Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-25
CURIOUS FACTS.

The turnip originally came from Rome.
The peach originally came from Per-
tia.
Bull fighting is getting foo.hold
| among French aInusemcnts.
= iive-ycar-old child in Monson, Me-,
Is said to speak thvee languages.
The practice of feasting Mt funerals is
still In vogue At Lancaster; Penn.
y tree WAS cut down ut Orting, Wash.
'nston, that measured $40 feet long
At Huntsville, Ala, pink and white
chicken was Matched II short time ago.
Reversible trousers, to correct the.
''bagging," are proposed by bencfccnt
tailor of Akron, Ohio.
| Old Mrs. Sidncr, who died ut Decker
town, N. j., the other day, aged los,
had smoked clay pipe for forty years
A strange and fatal disease has ap-
rcared in Gnayaauil, Ecuador. Victims
fall in the street, vomit foam and blood,
| and die.
They have n trained lion Mt the Paris.
| circus that rides on the back of Il horse
| around the ring and does all the cnstoma.
ry feats.
General Charles Williams, of Manches-
ter, n. H., will give fine park to that
city, to be enjoyed especially by poor
children.
Large land owners in Scotland are im-
porting reindeer from Norway, in the
| hope that they may become acclmatized
and increase.
\ swarm of butterflies, so thick as to
almost obscure the lays of the sun, passed
through Mott, Cal, recently. There
were myriads of them.
\ rustic bridge just completed in
siouston County, GA e contains fifty
seven different kinds OF wood and vines,
and all were grown in the county.
1t is claimed for the AIitrc Hotel. OK.
ford, England, that it was first opened
rs public house in 400. No one TO
| look 1T it can doubt the statement.
The California State Board of Trade
reports that there are 1900, 600 acres
of arabic land in that State capable of
being rendered productive by irrigation.
The cemetery ut Sea Cliff, n. V, has
been closed because there is so little use
for it-only fifteen burials in four years,
and the receipts not equal to the cxpcndi-
| lures.
James Buchanan, of Ashtabula County,
Ohio, cuts his hair in Il very peculiar
manner. lie shaves all his forehead
! short, except Il ridge from his forehead 10
the back of his neck.
Capt. Haskell, of San Francisco, re-
Gently witnessed Il terrible battle between
swordiish and Il whale in the harbor of
San Francisco. The swordiish was finally
victorious, killing the whale
The latest fad in mechanism is an in.
! gcnious continuance in the form of
large icc-cOoler, from which, if one
drops penny in the slot, he can obtain
l. cupful of ice-cold llygeia water.
\ consignment of GOO, 600 kilo.
Srammcs of terra alba which arrived az
New York on Il British steamer u few
days ago will be converted into candy
for the dclcctation of the American pco.
pie.
n novel idea in church binding has
been started in the neighborhood of
Dawlish, England, where it is proposed
to raise funds for n new church by de.
secured as first mortgage on the offer
tories.
Azoth, which was besieged by Psam.
metichus, the Powerful, held out, &C
cordins 10 Archbishop Usher, for nine
teen years, and according to lIcrodotus
for twenty years. Troy held out
Tor ten years. These are the two longest
scises Of which there is any record
The latest and newest thing in New
York shop windows is huge spider web
! made Of fine Irvine and remarkably
natural. It is ut least four feet high and
IS rs true to nature as though CULVER.
like spider had used the window for
home. TO intensity the illusion Il spider
as big as a mans fist, clcvcrly manufac-
tured, has been placed i'll the centre OF
the web. while artificial butterflies are
scattered promiscuously about.