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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

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Men on the car had quit reading and
playing cards, aud were more wakefuI
than they had beon before. So she
slipped across the aisle silently aud
touched the extended foot very gently,
tbntit didn't recoil Then she took
hold of it with the idea of replacing it
inside the curtains, 1 presume. Any4
way, at that moment the car gave q
wild twist which Jared the teeth in my
head and knocked everybody off his or
her pins as the case might be. It
threw strangers together in friendly
way, and mixed up people SO that the
porter had to come and identify them
by their berth checks and strawberry
marks. 1t was Mt this moment the,
middle-aged and kind-hearted woman
whose name did not know sat down
IN my lap, and in her hand she held n.
beautiful cork log, with the straps of,
which she inyoluntarily wclted me over
the head
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Belgium, Austria, Italy, Denmark

Belgium, Austria, Italy, Denmark.
Germany, and several Swiss cantons,
Shayc prohibited the public exhibition OF
hypnotic or mesmcric performances.
France will probably soon follow, as the
measure is recommended by the French
association for the advancement of sci
ence. There is growing conviction
that the practice of abnormal phenomena
tends to make them normal or permanent
characteristics of the patient.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

There are eight we'll known institu-
lions for the blind in New York city,
and visit to any one of them is sure ia
be full of surprise and interest to the
caller. For one thing, he will be shocked
to see how many blind children there
are. People who have studied the mat.
ter say that about one in every 1000 OF
the country's population is afflicted with
blindness. In mining regions, where
accidents abound; in extreme northern
latitudcs, where the glare of the sun re.
Elected from the ice and snow dazzlcs the
eyes; or in desert regions, where the
sand gives off terrible reflection, the
ratio is higher; but one to 1000 is about
the general average. The proportion Of
blind under ten years old is seven per
cent. of the whole number of blind; be-
tween the ages of ten and twenty-five.
the ratio is about fourteen per cent. and
between twenty-five and fifty, about
thirty per cent. The rest are over fifty
years old. Only small proportion arc
actually born blind. The disease gen
orally comes on slowly, or is suddenly
brought about by accident. The work
of educating the blind, it mas bccl
found by experience in New York insti
tutions, can he carried on most proiitabl,
with the young.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The majority of deaths from lightning
occur in the level, open country-trces,
villages and thickly built-up towns and
cities, by their projections in the air,
serving rs conductors and thereby pro
tecting the inhabitants from direct
stroke. The loss of life annually
throughout the world is very great. In
European Russia, from 1870 to 1877,
no less than 2970 were killed by thi,
cause. In Austria, during the sam,
time, 100 persons were likewise killed
In PRUSSIA, it is reported that seventy
persons are annually killed. Ten thou
sand persons are reported rs having beer
struck during period of nine and
twenty years, with 1882 deaths in
France, while in the United States,
during 1870 alone, 2O2 deaths from
lightning were recorded.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

a despatch from Washington to the
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette gives the
following highly interesting information
The United States Fish Commission is
engaged in the greatest speculation on
record. From an Investment Of ST. in
four years it produces the equivalent oil
$1,000. This is how it is done: Thus
far this season, for example, S76 jars Of
whitciish eggs have been taken on Lake
Erie. The average cost to the Govern
mcnt is $l.13 per jar. Each jar holds
1GO, 600 eggs. In n good season 90 per
cent. OF this take could be Matched out.
but, allowing for loss of so per cent,
which would DO phenomenal, the re.
naming 20 per cent. will produce in four
years 80, 600 pounds of fish, worth at a
low estimate five cents per pound, OF
$1,000.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

A movement is on foot looking to the
passage of an act by Congress, if other
measures are inadequate, that will re-
quire all the persons on the Treasury
pay rolls of the Government to be actual
residents and citizens of this country.
The movement has its origin from the
fact that considerable number of those
carried on the pension list have gone to
Europe and taken up permanent abodcs
since the allowance of their claims. An
extra expense is entailed by the State
Department in making out and forward
ing drafts to these pensioners.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

tofore seven Blue Points, with n small
piece OF lemon, would satisfy me, but
with pleasant flow of conversation
and with thickset brunette from
Guinea ever and anon knocking the
hunting-caso from these calm and I'M
impassioned birds, 1 ate about tcne-
ment houseful.
At Richmond We visited. among other
things, the old stone house which was
occupied as one of the largo collection
of headquarters used by Washington.
The house is shown us by bright lit
tie boy. Kind of q Virginia bright, rs
the tobacco dealers would call him, L
presume. He is fine-looking young
fellow, with the mirth and music of the
African tingling in his veins, together
with the proud and navy-blue blood of
his other parent. The mulatto and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Medical science now aims at the pre-.
vention of diseases by study of its
causes and the removal OF them. There
can be no doubt, remarks n metropolitan
paper, that the worst of infectious dis.
eases can be prevented. The truth OF
this is matter of common history. II
yellow fever, Asiatic cholera and Other
virulcnt diseases can be averted by due
sanitary precautions and sporadic cases
kept within their limits by preventing
favorable opportunities for their spread,
who can doubt that infectious diseases
of cattle may not be equally contI oiled
They cannot clearly until the requisite
means are taken. Hence, along with the
slaughter of infected herds some meas.
urcs looking to the causes direct and
indirect must be taken and slaughter
alone considered only Us a temporary
relief,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

