The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-17
oF oEnERAL tNienEsT.

--A curiosity has been found In an Al
pena county tiichigan) word. Two
hemiock trees, the trunks of which are
fifteen inches in diameter. are growing
SIX feet apart. AT the height of ten
feet from the ground the trunks unite,
forming an arch, and then firm
single stem eighty feet high.
The varieties of money in existence
In the United iStttes are gold coin, sill
YER coin, gold certificates, greenbacks,
national bank ties and the new treas
>ury notes, or silver bullion certificates
Of 1870 These are the sorts OF ,ney
Of denominations OF 81 or over and do
not clude fractional silver.
An innocent trader in Madagascar
writes to a newspaper Of the island to
ask show trader should act when his
house has been broken into and he sur
prises the thief in the house?" He says
he is not ell acquainted with the laws
OF the country, and he wonld feel CRATE.
fuE IT the editor would tel him what 20
do in such case4A The editor advises
him to make things warm for the
burg ar.
The ingenious novelist could not
invent queererahiding place for will
than one reported from real 1ifs BY the
Maine Farmer The will was tackled
up on the partition of wood shed.
piece OF brown paper tackled over It, and
there il remained for years. no one but
the author surmising its identity. After
the testatpr died, in clearing out the
Shed the brown paper was removed
and the precious doc ment found.
Mr.. Barrie. of Boutwell,. sporting
gentleman of well-known standing in
Scotland, tells a curious story OF an In.
stelligent duck at Rot .say castle, which
carried its sntire family o gosfings,
pig-a-back, from the castle moat to a
neighboring d elk pc ID. Il it the hum
: blest sportsman in American waters
has observed the preternatural sagacity
of the coot, which dives whe the flash
leaves the hunters gun aud is away
down in the wild celery before the shot
come whistling along harmlessly over
head.
"A st Louis gentleman who pro-
fesses to know says that Bulwer Lyt-
ton, fatherof the Lord Lytton who died
in Paris recently, was great believer
in the efficacy of water cures. Such es.
Establishments he habitually pa ronized
when tired out He would then drink
water in almost unlimited quantities,
and he sweated and soaked until he
had lost several pounds in weight He
usually emerged from this exper ence
with bad cold. but other wise he was
vastly improved bv the treatment. He
once wrote a pamphlet In advocacy of
this system
During the year ended November Z
seventeen Gloucester fishing vessels.
with aggregate tonnage OF i.49s and
valued at $50. 900, were lost. The total
insurance was $4,000. Seventy-eight
lives were lost, or eight less than in the
previous year. There are registered in
the Gloucester district 4s1 vessels of
80, 242 tons. Forty-nine vessels were
added to the fleet this year, the largest
increase for many years From 1880 to
1891, inclusive, 4lo Gloucester vessels,
valued at $3.50, ITO, were lost, the in
surance amounting to si,355.4is Dur
ing the same period 2, $40 men sailing
from Gloucester lost their lives at sea.
The first theatrical company to
play in the United States came from
England in 1852, and landed at York,
in Virginia The first public appear
ance Of the players, then known as
Kills Maiestv's Servants" was at Will
| liamsburg, Va, September 5. From
there they went to Annapolis, Md, and
built theater, but, the venture prov
ing unsuccessful, they went thence to
New York, and on September 4 1853,
played Sterne's "Conscious Lovers. -
Under the management of an actor
named Hallam they went to Phi adel-
phia in 1884. and in vacant store,
rented for the occasion, they played
1.-THE Fair Penitent"
The historic Treaty Elm,' under
| which William Penn made his alliances
with the Indians--a tree as famous in
the annals of Pennsylvania as the
Charter Oak was in Connecticut-was
blown down in 1870 and in 1927 a mon
ument was erected to mark the spot
This memorial, long since forgotten,
| was recently hunted up by a Philadel
phia reporter, who found it, dilapffated
and defaced, in am abandoned lumber
yard at Kcnsington. No one could be
discovered in the neighborhood who
knew anything alb ,ut the monument Oh
its hist ry, and many people inter
| viewed by the reporter ~ ere ign rant
even of the name Of Penn.