The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-01-28
or GENERAL INTEREST.


According TO : French statistician
man Of 50 years has slept 900 days
worked $500 days. walked 500 days,
amused himself 1000 days, was sick
500 days He A. 1900 pounds Of
bread, $4,000 pounds Of meat, "a, 800
pounds Il vegetables. eggs and fish and
drank 1000 gallons Of liquids
Lots Of money keeps going from
people in the United States to the old
folks and others in Great Britain. In
the last annual report ofTthe British
post Office it appears thatof the s., 900,
900 received in the money order depart
.nent from foreign countries there came
from the United States IS, $4,000
"A major. the now wealthy pro-
prietor Of awell-known concentrating
industry, obtained the recipe for 1t in
trade few years ago, when both he
and the other man were almost penni-
less. He had just pawned his valise
for dinner, and gave away the pawn
ticket for the formula. out Of which he
soon made fortune.
1T is q remarkable fact that in
cemeteries which have an eastern and
western slope the eastern slope
graves are considered preferable. The
bodies are usually buried with their
feet toward the east; therefore, while
all the graves are level, it seems that
on the western slopes the bodies rest
with the feet higher than the head. sss
IF we were to count all the islands
in the world we should find that they
mounted up into the hundreds of thou
sands. There are over one thousand
islands under the flag OF japan, and in
Georgian bay, the north extension of
Lake Huron, where we find very few
islands on the map. there are in reality
several thousand islands, most OF them,
Of course, quite small.
4. post Office inspector Of Sioux
4 City, Ia, who has been watching for
some time to discover who had been
pilfering the cash drawer of the Sioux
City post Office, found day or two ago
that the offender was mouse. The
mouse had been carrying off paper
money for several weeks and had taken
one twenty dollar bill. About forty
dollars was recovered from the mouse's,
nest
The oldest inhabited dwelling
house in the United States is said to be
that of Killian Van Rensselaer,, oppo-
site Albany. It is described as being
of brick with a gambrel roof. The
front wall contains two portfolios, out
of which the early inhabitants shot at
the Indians According to plate in
the rear set up by the Albany Conn
memorative society, the building was
erected in 1859.
There is bounty In Idaho on the
ears Of jack-rabbits, and, like the coy-
ote scalp bounty of California, IL has
created new industry. The discovery
recently of several live Dummies" minus
their ears has developed the fact that
jacks, clipping their ears and then turn
ing them loose to breed future crop
from which bounties can be obtained
till the. end of time.
Fright caused deplorable injury
to Miss Alta Felker, of Monroe county,
Pa She was on visit to her mother,
at Reeders, near Stroudsburg, when
from distance she witnessed fight
between two intoxicated roughs and
some of her acquaintances. She was
informed that her brother had been
seriously injured in the ARRAY, and the
shock resulted in rendering her uncon-
scious for eighteen hours When she
was able to communicate her thoughts
by writing. she informed them that she
could not hear or speak. and that her
lower limbs were paralyzed
Z Capt Francis Kelley, who recently
died in Bath, Me-, was a fine example
of the old-time Yankee master mariner.
He was born at Parker's Head, in the
town of Phippsburg. in 1908. went to
sea at the age of fourteen, and became
captain at twenty three, continuing
as master until 1851. During his forty.
four years at sea he was never once
wrecked, and during all <his years as
master he never met with disaster,
although he had the reputation Of being
a great driver His best passage was
fourteen days from Savannah to Liver
pool in the ship Samaritan remark.
able run, which the fastest Of our mod.
ern would find hard to equal