Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

Scientists say that plants have brains.
y tax was levied ON funerals in Eng.
land in 1898.
The first library at Rome was brought
from Macedonia 167 b. &.
DIR. Calvin Parker, of Willacoochcc, Ga,
aaS Il mule forty-tivc years old.
One boy in every two was whipped in
lie Boston public schools last year.
vessel superior 10 the City of Now
York or the Etruria could not bc built
or less than 50, 500, GOO
The art of printing was suggested by a
nan cutting letters on the bark of Il tree,
md imprcssing them on paper.
Thousands of persons in Asia and some
parts of America subSist upon the seeds
Of various species of water lilies.
The first chief postmaster in England
Mas Thomas Randolph, who was ap
pointed by Queen Elizabeth in 1881.
The manufacture of wooden carpets was
Introduced into France from Persia in the
;cign of Henry ", between 1889 and
1910.
~ cabbage stalk twenty feet high was
III exhibition ut the Florida sub-tropical
exposition. II is the tallcst one ever seen
IL the United States
The present system of ila; buildings.
which has become So popular of late, was
SHOWN i'll ancient Tyre many centuries be-
'orc our present era.
Burmah, Of the Burmese Empire, was
founded in the middle OF the eighteenth
century by Alompri, the first sovereign
Of the present dynasty.
A New Jersey man has crossed the At
lahtic fourteen times without seeing II
whale, wreck, iceberg, sharl; or even II
Iioating spar. During seven Of the trips
he did not sight Il sail.
OF thirty-ivc gamblers which New
York journalist has known moi one of
them died with sufficient money To pay
funeral expenses, though several were
worth $50, 900 at one time.
a boy in Kentucky WHO was fatally in.
iurcd by a play mate refused to give the
name Of the hoy who had injured him.
"llc WAS my Tend, and didn't mean to
hur; Inc" was ali that he would say.
An cX-convict named Monroe recently
died in England and left 500, 00u to the
warden of the Manitoba pcnitcniary. II
appears that Monroe was once coniincd i'm
that prison and was kindly treated 10y tho
warden.
The 'grcat conduit was the first water
way of lead created in Inc city of Lon
don, being built in 1885. Slow says:
"At the procession of Anne i,olcyn, June
|, 1898, on the occasion of her marriage
it ran with white and clnrct wine"
Several centuries ago, some soldiers of
Modcna carried away Il bucket from IL
public well in Bologna, and il occasionc,l
protractcd war, in which the King OF
Sardinia was taken prisoner, aud confined
twenty-five years in prison, where lac
died
Frank Thornton, of Elbcrton, Ga. has
i'll his possession II couple of eggs which
are curiositics. They have two shells
the yolk is incloscd in the smaller one and
the white around it in the larger. The
eggs are ms large as II goose egg, which
they closely resemble.
John a. Fulmer, of Moravia, N. v,
las in his possession II neck yoke which
has Il history. 1t originally belonged to
Major General Frederick William Angus.
tus Baron De Stcubcn, who came To this
country i'll l770. He died in 1904, so il
will be seen that this neck yoke is quite
relic. The wood appears to he white
oak.
Mr.. G. A. Sala tells that the Maoris are
II l,ar IN, la
WAS being welcomed To II Maori town.
"NIay your boots" said the orator of the
dry, "bc lovely on the hills" in which
g.. A. S. dimly recognized II revised yer.
sion of "IIow beautiful upon the noun.
tains are the feet of him that bringctl
good tidings."