Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-12
CURIOUS FACTS.
li.ago leads in its number Of smalr

Chi.ago leads in its number of small
parks.
The "Beaux.less socialn is uniqup.
title of Baltimore Club. '
A New York man recently paid $25
for IN almanac 275 years old.
Among the students at Princeton Col
lege Is one seventy-two years old.
Sixty-thrce snakes were killed in one
hole near HaryeJsburg, Ohio, the other
day.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
heads.
The Tour de Corduan is q famous
lighthouse at the entrance of the Gil
ronde, in France.
The Chinaman is peculiarly distin-
guishco from the European by his abso-
lutte norvelessness.
A wonderful burning lake, about half
mile in circumference, is discovered in
Knox County, Ind.
Acrophobia is new term used to de-
scribe an exaggerated condition of fear
when in high places.
A tame crow belonging to farmer
near Ridgeway, Canada, has been taught
10 distinguish color5.
The streets of ancient Jerusalem were
kept remarkably clean because every
man swept his own doorway.
A citizen of Palmyra, Mo-, got up in
the night, went into the woods and
fellcd large tree while asleep.
Milan, Paris and London lead the,
world in al that pertains to thoroughly
artistic knowledge of dancing.
4 Ulysses, Ncb., man has built the,
''largest corn crib on Garth" 1t is 400
feet long, ~ feet wide, 10 feet high, aud
holds 25, 900 bushels
Experiments have proved that the face.
of snow brcastwoik eight feet thick
and not sloping can defy most ordinary
projectles fired into it.
There is no salary attached to the
title of Emperor of Germany. The King
OF Prussia, however has modest in
! conc OF $1,000, 900 year.
A person convicted of any crime ir
China, except that of numbering one of
the royal family, can hire u substitute to
take the punishment, even if it is DEATH
The word 'fok lore" invented bv
late w. j. Thomas for use in English.
has been adopted by the French and APP
pears in the titles of new publications.
a New York dry goods firm gives it
as its reason for paying low salaries
that. 'thc less an employc earns the
less temptations he hus to become bad.
man."
Tho viola played upon. by Nahau,
Franko at recent symphony society
concert in New York was Gaspara di
Salo made in 1912 and recently sold for
$500.
Male sopranos are still to be heard in
some of the churches in Italy Two,
one old and thin, the other young and
fat, divide the solos in St. Peters,
Rome.
A man in New York has fitted him
self for au expert witness in chrography,
and once h avingseen mans signature
he can identify it again if IMPLY shown
one single letter Of the name.
G. r.. Herr, of Stamford, N. Y, is.
said to be the o,scssor of the gold
watch viii h MAJOR Andre, of Rcvolu-
tionary fame, offered as ransom to his.
captors if they would let him go free.
Perhaps the youngest couple that ever
married in Butts County, Ga, was MIR.
Allen and wife who were joined in we'd
lock rear Worthwhile. Allen was just
past fifteen years aud his wife was nine
years his senior.
Fire Company, No. 10, of Cincinnati,
OWNS q dog which is said to have saved
the lives of several fircmcn. The ami
NAL is described us n large, handsome
Newfoundland, and is credited with be-
ing able to climb ladder three stories
high.