The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-05-26
or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
The irregularity Of Names coas
line is indicated BY the fact that Lu
beck man who bought horse in East
port was obliged to drive the ANNA
more than forty miles to reach hi.
nome, although the two towns are only
three miles apart in straight line.
The text book from whi-h the cm
peror Of China is learning his first les
sons in English is First reader" pub
lished by an American house sfid
copiously illustrated with colored pic
lures 1t was sent over with some
other books from this country to the
little daughter of Marcus L. Taft, 1
missionary of China, and was used b.
her before it came into the hands OF
the emperor's instructor.
Though remarkable vessel. the
famous Great Eastern was unscien.
tifically constructed. Her load draft
was twenty-eight feet, and as at high.
tide there was in the time of her early
| voyages only the same amount of water
over Sandy Hook bar, it was necessary
for her to be freighted less than her
greatest carrying capacity in order for
her to cross the bar. In one respect,
however, she was of the greatest ser
vice to science, / e., in her size. which
was particularly adapteti=far the stow.
ing and laying of ocean cables
New Mexico has very wide range
OF climate; The temperature regis
tered in the territory during January
varied considerably over a hundred de-
grees. The hottest place during the
month was La Luz, Dona Ana county,
where tho thermometer registered
70 degrees one day, and the mean
temperature for the month was GO /
degrees. At Dulce, Rio Arriba county,
the mercury on one chilly January day
crawfed down to SO degrees below zero,
and its record for the month in that
bracing spot was 10 degrees below
Zero
The family Bible of George Wash.
ington's mother now owned by Mrs.
Lewis Washington, of Charleston, w.
Va, has been loaned for exhibition at
Mount Vernon. 1t has q cover OF
homespun cloth put on by its original
owner. The book is wonderfully pre-
served for its age, and all of its pages
are still intact, except the first five or
six that were torn out and placed in
the cornerstone of the Mary Washing
ton monument at Fredericksburg, Va
The first entry in it is of the marriage
of Augustine Washington and Mary
Ball in 1881, and the nextis of the birth
Of George Washington, February IL,
1882 70. S. D.
The Tarratines, or Penobscot In
dians who live on an island in the river
dozen miles above Bangor, are the
most ingenious of all basket makers,
and no chemist has produced brighter
colors than those with which the chill
dren OF the forest adorn their wares
The baskets are made of thin strips OF
ash and maple, the latter for rims and
handles, and much of the work is inter-
woven with fragrant sweet grass from
the salt marshes along the coast Alder
is STEPPED for pale red dye, white birch
bark for bright red, cedar boughs for
green, sumac for yellow, white maple
bark for black. A light solution OF
maple yields purple instead of black
Some OF the Indian basket makers are
very prosperous One family of four
cleared one thousand dollars, in addi-
ton to their living expenses. last year,
and in the parlor of their house is a
Brussels carpet, upholstered furniture,
four hundred-dollar piano. various
expensive ornaments, lace curtains.
Catholic books and pictures, and set-of
Cooper's novels There are many lazy
and drunken Indians, but the good In
dams control the affairs of the tribe,
AID are respected by the white people.