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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Noted Plnnts Of Commerce.

The olive is by botanists called Olca,
from II Greek word, signifying smooth,
on account of its oil. o. Europea is Il
native of the South of Europe, an ever
green with lancc-shaped leaves, and flow
ers quite small and white. There is an
other variety, called fragrans, or sweet
scented olive, introduced from China in
1771. The flowers are also very small,
but very fragrant, smelling not unlike
the highest-pcrfumed green tea In all
ages the olive has been held in peculiar
estimation. and MS Il bounteous Gift of
heaven. II is considered cmblcmatic of
peace and plenty. Even Virgil and Pliny,
in their day, mention many varieties,
showing il one of the cultivated plants
of their time, the differences being noted
mostly i'll the size and color of tho
fruit.
Hungary water is distillation from
the rosemary, an old shrub, very common
in England, it is supposed, from very
ancient times. Shakespeare makes the
poor Ophelia alludc to it as memory
strengthened, in ''There's rosemary, that's
for rcmbrancc."
The sage of commerce belongs to quite
an extensive genus, containing some
snowy flowers, as in the different salvias
OF the gardens. From S. sclarca, when
in flower, is made clary wine, slightly
narcotic. S. pomifera, furnishes gall,
that, when candied with sugar, has some
repute. The seeds of S. vcrbenacea, pro-
ducc, when moistened, mucilage said to
be serviceable in removing extraneous
matter from the eye. The name SALIVA is
derived from salvere, to be in health, or
salvo, to save, on account of its supposed
sanative qualities. The common sage of
the kitchen is S. officinalis, native of
the south of Europe. There are two
members of the family natives in this
country, the lyrc-leavcd and ncttle-
leaved sages. The saffron of the shops is
obtained from Il crocus, C. sativus, a
native OF England. The stigmas OF the
flowers are carefully picked, dried in a
kiln, and then pressed into cake 1t is
very bright yellow, approaching TO red
or orange, coloring water strongly when
thrown into it, Prairie Fo.ncr.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Rhinoceros Chops.

A lady tells this anecdote of the novelist
Thackeray, who once visited her house:
After having told lot of delightful
stories, Mr. Thackeray remarked that he
must leave, he was so terribly hungry.
We told him that we could give him n
really good dinner. ''There is nothing,
my dears, you can give me-" he answered
with n funny sigh, "for I could only eat
the chop Of a rhinoceros, or slice from
an elephant" ''Yes, tan," exclaimed
my three-year-old sister She disappeared
into big cupboard and soon emerged
with look of triumph on her fat little
face, holding in her hands wooden rhi-
noccros and an elephant from her Noah's
Ark. Putting the two elephants OH II
plate she handed them with great gravity
to Mr.. Thackeray. The great man laughed
and rubbed his hands with glcc, and then
taking the child in his arms kissed her,
rcmarking: "Ah, little rogue, you already
know the value of a kiss!" Then he asked
for Il knife and fork, smackcd his lips and
pretended to devour the elephant and rh-
uoceros.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Brine Her Elixir ofLiEn

