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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
Three Men Attacked by Weasc!s.

George Gray an cmployc OF Farmer
Bull, near Pine Mill, Penn, went out in
one of the farmers fields to haul axay
some stone piles that had been living in
the field since last fall. He had thrown
on the drag but few stone, from one of
the piles when II weasel ii..nria OH of
the pile. Gray kicked at thr animal rs
it was passing him, and thu c,cc little
brute turned on the man ana >p,amg for
his throat. It's teeth closed on C;rav's
flannel shirt nj his chest In tcarin., The
weasel loose it set its teeth into (;rav's
arm, tearing the flesh down for three
inches. The taste Of biood seemed to in
crease the fury of the weasel, and GRAY
had all he could do to keep il from spring.
ing on his throat. He ut last succeeded
III stunning the weasel by kick. and
was about To hurry to the mouse Ia have
his wounds dressed VIXEN six other wcas
els, one after another, trooned from. the
stone pile and made IL combined attack on
Gray They swaimcd upon him, biting
and tearing his flesh on the lcsis arms. and
body. Fearful for his life, Gray turned
and He'd. followed by the wcascls. which
chased him clear to the house, over half
amilc away, inilicting still fur;hrl'wountls
with their sharp teeth
Gray's shouts for help brought :; son Of
his employer and another man ON of
barn, where they were they were !naSh-
ing, and the two ran to Gry's aid Even
these re-enforccncnts did not Ga,pt the
Weascls, and before thcy were routed,
which was not until three of them were
Killed, they had iniii, ri many ugly
wounds on their foes, ami the three. men
were covered with blood from head to
foot. Gray was confined to his bed. II
Is well known that wcascls will irh. TO
the death when corncrcd, or will attack
Il sleeping person, but for them To light
three men i'll IN open field, assuming the
aggressive mt the start. is something I'M.
heard Of before in that rcgiou OF hunters
and trappers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
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interest because they were made by DIR.
Hanc's Eskimo Joe One Of them gives
sectional view showing the manner of
construction. These dome shaped huts
are constructed entirely of blocks of
packed snow, with window or skvlight
III the top formed of Il block or slab Of
transparent ice. The Eskimo gets acc 1ss
TO the hut by creeping through :, low pas
sage The interior is small circular
apartment with an archcd roof Gcncr-
nlly there are three similar huts or COM
partmcnts, communicating by means of
low doorways with this main apartment.
These are winter habitations and have TO
be reconstructed every year. In the
summer the Eskimo lives in tent made
OF seal and walrus skins, the latter being
shaved thin, so that it admits the light
through it. The tent is supported with
tcntpnle of bones or deer horns. The
Eskimo has also huis constructed OF
bones, which are durable and become cx-
cccdingly filthy by reason of the accumu-
lation of dirt and refuse about them. The
snow-huts and houses Of ice are made
anew every winter, and, hence, are clean
and neat. When the Eskimo begins to
build his house he cuts with long knife
of bone or metal from drift of hard and
compact snow Il number of oblong slabs
SIX TO seven inches thick and two feet
long. He lays Il tier of these cdgcwisc
on Il level spot SO rs to form circle eight
To fifteen feet in diameter, according to
the size of the house he needs to accom-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
Guide TO Conversational French

There are no flies on me: II mn pas
DIES mouchcs sur moi.
In the soup; Dams In soupc. or dams
lie potagc.
Hceler: I'm page politique.
His name is Dinnis, or Mud. Son
nom est Denis, on Bouc.
Are YOU wild us? Voulcz-vous boirc
avcc nous?
lam solid with the Administration
DC suns solldc avcc lc Commencement.
It's cold day when I'm left: C'cst
I'm Jour froid quand ie suis laissc.
| have influence, or n pull: J'ai dc
Influence, on unc secoussc.
No, he's all right; Non, il est tout
droit.
What are We givin' us? GU est que
&C que vous nous donncz?
That's corkcr: C'est magnitude.
Pie: lie pate.
Hang it up: Mcttcz celia sur
fardoisc.
Let the eagle scream: Pcrmettez
que l'aiglc secrie.
Great Scott, gosh! Nom dune pipe |!
In the hands OF his friends: Dams
les mains de SEES amis.
Rats. chcstnuts! Des rats, cha
taigncs
That takes the cake: Celia rccoit le
gatcau.
To knock out: METRE hors du COM
bat
1t WAS the cat: C'etait lc chat
Young Teller, boss: Monsieur.
Dude: I'm gommeux.
This phrase book has the sanction OF
the Hon. 'Ichu Baker, formerly United
States Minister to Venezuela.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Modesty is the politeness of conceit.
Brackish water is sweet in Il drouth.

