The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

~ or GENERAL INTEREST.
The "supcrfluous woman" has moi
wholly abandoned New England. but
she is dwindling, so to speak. The az
| grcgatc population of the SIX states in.
creased in the ten years III rer cent,
but the number of males increased $50.
oSa, or 1871 per cent, while the females
Increased 335, Isl, or only 1863 per cent.
Numerous instances are related in
sea having carried off human beings,
conveying them 20 their pearl-lincd
| grottoes in the depths. Mermen have
in this manner often obtained human
girls for brides, while mermaids not
infrequently sesk to secure for hus.
bands good Hooking youths from dry
land.
The custom OF drinking healths''
had most curious origin. !, the days
when the Danes lorded it in England
they bad a very common habit of stab
bling Englishmen in the throat when
drinking re5avoid this vi1lainy man
when drinking would request ==ssnfe 81
the sitters-by to be his pledge Oh. surety
while taking his draught. Hence the
custom.
Tradition says very rich mine was
discovered somewhere near Salt Lake
twenty-five years ago by Mormon and
for some reason Brigham Young forbade
the prospector to work the mine or
make its whereabouts known. just be.
fore dying the man Indicated the direc-
ton in which the mine lay, but hum
dreds Of miners have vainly sought the
treasure.
The most wonderful woodpile on
record is owned by man in Oxford
county, Me. In the pile of eight cords,
all cut from one piece Of forest, are no
fewer than twenty different kinds of
wood, VIZ, white birch, yellow birch,
white maple, rock maple, white ash,
brown ash, black cherry, wild cherry,
apple tree, elder, beech, moosewood,
willow, fir, dogwood, spruce, sugar
plum elm, poplar and hemlock.
"A singular ease is in the courts in
Washington. A woman married man
in 1857 while she had a husband living.
Afterward she obtained divorce from
husband No. /, but there was no new
ceremony of marriage with Mr.. Nc
-Ionghlin, husband No. 2. Now Mr..
Mclaughlin is dead and his -daashter
opposes the claim of her stepmother to
being his widow on the ground that
there was no legal marriage The court
has decided in favor of the widow, and
now the case is appealed,
Chicago, H., with total of a little
over 1000 miles Of street laid down,
uses the following paving materials;
Wooden block, 1924 miles; macadam,
256.3l miles; stone, 23.34 miles: block
asphalt, $50 miles; sheet asphalt, 9.01
miles; brick pavement, 0.67 mile, and
burned clay 0.23 mile. The total of
paved streets claimed by the city
authorities is 1880 miles, exclusive OF
$50 miles of wood pavement on viaducts
and approaches. The city has 2,240
miles of wooden sidewalks out of 2,s72
miles. The wood is being slowly re-
placed with stone and concrete
The Kansas dog case mentioned in
dispatches as rivaling the famous Jones
county calf case is really unworthy of
such comparison. The Jones county
calf litigation extended, il we remem-
Der rightly, over nearly quarter of a
century and cost something like $4,000
not counting the value of the calf It,
self The suit over $3.50 dog which
has just been dismissed by the Kansas
City circuit court rolled up bill OF
costs Of only $500. The comparison sug-
aI tba, f,,,. l,.. tod
The Jones county calf case is unique
and no rivalry will be permitted.
"A case Of temporary survival of d
wound which should have, apparently,
caused instant death, is that of a boy
who was picking up shavings in a
carpenter shop. lie slipped and fell and
his head struck against a revolving
buzz saw. He staggered to his feet and
| went to an appothecary TO have the cut
| in his head dressed. He said his head
panied him terribly. This was moi
wondered at when it was found that tn,
saw had cut through his skull In such 8
way as to divide the two lobes of the
brain. The boy lived for several day,
and retained consciousness to, the last
| according to the coplmon acceptance O
things, he should have died on the spo'
at the time he sustained This most re
markable injury.
The story Of the first iron ship i.
told by Mr.. Lindsay in his work OF
History of Merchant Shipping ant
Ancient Commerce" He writes: "A
steam vessel was for the first time fit
ted into vessel of iron; she was nance
the Aaron Manly, and was constructed
at the Horseley company's works for tn,
| joint account. of Mr.. Manly and Capt
Napier Sir Charles Napier.
Mr. Grantham, in his work on ship
building, describes an iron canal vesse
| built by Mr.. Wilkinson, of Bradley
Forge, near Bilston, about the year 1887
and this is believed to be an early instinc
| of a really working commercial vesse
built of iron; and again in 1915, Thomas
Jevons launched small iron boat OF
the Mersey She was built by Joshua
Horton, near Birmingham, and fittet
upfat. Liverpool, and is credited will
being the first iron boat that foated OF
| salt water.
Concerning Nicaragua.
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