Julia Aun Houghtaling lives in coal
shed at StanfordPlle, n. Y, alone, and
without the bare accessories of life,
though past ninety years of age, sternly
rescnting all proffered assistance and talk.
ing daily bath in brine, which she be.
lever to be the elixir of eternal life.
She is the descendant of family
whose personal oddities have become
Legendary. The first to gain place in
local chronicles was Moses Talmadgc.
who conceived the strange notion that
there was no good reason for death AS
preventive of dissolution he instituted
II system of brine bathing, which his de.
scendants have religiously preserved. He
married twice, and one son became o
justice of the peace, in which capacity he
distinguished himself by continually
quoting Solomon and announcing himself
as inspired from heaven to administer
Justice to mankind. The people had an
abiding belief in the fanatic, but their
superstition received shock when both
Moses Talmadgc and his son passed into
the world beyond Notwithstanding the
boosted potency of brine baths.
Julia Ann Houghtaling, the subject OF
this sketch, is the great granddaughter OF
Moses Talmadge and the only survivor
of her eccentric family. She inherits all
the peculiar notions of her ancestors, and
appears TO have cvolutionizcd into more
advanced forms Of belief, having adopted
the theory that the land belongs to every
body, and therefore the payment of rent
is an obsolete custom to be frowncd out
OF fashion. There is hardly rcntablc
house in the village of Stanfordvillc that
she has not been cvictcd from. A year
ago she was cvictcd from house owned
or controlled by man named Rogers.
Her worldly goods were placed by the
roadside, where they have since been cx-
posed to rain and blizzard, and have
crumblcd and settled into shapelcss
mass. Pcnnilcss and homeless she made
her way to Il coal shed, where she took
up her quarters unlimited, and where |
found her sitting by small stove and
reading an old newspaper. She is tall
and very thin, with slvcry white hair
and deep set blue eyes sparkling with
vitality. She greeted me kindly, and
upon solicitation explained in detail the
virtues of brine baths, whose efficacy to
preserve life she attributes solely to tho
preventative qualities of salt. Before
left she pressed me to come and see her
again ut the expiration of fifty years,
saying that then would not doubt that
she possessed the true and only 'clixir of
life. "-Nc,c York Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
An Island That Floats.

One of the most picturesque and re-
markable bodies of water in the world is
Henrys Lake in Idaho. 1t is situated on
the dome of the continent in a depression
in the Rocky Mountains called Targee's
Pass. 1t has an area of forty square
miles, and all around it rise snow-capped
peaks, some of them being the highest of
the continents backbone. In the lake is
n floating island about 800 feet in diane
ter. 1t has for its basis mat of roots SO
dense that it supports largo trees and
heavy growth of underbrush. These roots
are covered with several feet of rich soil.
The surface is solid enough to support the
weight of horse anywhere, and there are
places where house could be built. The
wind blows the island about the lake, and
it seldom remains twenty-four hours in
tho same place.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Most Remarkable Run in Railroo,iina

The locomotive 4. G. Darwin, de-
signed by George S. Stro,g, of the
Strong Locomotive Company, arrived in
Jersey City, \. j., last evening, having
completed the most remarkable run in
railroad history. Yesterday morning the
Darwin left Buffalo and made the run
through OH time, drawinga train OF nine
heavy coaches along most of the road and
two extra coaches along certain sections.
The engine made the run over some stiff
grades without any assistance, thus max
ing the record all the more marvellous.
This engine is different in design to any
other yet built, and the features which
make her II success are that she emts no
smoke or cinders from her stack, can
burn the cheapest kind of bituminous
coal, and is n quick and abundant
steamer She has two fire boxes made of
corrugated rolled steel, welded together.
One of these fire boxes is fed ut n time.
Both lead into spacious combustion
chamber, so that when the fresh coal is
fed in the smoke and cindcrs are carried
into it and consumed, instead of passing
out through the stack. Her weight is
sixty-eight tons, and hauling capacity
greater than the heaviest engine yet run
on the road.-Ncn York San.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Mrs. Hannah Wheeler, of Salem, N.
j., recently attained her ninety first birth
day, being still active and retaining all
the faculties of her mind. She goes
about the streets unassisted, her health is
good and she may yet round the one hun
dredth milestone. Mrs Wheeler is of
English birth, and came to this country
with her husband and children in 1874.
Her husband was the late Rev. George
Wheeler, matchmaker by trade. He
was also a minister Of the Seventh Day
Baptist denomination. Mrs Wheeler is
IN English lacemaker, having learned the
art i'll her youth. She says her father
knew the poet Cowpcr very well and was
his near ncighbor. The poet passed her
fathers house every day. Among Cow
pcr's poems is one on the Poor Lace
maker" The origin OF which Mrs. Wheeler
thus explains:
"Mr. Cowpcr was much given to sea-
sons of melancholy, and when in these
moods he would, have often heard my
father say, spend II great deal of time
walking i'll his garden. There was high
brick wall separating his orchard and
Hover beds from row of poor cottages.
In the summer time the poor lacemakcrs
who lived i'll the these cottages sat out
side their doors to work, and as they
worked they sang one of Cowper's hymns
% for n closer wall, with Cod
"This proved such solacc to Mr.. Cow
per that, though he could not sec the
singers, he felt inspired by their strains
to write his beautiful and famous poem
on the "Poor Lacemaker," which begins
with these lines:
THE path of bliss abomds with many q
snare:
Learning is one, and wit. however rare"
This circumstance of Mrs. Wheeler
knowing SO much about the poet has
brought her great deal of custom for her
lace. To her more than to any other
woman belongs the title of Cowper's
Poor Lacemakcr. "-Me,o York .Nercu,y
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Ship Painted White for the Trouics.

