The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-31
or GENERAL INTEREST.

covered in the craw two small nuggets
Of gold about the size of small nail
hend How the chicken found the gold
4 now the question.
| The first sewing machine 81 whose
| pntenting there Is any record was in-
tended rather for emtroidering than
! plain sewing 1t was patented in 1853,
| and had needle with two points and
an eye at midlength. This form Of
nee lie was called for many years a
tambour-needle.
II. is reckoned that 80, 600, 900 worth
of the old fractional currency has been
! totally lost. Kitchen stoves are favor
lite aces for hiding money, and 1t is
said that more is destroyed in that way
than in any other. OF the paper money
Issued is estimated that one per
cent. is lost or des troyed.
What is believed to be the largest
steel pla1er in this country was shipped
the other day from Piaindeld, N. j., to
| Pitt burgh The bed OF the machine
| weighs forty-three tons, the tao e
twenty-six tons and the crossroads
| twenty-five tons. The arch weighs
four and one-half tons andTdriving gear
| four tons.
| The bail bond of jefferson Davis,
bearing the signature Of Horace Greeley.
Gerritt Smith and some other prom
inent men, has been missing from the
| files of the circuit court OF Richmond
since 1870, and how much longer it is
| difficult to say. The present clerk of
/ Al h,
sto 1t is now dead.
"A rich young woman in New Jersey
has married coachman. Whether or
not this was advantageous to both par
| ties or to one of them or TO neither is
not reported II the woman is good
! for nothing, the coachmar is to be pitt
| led provided he be good for anything.
| II neither of them is of any account,
they are well matched.
| Chambers Journal has an article
on the commercial value Of small
things. The weight of the postage
stamps sold in New York city last year
was thirteen tons. In Russia 1873, 0o0, 900
| wooden spoons are made every year.
One factory ian Paris makes 100, o0o, 00o
toothpiclSs a year. In the United
| States ITO, 900, 900 matches are used an
nually; in France 200, 600, 600. :,
| Every lover of rare and curious in.
formation knows that most Of the an,
clients were dead set against beaus.
| but no modern unraveler of old-time
mysteries knows why. 1t may be truly
| said that there are but few phiIoso-
pliers of the present day that know
beans" Pythagoras admonished his
| pupils to abstain from BEANS" but on
what grounds no one knows"
To make spool of thread the very
best Sea Island cotton is used. This is
taken in the raw state and torn to
pieces by a machine called breaker,
| II Is then freed from its impurities BY
several other machines after which it
is taken up by slipper and twisted
| into soft yarn. Several strands of this
are twisted into one fine thread, three
! of these are then twisted together,
making the six-cord thread, which, af-
| ter being bleached. is ready to sell.
A physician who spent some time
| in the countries bordering on the Gulf
! of Mexico found curious body of men
among the natives called Curados de
| Calebra, or the safe from vipers. Hav-
| ing been inoculated with the poison Of
serpents they were proof against their
venomous bites. The incubation was
made with the venom tooth Of viper
and the bulb OF native plant called
mano del sapo (toad's hand) The pre-
ventive incubation has been an old
| custom among the natives of that
region. u New York San.
The practice of ''trotting' child
on the knee of the nurse or mother,
| though it has the sanction of long prac-
tice, has not the sanction OF common
| sense and should never be iRdulged,
especially with infants Trea&Ag the
adult bodyfn the ratio Of correspond
ing strength, the exercise would be
about equivalent to being ourselves
churned up and down on the walking
| beam of good sized steam engine. 1t
has been very properly said that gen
tie movement is as pleasant to the child
as riding in an easily running carriage
on a smooth road to an adult; knee
| jolting as unpleasant and harmful as a
| Journey over the worst corduroy
| roads.
Few persons, says the San Francis
CO Chronicle, have ever troubled them
selves to think of the derivation Of the
word dollar. 1t is from the German
| thai valley, and came into use in this
way some three hundred years ago.
There is a little silver mining city or
district in northern Bohemia called
Joachimsthal, or J oachim's valley. The
reigning duke Of the region authorized
this city in the sixteenth century to
coin silver piece which was called
"Joachimsthaler. The word COACH
inn was soon dropped and the name
s'thaler" only retained. The piece went
into general use In Germany aud also
in Denmark, where the photography
was changed to "daler," whence it
came into English, and was adopted by
our forefathers with some changes in
the spelling.
| AS old china is becoming a well-de-
yeloped fad, collectors will be interest.
ed to know that Mrs Ollie Stevens. Of
Strondwater, Me-, has one of the finest
collections of old china in New En-
gland. In her collection is q Washing
| ton plate, one of the thirteen manu-
featured by an eccentric manufacturer,
who refused to pursue his calling any
longer, and thus it has been thought by
collectors that none Of the thirteen
were in existence. Her Canton ten
cups were brought over in the vessels
whose tea was thrown overheard in
Boston harbor early in the revolution
airy war. The sideboard is prettily in
laid and was once owned by Capt
Means, an officer Of the revolutionary
war When Lafayette visited Port
land, after his reception, he visited his
old friend, Capt Means, and was served
with toddy from this sideboard