Modesty is the politeness of conceit.
Brackish water is sweet in Il drouth
Oblivion is the older brother of stole
SIN.
In the journeys of life the pleasures are
aalts.
Don't clean your fish Til YOU catch
shcm.
a hungry stomach is ready for any
thing.
He that loves to be iiattcrc,i is worthy
Of the fatterer
1t is better to be sensitive than to be
deficient in sense.
Much money, many dishes; little
money, little wishes
The most manifest sigu OF wis,.o:n IS
continued cheeriuInesy
Compulsory society e .;roys the object
for which Society exists
Never marry bu; ,or lose. but see that
thou lowest what is luvciy.
There would be none 20 reform ii the
reforrncrs were all reformed.
The most lonesome Li-n is lie WHO is
seeking some one to lean upon.
Excessive labor is wrong, ilit iudici"ns
labor is the safety valve o: l;fc.
Industry need not wish, and ie that
lives upon people will die fasting.
The man who succeeds in initiating
another will he au original failure.
Faschood can make the best squirt, hut
truth can do the stcadicst trottinr.
Woe unto them who give scani meas
IRE and exact full measure from others.
Thy friend hes friend, aud thy
friends friend has T. friend ,u discreet.
The lightning is vivid agains; dark
cloud, SO the bravcSt lives nrcamid trials.
Fashion is only gold front icwclrv. it
may appear well but the value is not
there.
There cannot be :: greater rudcncss
than to Interrupt another in the current
Of his discourse.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The bids for the new 81 per cent. loan
for the new parks, which were recently.
awarded to the aggregate amount of
" ,457 goo, at from par to a premium Of
LIS per cent. give New York's credit first
rank among the cities of the entire world,
thinks the New York Graphic. Neither
national nor state government or any ma
ton on the globe is able to secure a loan
on such favorable terms. The bonds run
forty years, with the right to redeem af-
ter twenty years, and are exempt from
taxation. The entire issue of $4,000
600 will doubtless be placed on equally
favorable terms. ..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
The Presidents Messengor

MIR. Octavi,ls i. Pruden is officially
known as the Assistant Private Secretarv
to the President, but from the nature NJ
his duties his more proper title is Presi.
dents Messenger. Pruden is holdoyer
lie came TO Washington from Glcns Falls
N. Y, Mt the beginning of Grants first
Administration to take the office. which
he has held ever since. Cleveland found
that he could trot around about Ms we'll
as any Democrat in his list of acouaint.
ances and made no effort to displacc him
MS matter of fact, though, Mr.. Pruden's
trotting is usually done by two fine
horses, driven by an elegant colored man
in livery. The Assistant Private. etc
sits in dignifed ease within the vehicle
and looks with lofty contempt upon the
uniformed district messengers running
their dear legs Off in their anxiety to he
prompt and save their customers anv an
noyancc. Pruden's salary is $4,000 an.
nually. IncidcEtal to his GRAND -runn;nn
iii special carriage, he looks after vor;.
Gus details which are beneath the atten
ton of Ligc that is and Dan'l and others
that were Washington Lettc,.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The Washington Star concludes that
ut is an inalienablc privilege of the full
fledged American citizen TO be a baseball
crank, and the right is not denied even
to the temporary scrfs in the Territories or
TO the perpetual scrfs of the District of
Columbia. Clearly marriage will prove
failure if it attempts to overthrow the
baseball idol"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
Raised Him Out.

