Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
CURIOUS FACTS.

Glass furniture is now manufactured
Morphinomanic is becoming an cpl
demic i'll Paris.
Live cats are in lively demand in
Dakota at So apiece.
They have found the grave of Miles
Standish, the Pilgrim warrior, near Bos-
ton.
y Philadelphia conno;sscur in eating
says that muskrat meat tastes better than
any sirloin.
In Il large portion Of Europe, from one
half to two-thirds Of the population is
crowded into cities.
Tho common house fly was unknown in
the Pacific islands un;il Europeans car
-ied it to them in ships.
South American has invented sky
rocket, with parachute attachment. with
which he shoots himself into the clouds.
The toads found imbcddcl in coal ut
Thomas G. iIcnn's premises, in Tioga
County, Penn, few days since, were
alive, but stone Blind.
Lake Worth, Fla, is said 10 be so full
OF fish that it is nearly impossible to move
boat through them, AID they are taken
so easily that there is no fun in it.
John Airhart, Of Phmnixvillc, Penn.
has rooster that he claims can eat corn
oil "a table three feet high. He wciohs
fifteen pounds and his crow is proportion
ATE.
j.. NJ. Mccartney. Of Elicnsburg. Wash.
mgion Territory, has - tom cat that
catches ducks. lie hides in the brake by
the crc"l; and pounccs upon his prev ms It
swims pas.
A York GnglandD lady bit into an
apple and found wrapped around the core
piece OF coarse thread twcnty-four inches
long. 1t is though; to have been droDped
by bird when the apple was in full
blossom.
y plague of foxes has overrun the vii
iage Oh La Eochctic, not far from Dignc,
~ Southern France. Foxes coolly trot
ABOUT the streets in daylight, and ono
vixen is even bringing up litter in
stable Manager.
One of the objects of interest sold ut
the auction of the furniture OF Barnum's
tiotei, III Baltimore, q fcw DAYS ago. WA
u card table on which Henry Clay LOST
$500 AT poker to George Ackm,in, of
massachusetts,
Plnnkcd siiad was considered by D,nic,
Webster the best dish he could set hcCorn
Il friend, and the great Statesman was
proIdcr OF his ability to cook shad in this
way than of his power of carrying the
Senate with him.
The iron grasshoppcr which for 1l7
gears las marked the vacillaiions of the
Wind from his perch ON III. tower of
tanauil Hall, in Boston, and one day last
@onih topplcd down into the street, was
'cs.orcd TO the scene of his glory with
;ouching ceremonies
There las been y grca. increase in the
icmand for candy in England. owinr 10
American importaiioas. Carimels and
TWO hundred other kinds of American
candies are in growing demand Scot.
end isl very large consumer OF one par.
'icular candy, called '.s;lim jim"
The Jacksonville CFla.) Times saws per.
hapS the tallcst cabbage stalk ever grown
IN tile tniicd States WAS on exhibition in
the colorcd peoples department. of the
Snh-Tropical exhibition. grown by II col.
bred man of Palatka. II measures twenty
feet in height, with a lowering head,
looking like an old-tm Seminole chief
wearing his tuftcd piumrs.
The victims Of the epidemic last fall in
Pres4uc Isle County, Mich, are said to
nave lost complete control of their LEGS
and the lower portion of their bodies. In
some cases one leg is shorter than the
other, and they are marked in other ways
Tor life The cause of the epidemic was
poison from decaying fish oiTal near Ham.
monds Bay, deposited by fishermen.