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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Aged 1O9 Years.

NJ. Chevreul, the eminent French
chemist, was 102 years old last August.
According to an authentic account OF
his present daily life, given in Paris La
Nature, he awakcs at o'clock in the
morning, and is served q few minutes
afterward with warm broth, which he
takes with relish. While resting in
bed he reads the papers, and then re-
ceives few visits, particularly one from
his preparateur, NJ. Arnaud. At II
o'clock, still in bed, he takes plentiful
breakfast of soup, meat, and cafe au
lait, with much bread and butter A.
he rises, dresses, and is ready to take
the mir for two hours. Conducted by
his faithful coachman, Joseph, who has
been in his service for twenty years, he
often drives to the AIonceau Park; but
his favorite excursion is to the Eiffel
Tower Returning at 5 O'Clock, he takes
a glass of milk and goes to bed. He
dimes in bed at o'clock, with good
appetite, drinking nothing but water.
After dinner, he sleeps soundly; and
when NJ. Arnaud asks him in the morn
ing, as he always does, if he has en- ;oyed
a good nights rest, he replies that he
has never had any other kind. NJ. Chev
reul is living with his son, and enioys
the devoted and intelligent care of his
old servant Denise, who has been with
him for fifty years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
A Queer Occupation.

An odd industry practised in this city
is that of making pastc in large quanti-
ties. 1t is done by IN old couple each
Of whom is nearly eighty years of age,
and they live in the very heart of the
most bustling business portion of the
town. The old man WINS bookbinder,
and it WAS while in this business that he
learned the secret of preparing the ex-
cellent article that provides him liveli-
hood in his declining years.
Up three flights of stairs, with quaint
little carved bnnisters hardly more than
an inch in diameter, are the rooms in
which they live and ply their trade.
Everything is as clean as n piu. and
WI IN you have made your purchase and
seen it transferred from the huge
cauldron which hangs over the fire, and
that might do duty rs Il property" in
the witches scene in Macbeth" the
compound is so clean and sweet that II
looks positively inviting.
'Who buys it.'
Why, the paper hangers are the lare.
est buyers, and they recogni its excel.
lence to such an extent that the old
couple live very comfortably on the
profits OF their odd business. P.iia}o.
phia Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
A SCENE IN THE COMPOSING ROOM.


The editors names do not hence APP
pear on the editorial page, and they are
in the last column and last line of the
newspaper. They stand at the end after
the advertisements. Following the ed
itorials come the kilograms and local
news. These are mixed together and
there are number of columns of them.
Then comes the foreign news and then
correspondence and letters of travel.
1t takes about $50 men to run the
Ntchi Nichi Shimbun Office and the
editorial rooms contain many low tables.
The editor-in-chlef, in Japanese dress,
introduced me to score and more of
browns skinned gentlemen in Japanese
gowns, who stopped writing up and
down sheets of rice paper with cancels
hair brushes as I entered. Tea was
brought in in little cups holding as much
as you could put in the smallest egg
cup. A cigarette was offered me and o
box of charcoal put beside me to light
1t. We chatted for some time through
the editor, who spoke English, on the
changes in newspaper work going on
over the world. I found my remarks
published in the newspaper the next
morning, and 1 wish could give your
readers here quotation from them. It
all looks the same to me, however, and
would be as liable to clip a section Of a loyo
story as of my interview had 1 not
my guide to help me. AS we talked the
reporters worked busily away in the next
room, and saw the exchange editor in
blue dressing gown clipping and
marking with his red ink and brush the
articles intended for the chief editors
eye. On the same floor and adjacent to
the editorial room heard the tramp of
many feet, and was told the noise came
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

The Washington Star says that Gala.
bama gives nearly one. third of her State
revenue to education-a proportion un
equaled in the Union. Her Legislature
has just increased the appropriation for
educational purposes by 500, 900 for new
buildings for the State Agricultural and
Mechanical College. 1t lis large feathel
in Alabama's cap that this is SO, and that
her colored people are getting their share
of the schools"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Freaks Married OH the Trot.

