Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-12-07
CURIOUS FACTS.

a, "ioSousiu HAS " cuampion payer OF
the game of dranghts.
No gold or silver CONS arc issued by
the Chinese Government.
Edith Brinkham of, Racine, WIS.,, lost
her life by falling out of bed.
Tho leap ycar privilege is said to bo
siS hundred and sixty years old.
Ben Franklin recognized tho value Of
timc. He invented thrco clocks.
a skipping ropo has bcon patoatcd
which sets in motion small musical box
in one of tho handles.
Mary Goodwin OF Atlanta. Ga. is
thirty eight years Of ago and the mother
/ OF twcnty-sovon children.
1t is against municipal law in China 10
dig over 100 feet to find well water II
is the idea that the bottom would fall
through.
leo was produced in summer. by means
OF chemical mixtures by Mr.. Walker, in
1888. This was the first known attcmpt
in this direction.
The first patent in America was issuod
in 1870 to Samuel Hopkins, OF Phla.
delphia, for an Improvement in tho
manufacture of potash.
Near Oakland, Tenn an exprc train
struck fallen tree and every Cur left the
rails, yet not II single passenger was
either killed OF wounded.
A Washington Territory man loft
$4,000 for all tho dclicacies' of the season
to bc fed to his dog, while his o,d father
was mado hoir to his watch and chair
only.
E;,htr fonr ,l,;l,1ro, 1, -
mothers of Modin, Penn. Mrs. Samuc
Field has 30, Mrs. Jose. Ii Chaedlcr %
Mrs. James Barrett 10, and Mrs. William
Wright %,
A Missouri horse fell over n clilr thirty
five feet high and escaped with only d
scratch on his leg. Next day ho got II
piece OF corn cob in his throat ind
choked 10 death.
AT I'eNarkana tho other day long
horned steer undertook to knock out the
elephant OF travelling circus, but even
ON ms native heath was no.match for tho
big foreigner, and wni laid out still and
stark in just half II round.
At Kcarncy, N. j., n factory chimney
Is being erected, which will, when fin.
ished, bo the fullest in the country, and
tho fourth highest in the world. twill
be 335 feet high. Thcle arc two taller
chimneys In Scotland and one in Eng.
land.
a hotel waiter in Cincinnati who stole
from guest, hid tho money in his
rundown collar. He was suspected
OF tho theft, and, while being conducted
10 the s!ationhousc, the officer noticed n
groenback protruding from the novel
hiding place.
n Dcctlc rs nrgc rs a sparrow hns been
received by tho State E.ntomo'ogist OF
New Yo.k. 1t cnmo from Central
Amcrl'a. IIo husnnothcr curiosity that
resembles two green leaves attached to n
twig. 1t is called camel cricket, and
was produced in Texas.
A Massachusetts cat, which lived TO
the age of twenty years and two months,
is buried under II granite obclisk shipped
to resemble Bunker Hill monument, and
deeply th'sclled with tho nnmo "Bev-
erly," tho which high sounding appclla.
ton belonged in life to tho cat.
There was n race lately in Zanzibar DO.
tween Zebra and IN ostrich, and,
though the bid came in hundred yards
ahead, the beast won the purse 1t was
done II this wise. The Zebrn's rider
claimed that he had bcea passed by Il
fowl, which nobody with sense Of or.
biography could deny, and 80 the raco
was awarded where it did not belong.
Sailors believe rolgionsly that tho
frlgaic bird can start ut daybrcak with
the trade winds from The coast of Africa
and roost the same night upon the
American shore. Whether or not this is
fact has not yet been conclusycly do.
termined, but it is certain that tho bird
is the swiftcst Of winged creatures, and
is ably 10 fly. under favoring condition,
200 miles an hour.
The etymology of the word honeymoon
Is thus given by good authority {,
Among the norhrrn nations of Europe
thcro was ancient practice of newly mar
ricd couples to drink methcglin or mead,
a kind OF wine made from honey (hy..
dromcD for thirty days after marriage.
Hence the term honeymonth or honey.
moon. Attila, tho Hun, drank so much
mead ut his wedding feast that he died %
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