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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
Lead Pencils.

There is no lead pencil, and has been
none for fifty years. In old times roll
OF lead was used to make marks on panci
or roughcr material:
The name lead pencil came from the
old notion that the products of the Cum
bcrland mines, England, were lead, in
stead OF being plumbago or graphite, n
carbonate of iron, capable of leaving u
lcad-colored mark. With the original
lead pencil or slip, and with the earlier
styles of the "lead" pencil made direct
from the Cumberland mine, the wcttino
oi the pencil was the preliminary OF writ.
ing. But since it has become q manu-
iac;ure, the lead pencil is adapted by
numbers or letters to each particular de.
sign. There are grades of hardness.
from the pencil that may be sharpcncd to
Il needle point to one that makes Il broad
mark. Between the two extremes there
are Il number of 9radations that cover all
The eonvcnicnccs Of the lead pencil
These gradations are made by taking the
original carbonate and grinding it and
mixing it with Il fine quality oi clay in
different proportions, regard being had
TO the use OF the pencil The mixture
is thorough, the mass is squeezed through
dies 10 form and size it, is dried, and en-
easel in lis wood envelope.
The wood used is rcd cedar, princi.
paily obtained from Florida. 1t is first
thoroughly seasoned, sawed into s.rips,
dried again, then cut to the proper size
Tor pencils. They are groovcd by ma.
chinery, the leads are glued into the
grooves, and the other half Of the wood
glued on. 1t is a little odd that, though
We call them lead pencils, vet there is
not particle Of lead in them. Times
Democrat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
The Land of Skaters.

''Russia is the land in Which to see
skating" wrote an Engiishnan, as he
stood over the frozen Moika Canal, ST.
Petersburg, and saw four-scorc Young
skaters, of both sexes, apparently able TO
20 through the same cvolutions on the
ice that Il bat does in the air
AS man is not born a skating animal,
even i'll Russia, this gentleman saw he
ginncrs using IL large wooden chair to
assist their sprawling efforts. The chair
is about five feet high, is placed on
skates, and has two long, curved arms
iutting out i'll front.
The skaters formed themselves in lines
nine or ten persons deep, and Keeping
time 10 the music Of band, intcrtwined
in series Of graceful figures, the groups
melting of into single couples, which
came together in lines of new figures.
The Englishman crossed the frozen
Ncva i'll a novel vehicle, green wooden
chair on skates five feet long. In front
were two boards on which lie rested his
feet, while resting his hands on its arms
a man propcls the chair by skating and
pushing it before him. The motion is
pleasant, ard so fast that the man has oc-
casionally TO act as drag.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
A FRONT VIEW.

berotpiciures hang around the walls. 4
sword and sash which have seen service
on many foughten field, clocl, and
curl0s and memcntos presented to him Inv
appreciativc visitors are placed carcIcssly
about, while the visitors books lyipr
upon the centre table are veritablc cos.
mopolitan itinerary of all climes and
countries But perhaps the most curious
ana interesting things about the con-
struction Of this bijou of bedroom
especially to sailor or woman, are the
numerous little secret places, cupboards
ana Tiny closets, made in all sorts of out
Driveway corners and places in the
walls, and which contain all manner of
things both useful and ornamental.
These must be seen in detail to be prom.
erly appreciated, and would have de-
lighted the heart of Captain Cutie. who
would not have failed to apply to them
his famous phrase: "When once seen
make n note on"
Northward from GARY Castlen and
about two hundred feet away is another
large structure, containing a beautiful
banquet hall, dancing pavilion and other
small rooms. The dancing pavilion 10
open on all sides to the air, and with the
polished floor, fiuttcring shade and CLEAN.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
Production of Salt.

