The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-01-07
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I'm some respects Mrs 3. SHUT *
Admah. Neb., Is remarkable woman.
She IS In her thirty-ninth year. and
every second or third year since 1870
she has entirely shed her skin. During
these changes Of cuticle her hair falls
and her finger-nails drop out
MRS vannaman. Of Bridgeton, N,
j.. while wedding her garden last year.
noticed tall weed Of peculiar appear
ance. which she let grow. 1t has now
grown Into I tree over venty feet high
and foot ID circumference. II has an
enormous leaf Hundreds of people
have seen ii but no one knows what
kind Of = tree II Is.
Owners Of irrfgating canals in
southern California complain that fish
do much damage to the banks BY suck
Ing the mud TO obtain the fine small
roots Of grass and weeds that grow IN
It BY this means the banks are ex-
cavated and made thin, and actually
become too weak to hold the pressure.
of high head Of water.
5Aekson Richards, mastsf
chanic Of the Philadelphia a Reading
railroad. Is contriving powerful loco
motive which he expects will be able
to attain sped Of one hundred miles
an hour-to m AXE the run between New
York and Philadelphia in fifty-four
minutes, or between New York and
Chicago in about ten hours.
Three years ago G. Hachule, Of
Parma, Mich, purchased two carp to
put in private pond. He estimates
that they will weigh from ten to twelve
pounds now and that their progeny will
number thirty-nine thousand He feeds
them with barrel of bread per week,
and when they are called they come to
the surface in great numbers to get
their rations
Aluminium has been substituted for
cast iron in the specifications for the
dome Of the the tower of Philadelphia's
new city hall 1t will save the con-
slant expense OF painting and reduce
the weight Of the tower about four
hundred tons The bronze statue of
Penn Is to be thirty-seyen feetin height
and about forty Thousand pounds in
weight. The clock face is to be twenty
three feet In diameter.
The first time the emperor Of Aus
tria ever donned frock coat and a silk
hat was in 1867. when he went to visit
the Paris exhibition as Napoleon HIPS
guest Little pleasure did he take in
these garments, and he has never worn
the like of them since he left Paris. At
home or abroad he is always in uni
form, exuept when he goes out shoot
ing, and then he wears the Tyrolese
costume, with green worsted CATERS
and legs bare at the knee in the High
land fashion.
The army is to be set to work at
professional studies. and an officer will
hereafter find promotion harder than
ever The new regulations will go into
effect year from next January. An
important feature Of the Forthcoming
order is the esta blishment of lycenm
at every post in the army. Every Of
ficer in the service will be required to
prepare and read a paper upon such
professional subjects as he may elect
at certain specified times before these
Iycenms. Attendance is also made
compulsory.
The saying that cats have nine
lives is in fair way Of being proved
by cat in Chester, Pa A steel
worker in that town, wishing to close
the career of the aforementioned tab
by, tied stone around her neck,
tossed her into the river and she sank
to the bottom. Fifteen minutes later
the animal was fished out and little
boy amused himself by finging the
body around and kicking 1t. firing Of
this fun. he left the inanimate cat on
the field. Early the next morning the
cat with stone still dangling from its
neck, walked into the steelworker's
shop
Many people of undoubted veracity
declare that they are wholly unable to
swallow pills. Some spasmodic move
ments of the tongue or irregular con-
fractions Of the pharynx balk every
conscious endeavor. or at least keep
sthe-pin in motion In the mouth until
its flavor becomes unpleasant A pill
taker" has been introduced to, over
comeSthese difficulties, and its action is
SO extremely simple and 50 very salts
factory that q medical contemporary
does not hesitate to commend it as in
valuable. 1t Is adjusted on the rim OF
tumbler or wineglass. and the pill Is
placed in small grating The pill is
then simply washed down the throat
almost unconsciously carried down
with the first mouthful Of fluid,