Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-10
CURIOUS FACTS.

shoes.
There is Michigan schoolmaster's
Club.
The mint at Birmingham, England, is
the greatest in the world.
Books published 800 years ago sell
from sao to $500 a volume.
katie" is name of Celtic origin,
and means romping, laughing.
A. book on palmistry was published as
Tar back as the sixteenth century.
A sea bass weighing 425 pounds was
caught at San Diego, CAL, a few days
,go.
Agentleman in Columbus, Ga, has
tazor which has been in constant use 1O4
years.
scarlet goranium leaf that measured
forty-seven inches in circumference was
picked at Hanford, CAL, few days
ago.
A prisoner in Cincinnati station
house attempted suicide with an ordinary
brass pin by opening arteries in his
wrist.
An iceboat on the Hudson River re-
Gently ran race with an express train,
beating it easily. Two miles and n half
WcIo iudue Ill IlVc minutes.
What becomes of all the pins made in
the worldl is question that has been
asked by Thoughtful persons, and it still
stands without satisfactory answer.
Catfish arc so numerous in Washoe
Lake that the Nevada people want the
Legislature to import u carload or two
of alligator gars to thin out the catfish.
In the great museum at London is n
small watch, one hundred years old or
more, in the shape of an apple. The
golden outeidc is adorned with grains of
pearl.
Quoddy Head, Me-, is the easternmost
point of the United States, Alton Islands
the westernmost, Point Barrows the
northernmost and Key West the most
southern.
In Kansas the hides OF Galloway cattle
butchered are cured and made into lap
robes. The jet black hair is thick,
glossy and handsome, and makes u
neater robe than tho buffalo, while it ia
equally warm.
Down in the wilds of Washington
CountJ, ME-, they have discovered tree,
tho wood Of which is white birch and
the bark heMlock. The natives have
dubbed this queer tree the "mugwnmp
of the forest"
While man ut Carlisle, Penn, WINS
running plancr his coat tail got tangled
and was fortunately torn off. A bit of
wood in his pocket blocked a cog wheel
and saved his life. Tho wood was n
piece of John Browns scalfold
Cliff dwellings are found in great mum
bers in Morocco, which arc now, aud
probably havo been, inhabited from the
time of their first construction. These
dwellings in oil particulars are like those
found in Arizona and New Mexico on
this continent.
French scientists are puzzling over II
spider which has been discovered in the
hollow interior of n stone. 1t is esti-
mated that the stone must be at least
400 wears old, but the spider is quite
lively and youthful in its antics. II is
blind and Inns no mouth.
There is hardly any science that has
advanced more rapidly than medicine !;
though some of the methods of the an :
clients cannot be improved upon. The
value of steam in diphthcria was known
to the Egyptians and practiccd by them
many, many years baforc the Christian
era.
John bennett, of Santa Cruz. Cal. +, re-
Gently found Il two headed snake about n
foot long. Tho heads were distinctly sep
aratc and beth were perfect The heads
were little over an inch i'll length. When
aroused the snake would throw forked
tongue out of each head simultaneously,
rs if they were one.
The first inventor of the sewing ma
chine turns out not to be Howe, but n
man named Thomas Saint, who took out
his patent in 1850, sixty years before
Howe produced his machine. A machine
made according to Saints speculation is
now being exhibited ut the exhibition
of sewing machines and domestic appli-
ances, at the Royal Agricultural Hall,
Islington.