The cruiser Boston, which returned to
the Brooklyn Navy Yard few months
ago after trip to Hayti, where some of
her officers and men caught the yellow
fever and lost their lives, is being painted
at the yard. Her first voyage was made
with coat of light buff paint; now she
will be painted white. The reason for
this change of color is that she is to be
sent to the torrid zone, where, it is be-
lieved, her white hull and upper works
will present much less attraction to the
heat than though she bore some other
shade. The English war vessels sent to
these districts are all painted white, and
the Boston follows suit.-Me,o York Times
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

packets of various lengths These IRE
either sold to hairdressers as raw material
FOR perruke-malling, or else used by the
Wholesale manufacturers Tor making up
into shapes Of all kinds. The prices vary
considerably, according to .colors and
lengths. Thus fair quality of black hair
of an average length fetches only three
cents the gramme, whereas the same
quantity of snow-white hair of similar
length costs from 100 to S2.40. The
latter quality is rarely kept in stock. For
a kilo of ashen pale blond thirty-two
inches long the usual price to the trade is
$3.50. Snow-white hair of that length
would be worth twenty times the money,
but it can hardly ever be procured longer
than twenty-six inches. Apropos of
snow-whitc hair, forgot to remark that
when a woman sells her hair, if she hap
pens to have lock or two of this color
among it, she makes u special bargain for
the lock or two. The above prices refer
merely to smooth hair, sorted, cleaned
and washed with soap. If the hair is
curled or crimpcd, the price increases by
from one to twenty ros cent. To curl,
the hair must be cut hair, not combings
and its preparation is laborious one.
First, it has to be washed and washed
again. Then each hair is rolled round a
small wooden cylinder and boiled hard
for two hours. After that the cylinders
are placed in drying stoves, where they
remain two or three months. The hair
then curls. or course, u good deal of
natural curly hair comes on the market
in the ordinary way, but it is not the ten
thousandth part of the curly hair one
sees adjoining ladies' heads Us fronts,
bangs, etc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
CURIOUS FACTS.
An elephant lives 400 years.
A sapphire is worth 500 to S15oper

