The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-01-21

Y --Delawareans used 70 Be I good deal
amused By the custom on the old juno
ton 4 Brcakwater railroad OF sending
. brakeman through The cara al inter-
walls with . tray Of ice water. The
superintendent Of the rosd was New
Engiander. and he brought the custom
dawn with him from Yankeeland. It
still prevails on parts Of the New York
New Haven & Hartford road.
EN- bexxlement In Texas means thu
stealing Of actual money only. An ex-
county treasurer ID that state made
away with $4,000 belonging to the
county. When he came up for trial
Judge Hightower ordered his arquittal
on the ground that the only legal tender
is money and that the cx-treasurer had
raised the amount for which he was a
defanlterpn bonds and coupons
"A letter received by an Augusta,
Me-, publisher few days ago from
Salem. o., was mutilated in a. remark
able manner. The Ohio postmaster had
Enclosed the letter in an Official en-
velope, along with note explaining
that the mail carrier who had collected
it had been shot by a highwayman, the
charge passing through his pouch and
its contents, taking effect in his leg.
"A glass eye may serve us a snbsti-
tute for the genuine article on some
occasions, but there are times when II
doesn't fill the bill at all. Here is Mr..
KATE who has brought suit in the New
York courts to compel his newly
welded wife TO abide with him. She
refuses to do so up N the ground that
he has an artificial eye. which fact she
had not been made aware of prior to
their marriage.
Five bears in two days Is considered
better than average luck. even in
eastern Maine, and so Charles Cakes, of
Cherry field, who made this record last
week, has reason to feel satisfied with
the shooting season as far as it has
gone. As the skins are worth from
eight to sixteen dollars apiece. amt the
state pays a bountymof five dollars on
each bear killed, It will be seen that
the Gherryfield hunter earned pretty
fair wages for those two days.
The report of Harrington, the new
chief of the weather bureau, shows
that there are at present over 1000
weather signal display stations in
operation It is expected to have SO
many volunteer stations as to establish
them not more than twenty or thirty
miles apart over the entire country, ut
Is claimed that these weather data show
climatic conditions in various parts of
the United States that are not sur
passed by the famous health resorts Of
Europe.
Steel ties that were placed in the
track of the Chicago & Western In
diana railway nineteen months ago
have been examined by the roadnaster.
The track had very heavy traffic, but
the roadmaster reports that the ties
were not only safe, smooth, and pleas
ant to ride on, but were money-sav-
ing device. He also observed that there
was less oscillation and vibration in the
locomotives and cars passing over them,
especially In heavily loaded cars OF
yielding material like grain.
1t is almost impossible to find ON
the peninsula of Delaware and Mary.
land point ten miles from navigable
tide water. The whole region is cut
up by navigable streams, and in the
lower part of the peninsula small ship
yards are found in many villages, and,
indeed, often clear outside of village
limits There are many good ship
wrights throughout the region, and for
nearly two hundred yearsamuch Of the
l. H. ia l..
built within fewTmiles Of where II
was grown. -
"A man in San Francisco has some
queer divining rods. They are four
slender pieces of steel, tapering to a
point at one end and fattened out at
the other. with notches In the extrem-
tiles like the notches In an arrow. Two
are an inch shorter than. the others.
Two. persons nse them, each taking hold
of one long and one short rod with the
thumb and forefnger and holding them
out horizontally with the hands close
together. The notches are pressed to-
gether. In few minutes the rods
move from side to, side, or up and down,
pointing, it is said. toathat part of the
concealed. Some persons cannot use
the rods, but those who can may easily
find the hiding place~of any valuable.
The largest plank in the world ac-
cording to the N. w. Lumberman, is a
redwood plank that is IS feet inches
wide, 10 feet Q inches long and 8. inches
thick, and Is about 90 kper cent clear
1t was taken from tree IS feet in d.
ameter and 800 feet high, which, ac-
cording to its rings, was more than one
Thousand Ave hundred years old. The
tree was cut 28 feet from the ground,
and the plank was hewn out of the
stump, representin8 o section from
near the heart to the bark. After It
was displaced, i vas lowered BY block
andtackle, with alocomotive for power.
In the way of labor its cost represents
the time of two men for a month,
simply. to prepare It in the. rough for
shipment To this the cost Of trans4
portation must be added. making a. to-
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