Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Chicago has women who shoes
horses whenever her husband goes on
spree.
Mrs Sartoris is said not yet to havo
recovered her spirits since the death Of
her father,
A bill which seeks to mako lobbying
an Infamous crime is now before the
Kentucky Legislature.
1t is said that in all sections OF the
South the sale of snuff for dipping pur-
poses is annually increasing.
There is said to be more money in the
small hard CLAIMS now caught in Oyster
Bay, l.. l., harbors than in oysters.
There are 243 suits for divocre pending
before tho Suffolk (NIass.) County Court.
The list is the longest ever made up in
that State, and includes several sensa.
tional cases in high life.
Mrs. Bertha I.indblad, of Chicago,
was walking aloog the sidewalk tho
other day when she stepped on tue edge
OF nm unfastened plank, which flew and
struck her on the left thigh, breaking
the limb about eight inches above the
knee.
A Presbyterian pastor at Middletown,
N. j., having declined to sign n petition
against the grating of new license to
u man who had been keeping tho only
hotel there, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union have publicly prayed
for him-thc Clergyman.
The largest authenticated snake ever
seen was an anaconda, which had swnl-
lowed horse. His length was 40 feet,
and after his feast of lunch taking, he
was indisposcd, and was captured by
naturalist who was hunting specimens
IN the Amazon valley.
''Spcaking of extravaganza in Dress
writes correspondent, "thc most cx-
pcnsivcly dressed man | ever saw was an
African chief on the Gold Coast. His
wives had anoiicd him thoroughly with
palm oil and then powdered him from
head TO foot with gold dust"
A remarkable custom exists among tho
Roumanians living in the westerly Car
pithians Every year Mt the feast of the
Apostles Fcter and Paul, market is
held on the crest of the Gaina. from s.
600 TO 5000 feet abogc the level of the
sea- aud here all the marrihgeablc girls
OF the entire district assemble with their
parents in order TO be viewed and claim
cd.
Tho population Of London now OK
cccds every other city, ancient or
modern. in the world. New York and
all its ad AGENT citic. combined are not
equal TO two-thirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland and the colonies each con-
iaid fewer souls. while Norway, Scrvia,
Greece and Denmark have scarcely half
so many. Yet ut the beginning of this
century the population OF oil London did
not reach 1000, 900.
The City OF Coro was founded by
Spanish in 1897, and was for so wears
the chief city and capital of Venezuela
and the neighboring islands, now be-
longing to the Dutch. Santa Fc. in
New Mexico, and San Augustin, in Flor.
ida, were founded some 90 years later,
and these three arc among the Oldest
cities in the new world, emitting The
island cities, which were built after its
discovery.
BY the old laws of Wales a harp WINS
one of three things TO have TO constitute
gentleman. To prevent slaves from
pretending TO be gentlemen they were
net PERMITTED to learn TO play upon
them none but the Kings musicians and
gent cmcn were allowed TO have harps
in their possession. and these harps, like
lady's sewing machine today, were
not liable to seizure for debt. rs the
want Of it would have degraded him
form his rank and reduced hin to that of
u slave
Maine boys are demanding an inter-
national standard of exchange in the
marble trade. In Auburn any kind OF a
"glasscr. "bulls eye" crystal" or
agate" big or little, goes for ten come
moncrs. In Lewiston the glasser has
practically been dcmonetizcd, and only
the large sized Crystals" can be put in
for the limit of ten, while most Of The
or iinary aristocratic laws, even "bluc
DUTCH" don't stand in for moro than
three to seven.
Cut OF SIT duels fought in France
since 1870, only one has resulted in
death and only eight in serious injury
AS Mark Twain has said, the French
duel is really healhful form of cxer
else, rs it is fought in the open mir and
requires gentle use of the muscles.
Probably tho Parisians would be health
icr and live longer if they fought more
ducls, for an exercise of such health
giving, qualities woald doubtless do
much to repair the rava ges of excite
sment and dissipation.
TIE BLOCH MAILS THE ENTIRE CIRCUIT