Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-10
SELECT SETTINGS.
The tarpop is Che k.ng of game FISH


The first incineration has just occurred
in Paris
Wedding rings were used by the
.ancients. -...,
An official of Tombstone, Arizona, is
Sheriff Slaughter.
Six different patents wero secured on
chewing-gnm last year.
The bullet for the English aeazine
rife is to be nickel plated
The leader of a nation is an ssethna-
gogne." Gladstone says soy and he
ought to know.
The Key West fisherman rubs his body
with kerosene. oil and swims- among the
sharks in safety. -
AT Springfield, Mass, there is Turk
ish praying rug on exhibition said to be
1OOU years old and valued at $4,000.
| A Frenchman is anxious to arrange for
n fight between dcvil-fish and a shark
in TAM. where 10000 people can see
the combat
| Porous glass for window pancs has
been produced in Paris. The pores are
too fine to admit draft, but they assist
in ventilation.
"Ohe Man," the Chinese dwarf the
smallest liliputian on earth;. aged fifty
years, is so small that you can cover him
with an ordinary plug hat.
Gnostics was the name applied to n
, sect who soon after the preaching of
Christianity endcavored to combine its
principles with Greek philosophy.
The first pair of India.rubber shoes
brought into tho United States from
South America in 1880, were gilded aud
resembled in shape the pointed slippers
OF q Chinese mandarian.
A st. Louis taxidermist who recently
preserved large bald eagle, says the
muscles of the breast were of great size
and formed nearly one-f fourth of the
weight of the entire bird.
Almost anything is insanity, saws n
New York doctor. If you laugh heartily
get mad-forget anything drop a
letter into the postoliicc without a
stamp, you can be called insane.
An international exhibition of postage
stamps is to be opened Mt Amsterdam.
To give additional interest to the show
there will be sketches of the various
costumes worn by postmen in different
countries.
Jersey City, N. j., has abolished its
ncwsboys' home. 1t was found that the
boys used it for loafing place, aud that
four-fifths of its dodgers were BOYS who
ran away from home and had no real
need for its convenienccs.
Scent pencils, composed OF solifed
perfume are novelty. They are fitted
in silver holders, have tiny ring at
tached to them for fastening to the watch
chain or chatelain, and when rubbed on
the hands or any part OF the dress emit a
delicate odor-
insurance companies want to know all
about it, you know. Because. John
obert was blown up by 200 pounds of
nitro giycerinc in Pennsylvania, and be-
cause only piece of one of his toes
could be found, the insurance folks saws
that he might have run away to trick
them.
A perfumer says that there is more
downright fraud perpetrated in tho
manufacture OF: altar OF roses than in the
making OF any other perfume. Connect
lcut is Il prominent place of the pro-
duction of altar of roses. Heliotrope.
one of the most popular of perfumes, is
made by combining violet and vanilla
in certain proportions.
A youth who went into Buffalo, IN
~ store and asked for socks, not know
ing the proper size, was told to hold
out his hand. The customer held out
his hand and doubled up his fist rs di-
rected. The clerk took sock from the
box, wrapped the foot around the fist
and guaranteed n perfect tit. II am
Just as sure it will fit you rs though
had measured your foot, said he, 'as
the distance around the fist is ways the
length of the foot"