Cant you put IL poor, starving man
III the wayo getting IL bite OF bread ?"
asked the tramp as he presented him.
self at the door of the house where
lived the humorist of the local paper.
Why, certainly, M poor man." said
the kind-hcartcd wife of the humo,ist:
here's cake of yeast, which you arc
perfectly welcome to-"
But [ can't cat yeast, ma'am."
mo, but perhaps you can raise some
bread with it; we do"
And the hungry man lifted his hat
and retreated in the shadow of smile
that WAS sublime. YomkcrS States
man.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
UNIQUE HOMES.
THE HOUSE BUILDING OF saw
AGE People.
Snow Ifuts OF the Esk imo-rlarIs
Houses of the Iiaidas-iIoOpn
Bark Shcd-Trcc Houses
-Clin-DwcIIers.

There are in the National Museum ut
Washington many models OF houses. In
one hall are models made in clayof whole
villages, or pucblos, made by Indians OF
the Southwest. and of houses built far MI
the side OF Il cliff by men who inhabited
the country before the pueblo builders
There are cases, too, filled with models
OF huts and tents of various kinds show
ing how the peoples of different parts of
the world have settled for themselves one
OF the first problems presented To them
Professor Otis y. Mason, the curator 81
the Department Of Ethnology, said To Il
Star reporter that modern house building
or architecture had not been dcyel0pcd
from one point. There were, he said,
several different Starting points, the cave,
the hut, the tent. Savage or primitive
people seek shelter either from the sun OF
from cold. II they live in Il treclcss
country it is likely their houses will be
cave or II tent Of skins. If trees are
abundant they will construct II hut Of
bougils. Ali ;hc characteristic forms of
architecture are traced back to these
simple bcGnnings. The columns OF an
Egyptian temple are but limitations of
Nile reeds tied in Il bundle, and their
walls limitations of plated mats. From
the tent has come the dome, and the
graceful Doric column was derived from
the trunk OF Il tree used us the corner
post of Il house. Many uniuiorcd people
Jamestown much ingenuity in their house
building.
Among The most Interesting of the
dwellings constructed by the savage pco-
pie is the snow-hut of the Eskimo.
There are two models of snow huts in the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

A coal dealer in Yorkshire, England,
has been in the habit of giving over
weight in selling, the Weighing machine
being so constructed as to register about
twenty-four hundred pounds as ton.
He did this out of pure bcnevolcncc. But
strangely his kindness was declared to be
illegal by the authorities, who arrested
and fined him for classifying an official
weight.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
TURKEYS Fed OH Gold.

Mrs. Fritz, who is employed as cook
IN John w. Boulden's family, purchased
turkey at one of the city markets. Mrs.
Frltz in removing the craw discovered Il
small gold nugget. She disposed of the
nugget next morning to u jcwcler, re-
aeiving $3.50 for it. All the turkeys in
che markets Of this city were raised in
Fresno County. Here is clew for the
gold hunter, which, if successfully worked
up, might lead to fortune, as we think
1T very improbable that the keeper of any
market to feed So. so nuggets to 81. 80
turkeys in order to sell the birds. There
must be more gold on the browsing
grounds of the dccapitated turkey
San Francisco Caronicle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

n London newspaper asserts that the
lien greatest living Scotcllmen are Lord
Rosehcry, the Duke of Argyll, Professor
Blackic, Principal Card, Sir Noel Patton,
the Earl of Aberdeen, A. j. Balfour, Sir
Alorell Mackenzie, w. L. Gladstone and
Sir Archibald Alison. Mr.. Gladstone,
however, is only Scotch by decent, hay
ing been born in Liverpool
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The Atlanta Constitution says that II
citizen of the United States recently APP
piled for the position of "American
Consul" to some foreign place, and was
directed by the State Department to
change his papers so as to make them
show that he wanted to be a "United
States Consul" This is mistake fire.
quently made even at home, but abroad
everybody looks upon "America" as being
the United States.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The spring emigration from Europe to
the United States has assumed large pro-
portions this year, according to the New
. York Sun. The arrivals since January
at Castle Garden have added over so,
600 to our population. Our adviccs from
Germany, Italy, the British Isles and
Sweden are such as to lead to the belief
that we are about to have all cxtraordi-
nary number Of newcomers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

