Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-06
CURIOUS FACTS.


have decided that typewriter will il
illegal.
jacob Stewart, of Anberson's Valley,
Penn, recently picked up Il tusk of some
mammoth animal of Il past age.
Seven bushels of fruit have been picked
this season from an apple tree at l.ancas-
ter, Penn. II WAS planted 127 years ago.
Ii is stated rs Il curious fact that dur
ing the recea; great strike in London the
almhouscs were cmptier than has eve
been the case before.
A Bridgton, NIc.) man believes in the
honesty OF postal clerks. lie got letter
tile other day, one end of which was
burst open disclosing ten dollar bill.
Welsh mothers put pair of tongs or II
knife in the cradle to insure the safety of
their children. The knife is also used for
the same purpose i'll some parts Of Eng
lard.
There arc four men at Old Town, u su
burD of Fernandina, Fla, who make
their living ont of sharks. They cure
the hide, fry out the oil and use the pulp
for fertilizer.
The eight standard chants of the
HussoGIecl; Church are original Byzan-
tine airs, which have been preserved uu-
changed for ut least 700 years, and
| probably 1000
Bees that for seven years made home
of an unused chimney near Knightsville,
Me-, were recently routed, the building
being torn down, and more than tub
full of honey found.
I'll grave of a woman buried in Cohoes,
! N. Y, eighteen years ago, was opened
recently and the body found petriiied
| The features looked as natural as if the
woman had just died.
A Litchlicld (NIich.) couple, who hav,
| been married thirty years, had Il misunder-
standing about two years ago, and since
then they have never spoken to each other
though living in the same house
Edward Rausng, Of Lancaster, Penn.
has sued the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $500 loss through an error
of the company i'll the sending of tec-
gram concerning the sale Of six carloads
OF potatoes.
American wild turkeys have been sue,
| cessiully acclimatcd in Austria on that
! portion OF the estate of Count Brenner
which is known rs the Danubian Mead
ows, and great flocks of them are being
secn in his forest;
4 lady's gold ring was found in Il very
singular way ut Trenton, Me, the other
day. George w. Austin, after drive
from Ellsworth, found the ring pressed
tightly around one OF the calks OF his
horses shoe. The horse had stepped
into tine ring and taken it along.
| \. VI. Bisbcc, who is the Chinese dele.
| gate TO the maritime conference at wash
ington, is an adventurous Yankee, born
and bred on Cape Cod. In his travels
nc drifted across the continent and over
the Pacific, and he is now coast inspector
o; the imperial maritime customs service
of China
The state Of the gem market may lie
thus described: The price of emeralds
and ruoics is yearly increasing. Dia-
moDds and white pearls are not getting
clearer. Black pearls have been increas
ing steadily i'll price for the last four or
five years-in fact il is almost impossible
TO supply the demand for them.
The Tallahassee (Fla.) Times Union
cells o! & freak of nature in the person of
II negro man. Although he is twenty
odd years OF age and has fully de-
vclopcd head, his body and limbs are
dwaTfed to the size of those OF young
baby. lie possesses average intelligence
and has learned to sew and knit.
An cnormaus fish, about twenty feet in
length, was found by some fishermen Mt
Brusc, "a village on the French coast.
The animal was dead, but being con-
sidcrcd still fit for human food, was
taken to the shore. When openet, the
people who lad crowded to the beach
We're amazed at the sight of Il mans BODY
and legs, the feet only being missing
a farmer AT Scott Hill, Conn, who
thoGgn. the boys were stealing his mel
ons, watched for them at night with a
loaded gun. About midnight he saws he
saw his big black cat steal along anon"
! the vines and select big melon, into
which she sank her teeth. Then she be
! gan TO claw the melon open and in few
minutes had finished all but the rind.
| lie did not shoot the cat and has since
learned that she cats apples, pears and
other fruit.
The pet OF the Alley family, in New
York city, is a venerable parro, of sur
prising intelligence and loquacity. The
parrot was presented to John d. Alley
twenty-five years ago by Il sea captain.
1t Can call the members of the family by
their first names, and can repeat the
habitlal expressions used by these per
! sons. Many Of the Alleys are now dead
but the bird continues to reproduce the
words and phrases it picked up from
them i'll their lifetime. On this account
and many others the Alleys hold the
parrot Ill great affection.