Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Chicago has women who shoes
horses whenever her husband goes on q
spree.
Mrs Sartoris is said not yet to have
recovered her spirits since the death 81
her father.
A bill which seeks to make lobbying
an Infamous crime is now before the
kentucky Legislature.
1t is said that in all SECTIONS of the
South the sale Of snuif for dipping pur-
poses IS annually increasing,
There is said to he moro Money in the
small hard CLANS how caught iii Oyster
! bay, IL l., harbors than in oysters.
There arc 243 suits for divocre pending
before the Suffolk (AInss.) County Court
The list Is the longest ever made up in
that State, and includes several sensa.
'lonal cases in high life.
Mrs. Bertha I.indblad, of Chicago,
was walking aloog the sidewalk the
other day when she stepped on the edge
OF an unfastened plank, which flew and
struck her on the left thigh, breaking
the limb about eight inches above the
knee.
Presbyterian pastor at Middletown,
N. j., having declined to sign petition
against the granting of new license to
man who had boon keeping the only
hotel there, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union have publicly prayed
Tor him-thc clergyman.
The largest authenticated snake ever
seen was an anaconda, which had swal =
lowed II horse. His length WAS 40 feet,
and after his feast of lunch taking, he
was indisposcd, and was captured by n
naturalist who was hunting specimens
III the Amazon valley.
"Spcaking of extravaganza in dress
writes correspondent, "thc most cx-
pcnsively dressed man ever saw was an
African chief on the Gold Coast. Ills
wives had anoiied him thoroughly with
palm oil and then powdered him from
head TO foot with gold dust"
a remarkable custom exists among the
l'oumanians living in the westerly Car
p,thians Every year ut the feast of the
Apostles Tctcr and Paul, market is
held on the crest OF the Gaina. from s.
600 10 q, 600 feet abo:c the level of the
sea, aud here all the marriagcable girls
OF the entire district assemble with their
parents in order 10 be viewed and claim
cd.
The population of London new ox-
cccds every other city, ancient or
modern, in the world. New York and
all its nd AGENT cities combined nre not
clual 10 two-thirds of it, Scotland,
Switzerland and the colonies cach CON
taid fewer souls. while Norway, Scrvia,
Greece and Denmark have scarcely half
SO many. Yet ut the beginning OF this
century the population OF all London d id
not reach l,000,00
The City OF Coro was founded by
Spanish in 1897, and wns for so years
the chief city and capital of Venezuela
and the ncighboring islands, now be-
longing to the Dutch. Snnta Fc. in
New Mexico, and san Auguslin in Flor
ida, ere founded some 80 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 harp wns
one of three things to have 10 constitute
q gentleman. TO prevent slaves from
pretending to be gentlemen they were
net PERMITTED to learn 10 play upon
them: none but the Kings musicians and
gent cmcn were allowed TO have harps
in their possession. aud these harps, like
lady's sewing machine today, were
not linblc to seizure for debt, rs the
want Of it would have degraded him
form his rank and reduced hin to that of
n slave
Maine boys are demanding IN inter-
national standard OF exchange in the
marble trade. In Auburn any kind OF
''gasscr." "bulls eye," crystal" or
agate" big or little, goes for ten come
moncrs. In Lewiston the glasscr has
practically been demonctized, and only
the large sized Crystals" can he put in
for the limit Of ten, while most of tho
or iinary aristocratic laws, even "bluc
dutch" don't stand in for moro than
three to seven.
Cut Of SIT ducls fought in France
sincc.1S7O, only one has resulted in
death and only eight in serious injury.
AS Mark Twain has said, the French
duel is really n healthful form of exer
else, as it is fought in the open air and
requires gentle use of the muscles.
Probably tho Parisians would be health.
icr and live longer if they fought more
duels, for an exercise of such health
giving qualities woald doubtless do
much TO repair the rava gcs of excite
ment and dissipation.