1t is alleged that almost all the tur-
quoises that have been sold during the
past ten years have been cheap limitations.
They are said TO have been manufactured
by Persian syndicate, which has flooded
the Mini Novgorod fairs of Russia with
100, 600 of the fraudulent stones.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The American Laredo and the Mexican
Laredo are now connected by fine inter
national bridge across the Rio Grandc
When the bridge was completed, the two
cities united in holiday, with process
sions, orations and military display
The Texans marched over into Mexico,
and the MeXicans marched into Texas.
At night grand ball took place on the
bridpe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The estate of the late l. V. Williamson,
OF Philadelphia, foots up TO nearly $40,
GOO, 900; and yet the only article OF lux
ury that he possessed was Il hundred dol
lar gold watch, which was given 10 him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

One OF the Liberty Tree Lanterns.
An interesting reminder OF the pre-
Revolutionary period has just been pre-
scented to the Bostonian Society by the
widow and children of the late Joseph
H. Zimmerman, Of RoXbury. in the shape
OF one of the lanterns that were used to
illuminate the old Liberty Tree OH Essex
street, on May 20, 1866, in celebration OF
the repeal of the Stamp Act The news
of the repeal reached Boston by brigan-
tine from London, which came into the
harbor on May 16. \ public meeting
was at once held in Faneuil fIsli. and tho
evening Of the 10th WAS set aside for
general illumination. On that evening
the principal feature was Il pyramid Of
lire on the Common, and Il few lanterns
were hung on the Liberty Tree; but the
citizens, feeling that they had not done
enough to honor the spot where the api.
tation against the Stamp Act had origin.
atcd and had its growth, decided to ilium.
mate the tree on the next evening, Mua
~. On that evening los lanterns were
hung upon the tree, and the one now de-
posted in the Old State House was hung
.'on the west bough, opposite Frog
Lane" now Boylston street, as appears
by an inscription on the bottom. -Eostoa
Post,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

An international Womcn's Suffrage
Congress is to meet in Paris in the
summer, and the Municipal Council has
voted 500 toward The expenses. Susan
Anthony and Mrs. Cady Stanton will re-
present the women of the United States
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The man who stole a meeting house
lives for the admiration of all time in one
Of Edward Everett lTalcs clevcrcst stories
but it remained for Michigan sawmil
proprietor to cvadc debt by moving his
entire mill and machinery across the mar
row channel into Canada.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

The pretty town of Grccnsburg, Penn,
with population of 5000, has thirteen
handsome churches, representing Il value
OF Sl00, 200. Probably no town of its
size in the United States has so many
costly churches.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

All the trusts on earth cannot starvc the
farmer who has good garden, few
pigs, some chickens, and couple Of
COWS, says IL Western farm paper.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

Says the philosopher of the Philadcl-
phia Cal: ''AIoney is not the root of all
evil. Poverty is responsible for more
crime than anything else"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

An Indiana Judge has decided that Il
Traveller can have his rules and rcguln-
tons MS well asa hotel, and that where
they conflict his rights are equal
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

Vermont has suffered more in the past
lew years than any of her sister States by
the emigration OF her sons to the West.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21
A desire for Home Rule is spreading.
Scotland wants it now.

The Supreme Court of Nebraska holds
that notes given to cover grain margins,
ire void.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

Not in years, it is said, has the price
Of live beef cattle been so low us at
present
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

China the poor people build their houses
on boats or RATS, and live in boats. In
Siam houses are constructed on piles OF
RATS of bamboo in the water, like the an.
Gent lake dwellings. remains OF which are
found i'll Switzerland and ireland.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21

