Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
CURIOUS FACTS.

In England burglary was capital Of
fence Until 1921.
cavcnworth, Kan, claims q mule
thirty eight years old.
Tho curfew bell was law in England
only till the accession of Henry !.
BY new process com SKINS are dyed
and finished into a fine glossy black fur.
While n Michigan barber was shaving
n supposed corpse the man came 10 life
again.
Captain Nicholas Costello, of Haver.
hill. Mass, is lOj and still healthy and
active.
Stock growers say that nil domestic
animals would live longer if more kindly
treated.
a tame crow belonging to farmer
near Rid2eway, Canada, has bccn taught
TO dist inIuish colors.
An Indiana man has been convicted of
stealing 90 ptows. all of which he had
stored away III Il barn.
Tuscumbia, county scat of Miller
County. Mo-, has not had Il church build
ing of any kind in forty years.
. Richmond tVa.) woman has patented
nn oyster can which can be opened in
two seconds without the aid of II knife.
1t is estimated that Il cranberry marsh
of 30 acres would make its owner rich
in yielding five successive crops, but the
rule is two bad years to one good one.
A man in New Hampshire who was
sued for IL debt of 81 mndc oath in court
that he hal never been worth over 81 ut
one time i'll his life. and that his income
Was not over :; [ Dcr YEAR
The Frcncl, language was introduced
into ENGLAND 10y William l., in 10 Il. anil
law plcadingS were made in that language
until the reign of Edward III. I:C2,
when they were changed into English.
The skin of jams Corle,t, of Tampa
Bay, Fla, has begun to turn black,
spots as large rs II mans hand having
appeared on his limbs and body. Ply
sicians cannot discover any traces of
the skin be ng diseased.
An American saws "sir' 500 times
where an En.lishman says it once.
Why? This is an Amcricanism so far rs
peculiar to Americans, but really moth
ing more than II survival OF an old
fashioned English courtesy.
AT Scoitdalc. Penn, the other day n
brnkemcn tell between the cars of NOV
ing train. lie counted sixteen cars and
caboosc rs they passed over him and
then jumped up and took his place again
ut the brakes. lie was not scratched
There is tree in Claymorc, Kan,
which rivals the upas. Its leaves all
summer cXhaled II peculiar asphyxiating
odor. and when it was cut down recently
living splinter of bark scratched John
EShart's face aud seriously poisoned
linn.
The Royal Society for :hc Prevention
Of Cruelty To Animals, Of London, mas
lately made contract with an iron COM
pany 10 put up drinkin" troughs for
dogs. The iroughs a,c quite ornamental,
being lined with white enamel and let
tered k. S. u. G.. 4.
a curious scene was that of the recent
zero morning on the Colonel Ham farm,
IN Lewiston. Ne. The proprietor was out
haying. He had over two acres to chi,
and beneath the ring of The ashing
scythc was ice. such phenomenon is
worth putting down.
About 300 words are all that arc used
in ordinary talking and conversations,
although there are some %. 900 words in
the English language. Different authors
vary in the number of words they use.
but the difference is but slight. Shake
spcarc found 1000 words sufficient for all
his works.