At one time nearly the whole of the
lhlt used as food and for industrial pur-
poses was obtained from the sea, and in
many countries where the climate is dry
md warm, and which have convenient
'eaboard, a great quantity of salt is still
10 obtained; $50, 600 tons are produced
yearly in Portugal, and an approximate
quantity on the Atlantic and Mcditera
mean coasts of France. Spain turns out
from the Balearic Islands, the Bay of
Cadiz and elsewhere 300, 900 tons an
aually, and even the small seaboard of
Austria produces 10000 to 100, 900 tons.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
WORDS OF WISDOM.

n whispercr separates chief fricnd5.
The Heart Of the wise teache.b bic
mouth.
or two evils, the less is always to be
chosen.
Early and provident fear is the mother
Of safety.
Truth is the highest thing that man
may keep.
Onc good mother is worth a hundred
Ichoolmastcrs.
Grief counts the seconds; happiness
orgcts the hours.
Silence is worth its weight in gold in
many crises of human experience.
Nothing is so strong as gcntlencss.
1othing 50 gentle as real strength.
They are as sick that surfcit with too
1iuch rs they that starvc with nothing.
Some persons, instead of putting off
:hc old man." dress him up in new
shape.
One may be better than his reputation
'r his conduct, but never better than his
principles.
i'"i'' icci, nope. man IL sure to
irean enough before he dies, without
making arrangements for the purpose.
Gaycty is to good humor rs perfumes
20 vegetable fragrance; the one over
bowers weak spirits, the other recreatcs
md rcyives them.
Private credit is wealth, public honor
security; the feather that adorns the
oval bird supports its flight; strip him
d his plumasc, and you fix him to the
earth.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but
industry all easy; and lie that riscth late
must trot all day, and scarce ovcrtalcs
ais business ut night; while Laxincss
raveis so slowly that Poverty soon over
akes him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

His beginnings were much more mod
est than his present elaborate abode. The
first house in the trees was twelve by
seven and half feet, just the width of
an army A tcnt, and it went up in two
days, June Is and IA, 1883 There, far
away from the hot brick walls and the
burning asphalt pavcments OF the city,
Mr.. Hayward slept in comfortand safety.
He has stayed in his little dwelling ever
since it was built, with the exception of
few weeks when some friends of his wero
visiting Washington. 1t was then more
convenient for Kim 10 stay at hotel
The city air, however, greatly impaired
his general health, nor did he recupcrate.
until he had returned to his airy abode.
1t proved so attractive both to himself
and to his many visitors that he extended
his house to it present generous proper
tions and often entertained picnicking and
dancing parties from the city. People
from across the seas often knock Mt tho
portals and in response to the dogs CHEEKY
bark are admitted by the owner. On the
visitors book are such names rs those of
L. a. Phipson, Parramatta, New South
Wales, Australia; ]. r. Hewlett, Mexico;
Lucie f. Ramsay, London, England;
Miss Yosh Kuki, Toxic, Japan; Miss,
Maggie Colgan, Carlcvi Forest, Tullar
more, Kings County, Ireland Miss Mil
lar, Glasgow, Scotland Miss r. Keyser,
Rome; L. NJ. IIuebert, Lyons, France;
r. G. d. Tichborne, eleventh Baron
San Diego, CAL, the celebrated claimant,
and Miss Catharinc Lee Bayard, the late
daughter of the Secretary of State.
MIR. Hayward is as far from being n
'crank" as any intelligent man could be-
He has not even like many lonely bachelors
made Il speciality of any particular class of
pets. lie has had poultry, cats and dogs
IN his Enclosure, but has never been over
run with them. While ne is mt the Pen
zion Office during the day the place is
locked up and the dogs greet with good
deal of qualification any chance visitor
.ho locks through the bars The sitting,
room contains the current literature of tho
day many curios left by appreciativc
visitors and Il lire portrait of General
Grant, Mr.. I!ayward's old commander.
The SON of It New Hampshire manufac-
,urer, lie enlisted as early as April %,
ISGl, III tie Second New Hampshire
Volunteers, OF which Mr. Gilman Mar
ston was Colonel. lie fought through all
the Peains.;lar campaign, the "Scven
days fight, the siege of Yorktown, bat
tic of Williamsburg, battle of Seven
Pines, McC!elan's retreat, battle of Har-
rison's Landing, LATHE Of Bristow StationI
battle of Manassas and the battles of
second Bull Rnn. fredericksburg and
Gettysburg.
During this long series of engagements
Mr.. Hayward was three times wounded.
finally losing his right arm close up TO the
shoulder at the battle Of Cold IIarbor. In
ls06 he Was given cerkship in the Pen
sion Office, which lie has ever since held.
-Ncto York Ne,uld.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
The First GrecnI,Gci.

