Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-12
CURIOUS FACTS.
The anciclts slept on skins.

The ancicnts slept on skins.
Welding rings were used by the
incicnts.
Kin" Alfred complied the Saxon COM
non law.
London was frs, ...litcd in llI4 with
private lanterns.
Copper money ,st mcdc its appearance
II En.!and in 1868
The largest and most important city of
South America is Rio Jamcro.
The first co..cii in England vas huilt in
lj65. for the Earl OF Rutland.
Rude carriages were known in France
A. ID. 1917, in England in 1855
\ new candle has been brought ont
Which cXtiu9uishes itself in az, hour.
The granting" Of licenses rs n mC,i, q!
evying money was Introduced into Eng
and by Richard L., gbout 1850
The pi'ut from which icori,:c is made
found on the shores Of Lake Erie and
'ar'her west. 1t is called glycyrlhiza.
The fleece of ten goats and the work
If several men for half It year are required
% make cashmere shawl 81 yard and
half square.
The University III Edinburg, which hu.
;iscn to great fame, i; among the earliest
institutions oi its kind in the world. being
;u,u,.cd in 1881.
The idea hat fish food WAS brain lood
lad run of ten years before any one
'skcd why Esquimaux, vino rat the most
ish, had no mental smar;mess
1t is said that the word canopy comes
from konop, gnat or mosquito, and that
The first canopieS were neither more nor
ess than curtains to shut out those
troublesome insects.
Isaac kcin, of Reading, Penn, has iii,
tur of the largest fox ever killed on the
Blue Mountains. The length, with tail,
IS over four feet. The fur shows that the
lnimni was II cross between the red and
gray foxes.
y remarkable story of canine intclli-
gcnce comes from Orrvillc, Ga A dog
IN that village has been trimmed TO play
the piano. and can, on direction, drum
'ui any cr: Of :: half dozen tunes with
mis- right paw.
II has been discovered that the grave
81 William Penn is in sadly neglected
condition. There is not even u mound
above il, and only - fimsy slab of stone
stuck III the ground at the hca,i or foot,
40 ono can tell which
An Arab rule for selecting good horse
to ncasurc him from the tin of the
iosc to thc top of the withcrs, and from
he latter point 20 the root Of the tail.
The lou,ts'r tie first measurement is in
proportion To the latter the better the
lorSc.
North German custom and s,i,cr-
;tition is. that If the master OF the house
lies, u person must go To The bee hive.
<nock and repeat these words: The
master is dead, the master is dead" else
.hc becs will fly away This suncrsti-
lion also prevails in England, Lithuauia
md in France.
The Raleigh tavern ut Williamsburg,
va WAS the cradle OF liberty in Virginia,
Is Fancuil Hall was in Massachusetts.
II was there the patriots of the Virginin
House of BurgcsscS met when Governor
Dunnorc, dissolved that house in IVA,
md there they appointed delegates to the
drst Continental Congress.
Suspendcr' were first known rs yallow-
'es and right here Inc first light is thrown
IN the subject. hanging criminals was
probably known before suspcndcrs were
'hvented, but when they were brought 10
public notice it was doubtless considered
rare joke to call the articles on which
trousers were hung by the same name as
That on which shecp-stcclcrs were hanged.
lhe similarity in the uses OF the callows
'nd til. ga!lowscs suggested the name,
but the likeness ends there.