An exciting marriage took place at the
Wonderland Museum in Memphis, Tenn.
The groom was William Quinn, the
lecturer of the museum, and the bride
Venic Cavalier, one of the albinos on ex-
hibition. The aTair was entirely unex-
pectcd to the goodly company Of freaks
and employees, and there was great
commotion when Justice of the Peace
appeared and called up the loving pair.
John Cavalier, also an albino and a
brother of the bride, rushed forward and
forbade the bans. The Justice re-
monstrated, but, nothing daunted, the
brother grabbed the bridegroom by the
collar and the groom grasped the brother
by the hair. They waltzed around the
room in hostile embrace, the bride
clinging to her chosen and the Jus.
tice following in trot, repeating
the formula required by law. By
the time the circuit of the room was
completed the Justi G announced that
the twain we're man and wife, and then
sailed In and separated the irate husband
and brother. The newly married couple
left the hall under the protection of the
law. The brother swcars vengeance on
his new relative Ch,caqO Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

Among the letters of coincidence
which Emperor Francis Joseph, OF
Austria, received on the tragic death of
his son was one signed by "the Mother
of Oberdank. In 1882 Oberdank was
arrested for having q shell in his posses
sion when the Emperor visited Trieste.
He was tried and condemned to death
Ills mother sent an appeal to the EN-
peror for his pardon. So did Victor
Hugo. His Majesty refused The pardon
and oberdank was executed. "Unhappy
father" says the mother in her letter to
the Emperor, ~ regret that on &C.
count of the tragic death of your only
son you are compelled to feel the same
pangs that !, poor abandoned mother,
felt On the morning of the goth of De.
cembcr 1892" -
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Japanese Boys Outdoor Games

The outdoor games of the Japanese
boys are kitc-iyiag, top-spinning and
playing about on stills. They also de.
light in initiating the doings of men.
One day | saw two boys carrying another
one, who was swinging to poe sus
pended on their shoulders. These bows
were initiating coolies carrying an
American traveller in Kago, or Dalan-
quin.
They are the most expert kite.fyer
ana top.spinners of any boys. in the
world. They have kites made in imita-
tlon OF birds. animals, Dragons, etc.,
and have ingenious whalebone reeds at.
tached to them to make them hum. The
Kites Gun be heard humming when they
are hundreds of feet in the mir. Indeed.
taken oil in all, the young Japs are
wonderfully clever aud interesting little
people.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

as ours, and they do not seem to have
the flaming headlines that prevail in
American newspapers. The periods, in
stead of being dots, are circles rs big
around as n pea, and there are no such
things as capitals. The Japanese news
paper office uses five thousand different
characters, and these are n mixture OF the
japanese and the Chinese.
The first part of a Japanese journal is
made up of official notifications and
official reports. Then come the contents
of the paper, and dire 'tly after this the
editorials. ''This part" said one of the
leading editors as he pointed 10 me the
hieroglyphics composing it, sis the
brains of the paper, and the press is n
great maker Of public opinion and a
strong factor in all governmental matters
in Japan"
''But where are the editors names.n
said l.
"The names Of the real editors of a
Japanese newspaper" was the reply, "are
never published in the paper. Our
nominal editors are men of straw, whom
we employ for this purpose. They get
from $50 to $50 month rs salaries, and
they act rs proofreaders or local report
ers. We have, rs you know, rigid cen
sorship of the press, and whenever a
paper publishes anything offensive to the
Government its editors and publishers
are liable to be fined, imprisoned or
banished. When such Is the case the
names of these straw editors are sent in
and they undergo the punishment OF
course we pay their salaries while they
are in prison, but the whole thing is q
farce and shame"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
The Germs OF DiphtIlerla Disco verea.

