The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-02-04
or GENERAL INTEREST.

"A lady residing In Port Angeles has
. curiosity in the shape Of chicken
,, born with four legs, but they seldom
live as this one has dons-now. nearly
FIVE months The lady has two OF the
legs tied up. 90 that the chicken Is not
embarrassed while walking.
Tint fellow Is awfully stuck up, =
remarked the cob to the polo pony. As
he wagged his ears Ia the direction Of
the new tandem horse. "lIe refused to
recognize me to-day in the park. He
NAV be a society leader now. but re-
member when his mother used to be
driven by the grocer's SON "--Harper's
Bazaar.
The most curious character on the
island of Borneo is the white sultan or
rajah Of Sarawak. He Is nm English.
man. Sir Charles Brooke, and tho
United States Is the only nation that
recognizes his sovereignty. He rules
over part of Bornco as large as Ire
land, and his subjects pay tribute to
him in rice.
The iirst wxter mark on record was
the coat-of-arms of town. The early
| papermakers were not slow to adopt
this idea in impressiug upon their sheets
the device OF the place where theix mill
was situated. For instance, the coat
of-arms of the village OF Reeves, a
dolphin, is common mark ON old pa
pers. This mark is still in use to-day. =
Down to the time Of Homer, who
flourished 9O7 b. c., as little was known
of the surface of the earth as is now
known OF the interior Greece was then
regarded as the center Of the earth,
which was surrounded at the distance
of five hundred miles by the ocean
river. Inter the land was extended
farther and limited form given to the
old continent
Near Bristol, VT, there Is a part OF
the road which teamsters find SO very
rutty and steep that the difficulty in
passing that spot has caused 'scuss
words" to at least enter their minds II
not find expression. Aware of this
fact, pious gentleman has employed
two stone-cntters to engrave the Lords
prayer in letters an inch deep and six
inches high on huge rock conspicu-
ously visible from that part Of the road
A South Paris woman. Mrs. Chand-
Ter Swift lost and found pin in a
queer way the other day. She was
feeding her chickens and caught one OF
them. and while talking to 1t it pecked
her initial pin from her throat and
swallowed it Her husband came up,
cut the chickens throat and extricated
the pin. He then closed the wound by
taking few stitches. The chicken Is
now alive and scratching so is the
pin.
Canary birds are q good deal
troubled by mosquitoes. The toes Of
the bird are amply provided with small
veins, and as the membrane between
the toes is extremely thin, an observant
mosquito may see his favorite fluid cir
culating in plain sight A bird with a
| swollen hind toe was brought to bird
| fancier recently and he pronounced
the trouble poisoning from mosquito
bite. He said the thing was not UNI
common.
Some notable specimens of game
have been killed in Maine recently.
Ralph Lord, of Westbrook, shot a
golden eagle which measured OK feet
from tip to tip Of wings. with talons
az inches long At Surry wildcat
was killed that measured feet in
length, 20 inches in height and weighed
52 pounds Two hunters in the woods
of Shirley were followed by strange
animal which they finally killed. The
beast proved to be an Indian devil"
feet in length. 1t had teeth three
inches long.
Sir Walter Butler describes a re-
markable characteristic of the wander
ing albatrosa At certain time of the
year, between February and June, the
old birds leave their young and go to
sea, and do not return until October,
when they arrive in large numbers.
Daring their absence the young birds
never leave: the breeding-ground. I'm
| mediately after the return of the old
birds, each pair goes to its old nest,
and, after little fondling Of the young
one, turns it out and prepares the nest
for the next brood.
Just off q wagon road. leading to
Sonora, Mexico. stands an immense
mesquite tree, which attracts attention
on account of its size. 1t is promi-
nent landmark. and 1t has many tragic
memories The trees near. by are
twisted, crooked and stunted, but the
mesquite is straight and has regular,
massive branches, and trunk thicker
than that of any other tree In the Colo
RADIO valley 1t is known as the dead
mans tree by the Mexicans, who hur-
ry past it Years ago the cattle raisers
had to take advantage of the strength
of the lower branches Of the tree to rid
themselves of many cattle thieves
Under the Roman rule the Egypt
ians excelled in glass-malxing. Caesar
Augustus having agreat admiration for
the glass Of Egypt, when he had SUBJ
sdned that country (26 b. c. j, ordered
that it should form part Of the annual
tribute to be paid to the yictors This
became source of incredible wealth
to Egypt for the Romans thereby be-
came familiar with Egyptian glass, or
dered it in immense quantities, and the
Egyptians devoted themselves to a very
large export trade, of which they pre-.
served the monopoly until the reign OF
Tiberius IA A. d.. at which time, ac-
cording to Pliny, this industry began to
be cultivated at Rome. 81
st. George,s Light.
Sixty-three miles from Humboldt bar
a lonely rock in the Pacific ocean has
long been assource OF danger to the
mariner, but will be so NO longer.
After eight years warfare with the
wind and waves the workmen Of the
government have placed on the rock .
magnificent structure that will be
known as the St. Georges light Work
on the building is finished and nothing
now remains to be done but to place
the lens in its position and start the
machinery. It Is expected that the