Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
SELECT sIrTINGy.
There about 5000 species of grass.
Peachstones ara used for fueI in Val.

Ahefe ABOUT oVuU species OF grass
Peachstones are used for fuel in Val
lcjo, Cal.
Kansas City has dancing maste
named Legg.
New York boasts of cradle that ha
rocked $4,000 babies.
Dancing is said to be declining il
popularity in England.
Young men with gray hair are very
humorous in st. Louis.
German must hereafter be studied BY
officers of the Hungarian Army.
A new rival to coffee is sBIussaends. u
or wild orange, plant producing a
purple fruit.
PIgott, the forger of the Parnell let
tiers, committed suicide on a Friday in q
hotel bedchamber numbered 10.
Under the new constitution in Japan
no man can vote unless he is twenty
years old and pays at least $25 taxes.
In some provinces in Persia it ia
against the law to court girl over four
months before popping the question.
The Empress of China has just emo.
Harris ancestors, although they are all
dead.
Observation-Disclosures is the
classical name of a locomotive owned
by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Com
pany at Scranton.
A Lewiston (Me.) man has a device,
operated from the drivers seat, for stop
ping runaway horse by clapping a
blindfold over his eyes.
w. j. Doris, of New Haven, Conn.
has an African boa constructor twenty
two years old. 1t is thirty feet long
and weighs 278 pounds.
Bowie.knives are being manufactured
as plcntifully as ever, but they are alto
gether for show. There is no record of
one being used for years.
A Dubuque Iowa. man has lust
shipped 100 cats and 200 dogs to
Dakota, where the animals are wanted to
exterminate ground mice.
A clam was walled up in o building
at Syracuse, n. Y, ten years ago as an
experiment. When taken out the other
day it was found alive and reasonably
we'll.
An empty freight car which was car
ried of in the Mississippi cyclone of
three years ago, has just been found In a
swamp ten miles from the spot where it
was picked up
AT the opening of the trial of the
Bishop of Lincoln, the English Frimate
sat in chair which belonged to the
Abbot of iseculvcr, who was consecrated
Archbishop of Canterbury in GSH.
At the top of the inside board of an
old ledger belonging to q merchant of the
sixteenth century, which has been
brought to light in Edinburgh, was
found these words, inscribed by the
bookkeeper: "God bliss this bulk, and
keip me and it honest"
There is living near Sycamore, Mass,
n family that oc uples farm that is said
to have been handed down from father
to son for six generations. When the
father of this line, Thomas Topper,
settled on the land In 1921, the place
was an Indian village known rs Shaun.
Anthony Bilkovsky, of Detroit, who
is preparing himself for the Universal
istic ministry at TUFTS College, Boston,
writes to friend that lineal descend
an. of Thomas Paine, the famous atheist
and author OF ''The Age of Reason" is a
divinity student in the same institution.
Catherine l., of Russia, had musical
watch. In the interior was the holy
sepulcher and the Roman guard. BY
touching spring the stones moved away
from the sepulchcr, the guards kneeled
down, angels appeared, and the holy
woman stepped into the tomb and sang
the Easter song of the Russian churches.