Your correspondent found Professor
Pasteur in the magnificent building of
the Institute Pesteur. on the Rue Rotat,
Paris, which public subscription has
erected in his honor, and as home for
the great scientist.
Yes" said he with pleasant smile,
III think will be able to give pleasant
news to the New World. My able assist
ants, Drs. Roux aud Yeisiro, have discov-
cred the germs of the terrible disease
diphtheria, which ravages in winter
your large cities, believe, in more viru-
lent form than it does in any other part
of the world. Taking the morbid tissue
from the throat of victim. several ami
mails have been inoculatcd with it. and
all died in due course with disease hav-
ing the objective symptoms of diph-
therin.
$50 far, 50 good; but the opponents of
the animalcula theory in epidemic dis
eases then said that these experiments
only showed the terrible virulence of the
original poison. To answer this, nv
young scientific assistants, by means of a
glass tube graduated to the hundredth
power, diluted the morbid tissue to an in.
fesite'imal amount. The germ was then
taken from tie last crop, and rabbit
was inoculated, which Immediately died
as quickly rs the first victim in the cause
of science before dilution.
"This is how we stand-we have found
the deadly germ, but we have not as yet
secured prophylactic for its cure or pre-
vention. My confreres are now at work
solving the problem. From the success
so far in this original field of research. I
have little doubt that an inoculating fluid
will be forthcoming. We have virus bot
tied aud corkcd. We can give any mum.
Der of rabbits or dogs the diphtheria and
Kill them as eifectually rs though they
had caught it at first hand in the regular
course of events.
we have not. however, succeeded vet
in alternating the virus, and so cannot
lnoculate. I wish you would lay great
stress on this point, because am afraid a
whole shipload will be coming over to
secure by visit to the Institute Pasteur
Immunity from diphtheritic affections.
Tell them we are not ready for business
yet, but perhaps will be in summer
Pastenr then turned to the inspection
OF his glass tubes, filed with the deadly
germs, microbes or bacilli, of many dis
cases which flesh is heir to- Pasteur re-
marked, with smile: "Our children are
in luck. 1t will be much pleasanter to
live in the twentieth century, when cpl
denies will be done away with. San
frdncis-o Chronicle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

1t pays to write poetry sometimes. An
old lady was so we'll pleased with Will
lam Ross Wallace's poems in the New
York Ledger that she left him the inter
est on $50, 600, the principal to 90 20 his
children. But it made the poet un-
happy, and he spent the remainder of
his life trying to break the will. He
wanted the money to use in building n
monument to George Washington.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
A Great Chiefs 500 Ministers of srat

treat ChieP5 oOU Ministers OF Srate
Thirty years ago, just about the time
when the big African lakes were dis
covered, there lived in Unyamwezi.
through which Burton had Just travelled
on his way to Lake Tanganyiku, q boy
named AIsidi, who has since become
famous. His father went every now and
then several hundreds of milei from
home to the great copper country Of
Sanga to buy the metal from native
miners. When Msidi became young
man his father took him on some of these
expeditions.
Finally Msidi started out to buy cop.
per on his own account. He arrived in
the mineral region once when the big
chief of the Sanga country was at war
with great tribe who were invading his
district from the north. iisidi had with
him four guns and plenty of ammunition.
Firearms had never been heard of in that
country, and when Msidi marched out
10 win battle for his friend, the Chief
of Sanga, the enemy fled in great dismay
after a few shots. Just as few of Liv.
ingtston's alakololo porters with only
nine guns conquered the whole Shire
country aud set up as little Kings, so
Msidi laid the foundations of his fortune
with four guns.
The old Chief felt so graf eful to Msidi
that he made the young man his heir.
lie died soon after, and the humble ivory
trader suddenly became the Chief Of
quite q large country. He killed all
Chiefs who he thought might become
his rivals, carried on aggressive warfare
against all the surrounding tribes, grad
uaily spread his dominion, and is still
extending it. Livingtonc's Cazembe
aud the Dluata Iamva use to be talked
of as the greatest Chiefs west of the big
lakes. Reclus says that BIsidi is now
without doubt the most powerful ruler
in the Congo basin.
This Chief, for an untutored native,
has remarkable administrative ability.
and to this talent he largely owes his
great success. He has adopted very
curious system of keeping all the affairs
of his country in his own hands without
bothcring himself with details. He has
done this by making his 500 wives his
officers of state.
He has divided his great Empire into
many districts, each of which is ruled by
minor Chief. Each Chief is represented
at court by one of Nsidi's wives. She
sees that all the tribute due from her dis.
trict is forwarded to the capital, enter.
tains all visitors from the district, and is
ready to give Msidiat moments notice,
any information he desires. The result
is that without books or secretaries he
rules the country in business-like way,
and his name everywhere inspires respect
and often fear.
Alsidi renamed his country Garen
game. 1t is west of Lakes Bangweolo.
and Mocro, between the LuapuIa and
Lualaba Rivers, and embraces over
70, 600 square miles. -Neio Yori San.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.
stasic is a refner.