Gaddis, Cincinnati hac!; driver,
treasures dollar bin Of the first green
back issue, The Enquirer OF that city
tells that Salmon p. Chase, while Score
larry of the Treasury, visited Cincinnati.
''Shinc, sir!' shouted Gaddis, then boot
black, 10 stranger in the Burnet House
lobby. ''Do your prctticst," said the
gentleman, with a smile, land I'll give
Yonm my photograph" The boy did not
fall in very heartily with the proposition,
rs he had no particular use for photo
graphs of his customers, but after ii little
aantering he took the job. At the finish,
:hc gentleman handed the boy Il brand
lew onc-dollar bill "Thats inv photo.
graph" said he, walking away. The boy
glanced from his customer 20 the bill in
nomentary pcrplexity. Then the strong
resemblance which his customer bore to
Inc vignette in one corner of the green
back caught his eye, and he knew that the
Secretary of the Treasury had been hay
ing little fun with him at his own ex-
lcnsc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
AIRY CASTLE.

But the gem of the establishment is on
the roof. There, amid the creakine
branches, is an octagonal room, with an
area about ten feet by fourteen, which
forms the charming sleeping-room of the
owner. a description of the place, pre-.
pared in book form for interested sight.
seers, thus accurately and charmngly
describes it:
ga comfortable cot bed, the snowy
linen OF which is covered by an unusually
line crazy quilt of silk, comfortable
rocking chair and Il massive round table,
L toilet stand, with one or two other
seats, make up the furniture of this
charming bachelors retreat, while q nun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
A cnAnNING BACHELOR RETREAT.

Unless the owner is present to admit
him, however, he is Shut out from toe
close view by Il high picket fence with
carefully locked gate and watchful though
good natured dogs. When the CAT,
swings open and the visitor enters the
enclosure he sees Il large and imposing
structure, built high up among the
branches OF three sturdy oak trees thirty
two feet above the ground. About 6
dozen slender wooden props for the pur.
pose OF steadying as well rs supporting
ing the uperstructure, from thcii
smallncss of diameter, hardly dispe,
the illusion that the dwelling rest:
wholly upon the wide spreading
branches. The structure is in three
stories, or more properly, perhaps, III
two, with some coscy apartments built
upon the roof. On tie lower story are .
small kitchen and dining On the
next are the reception saloon and the
large state dining room. The latter apart.
mcnt is so surrounded with windows that
it was originally called ''thc glass room, y
and was designed for use is Il conserva.
tory, for which it is admirably adaptcd.
Adjoining this is anotllcr.room of large
proportions, which is also used ut times
us q spare dining and like the othc,
is adorned ut one end by Il pillar formed
by Il large tree trunk, rising from floor to
ceiling =.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
CURIOUS FACTS.

Windmills arc of great antiquity.
The first paper mill in this country was
started i'll 1850 near Philadelphia.
1t is estimated that only one death in
10000, 900 occurs from railroad ACCT
dent
The Chinese, before the invention of
paper, wrote with an iron tool upon thin
boards or bamboo.
1t will be 3l7 years next November
since stern old John Knox, the founder
of Prcsbyterianism, died.
Parchment was used for the purpose of
writing on rs early as ESQ Il. c., by Eu-
mcnes, King of Pcrgamus.
The first paper mill in England was
erected in the reign of Henry VII, by
John Tate, the younger, ut HEREFORD.
The first bottles were made Of the skin
OF enthusiastically goats. OF this kind
were the bottles spoken OF in the Scrip
turc.
More than 1000 empty patent medicine
bottles were found in the house of q rich
bachelor who died at Knoxville, Penn,
lately.
II is reported from Pennsylvania that
black bears are more numerous in that
State than they have been before for many
years.
A hoy WIS killed the other day in San
Francisco, near Tie Palace Hotel, and the
body permitted to lie for hours on the
sidewalk.
Skin bottles arc still used in Southern
Europe for The transport OF wine, and by
different tribes of Africa and Asia for car
ryin9 water.
For GOO years Rome existed without
physicians. Within COO years after its
first physician the Roman Empire had
ceased TO exist.
1t proves that il was Il sun glass in the
hands of a seven car-old hoy which
caused the recent destructive fire ut More
land, near Chicago.
a gentleman, in painting the wreck of
garden boat on the Rhine, showed
lot of carrots floating down the stream,
forgetting that carrots never float.
A Georgia colored man is very fond of
alligators us Il food product. He captures
the saurians, and after duly preparing
them cures them rs he does his hams. In
his smokchousc ut present five or six of
these reptiles arc hung UP undergoing the
smoking process.
In l.landiorr, Il small village in Wales,
Tie village preacher makes shoes for II
living. lis annual stipend from the
church is $40 81 year. 1t is not an I'M.
common thing To meet in different parts
of the interior of Wales clcrgymcn who
have learned Il trade to exc out their in
come
The Dayton CFla.) .Io,uan1 tells of m
immense quantity of stranded jelly fish,
which, i'll II continuous stretch of seven
miles, lined the beach near Seabrook. An
average counting gave sixty to the liun-
bred feet, and the whole number could
not have been less than 81 900. They
were probably swept ashore by It storm
Cossaclis, in time of war, from eighteen
to fifty, are bound To serve ON horse
back. They provide their armor at their
own expense, and arc armed with Il lance
twelve feet long, Il carbinc, pistols and
sabcr. Their horses are small, but swift
and wiry. They are divided into polks
rcgiments), subtiividcd into hundreds,
iifties and tens. They number about two
million. Their languagc is Russian, and
they adhere to the Greek creed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
Our Far Alaskan Citizens.