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A sapphire is worth 800 to S15oper
carat.
A diamond is worth $50 to $3.50 per
carat.
France is the greatest snuff consuming
country in the world.
1t costs S25 iinc or thirty days in jail
to sell boys cigarettes in Ohio.
Nearly all the idols now worshipped in
India are OF English manufacture.
Not poisonous reptile, insect or plant
is found i'll the Puget Sound region.
The theory of eclipses is said to have
been known to the Chinese before 120
&. G.
AIarscillcs was founded by the Phoe-
9nans 600 b. c., by whom it was called
MassilSa.
The Emperor Of China has ten men who
have nothing else to do but to carry his
umbrella.
Nincvcll,- the capital of the Assyrian.
Empire, was founded by Ashur about
2245 ID. G.
A st. Louis man has died of erysipelas,.
contracted from Il verdigris brass collar
button eating into his neck.
Lotteries are said to have originated in,
Florence about 1880, and to have been.
lcgalizcd in France in 1889.
4 dog died in Illinois the other day
from drinking the water in which
ianncl shirt had been rinscd
1t is said that this past winter is the
first for thirty years that teams have not
crossed Sunapcc Lake, N. H., on the,
ice.
In 100, Earl Godwin's lands, exceed
ing 1000 acres, were overlooked by the
sea, and I'M immense sand -bank, now
known us Goodwin Sands, was formed
The "AIcssalians" were sect profess
ing to adhere to the letter of the gospel,
about 80, who refused to work, quoting
this passage: Labor not for the food
that perisheth."
They do say that an ingenious Boston
man has captured 100 crows, and pro-
poses to hatch with I'm incubator crow
chicks for the Maine market, where their
heads are worth ten cents apiece
y woman who became insane from re-
ligious excitement, and was admitted to,
the asylum at Staunton, Va, in 1928, has
just died. having been IN inmate of the
institution for sixty years. She was
ninety-two years old
Whc Il Turk dies, the legs are tied to-
Sether, and the arms stretched by tho
sides. The burial takes place as soon ms
possible after the death. The corpse is
handled very tenderly, us the Turks be-
iicvc any lack of tenderness would bring
tine curse OF the dead mans soul upon
them.
Mrs. L, C. Abraham, of Cleveland,
Ohio, lost, II year ago, u gold ball in
which was inclosed by spring diamond
worth $500. 1t was one of pair of
unique earrings. The ball was found by
chance the other day with u child's
marbles in workingman's cottage, and
the story of its wanderings since it
dropped from its fair owners car would
fill story book.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The condition of the 1900 prisoners in
Sing Sing On. " Prison, suffering en-
forced idleness, becomes more and more
serious and pitiable. ''Insanity," in the
opinion of the New York Pest, "must of
secessity increase. Walking is the sole
diversion-walking in file in horrible
monotony. AT the present rate in the
development OF insane cases there will be
seventeen or eighteen cases this year.
There are 300 men each night troubled
With insomnia"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

''A great deal has been done" said an
old sailor the other day, ''to improve the
lot of the men before the mast since. first
went to sea us a cabin boy, end when
ever complaint is properly lodged
against Il cruel officer l must say it is
fairly investigated. Yet, for all that,
there are plenty Of murders committed
to-day on the high seas that have never
been Investigated, because no complaint
is made. Every day one or two vessels
come into this port with shorter crew
Than they started out with, and theiI
Captains reports of seaman fell over.
board and was lost, or cabin boy killed
by falling SPAR or 'coal-passer died from
heart trouble and WAS buried ut sen, are
accepted as perfectly satisfactory. No
investigation is made into the death I'M
less some one lodges formal complaint.
It's III ensy matter for one man who has
grudgc against his mate to shove the
other overheard if they are both up in
the rigging in n dark and stormy night.
The unseen cutting of n rope is often
enough to do it. 1t is easy to drop
block or marline-spikc on the head of
man below that will knock him dazed
into the water TO drown, or down to the
ieck to smash his skull. Heart trouble
covers Il great deal of insufficient nourish-
mcnt, lack of medicine and overwork.
This is not the way things are done on
land. You have your Coronors here to
investigate sudden deaths, why should
they not look into deaths ut sea? Many
poor towards would tell the truth against
their officers, if they were thus forced
to do so, who would not dare to come
forward and lodge complaint they might
be unable fully to prove"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Greatest Corporation in tho World.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is said by an Eastern financial journal to
be the greatest corporation in the world.
Its gross earnings in 1888 were $116,-
500, 292. 1t operates 1850 miles of
track, and during the year just closed
it moved 113, BAG, 1914 tons of freight and
transported "a, 600, Os6 passengers. 1t is
the most progressive company in America,
and one Of the few which has endeavored
to make its lines interfere as little as pos
sible with the rights of people in the
cities and towns traversed by it. This it
aims to do by dispensing as nearly rs pos
siblc with grade crossings.-sSan Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The late Aaron White, by whose will
each county in Connecticut receives $1,000
for law library purposes, was known
widely for his copper coin mania, whic
was first revealed when two men were
sent to prison for stealing 500 from his
hoard, but there was great establishment
after his death when his administrator
shipped from the village station five tons
of copper coins.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Stanley is, of course, we'll understood
to be the agent of England in Africa, and
certainly England, the New York Com
mercidI Aduertiser believes, could not have
more capable and energetic man to look
after its affairs in n quarter of the globe
toward the partition of which among
themselves various European powers are
now straining every energy, each in its
own WAY
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The Rev. It. Dewitt Talmadgc has n
simple and easy plan for converting the
world to Christianity. 1t is for each
Christian to secure one convert and each
one OF the converted to do the same. He
calculates that if this is done every year
Tor decade the l 400, 900, 900 people of
the earth could be brought into the
Christian fold and that the close of this
century will witness the dawn of the
millennium.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

