Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-26
CURIOUS FACTS.
The average number of teeth ia thi,

Inc bronco is wild or unbroken
horse.
The average weight of an adult is 100
pounds six ounces.
The brain of man exceeds twice tLat
OF any other animal.
A Baltimore tailor is the father of
twenty-five children.
Nlne-tenths of tho telegraph'c errors
are due to poor handwriting.
In thcg amman schools of New Haven,
Conn.,, cooking is taught as q branch of
study.
British Honduras was settled by Eng.
fish from Jamaica soon after treaty
with Spain in 1867.
A Pekin (China) weekly newspaper
has just finished serial story which con-
tanned 2O4O chapters.
BY the plague which visited London
in 1de ;, no less than Gs, sos persons are
said to have persisted.
Mrs. Gleason Fillmore, of Clareuce
Centre, N. y, is 102 and reads four
newspapers every week.
Guilford, Vt. announces live grass
hopper that was Matched out in field
in the mild weather Of January.
A Mrs. Willis, of St. Louis, recently
Killed herself because she wanted to be
poet, and discovered she could not.
The terms bailiif or sheriff are slid to
be of saxon origin. This Ger was
appointed for counties in England in
1879.
Indiana was included in Ohio till
1901, wns constituted Territory in 1907,
md n6n,i faH 10 In
IL, 1916.
A mince pie which n notable house.
keeper OF Kansas ILL.,, had lust baked,
one day last week, exploded with such
violence rs to kill cat.
The cost of the kilograms which pass
between James Gordon Bennett and the
New York Herald during his long
absences abroad is said to be $2j, 0OO
per year
John C. Ropes, tho lecturer of Cam.
orldge' Mass, possesses portrait OF
Napoleon which is said to be The .:ncst
in existence. 1t represents the Emperor
Mt the battle of Arcola
A tame crow belonging to farmer
near Ridgewny, Canada, has been luu hi
to distinguish colors, and will pick ou
from pile of articles of various CO, or.
one of any color asked for.
A physician writing upon the care oil
the eyes says that it is important that
the upper half of all type should be cu
very clearly, rs much de en,ls on the
upper portions of printed letters in read
ing.
million handb;lls is not nowadays
considc ed an out-of the way order 10
scpar,ely count them. ut the rate of sin
a second and working twelve hours {
day, would take C osc upon four days
uninterrupted work.
The hangman Mt Fort Smith, Ark,
who has sprung the trap on a:,out >ev~niy
men, says that if the co ldemrcl ,yil
only behave himself and follow d:fec
tions, he eau make his death us painles,
us turning over in bed.
There is an immense brass Urn IN the
big vestibule between the two Wander
blt mansions on Fifth avenue. New
York. 1t was intended to hold the ashc
CT all the rncc if tho family should de
eide to adopt cremation.
~ peculiar old man, known only n.
Boxcm Brown, has long ago made Il liv
ny ny le'u ing d us through The Ter
ritory OF New Mexico. lie fsavcs witt
team of mules, IA big wagon. aud abou,
twenty cheap collins ofassor'.d sizes.
While William Jackson, IL Chi, arc
roofcr. was sliding down roof n dis
tnnce OF forty-.ivc ieet he haa time ic
tell fellow workman that he owed three
debts and had the money in his trunk tc
pay them Then he reached the cave.
and went to his death on the frozcr
earth.
A placard placed on window of {
shocmaker's shop near Cr'pplegatc. Lon
don, many years ago, is said to have read
as follows: Surgery performed on aged
Boots and Shoes broken Legs sctt and
bound upright disordcrcd feet repaired
the wounded healed, The whole onsti
tuition mcnded and the body supported
by new Sole. BY T. r."