The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-21
PERSONAL AND sMPERsoNAl..

IN
A Rhode Island man m adc net
prolific So 700 in six months by raising
skuni<s for market He sells the fcits
OF the otiorous animals atgood figures,
and manufactures skunk oil, which he
disposes of to the druggists for = rhen-
matte cure
One Of Albuquerque IN. NJ, pub
lie school teachers Is about 10 marry
an Indian now attending the govern
ment Indian school there. The brave
| is said TO be very bright, aud one who
on his return home Will probably be
elected chief Of the tribe
"A short time ago boy baby was
born in Salt Lake City who had birth
mark. of bleod-red blotch immedi-
ately over its heart The mark was
exactly bullet wound which killed a
brother of the mother, over q year be-
fore the child was born, which tho
mother had seen.
After German had been in this
country year or two he saved 81 900
and returned TO his native land. His
relatives refused to believe it possible
! that. he could have come honestly by
such sum in so short time and wrote
| to America to see IL he had not COM
mitted some crime.
Two masked men entered q variety
store in West Newton, N. j., and
startled the ownek an old lady, by or
dering her to she'll out the contents of
the till AS she refused, they violent-
| ly seized her, and in the struggle which
ensued the mask dropped from the face
Of one Of the thieves revealing her own
| son.
| Sir Edwin Arnold desires to say
that he never said that the stars and
stripes would eventually float over
1 every section of South America He
also wishes understood that he never
| said any thing that could be twisted or
distorted into such ridiculous proph-
ecy. This seems to bessuffieiently en-
phatic-
| Besides her own daughter. Miss
| Winnie Davis, the widow of jefferson
Davis has also an adopted child, now
sixteen years OF age. Her former name
was Bette Tillman, and Mrs Davis
| interest in her dates back about five
years. The girl formerly lived at
4
ern school
Julia and Mary Howard twin sis
tiers, died at their home in Wilkesbarrc,
Pa, almost at the same time Their
deaths occurred on the same day of tho
year and at, the same hour that they
were born. They were 60 years Of age.
! One was victim of pneumonia and the
other of dropsy.s,. They had lived with
! each other always
"A writer in q German paper gives
the following as the temperature for
different sorts of beverages: Water, SO
! degs.; seltzer water and beer, 81 degs
to 90 dogs; red wine, 90 dogs. to en-
degs.;A white wine, so degs.; cham
payne, 40 dogs. to so degs.; coffee, 70
degs to 10 degs,; beef tea, 100 degs to
/ 1876 degs. milk, go dogs. to "a dogs hot
milk, 93 dogs. to ,95 dogs.
--Zerah Colburf was the most gifted
mathematician ever known. When
only eight years old he raised the NUM-
| Der successfully to the 10th power,
and in naming the last result, which.
consisted of is figures, he was right in
/ every one. On being asked the square
root of 1o6, 929, he answered 3e7 before
the old gray haired philosopher ques-
! toner had time to put 1t down. He was
I next asked how many minutes there
were in As years and instantly replied
5 o5, 22s, 800. and five minutes later gave
the astonished savants the exact mum.
Der Of seconds