American cotton oil is becoming val
liable and acceptable substitute for dearcl
products in the markets of the world.
Prejudice against it, states the Chicago
Sun, is being steadily overcome. The
factories under way are being hurried
along. Demand is increasing. Stocks
are small. AS substitute for lard il
promises to become Il valuable article OF
commerce.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Boiling Virtues Out Of a Cornse

A curious practice of the Shans was
brought to light the other day by one of
the special correspondents of the Rangoon
QndiG) Gazette with the Karenni expe-
dition. 1t appears that when the dakoit
Bob Twek Nga Loo was shot in his at
tempt to escape from his escort and his
body buried, certain Shans from Hopen
sent men, had the body exhumcd, cut off
the head, and sent it on to None, the
scene of Twek Nga Loo's recent exploits,
and there it was exhibited in the bazaars'
The body in the meantime was boiled
down into kind of ointment, and this is
low being retailed at high rates every
where, as it is supposed to possess ex-
traordinary virtues and to cndow the per.
sons anointed with high courage and
supernatural abilities, such as Twek Nca
Loo was said to possess.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Z. According to statistician the hens of
Connecticut would reach twice across tho
State if placed in Il straight line, head TO
tail. Any one who has tried to induce Il
hen to remain in any straight line for II
second will appreciate that eff"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Statistician Mulhall calculates that the
next census will show in the United
States n population of $4,000, 900, an
energy OF 100, 900, 000,O of foot-tons
per day, and $40, 900, 600, 600 of accumu-
lated wealth. No people in all history
have ever made like showing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

! The police are cxcrting extraordinary
vigilance TO prevent emigration from
Hungary, and women and children who
seek to escape from the country to join
husbands and fathers already in America
have to submit to great hardships, and
often are unable to get away ut all The
authorities profess to fear dearth of farm
laborcrs
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The English courts hold that when q
man writes asking another to 'favor him
with n check" for bill the intent is that
the check is to be sent by post, and the
creditor is liable if the check is lost in
the mails.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Says the Detroit Free Press: "Cali-
fornia imported the dandelion and is
sorry, the United States imported the
English sparrow and is sorry; Brazil, like
the United States, is importing paupers,
and, like the United States, will be sorry
for II
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
bushels.

The Emperor of Brazil is about to is
sue an cdict prohibiting Brazilian girls
from marrying until they reach the ripe
old age of ten years, and the girls are
mad about it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The school banking system was intro
duced in the public schools of Long
Island City, N. Y, about three years ago,
and already the pupils in the nine schools
have $40, 1915 to their credit.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The newspapers of Porto Principe and
Sancti Spiritus, the principal cattle
breeding sections of Cuba, urge the cattle
men to devise some plan by which the
surplus of their herds may be exported,
Especially to the United States, where, it
is said, they would find remuncrative
,,,arl-n{e
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The English, Germans and French are
all assiduously counting Mexico as II
promising field of commercial enterprise
and English capitalists are hopeful of
wrestling control Of il from this country
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

The Beers, of South Africa, have
whipped England five different times,
and one of their prophets is now pre-
dieting u coming war in which Boer
will be raised to the British throne.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

Even Californians tire of their per-
pctual sunshine. The Visalia Delta re-
marks: Jewellers in the San joaquin
valley would like to swap off a few square
leagues of Italian sky for little Oregon
nict ~
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

joyed by the citizens. At night "a,
whole city was brilliantly illuminated
and there wcro innumerable beautiful
and appropriate transparencies, most Of
them designed by artists.-Nco 3o,A
Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

! Iowa farmers last year raised enough
corn to pay off all the mortgages in the
State and leavea balance of 100, 900, 900
bushels.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Immigration shows q falling off for
the first quarter Of this year.

I syndicates are rapidly buying up-all the
Southern timber lands that they can get
their hands on.