The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-09-01
or GENERAL INTEREST.

SG 4&N606s NiGnESis
In the United States there are
about sixteen million cows lone for
every four persons.
--zHotiselxeepers know homeless cod
fish. and now member Of the United
States ash commission announces that
the boneiess shad Is in process Of cvo-
luton and we'll advanced toward com
pletion. He does not lose his bones in
the same way as the cod, to-wit, after
death, but BY careful breeding and cross
ing.
The largest pumping engine ever
made in this country has Just been
placed at The Philadelphia waterworls.
II weighs nine hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds. Is thirty-five feet high,
and occupies floor space Of thirty by
forty feet Twenty million gallons %
water are pumped every twenty four
hours
philadelphia has six day nurseries
where MoffdnR women with c11ildrnn
ranging from three months 70 eight
years Of age can leave them from $3.50
in the morning until $50 at nigbt
Three meals and ample amnsemcnts
are given, costing the mother six cents
q day. These institutions are support
ed BY voluntary contributions. Other
cities have them on much the same
plan.
The Washington state building at
the worlds fair will show to some sex-
tent the forest resources of the state.
The foundation alone will contain Ill
logs, some Of them i2o feet long and As
inches In diameter at the small end.
The superstructure of the building will
contain, besides heavy timber, fine fin
ished woods, showing the grain and
structure Of the woods, and q complete
exhibit OF sl1ipbuilding material
Taking the length of the permanent
ways on the surface Of the globe at
nearly sixty thousand geographical
miles, with daily average Of ten
trains, it is estimated that the total loss
by wear and tear suffered each day by
the metallic rails of the earth is about
six hundred tons The six hundred
tons are lost In the form Of fine pow
der, and are carried back TO the earth
In the shape of soluble iron salts.
--Director-General Davis has asked
the state department at Washington to
make public the following ruling re-
garding the placarding Of goods at the
exposition: Foreign exhibitors In the
Worlds Columbian exposition win be
permitted TO state upon placards at
tached to their exhibits the prices at
which Said products will be sold at the
place of manufacture, and also the
prices Id bond and out of bond, or ex-
elusive and inclusive Of the customs
duties in Chicago"
The disappearance of the Jim Fisk
restaurant recalls to an old New York.
err that there were as cheap restaurants
in New York forty years ago us now.
In the fifties there was famous cheap
restaurant ON Chatham square. Here
one could buy for GH cents good slice
of beef with potatoes and turnips. For
81 cents more he could have plum pud-
ding with rich sauce. Thus one OBJ
tanned for 121{ cents, the old York shil-
ling, o wholesome and satisfying meal,
and not always in bad company.
"A late census bulletin states that
there are about 1900, 900 more males
thanSfemales in the sixty-two and half
millions of population. In the New
England and Middle states there are
As, 900 more females than males. In the
south middle section, including the dis
trict, the females outnumber the males
by some 10000. While in the northern
central section of the country, as far
west as Nebraska, the males are in the
majority by over 100000. in the south
central portion this excess reaches only
about 200, 200. In the western section
Of the country the predoninance Of the
males Is shown by q majority Of over
SOC, 900.
Edwin Ellis some Of whose famous
Southdown sheep are. to be exhibited
in this country at the coming worlds
fair, Is not only great landowner and
an energetic business man, but also a
philanthropist. He has built near his
home In Surrey. England, an expert
mental row of neat cottages for his
tenants, an ideal schoolhouse, and a
club house for the people, and his
daughter has Woodworking class
among the tenants. The club house
has provision for billiards and other
games, prettily decorated social hall
capable Of seating Ave hundred per-
sons, and a library Of eight hundred
or more volumes, with numerous peri
odicals.
--0n the western prairie Is found
what Is called the compass plant, which
is Of great value to travellers. The long
1leaves at the base of Its stem are placed,
not fat, as in plants generally, but In q
vertically position, and present their
edges north and south. The peculiar
propensity Of the plant is attributed to
the fact that both surfaces of its leaves
display an equal receptivity for light
Whereas the upper surfaces OF the
leaves of most plants are more sensitive
to light than the lower); the leaves thus
assume vertical position, and point
north and south. Travellers on dark
nights are said to feel the edges Of the
leaves to ascertain the point Of the com
pass.
"A witness in case recently on trial
in one Of the courts in Boston testified
that the defendant was not drinking
man s'and only took cocktails" Judgt
Blank, who presided, is teetotaler.
He noticed among the spectators we'll
known physician, bon vivant, and at
the recess called him up to the bench
and asked him to define a cocktail. "A
cocktail" responded the doctor. us q
feather dipped in an emollient which Is
applied TO dry or irritated throat for
the removal Of dryness or irritation"
The learned judge thanked him, but
the story that the court subsequently,
dipped feather In vascline and Touched
his palate with 1t under the impression
bly, a lawyers yarn
For Ordipary semi- Dress.
The question is often asked: How
many dresses well-dressed woman
should have? This. Of course, depends
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