The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-07
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Wedding rings werc used BY the
ancients and put upon the wedding
finger. from q supposed connection
with vein there with the heart Ac.
cording to Pliny they were made Of
iron. and in the time Of Tertullian d
gold
The total valuation OF all property
In North CAROLINA. by returns recently
made for the current, year, is ss57, o52,-
600, showing an increase Of about SSH
900, 900 over 1890 The increase in the
valuation Of railways alone this year
over last Is 1000, 900
While seeing the sights of st. Louis,
some days aga. Mr.. r. Julian, OF
Washington. Ind. visited the morgue.
| There a painful shock awaited him.
On one Of the tables he unexpectedly
saw the body Of his brother, whom he
had not seen or heard OF for many
years.
Tho latest fad in the west is said
to be shoe party. They stitch sheet
across the room and the ladies' stand
behind it and stick their feet under it.
so yon can only see their shoes Then
| you go along and pick out pair OF
shoes and the lady who Is in them you
take down to supper
Perhaps the most novel craft ever
sailed on San Diego bay was the one
launched by house mover, the other
day. The craft in question was FIVE.
room cottage which he had taken a
contract to'move to South San Diego.
1t was loaded on tho barges and drawn
by naphtha launch.
Calvary, the hill near Jerusalem
where the crucifxion Of Jesus oc-
CURED, Is formed of limestone. The
shores of the Dead sea are lined with
pumice stone, showered out of some
volcano that destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank be-
meath the waters OF the Dead sea.
Take a pencil and multiply
two are four, twice four are eight, etc !,
and you will find that in the twentieth
generation you had 1,04s. $40 ancestors.
without counting the intermediate gem
erations, and that in the thirtieth gen
GRAFTON you had over 1000, 600 900 an
cestors without counting those be-
tween yourself and the thirtieth.
AN experimental sidewalk is now
in operation in Chicago. 1t consists of
two movable platforms three hundred
and sixty feet long, moving side by side
in the same direction, one at speed of
three, the other at six miles per hour.
1t has carried five hundred persons at
one time, and seems to be a success.
xrxsll Ia - he - go,
There are," says La Nature,
''about'1, SOC, 900, 900 people in the world,
with very nearly an equal division of the
sex. One-fourth dies before the 18th
year, and the average duration OF life
is about s3 years; S,033. 600 people die
each year, making total of 81, sol
each day, 3,770 each hour, so each
minute and about one each second
Eighteen years ago fire broke out
in coal mine near Lansford, Pa II
has been burning ever since and is in
the heart Of bed of coal 1000 feet
long. $50 feet deep and 80 feet wide.
The heat from it warns the surface OF
the earth so feet above and makes the
rocks and pebbles thereon so warm
that parlor match placed on them will
at once ignite.
The Spaniards are the most expert
smokers in the world. A Spanard
takes a heavy pull at his cigarette, in
hales it, takes up wine skin or wine
bottle. pours a half pint down his
throat holding the vessel foot from
his mouth and not splitting drop, and
then with a sigh of satisfaction closes
his eyes and exhales the smoke from
his nose and mouth in clouds He will
also inhale the smoke, converse for a
few minutes in natural manner, and
then blowout the smoke.
"A cool bridal trip was lately ex-
perienced by John Coffman and Minnie
Worthington, of Casey county, KY,
who had decided to eiope. With the
aid Of his brother, Coffman stole the
bride by lantern light The party then
rode all night long to reach the nearest
railway, but had to- stop number OF
times to build fires to keep the bride
from perishing with cold. When they
arrived in Jacksonville, Ind, they
were completely worn ont, and the
groom was so exhausted that he forgot
the name of the bride when asking for
a marriage license