Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-29
CURIOUS FACTS.

A Maine man has raised u blue pig.
. Salt brooks have been discovered in
The interior of Africa.
! There are moro Hebrews in New York
city than there are in Jerusalem.
Inventor Edison is said to have received
10 less than 1900 letters daily, in Paris.
| A stone mansion built in 1850 on
farm near Grecnbush, New York, still
stands.
It is said that on an average COW.
yields three hundred and fifty gallons of.
, milk year.
The Chcrokees in the Indian Territory
have built seminary for girls at a cost
of 5000, 900.
The largest collection of coins, 1851
600 i'll number, is in the cabinet of an
tiquities, Vienna.
The Granite Mountain mino in Mon
Jana has yielded $1,000, 900 worth of
silver since 1884.
The largest circulation of daily
paper in Russia is thirty thousand, of a
monthly, perhaps ten thousand.
In the United States there arc over
l,OOO,0 900 miles of telegraph wire, or
enough to cncirclc tho globe fifty times.
A chick Matched at York, Penn, first
saw the light of day through three eyes
1t had two mouths but did not know how
to uso either, and died.
An officer in the Russian army has been
cashicred for saving the life of peasant
woman, "and thereby lowering his STAN
dard as gentleman.
The most widely separated points be,
tween which it is possible to send tele-
gram, arc British Columbia and New
Zealand, via America and Europe.
Steel pens are not so called from the
material used in the manufacture, but
from the name of the first manufacturer,
MIR. Steele, who began business in Eng
land in 1903.
1t is estimated that the amount of gold
and silver coin at the bottom of the At
lantic Ocean is about $50, 900, 900 and it
is further estimated that most of it will
stay right where it is.
A most patient research has revealed
the fact that our language can boast of
no less than eight hundred and twenty.
seven different terms, all of which cn
press the state of being in love.
1t is estimated that the expense of
maintaining the prisons of the United
States amounts to $75, 200, 900 a year;
but this is only n small part of tho cost
involved in the existence Of the criminal
classes.
There arc, according to an account
Just published, 1000 hotels in Switzcr-
land, making up $4,000 beds, and en-
ploying 10000 servants. Tho annual
receipts of these hotels amount to $10,-
900, 1000, and they get a net profit of 3S
per cent. on the capital invested.
No less than nine eminent German
sculptors are at present engaged on
models OF monuments of the late Emperor
William 1. and Frederick III. They are
Reinhold Bcgas, Schapcr, Sicmering,
Paul Otto, Ebcrlicn, Enckc, Ernst Her
ter, Calandrclli and Ferdinand Hart
.cr.
In Italy no clergyman can be an in.
spcctor or director of State school, n
law having been recently passed to the
effect that tho local control of
schools shall be in the hands of
neads OF families. The object is to cut
tho schools loose from the clerical inHu. A
encc.
A boy in Maryland found small
snake having two perfectly developed
heads. When leased, it will strike
Viciously, sometimes with both heads and
sometimes with one. Each is perfectly
independent of the other and is attached
to the body about throeouartora cf ~
inch back on the neck
A native of India residing in London
expressed wish lately to send by par
eel post to Indis the ashes of his crcmatcd
brother, to be dropped into the sacred
Gangcs. He was informed that unless
no could limit tho parcel to eleven
pounds the postoflcc could offer him no
facilities, and he sadly Withdrew.