Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
CURIOUS FACTS.
. span is tOI inches.

A span is t0s inches.
The average human life is thirty.on
years.
The value of au Attic drachma was
eighteen CENTS.
Pigskin is now used for gloves and
children's shoes.
Vaccination is compulsory in England
and optional in France.
One out of every four persons in New
York has money in bank.
A colorcd man OWES sixty houses aud
one of the hotels at Memphis.
The new tunnel under the lake at Chi.
cago will be four miles long.
During the civil war 267 Union soldiers
were executed for desertion.
Conv;cts cannot vote unless they have
been restored to citizenship by pardon.
In Vermont, when they have snow,
instead OF breaking the roads with a
snow pillow, they roll the snow down
solid with heavy roller.
A new fruit has been discovered in
Southern California. 1t looks like the
fruit of the pear Tree, but the pulp is
soft and pasty, tasting like claret.
An orchid grower says that in one
spotted variety of tho flower more than
$500 will be given for one small spot,
the plant being worth so much the more.
There is some doubt rs TO the place
and date of ST. Patrick's birth, but the
leading authorities put Fitzpatrick, near
the mouth of the Clyde, in Scotland, as
the place of his birth.
Several counties in California which
are VIGOROUSLY infested with mosquitoes
are Kidding themselves of the pests by
planting eucalyptus trees, in the vicinity
of which mosquitoes are unknown.
Almost every day there are men at
Castle Garden, New York city, who
assert that they are in search of and
willing to marry any bright and intelli-
gent emigrant girl who plcases their
fancy.
Jonathan Andrews. of Enfield, N. H.,
has been wearing his calf boots foi
twenty-five years., his arctic overshoes
twentythree years and his gloves twenty.
four years, and all arc good for some
time yet.
On board the British troop-ship that
carried the Argyle and Sutherland High.
landers from Ceylon to Hong Kong, re.
Gently, there were 1l0 applications fol-
tea, coffee or cocoa, in place of the daily
ration of spirits.
A Massa husc.ts sportsman named
Chadwick has been hunting along Long
Island Sound on n tricycle. which travels
on runners. He is able to cruise over
many miles of inshore ponds and land
locked bays daily without fatigue.
Accidents in which people have been
seriously injured by sneezing are not I'm.
common. A few days ago n man at
Scranton. Penn, was attacked with SC
violent lit OF sneehiu9 that he broke
two ribs, and the day before man il
Boston, through sneeziug. dislo ated his
shoulder
New York city consumes over / 900,
O00 quarts of milk every month. 1t re.
quires the best efforts of 5000 COWS,
averaging fourteen quarts in two milk.
ings, to furnish this amount of milk.
Statistics show that during 1855, re.
tailers in that city purchased $23, 74s,-
376 worth Of milk
An Englishman has produced piece
of mechanism containing 400 figures,
representing horses, cannon, artillery, in
fantry and band of iifty-two men, each
with an instrument A tiny wind mill
turned by the current from burning
candles, furnishes the power to move ali
the :gures automatically.
One of the large shoe stores in Brook.
lynn has started something that bids fail
to cut into the income of the bootblacks
OF that city. In the rear of the store in
question is backing stand where any
regular customer can have his shoei
polished for nothing. The scheme, OF
course, is to attract trade, and as the
chair has seldom been unoccupied since
1t was placed, it seems to take.