a writer familiar with the unciyilizcd
Esquimaux of far Northern Alaska saws
that they are the most abicct beings he
ever saw. They neither wash nor comb
their hair, and they wear dirty. filthy
garments year in and year ont. Esqui-
mau means "raw flesh cater" their diet
is chiefly fish and game, kept until it is
in state of putrefaction, when to them
it is most delicious. Raw blubbcr of the
whale is great dclicacy. Their man
ner of eating is Gog-likc. Fixing their
teeth IL piece Of blubbcr, with dull
knife they saw of the portion which the
mouth will not admit. The men hunt
and fish, while all other work is done by
the women. The old-time custom of
tattooing the face, arms and breast is still
practiscd. The women wear ivory studs
in the lower lip, in which is inserted
their sewing-needle for convenience
when not in use. The men also have
these apertures with hone or ivory studs
in their ears, in which rings are inserted,
This same fashion prevails largely in
southeastern Alaska. "Out of the
fashion, out of the world" is as true of
them as of us. There is much caste
among them, and it would be hard to
ind n. more conservative aud conven-
honal people. -Sitka Alaskun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

Almost every week in these times i'm
migrants arriving at New York are sent
back to Europe on the ground that they
have come here in violation of the new
law prohibiting the importation of foreign
taborcrs under contract. The law re-
tcrrcd to has recently been enforced with
extraordinary vigor upon all immigrant
ships that arrive in this country from
Europe, and few of The laborcrs who
havc been brought here under contract
are able to escape detection
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

The Eiffcl tower in Paris has been sun
phed with two small cannon, one of
which is fired each day at the hour of
opening the great Exposition, and the
other at the hour of closing it. This ar
'rangement recalls to the Chicago Nens
the story of the great philosopher who
cut hole through his door to permit
his cat to pass through freely and 4
smaller hole for the convenience of his
cats kitten. An ordinary person would
have supposed that one gun fred twice n
day would be as good as two fired asna-
ratelY.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

The great city OF IIangchow, China, is
extremely dry. There are probably 700,
coo people there, but not a drop of tea
can be bought in any Of the public tc;,
houses. There is strike in tea. The
tea houses are all closed by common
agreement TO resist Il tax imposed in the
beginning of the year to raise money for
the sufferers by famine. 1t seems that
The Imperial Government required a GER
tain amount from each province. 1t was
decided by the local authorities TO levy II
lax on every cup of wine or tea rctailcd
in the shops. The wine ycndcrs obtained
remission of the tax
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
--~----u-----