ft3sic is re6ner.
Experience is worth nil 1t costs.
A mau's best friends are his ter gers.
Ii money is not your servant, Mr-wfii
he your master.
In order to Judge of another's feelings,
remember your own.
There is nothing that needs to be said
in an unkindly manuer.
Experience is the name men give TO
their folles OF their sorrows.
The secret of making ones self tire
some is not to know when to stop.
The most important part of every
business is TO know what ough. to be
done.
Correction does much, but encourage
meat after censurc is as the sun after a
shower.
\ sincere action is superior to the par
ticular form in which it may be per-
formed.
1t is doubtful comfort to Justify a
wrong act, by observing another doing
likewise.
When per; on takes offence if you do
not accept his advice, you will be better
off without it.
If n perfect man is dead man, it is
better to act just bad enough to keep up
vital circulation.
Whoever receives assistance becomes
dependent but whoever succeeds in life
must first be independent.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

eigner takes drink at bar or treats
his friends he writes out chit. If nc
plays game of billiards another chit,
and if he buys shoes or sugar he renders
the account in chits. That you are I'M
known to the store. keeper makes no diff
ference. Any man looking half decent
can get credit in China, aud am sur.
pr.sed at the carelessness manifested in
such matters, carelessness which, how
ever, does no. extend to Cinnamon. The
Chinese themselves do business largely
on credit, and every Chinaman of note
has his bank account.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

A New York jewcler says that some.
times when gold necklace turns black
when it is worn lady jumps to the con-
clusion that it is not genuine. Its turn
ing black is no test. If lady has too
much sulphur, iron, salt, mercury or
other acids in her blood gold will be
discolored when it comes in contact with
her skin. The trouble is in the girl,
and not the gold.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

There is no country in the world where
the science of long life, accompanied
with good health, unimpaircd mental
faculties, good digestion, aud great nc
tivity, is better understood than in
France, and there, of 1000 persons born,
100 reach the age of seventy, and the
percentage continues to be high until
eighty-five is past.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
An incident of the delivery Of tn

An incident of the delivery of the in
angural address is told by Amos ].
Cummings, the famous correspondent of
the New York Sun. 1t occurred when
General Harrison used these words, re-
ferring to the Samoan trouble: "Thosc
who use unlawful methods, if moved by
no higher motive than the selfshness
that prompts them, may we'll stop and
inquire what is to be the end of this. :"
The roar Of cannon answered. at
was an impressive reply" says Mr.. Cum
mings, and so it will strike every one.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Statesmen in o Whist Match.

Whist is favorito game with brainy
men, and formerly used to be much
played in Washington. A correspond
ent Is reminded that at one time Gener-
al Scott, Henry Clay, Mr.. Fox, the Brit
ish Minister, and Count Bodisco entered
into compact to play whist once week
all winter, and the stake every night
was 800. They played matched
game, Scott and the old Russian against
Clay and the Englishman. They were
evenly matched. but Clay and Fox came
out ten games ahead. Scott's loss was
said to be as much as $1,000 in this little
encounter. --Ne,o York Ne,os.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
A JAPANEsE sTENnGRApuEn