Visitor to Coal Minc-"Scems to ma
that ropes giving way fast. How often
do you change itl"
Miner-''Every six weeks; an if we're
lucky enough to get to the top it'll be
changed to-morror. "-Flieqende Blaettar. ,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-29
POLITICAL NOMINATIONS.
President CleveIand's Recent Selections Win
Not BE Confirmed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-A Republican %
the Senate committee on judiciary. who
takes most active part In the considera-
tion of President Cleveland's nominations
just at this time, said TO your correspondent
to-day: There is no use talking about the
political nominations of Mr.. Cleveland
being confirmed. 1t is too late FOR him To
expect the Republicans TO be a party to
the paying off of his political scores. am
member Of another committee, which has
probably as many nominations as any of
the committees, and the same feeling
exists there that exists in the judici-
ary committee. We have discovered that
in many cases officers. whose commissions
would expire soon after the 4th of March.
have resigned for the purpose of creating
vacancies to be filed by Mr.. Cleveland.
The new commissions would run three or
four years, as the case may be. and these
Democrats would be saddled on a Repub-
lican administration for full term. I
have not yet seen the nomination, during
the present session of Congress. of a single
thoroughbred Republican. Those nomi-
mated by President Cleveland, who are
reported to be Republicans, are either out
right mugwumps or that mild-mannered
class of Republicans whose politics could
scarcely be discovered by dark-lantern
investigating committee"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-29
1t Is Useless, at the Present Time, TO Write to
COngreSsmen--All the Minor Offices Are
Controlled by Civil-Service Rules.
President Cleveland's Political NOmina-
ti0ns Will Not Be Confirmed.
Naming Day for the Consideration Of the
oklahoma Bill Seems a Signal for the Death
of Prominent Man-WashingtOn Notes.
FOR OFFICE-HUNTERs.

Another Chapter Of Advice for Those Who
Wish to Serve Their Country.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Repubhcan Sem
ators and Representatives continue to re-
ceive wagon load of letters almost every
day from constituents inquiring about
offices under the incoming administration.
AS stated in these dispatches on two or
three occasions, it is folly TO solicit ap-
pointments at this time. Letters from
offce-seekers are either put into the waste
basket or consigned to pigeon-holes. The
scramble for postoffices in the small cities
and towns has become so great that policy
is being adopted by men in Congress
which provides that wherever a ma
jority of the aspirants agree TO
settle the question of popularity
at the polls. primary elections viii be
utilized for the purpose of determining who
shah be recommended for the appointment.
If aspirants t6positions under the new ad-
ministration only knew how much time
they are throwing away in writing letters
and procuring petitions at this time. they
would cease their labors. 1t ought TO he
borne in mind that the railway mail serv-
ice, and all clerkships and other positions
in the departments paying between
$500 and S1,SOO year are within
the control of the Civil-service
Commission, and the influence of men
in Congress and elsewhere can do
no good whatever in procuring these places.
To write TO men in Congress for clerical
positions in the departments is an absolute
waste of energy. The Civil-service Com
mission has now control over the great
bulk of appointments outside of the fourth
class postmasterships, Those who want
positions in the railway mail service. in
the departments and custom-houses may as
well make up their minds to pass a civil
service examination, and they should
direct their inquiries to the Civil-service
Commission, this city. instead of bothering
their representatives in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-29
PARALYZED BY CHEWING GUM.
The Curious Affection of the Jaws of Har.
risburg SchOol-Girl.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 2S.-The most re-
markable case that has come under the OBJ
servation of the medical fraternity in this
city for long time is that of Mary Yountz.
aged twelve years, who is suffering from
facial paralysis. This afiliction is due to
chewing gum, she having employed the use
of her jaws so constantly during the last
three months that the muscles of her face
are powerless, and her nerves are in dilap-
ldated condition.
When she laughs her face presents an
amusing sight, and yet there is much SYM
pathy felt for the little girl, as her condi-
tion is regarded as a serious one by the
physicians who have been called upon to
treat her. In whatever position she is able
to twist her mouth the muscles remain, and
the face is thus in a contorted shape
until one of the members of her family
assist her TO place it liz proper condition
with their hands.
Her chin drops, and it frequently becomes
necessary To tie bandage over her head TO
keep the lower jaw in the proper place.
Mary is now under the care of DR.. Hites,
who is applying plasters TO her face, and
under this treatment she seems to be inn
proving. though very slowly.
This is the first case of the kind that has
been heard of by many OF the prominent
physicians In this city, and their treatment
is much on the order of an experiment
The physicians have been attending since
Tuesday,