The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Capt 6. Mcphee, Of . fishing
schooner. recently fished up on the
Georges banks several pieces Of rock,
each with human hair attached The
medical experts declare that the hair
came from mans head, but nobody
can explsin how 1t became attached to
the fotks
The Chinese tea trade has been
greatly injured in recent times By tho
increase in the use Of Ceylou tea in va
rious countries Of the world. It Il ssti-
mated that 100. 600. 00v of the Chinese
people are engaged in the culture,
preparation, sale. carriage and expnrta-
ton Ct ten, and their interests are adj
versely affected BY the rivalry OF other,
countries
AT the Indian school in Carlisle,
PH.. Dr. Rose. the ethnologist Is meas
hring and examining the red-skinned
students in order TO get their cranial
and. facial form. Their ears are large,
their cheek bones heavy, their eyes
=snasiHantE their rai etf good size-Ehe
results of his Investigations viii be
sent to the Smithsonian institution Id
Washington.
: The vital statistics OF Massachu-
sets for 1890 are sufficient answer to
the people who talk 8, foolishly about
'the decadence OF Massachusetts," The
humber of births exceeded the deaths
by IL 249, ratio which has never been
exceeded since the registration began,
except in 1859 and 1882 The number
Of marriages in 1890 was 20, SSs, which
was larger than any previous year.
Various explanations have been
given of the origin of the term gray
hound, some authors claiming that the
prefix gray is taken from Graius, mean
Ing Greek; others that it signifies great
while still others say that it has refer.
ence to the color Of the animal. In no
other breed of hounds IL the blue or
gray color so prevalent, and conse-
quently the last mentioned derivation
seems the most plausible.
One of the most Ingenious methods
practiccd by poachers for the purpose
Of netting pheasants is that in which a
game cock is fittei with artificial
spurs, and then carried to the pre-
serves. Then the game bird crows,
one or two more Of the cock pheasants
Immediately respond and advance to
fight In this way sometimes five or
six pheasants are taken, while the
game cls remains unhurt.
Mr.. Fisher of Butte, Mont, has
found new weapon of defense against
highwayme,. Two ragged rascals held
up Fisher on Granite street few nights
ago and were suddenly put to fight by
the efforts Of little pet skunk which
he had ia his pocket. Thrust be con-
siderable shock to a robber to put his
hand in hy-looking pocket and
find only mephitic pet there. Mr..
Fishers tastes in natural history are
little out Of the ordinary run.
Corn bread has various names In
different localities. The general name
of the article is Indian bread. In Dell
aware griddle cakes made of Indian
meal are called corn cakes. In Mary
land they are called cookies Pone is
the name for Indian bread an inch or
more in thi, kness and baked to crisp
crust top and bottom. In parts of
New England corn meal, baked into a
tn ok, crisp cake, is called Indian ban
mock. The Puritans, it is supposed,
learned the art of making that bread
from the Bannock Indians.
--Of other metals which are used in
coinage In civilized Ian s copper is used
to quite an extent in Africa The can
nibalistic Niam.Niam especially like
English bar copper of one-ihch diane
ter. Expeditions to The territory OF
the Mann Nam, therefore, have gener-
ally been forced to include several cop
persmiths. and these men, as soon as
the Mammalian land is reached. apply
themselves to Transforming the bars
Of copper into rings of sizes varying
from that Of bracelet to that OF a
tiny finger ring. And SO great is the
love of the Mammalian for these
baubles that even one of the small
copper finger rings value less than a
cent? would purchase fat chicken Of
Them