Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a goose that has been iii the la Clair
.amily for ii years died in western New
York tho other day.
A Btigadier General OF the late war ia
pursuing tho humble though honorable
avocatioh of street car driver.
Mrs. Cleveland doesn't seem to be
bothering herself about grand father
Folsom's will. She probably has one OF
her own.
Tho tomb Of Mordecai and QuceR
Esther ID still visited BY TIcbrc@ pila
erims, and is we'll PRESERVED in the town
of Hamadan, in Persia.
1t has been decided by BROOKLYN
church that playing cards isn't wicked,
and two-thirds of tho congregation have
quit using them.-Texas Siftings
New Workers nre becoming SO addicted
to club life that there Is some talk Of
establishing summer branches of New
York clubs at tho Watering plaecs.
The Gins Of Flushing, l.. l.. arc sufr-
erihg for the third year from the rayngcs
OF the larvc Of tho saw fly, an import
from Germany, which, very curiously in
its native country, confines its rnvagcs to
the pine forests.
caught off y Winthrop, Mass. 1t measured
ever all 20t Inches. iartb claw II inches.
md small cav 10 81 inches. 1t was
remarkably symmetrical lobster for one
SO old and large.
The suggestion is made In New York
City that during the summer rest bO
taken in the building business from 10
a. II. to +. Nj, chd that the time hu
made up i'll the cool Of the evening or
by electric light.
The pages of the National House of
Representatives conduct fair business
Procuring the autographs of members.
They charge the autograph hunter $40
for the signatures of tho whole House,
In the Senate the ehatgG Is only s., be-
cause Of the fewer members.
During the summer the Saturday half
holiday in New York City has practical
ly become whole holiday, business
men leaving town Friday AFTERNOON to
visit THEFT families Mt the watering
places, to the manifest iipahclal ndfaht.
age Of tho lnttar rstuining 10 business
Monday morning.
Poisoning from ice cream has been
notably frequent in Europe this season.
Recently Mt st. Thomas Hospital, in
London, boy / died from the effects
OF eating poisonous icc cfeafn, Rt-
tween thirty aid foFty girls ind boys
Who had pnrtakcn of the ice cream pur-
chased at the same stall had been sud-
denly seized with sickness
Held by wire ropes to the tip top
point Of Sonnblick Mountain, a peaf
10, 900 feet high III The fSroesc Alps, is
new block house. Flahkins II is d
massive stone turrct. A wire rcpe way
5000 feet lohg ltada tlo%h the m3un-
tain. In this block house is to dwell a
meteorologist, and his observatory is
higher than any other mctcorologist's i'm
Europe
Lightning struck an oak in Tippcca.
noe county, Ind, and tore It i.;tu stlln,.
ers. 1t is said that each years layer of
the growth of the tree seemed to have
been separated from the other and spit
into strips about half an iuch wide.
After completing its work on the oaks
the lightning ran 80 rods along the wire
fence, melting the wire in many place,
and tearing each post out of the ground.
In connection with the celebration of
Albany's two hundrcdth nnnivera try In
one shop window copy OF the Albany
Gazette Tor September -, i7SJ, 10 ok.
posed. 1t has The saline charming vnri-
OF typc and the cheerful cAccntrlcities of
makeup That charactcfi e all ne%snd-
pers OF That age. European news,
court notices, runaway slave advertise
mcnts and political documents aro
mixed together rs though the matter
mad been shovclcd into tho form.