The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-03

says the Key West Equator Democrat.
About Tour .. ID. one Of them foupd his
line tant, and alter I fierd pulf 4 long
|. pull, and pull altogether. : 4 thirteen
foot shark was landed, Assistance was
secured, and his sharkship was carried
~ main force around the s4breakwater.
md hauled ensshorc.. His stomach con-
tanned 4 whole beef head md nufnero13s
horns and bonos ss ii
4 new article Of fuel was ntIlixed
\ BY the steamer Dunedin, on d recent
trip from cienfuegos, Cuba, TO New
York. She ran out OF coal. and the
crew had to tear down the woodwork
Of the cabin and forecastle to supply
the furnaceS This also being con-
summed, and a heavy storm prevailing,
the captain ordered the fremen to
shovel sugar into the furnace. Before
arriving In port Atty tons OF sugar
(about two thousand five hundred
dollars WORTHY were burned.
A pin manufacturer in Ansonia,
Conn, is about to utilize some twenty
barrels of imperfect pins in building a
sidewalk in front OF his residence.
There is In that town small piece OF
sidewalk built Of scraps from the pin
factory, which by corrosion has become
so hard in q few years that It required
much hard drilling and blasting with
dynamite to make hole large enough
to set q telegraph pole, although it was
but three or four inches thick. 1t bids
fair to last as long as a sidewalk OF
solid brass.
The grain, the SIN allest weight In
use, was thus called from being origin
ally the weight OF a grain of wheat A
statute passed in England in 1856 or
dained that 3s grains Of wheat, taken
from the middle of the ear. or head,
and we'll dried, should make a penny
weight, 20 of which should make an
ounce, while 10 ounces were to make a
pound. The pound, therefore, consist
ed Of 1850 grams. some centuries
later the pennyweight was divided into
"a grains, which makes the troy pound
as now used. $500 grains.
Nelson Purdum, of Jefferson county
Indiana, disappeared from his usual
haunts a couple Of months ago, afte,
having squandered a big pension allow
ance. No trace of him could be fonnt
until a few days ago, when hunters
came across him on the bank OF the
river near Madison. Smoke was issu
ing from the ground, and an investiga,
ton led to their finding room under
ground, in which. Purdum was living
A rude cot, a stove. aud quantity OIL
provisions were found; but the man
whose long gray beard and locks gave
him wild appearance, dec ined Il
come out.
SO many of the passengers ON a late
local train on the Morris & Essex rail
road recently had to stand mp in thu
two rear cars that an irate German
stopped the train by pulling the bel
cord Just as it moved out and deman dec
that an empty car on the side track be
attached. The other passengers sus
tanned him, but the demands were mol
needed. When the train started again
the German pulled the ball cord and
announced that he would pull it every
time tile train started and have the cal
attached. After lot of talk the trair
was backed down and the ear attached
The first iron ship has more repnte 1
birthplaces than Homer Both the
Clyde and the Mersey claim pre-emi
hence in this respect Sir e. J. Robin
son. Of Edinburgh, designed an iror
vessel in 1916, which was not Launched
till three years later and it is said tina
an iron boat was worked ON the Severn
even as far back rs 1857 Steel was no,
used in the construction of merchanf
ships hulls until 1859. Old salts were
not alone in their belief that wood was
meant by providence to ioat. but iror
to go to the bottom. A naval construct
or Of some repute said: Don't talk :.
me of iron ships; they are contrary h
nature Now none but small craft ar
built Of wool in this country.