The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-06-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


OF GENERAL INTEREST.
There exists in some parts Of South
Dakota, Colorado and Texas singular
variety Of grass called the sleepy
grass" When in q fresh green state
this plant is strongly charged with mar
cotic .propensities, so much so that
horses and cattfe grazing il are thrown
into profound sleep.
The Indian. by contact with the
Caucasian, soon learns the tricks Of his
white brother, even TO utilizing the
talking paper" some days ago an In
dian at Devils Lake, North Dakota,
forged the name of Maj. Waugh to q
check. Then he, in business-lil<e way,
presented the check for payment, re-
ceived the cash and disappeared.
The first bell rung in America was
erected on the first church ever built III
in this country early in 1494. Colum.
bus landed at Isabella, on the island 81
San Domingo,in December, l 49s, and soon
built church. Shortly afterward a
new city was begun in the royal plain
ut Ed Vega, and was called La Vega, OF
the City Of the Plains. The church,
with its bell, and all the other houses
of Isabella was then moved to La Vega.
"A small and graceful waist is "a
thing Of beauty and a joy forever" pro
vided that it is natural, and not secured
at the expense of health. The latest
insane method of securing graceful
figure is thus described: A broad band
of adhesive plaster, about four feet
long, is wound tightly around the waist
and constantly worn. The wearer feels
as il she were in vice, and Of coursf
the compression of the digestive organs
causes permanent injury.
Considerable ingenuity Is displayed
by firm OF ''engravers, printers and
makers of novelties" in the form Of a
letter marked personal, = enclosing Q
faded rosebud with its leaves and the
firms card, with this note in girls
handwriting: .Take back the flower
thou gavest. love you no longer. AL
my affection is now given TO $Messrs
So-and-So because they do such beauti
full printing. am no longeryours.
MAUDE."
Camden, Me-, before the recent di
vision of its territory, had six grave
yards and four hearses. In splitting
up the town the section now called
Roclport got four Of the graveyards and
three of the hearses, and the Camden
ties don't know whether to feel angry
or pleased. Camden is well provided
graveyard that is more than century
old and contains one hundred and forty
four unmarked mounds.
The most curious of pets issthat pos
sessed by some Singhalese children. II
is nothing more nor less than an inn
mense rhinoceros, with plates of tough
hide like an armored ship. He is just
such beast as has killed scores of dar
ing hunters who have penetrated the
jungle. But this big fellow is as gentle
as Mary's lamb, and allows children tt
play on his back and squirt sweetened
water into his mouth without causing
anything but grunt to issue there
from.
Capt. /. X. Morse, of Roclport, Me-,
has invented course indicator which il
expected to prove of great value to nav
igators. He believes that his device
will show the actual course steered fol
any length of time, as it records every
movement of the compass and registers
the difference between the direction Of
the vessels head and the points of the
compass intended to be followed. Any
deviation from the course ordered, either
from carelessness or otherwise, will be
shown.
Herr Fruwirth, the Austrian pisci
culturist, has adopted the most ingeni
GUS plan for the production of food foJ
his fish-ponds He has a number o.
small bitches stocked with stagnani
water end aquatic plants which are
used as nurseries to propagate the larvs
of insects, small crustaceans, and Other
low forms of animal life on which fish
naturally feed. From time to time some
of the water swarming with these Great
ures is admitted to adjoining ponds il
which live the fish, who no doubt give
the new arrivals warm welcome.
"A snow-shoe competition for ladies
was lately held by the Christians
Snwshoe club. The interesting even
took place on a hill which not many
years ago was considered very diff
cult one for men, but the fair snow
shoe runners did wonderfully well
They not only comprised the descen
without slaves or poles, but even in
sisted that hop be added. The reques
was not only complied with, and the,
had not, as it turned out, overvaluet
their powers in this respect, for thu
hop was cleared in the best style. Three
prizes were awarded, and dance
brought the day to close.
The Northland is the largest PENN
sula in Europe, and, with the exception
of Russia, is the largest country on ths
European continent. 1t is more thar
1,100 miles long, it is from $50 to 40'
miles wide, and it contains nearly 800,
900 square miles of territory. 1t Il
about third larger than either the re
public Of France or the empire of Ger
many, and more than three times thu
size Of the peninsula of Italy. II WI
compare it with the states Of the Amer
lean union, we find that the Scandina
Wan peninsula comprehends more thai
four times the territory of all New
England, and that if we could transpor
it over the sea and moor it alongsid
our own Atlantic coast, it world extern,
from Maine to Florida.
Fraternal Affection.
A rrettv little story comes from New
York city, illustrating fraternal affec
tion in an unexpected quarter. Tw
small boys signaled street car, an,