The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
- young lawyer Of Savannah. Ga,
swan across the Savannah river Eve
times for q wager OF $50 The river Is
2o5 yards wide at the point He ac-
complished the task In one hour.
~-lf all the locomotives in the United
States were coupled together they
would make train Of solid iron and
steel over 800 miles long. Add the pas
senger cars and we would have 800
miles more Of wood and IRON; this
would give us gigantic passenger
train GOO miles in length, counting both
engines and cars
During the year 1891 there were
surveyed at the port Of bangor IL, 945,-
96S feet of dry pine, 7, l6S. sos feet Of
green pine, lis, 205,741 feet of spruce,
and %. 664, s44 feet of hemlock, juniper,
cedar, etc.--a total Of l64, 9s5. $50 feet
This is IA, 900. 900 less than in 1890, and
5000, 900 less than In 1889. The great
est falling off was in spruce and pine,
and the decline wns@chiehy due to the
Generalization Of the New York mar
ket.
The first fore-runner of the tyne
writer in the United States was a ma
chine invented in 1s4S for those who
were unable to use the pen and pencil
The name typewriter" was frstgiyen
to the machine invented by three men
of Milwaukee, Wis, which embodied
the principles of the present. machine
In a crude manner. Since 1S43 there
hare been issued in this country $50
patents for writing machines, $50 Of
which have been granted since 1880.
Among birds that have the power
of imitation the parrot is supposed to
talk the best; but, as matter Of fact,
its voice is decidedly inferior to that OF
the #mynah, species of@starling, OF
which there are examples at the LON
don geological gardens. Curiously
enough the male bird speaks in high,
clear tone, like that of child, while
the female has gruff voice. The
mynshs are fond Of showing off their
vocal powers to visitors to the gardens
Stain and Cromwell, who were
sentenced to the Maine state prison for
life for the murder of Cashier Barron
of the Dexter bank, have not lost a
days work since they entered the
prison. Lowell, the Lewiston murder
er, receives a liberal pension. which he
spends for luxuries that are allowed.
He has a special brand of cigars, manu-
factured in Rockland. Chandler, who
is serving sentence for forgery, is the
prison organist. and he has composed a
stack of music, some of which he in
tends to publish after his release.
One of the most persistent beggars
in Portland, Me-, is collie dog which
is very fond of doughnuts The collie,
in company with his mistress, visited a
bakery one day last fall, and, perceiving
some doughnuts in show case, he sat
down and pleaded, by means Of short,
sharp banks, for a treat The clerk
generously fed the smart dog, but now
he wishes that he hadn't, for every day
since the collie has appeared to beg for
more doughnuts If the shop door is
closed he will wait outside until some
one opens it, and then dodge In and get
his regular free lunch.
1T was largely the fashion in the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries with ladies' of wealth to have
their watches richly incrusted with
precious stones. lady's watch made
toward the end of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth had gold case set with two
hundred turquoise stones arranged in
eight concentric circles with single
one in the middle. On the upper por-
ton of the case was a Tudor rose of
crimson and green in translucent en-
*amel, and on the margin crimson and
blue leaves and fruit in enamel The
balance wheel was protected by a
gilt cock.
About thirty years ago Moses Star
ling and others put two small fiocks of
sheep on Monhegan, bleak and rocky
island off the entrance to Penobscot
bay, believing that sheep could take
care of themselves almost anywhere.
Since then the focks have increased to
an aggregate of two hundred and fifty
head, running wild and receiving no
attention whatever. Once year men
have gone to the island, driven the
sheep into pen and sheared them and
mar hCQ buC i0tu 10. hC oiiCCP dEC nOW
owned by half dozen persons, some
of whom have not seen the stock for
twenty years.
Some great hunting was done in
the closing days of the late hunting
season in Maine. A party Of Boston
sportsmen, with A. B. Douglass, OF
Eustis, as guide, chased ten-year-old
moose for eighteen days, when one OF
the party shot him. The animal
weighed about 700 pounds and carried
splendid antlers Two monster bull
moose were brougt into Sebec station
few days after Christmas, having
been killed near Nahmakanta lake. by
BENJAMIN Woodward and Horace Dore,
of Atkinson. One Of the heads. with
,ntlers, weighed S9h pounds, the other
s755 pounds, and the larger antlers had
spread of A feet inch.