Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-11
CURIOUS FACTS.

Cornell University has no holidays but
Sundays.
New York law still permits imprison.
mcnt for debt.
Desertion from the army or navy is net
an eXtraditablc offence.
Bull fighting is getting u foothold
among French amuscments.
Swallows are being trained in France
to act rs carriers of dispatches in case OF
war.
An Epglishman of letters wears con.
stantly round his neck Il portion Of Shell
ley's charred skull.
Dartmouth is credited with publishing
the first college paper, Yale the second,
and Union the third.
A man named Scott, who had been
employed by . London publishing house
Cor eighty Years, died recently
James IIorncr, the wealthy Pi;tsbug
manufacturer, has = remarkable collection
of cacti One plant in his collection is
valued ut $500.
Charles +. Pilugcr has just arrived in
this country from the Itartz Mountains,
Germany, with 1000 singing birds, which
are to be turned loose in Portland, Ore
gon, and vicinity.
The largest university in the world is
ut Vienna, with 5000 students and 2S5
professors; while the largest college is at
Cairo, Egypt, having 800 professors and
$1,000 students of AIoiamct
Tho Rur,,,.cu I,ol,n,,, flat H. ,,l>,,
ripens like fruit. They say that ruby
IN its crude state is colorless and rs il
grows older turns yellow, then green,
then blue, and lastly, brilliant red
There is no national bank in Switzcr-
land, but there are thrty-threc chartered
banks. The Government has n system
of loaning money to the people at inter-
est, the details of which we do not know.
From the Egyptian manuscripts owned
by the Austrian Archduke Rainier it ap-
pears that printing with movable types
was practiccd i'll Egypt in the ninth cen
tury of our era, and that paper factory
existed i'll Bagdad as early as 794.
Bartholdi, who modelled the celebrated
statue which bears his name, also created
the wonderful fountain in the Botanical
Gardens at Washington. 1t is so large
and requires such an enormous quantity
of water that the authorities permit il 10
play only on rare occasions.
Nine. Euphrosync Leblanc, who has
just celebrated her centennial birthday in
Nova Scotia, has had II children, 1O5
grandchildren, 222 great grandchildren
and 10 rcat-great- grandchildren Most
AZ -, y:
scent from Longfcllow's Rene Blanc.
The Sultan of Turkey maintains i7I
carriages which incur an expense Of
2,300, 900 francs year. Most of these
carriages are of French make. 4 few
made in Turkey show cleverntss in con-
struction. The Sultan personally has
Use for only about four Of Tie vehicles
referred to.
The Salvation Army has new method
of advertising itself in Paris. An open
carriage is daily hired and in il arc
placed four of the most conspicuous
members of the con-fraternity--a North
American Indian, Il Chinaman, an Egyp-
tian and Il Persian. These are driven
wherever the crowd is greatest.
The most remarkable roof in Danbury,
Conn, or perhaps i'll that State, covers
greenhouse ut the nursery of J. II. Ives.
1t is composed Of negatives from The pho.
tograph galleries of L. II. Ritton. Mr..
Ritton had ut one time 20, 900 OF these
negatives, the accumulation of the long
years lie has been i'll the business.
Many years ago while circus was
showing i'll Gorham, Me-, the clown,
whose name was Reynolds, was thrown
from horse and killed. lie was buried
in the Gorham cemetery, aud it is said
that since that time, whenever & circus
has visited the toxin it has been made the
custom for the company TO visit the
clowns grave and strcw flowers on it,
while the band plays dirgc