Speaking of an elegant new railroad
station in Cincinnati, an official of the
road says: 81 fear ii is too splendid. You
see some people may think they have to
pay more for their tickets because the Of
flee is so fine. Fact, I assure you. Lots
of people will be afraid they will have
TO pay more for their tickets because Of
the style of the Office. If the Office were
"A dingy, black little hole they'd think
tickets would be sold there dirt cheap"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
/ ing hanging lights, forms hall unique
of its kind in this country

ing hanging lights, forms hall unique
of its kind in this country.
One naturally asks, when told that
Washington mau lives up tree, what has
put this strange fancy in his head2 Is he
mild crank Is he merely an imitator
of Walt Whitman, who spent a whole
summer i'll Il tree somewhere on Long
Island, the better t. commune with
naturcY Is he Il modern 1imon or
DIogenes who loves to look down upon
his fellows! Or is lie disappointed
lover with a story similar to that of the
young lady whose courage and strength
OF mind under adverse circumstances are
celebrated III Edmund Lcars pathetic
lines:
There WAS young lady of Iucca.
Whose lovers completely forsooh her,
But she ciinted up u tree
And said fiddle de-, deer
Which embarrassed the people OF Lucca
None OF these conjecturcs is correct
"'Thc man in the tree is Mr.. Allen b.,
Hayward, clerl; in the Pension Office,
who has chosen this airy residence on the
grounds OF comfort aai health. While
i'll the army during the war he contracted
from exposure painful disease, and ever
since the wax has been subject to occa-
sional attacis of this disorder, especially
during the meat Of summer The fact
that he felt compelled to take some cy-
traordinary measures to preserve his
health during the summer ultimately led
to his building and occupying tie nest
among the tree tops which he now makes
his permanent home.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
THE TREE MAN.
A WASHINGTON CLERK MAKES
HIS DWELLING UP AN OAK.
Mr.. Hayward, TO Preserve His Health
Builds AN "Airy Castlc' in u
Trcc-SUmc OF His Visitors
Ills Manner OF Life.

The city OF Washington has, besides it,
public buildings and line avenues, I,
peculiar attraction in It's famous "trc,
man." who from January to Deccmbel
lives in house among the oaks nor,
than thirty feet above the ground Thu
place is called "Airy Castle" and is stu
atcd at Mount Pleasant, some half mil,
beyond the old city limits. The visitor
is attracted by Il curious combination O,
walls and windows, poles and roofs.
mingled with thc swaying branches auo
rusil;rg leaves.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

1t is not all sunshine in the Western
towns where natural gas has been discov-
cred and utilized. III one of these boom
ing localities cook recently gave her
mistress notice to leave, because she was
not willing ''to cook Gods meat with
helliirc." That girl was philosopher,
thinks the New York GrapAic, of no
ordinary type.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

Professor Forster, of the University
opthalmic Clinic at Brcslau, claims that
300 of his patients are suffering from a
chronic disease of the eyes, accounted
for by interruption caused by the wear
ing of tight collars, and implies that the
national spectacles of Germany are rem
dered necessary by the national style of
neckwear. Here is IL hint for American
dudes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

"Old, childlcss, almost fricndlcss,
Land Bill Allen, the originator of the
homestead act, now resides ut New Al
hany, fourteen miles from Columbus"
says Tie Cincinnati Ehquirer. George w.
Alien started many newspapers, made n
good deal of money, and spent his whole
fortune in advocacy of the homestead act
md the abolition of slavery. lie is now
in his ci2hticth year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

Says the New York Tribune: For
forty-eight years there was not law
case in the town of Mcddybcmps, Me. !;
neither was there lawyer. But few
weeks ago II lawyer hung out his sign in
this primitive Paradise, and now two
citizens arc going to law over fence
H..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05
Mr.. Gladstone attributes his health and

Mr.. Gladstone attributes his health and
visor to his habit of sleeping seven hours
out of the twenty -four, and never think
ing OF business after he goes to bed. Men
who are unable to sleep soundly and
haven't the faculty Of freeing their minds
from anxious thoughts would he very
glad TO follow the English statcsman's
rule of life, if they only knew how to
10 On
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-05

Two hundred and one votes against
and 1Go for abolishing the hereditary
principal OF the British House of Lords!
exclaims the New York Press. 4 change
OF twenty-one votes in the House of Com
mons would have meant a majority
Fortunately for the House OF Lords, it is
still, as it was written in "Iolanthc, s"
doing nothing in particular, and doing it
Very Wrll