Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-10-26
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CURIOUS FACTS,


Ezckiol's reed was elovon foct.
Bolivia declared its independence III
1891.
Tho sword is tho earliest weapon men.
toned in Scripture.
Aurclian was tho first Roman Emperor
who woro diadem
The first notice of batter np rams oc.
ours in the prophecies OF Ezekiel.
San Francisco has had over four hun.
dred earthquakes since her first sottlo.
mon
At tho Philadelphia Geological Carbon
they have an alligator that climbs fcnco
five feot high.
Houston county, Gn., is the homo of
chickon whose feathers arc so like hair rs
to give the effect of fur.
A tornado which stripped tho feathers
from chicken, and blow away tomb.
stones Is the latest product Of Kansas.
A gas meter has boon invented which,
on receiving nickel in slot oil top
measures oil 30 many feet Of gns for con.
sumption.
Railway timetables arc now made of
convenient size aud shape to he inserted
inside the cover of q wat Ii for convent mt
reference.
The invention Of tho gamo OF chess is
attributed to Palamodcs, $50 B. G. by
some authorities tho origin of the game
is referred to the llindoos.
The calipor compass, whereby tho bore
OF cannon, small arms, etc, is measured,
is said to have boon invented by an
artiiicor OF Nuremberg in 1910.
Frank lies, Derby (Conn.) piano
tuner, lost tho four fingers on his right
hand recently and could no longer play.
lIo broodcd over hi. misfortune until he
won't insane.
A man in Walker County, Ga, had
horror OF burinl in earth, so chose half.
nero rock, had his tomb built upon it,
aud now sleeps in grand natural
mausolcum.
Michigan man heard that his grand.
father Ind left him portion of his for
tune, and Mt tho appointed timo went to
the post-oil!cc TO get his check. 1t was
for seventeen cents.
1t is said to bo customary for the
women employed in lace fnctory to
work with noodles in thor mouths. Ono
has held rs many rs 274 needles in hor
mouth at the same timo.
Mr. Fate, OF ilazelhurst, Ca, will live.
In history as tho man who killed two
deer Mt one shot, the animals having
'lockcd" in front of him whilo in the
net of firing, and both receiving pnrt of
tho charge in their heads.
An inch of stccl.kn blade which had
been in the brain OF Florida man for
two weeks was finally extracted, and
the doctor said tho pniicnt would with
out doubt, get we'll, medical prcccdcnts
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Grandmother IIeaton, of Virginia,
ILL.,, is doubtless tho only person living
in the United States born in tho famous
Tower of London. She is eighty -ono
years old, and her parents were ON.
ploycd in the grim old prison when she.
was born.
The old cabin once occupied by John
w. Mnckay, of bonanza fame, when hc
mined at Allegheny City, CAL, from
1856 to 1852, is to be exhibited at the
Mechanics Fair in San Francisco Tho
picks, shovel aud rocker used by Mackay
will nlso be exhibited.
Acanary bird died at lroquols, Dakota,
recently, at the advanced age of eighteen
years and six months. He was good
singer, and possessed all his singing
powers until tho last year, when ho
seemed to bo in his dotagc. During tho
last two months his eycsigh. had nearly
failed him.
Every year the Emperor OF China
takes trip ut the vcrna oqninox to the
temple Of agriculture, and. after plow-
ing few burrows with his own hand,
offers sacrifices at tho four altnrs of tho
gods Of heaven. This ceremonial is
deemed necessary to insure good crops
during the coming season.