Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-05
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The navy in Italy has charge of the
coast dofences.
In England burglary was capital
oNenco until 1922.
0muibuscs wero first introduced in
New York in 1880.
Tho curfew bell was law only till
tho accession Of Henry l.
~ kitten in Norfolk, Va, has hcon
trained to drink milk through straw.
There aro moro than 1000 pooplo in
tho United States who are over 100 wears
Of aye.
~ South Carolina cat swims a river
every morning aud evening to 10 to its
feeding place.
Tho weights assigned by tho best au.
thorlty Tor cavalry horses to carry uver.
age s52 pounds.
Several quite respectable pearls have
been found in the fresh clans OF
kentucky River.
In France they propose training horses
Tor artillery purposes as soon us they arc
broken to harness.
Two hundred and fifty is the strength
oil company in the Continental armies
and 100 in tho English
Nj. Jules Simon recently declared
French TO be the most difficult language
in VIII CHI TO talk nonsense
More orloss difficulty is being met with
IN getting sufficient number of naval
cadets for the English navy
\ fish dealer ut Apaachicola, Fla.
one day recently had no less than twenty.
four varieties Of fresh salt water fish for
sale.
The Turks always cut open tho outer
corner Of the cyelids of u girl if her
eyes are not large enough to suit their
idea Of beauty.
There arc said to bc about dozen
colorcd physicians III Brooklyn, some of
whom have been i'll active Practice for
fully foity years.
Inc first impeachment by the English
commons House of Parliament, and tho
first of Lord Chancellor, Michael do la
! Ole, Earl OF Suffolk, was in 1856.
The Goldsmihs' Company, ono of the
earliest of London guilds, was formed
about li27, and was incorporated in
i3'.. The first bankers were Gold
smiths.
a lease Of oo0 years, made in the days
OF King Alfred, has ust expired in Eng
land. ING land was leased by the chui CHI
TO the crown, and rcvcrtS now to the
Church of England after II millennium
of years.
blue Jeans" Williams, once Governor
oil Indiana, never wore suit of tailor
maze or store clothes i'll his life. Ills
clothes were made from wool shcarcd on
ms own farm and spun and dyed by his
wife and daughters.
MIR. lsmay. President of the Witt
Star Steamship Company, is one of tho
most successful OF merchant princes Of
Liverpool. II is said that he won tho
custom of the Americans by the ingenious
idea OF supplying ice water gratis ut
table
~ Camden IN. J. cat has toad for a
play-fcllow. She sometimes spends
hours mt Il time tossing tho toad mi tho
air and catching it like ball. When
tired of the sport she carries the toad to
ITS corner and lays it down where she
picked it up.
a cnt crawled into the muzzlo of n
loaded cannon in the British barracks ut
Cape Colony short time ago. When
The evening salute was fired she was
thrown distance o. 300 feet, but, strange
to say, lived for two hours after her in
voluntary flight.
AT tho Dudley Ua) Poorhousc
woman named Sarah Wright, who has
been n pauper for thirty years, died re.
Gently mt the advanced age of 10 ycnrs.
Her mind was lucid aud vigorous until
her death. She leaves daughter OF 80
years, who bids fair TO keep up the
family record of longevity.
A peculiarly novel letter has just been
sent by an inhabitant of Bath. England,
to friend at Trowbridgc 1t was writ
zen in shorthand on the back of post.
age stamp, the address being in ordinary
writing. The missivc was dropped into
he letter box at the general postoilice,
and was duly delivered at its dcstina-
ton.