predicted that English will: eventusl,
be the language oil Japan
saw shorthand writer in one of tho
Offices here take down Japanese CONVEX.
sation, and could not sec that his poi
hooks looked any different from these Of
the reporters of Congress. 1t will be
impossible, however, for Japan ever to
use the type writer while she sticks to
the Chinese characters In the mean
time large part of the Empire is learn.
ing English. and Japan has the best
educational system of any of the oriental
nations. School attendance is compul.
sorry and there are three million children
In the public schools. More than one
million of these are females and Japan
has 142 high schools. It has sixty-five
normal schools, and there are about 1900
pupils in the Imperial University here.
There are 103 technical schools contain
ing 5000 students, aud 1858 schools arc
maintained by private funds. The future
OF Japan it is impossible to predict, save
that with thls system of education it can
not bu. continue 20 aSsaaca.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

1t is fact by no means generally
known, states the Commercial 1iduertise,,
that when the battle between the Mont
tor and the Merrimac was fought the Fed
eral Government had not yet accepted the
littleironclad. Governor Griswold, of New
York, afterward known rs the "Monitor
Governor, " was always warm admirer Of
Ericsson's genus, and it was he who ad
yanced the money for the completion of
the boat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

The fact that British vessel of go
tons has passed through the Panama
canal from Aspinwall TO Chagres, dis
lance of fifteen miles, shows that the
canal is something moro than a scratch
on the earth's surface. 1t is more reason
able to suppose that such m enterprise
90 cOmssssssS; asserts the Atlanta
Constitution, than it is to believe that it
will be abandoned.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

Bishop Theodore B. Lyman, of North
Carolina, has discovered new and
hitherto unsupported virtue in the pea
nut. For nearly two years he had suffer,
ed from insomnia. About fortnight
ago he ate freely of fresh roasted pea-
nuts before retiring, and enjoyed the
best sleep he had had for months. He
has tried the experiment repeatedly
since, and has found it eiiicacious every
time
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

Mr.. James S. Richardson's Dahomcy
plantation, in Bolivar County, Miss, is
probably the largest farm of rich land
in single tract in the world. 1t con-
tains %, 200 acres, and he will this year
plant at least 10, 600 acres of it in cot.
tnn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Girls Rummaging Rubbish Heans.

There is an institution in London
known as dust wharf. OF scavengers'
dumping ground, and there young
women are employed who are required
to sift over all the rubbish for the sake
of any article, of value that NAV be
therein. The work is so filthy and ia.
tiguing that two girls recently dropped
dead at their task. The pay of these
women is S1.75 q week.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

The practice Of carrying firearms is
becoming SO common in England that
the magistrates are discussing the best
means for putting stop to it. There is
license charge for carrying weapons,
but it is not enforced. 1t is now pro-
posed to make every purchaser of n
weapon pay at the same time for n
Gcenea
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

An organization has been formed in
Philadelphia having for its object the
training of women in parliamentary
usage and political methods. Some
twenty-six members were present at
their first meeting, representing journal
lists, workers in philanthropic move
ments and members Of the w. G. II. L.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

. The greatest number of ex-Presidents
living at any one time was four, in 1895,
when John Quincy Adams was inaugu-
rated, there then surviving John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and
James Monroe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

There is only one prisoner in the jail
OF Hughe county, Idaho, and he would
be promptly released if it was not neces-
sary to keep the insurance good by hav>
ing somebody In the Jail. He
Gays 1t ia dog.gon shame that no one
clse will do something to get arrested,
as he wants to get ready for his Spring
blowing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

from the composing and that it
was made by the dozen boys who were
gathering type for the compositors.
looked in. The type was arranged in
long cases standing on the floor propped
against each other at an angle of forty
five degrees in the shape of a tent. These
cases were six feet high and from fifty
to sixty feet long, and they were packed
with type in compartments like those of
words of ON article arc gathered before
they begin to put it together for the
paper. Tho type or words, for each type
represents a wcrd, are brought in little
boxes like cigar boxes, arranged in tb
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

A man in the Indiana Legislature
proposed that the State should investi-
gate the relation of the grounding to
the weather.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17

In proportion to the population, states
the New York Tribune, there are more
Massachusetts, people in the State of
Iowa than in Massachusetts.