepoles and doorsteps.
DIR. Mendel, OF Berlin, has been
makinga profound study of the effect of
excessive coffee drinking. He finds
that 1t produces a kind Of neurosis so
violent at times as to drive its victims
into condition resembling deiirium
trcmons. Tho doctor observed many
cases Of this kind among the workmen
employed in the gun factories at Essen,
who consume upward OF pound of cof-
foe week. Intoxication from coffee is
followed by gloon and sleeplessness
and dislike for work. The habit when
confirmed, is attended by results as
dangerous as those following tho use OF
opium or alcohol What is true Of cof-
fee. Is also true in less degree OF tea.
DIR. Mendel knows OF no cure for this
kind of drunkenness.