Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-22
CURIOUS FACTS.

Portuguese sailors have custom OF {.
day.
A native forage plant, called "spiked
clover" is attracting attention in Cali
fornia.
A seal was shot in Vancouver British
Columbial Harbor lately that weighed
$50 pounds. m
A Chinese dealer in Fresno, CAL, was
sent to Jail for eight days for plucking a,
live turkey.
The National Park of the Yellowstone =
In the United States is the largest and
finest in the world.
A Michigan chiropodist is making a
triumphal progress through that State as
s'Wiliiam the Corn.curer."
The champion economist of the nine.
teenth century lives i'll Fulton County,
Ga. He has his socks and gloves nude
from his own hair
In California turkeys are raised in.
flocks numbering several thousand They
are placed in charge of hcrdcr, who
drives them rs he would flock of sheep.
Stone precisely similar to tho Eastern
brownstonc and Nova Scotia frecstone4
has been discovered in large quantities
on the Coronado Islands, near San Diego,
Cal
Since 1885, and including the one.
lately, nine explosions have occurred in
the powder works in Windham, Me.
Altogether thirty three lives have been
lost
A citizen of New Ulm, Mimi, owns a a
horse whose eyes, he claims, changes
from very light color to dark blue
twenty-four hours before change in the
weather
A Western fakir is selling an adjust
able engagement ring that can be made
to fit any finger. This is something
that young men have been wanting for u.
long time.
A New Hampshire woman has set out
to count the kernels OF corn ON 20, 600
full sized cobs and at last reports she
had got through with 1000 cobs and was
not discouraged
~ Mr.. Lee, of Toronto, Canada. aged
fifty, took n notion seven years ago not
to talk any more, aud the FIRST word
uttered by him since that time was
spoken some days ago.
at young mems debating club in
Red Bluff, al, the following question
was discussed: "Docs chimora rumi-
mating in vacuum dcvour second irten--
tions." 1t broke up the club.
DR.. John ]. Moran, who died in Wash
lnSton few days ago, was The physician
who attended the dying hours of Edgar
Allan Poe, when the poet was brought
as patient to the Baltimore Hospital
1t has been found that goose can
stand the weather until the thermometer
goes to ia degrees below zero Then.
her feathers won't save her. Wild ducks
can go IL degrees lower and come out on
top.
Eosedale, a suburb of Denver, Col,
has long been annoyed by the bodies of
skinned rats, cats, etc, which somebody
persisted in throwing about the streets.
The offender finally proved to be Aunt
sally Dawson, peculiar character, who
has been collecting the skins OF these
animals 10 make herself cloak
One Eaby, of st. Louis, thirty years
ago made n deposit with london bank.
lie mislaid his book, and, as the banks
record of his deposit also got lost, Raby's
C orts to withdraw the cash were unsuc--
cessiul. The other day, in ovcrhauling
old papers, lie found the book, forwarded
it and received word that the principal
and interest will be paid him shortly.
''Zeb, the hermit fisherman," who
li"es lonely life near Stonington, Conn,
mas amused n fortune oil 500 0OO from
an annual income of from $500 to $500.
which he has made from his fishing. boat
during the past forty years. He started
with n capital Of $40, which he invested
in dory, and his annual expenses, food
and all, have rarely been more than $2j.
A Norwegian wood chopper near Car
son City, New, made an ingenious use
of an accident. He discovered leak in.
one Of the mains of tho water company.
where n ct was forced out under cnor.
nous pressure. After experimenting
he found that this would cut wood coual
TO a fine saw, so he set to work and now
makes handsome brackets of choice
WOODS which find ready sale
An ingenious chicken raiser near
Pomona. Cal, has devised way of pre-
venting chickens from scratching up his
garden. lie crosses the long legged
brahmas with the short-legged 6antnms,
and the result is new breed of fowls
with one long leg and one short leg.
When they raise either leg to scratch,
they lose their balance and come to grief.
After few demoralizing attempts they
desst.