n curious race war has broken out in
Charleston, S. G., according to the Bos
ton C"tieatOr. The monopoly of the
colorcd washerwomcn has been threat
ened by the invasion of about one
hundred Chinese, who have established
laundrics in various parts of the city.
The Chinese do their work by combined
capital, using steam and the best laundry
machinery. They arc thus enabled 10
undcrbid the colorcd women, who, us a
rule, work alone with only the most
primitive methods for cleaning clothes.
Unless the latter improve their methods
they will be driven out of business, but
this makes improvement certain.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Says the Philadelphia Ledger: s'Four
or eight years of woll-rcquitcd service,
rcquitcd in money, in power and honor,
docs not seem sufficiently long time
to warrant a pension adequate to
preserve to the end of life the state of
the White House. Nor does the as
sumption that President may not,
without loss of dignity, retire to private
life upon modest competence, which
will compel simple living, seem wholly
satisfactory one. No President was eve,
less respected by his countrymcn because
he did not retire from Office very rich
mnn.o
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Drink Made From the Knva-Root.

The kava-root of the Society and
South Sea Islands is the basis of the in-
toxicating drink of those regions. Wo.
men and girls are employed to chew the
root, and when well masticated and
mixed with saliva, it is elected into
bowls, mixed with coca-juice, and
left to ferment. Both natives and whites
of the lower classes are very fond of it,
The natives use it as some among us do
wine, under the idea that it will help
them along in important undertakings.
Popular Science Monthly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes from Washington: "The
question of pure lard would appear to
be interesting the country just now to
dred petitions have been presented in
Congress asking for the passage of law
to tax adulterated lard, as was done in
the case OF oleomargarinc. The petitions
arc being sent from the oranges in
various States.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The attempt, by Norwegian named
Nonscn, to explore Greenland, has re-
suited in failure. The interior of that
continent is found to be very high land,
nine thousand feet elevation on an aver
age, and the homo of intensely cold
storms ut all seasons Of the year. Only
very small section of Greenland, near
the coast, is habitable by man, and even
this were better left to desolation until
moro desirable parts of the carths sur
face have been brought under nuns
dominion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Mrs. Annie W. Rycrss, who died in
Philadelphia in 1886, bequeatcd the sum
of $50, 600 to provide hospital for i'll,
aged and injured animals. She also di-
rcctcd that the sum. Of $40, 900 be placed
with safety deposit company and the
interest thcrcfrom used for the support
Of the institution. She appointed Il
President and officers to run the concern,
and buildings arc now being erected
with a view to carrying out her wishes.
1t is TO be called "rhc I,ycrss Iniirmary
for Dumb Animals" and it is to be
operated i'll connection with the Pcnnsyl-
vaian Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, The officers have
been having q number of conferences rs
to how the will should be carried out
Whether cats and other animals will
be admitted has not yet been decided.
1t has leen agreed, however, that first
of all horses Of carriers and tcamstcrs
and others too poor to feed and shelter
their stock should be received and cared
for. 1t is said that there is not another
like institution in the world
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Forgery by Tracing

Young Mr.. Thinker, of Cincinnati,
made fatal mistake when he forged his
employers name by tracing his signature
over piece of carbonated paper. An
expert says: 'lf man writes his sigma
ture, however trembling or even para.
lytic his hand may be, there is definite
continuity of the stroke. If one attempts
to write with pen over traced sigma
ture there is hesitation in the proSress
of the pen, which may not be observa-
BILE to the naked eye, but is always to be
detected under powerful magnifyinp. In
the great Boston will case-thc first oc.
!cassion where forgery by tracing was
brought to public attention-the traced
signature was photographed upon a class
plate, and then, by means of camera,
thrown in greatly magnified proportions
upon screen for the benefit ofwhc iury.
Thus the cratic, rail fence progress of
the pen work was clearly cxposed y
Tinkler's forgery was detected in this
way after he had secured several thou
sand dollars. The forger went to Lon.
don and played the fool. He lodged at
a first class hotel and patronized a fash.
ionable tailor. The detectives found him
and brought him back. His case is hone.
less. atlanta Constitutions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
A STEAM TRICYCLE..

using one-similar to that figured in
the illustration-and has travelled sew
eral hundred miles with it during the
last six months to his entire satisfac-
ton. The machine is light and com
pact and the mechanism so simple that
an amateur with very little experience
can easily make eighteen to twenty
miles an hour. The fuel used is coke.
which is fed into the fire-box auto.
matically, so that the fire needs re-
plenishing only about once in forty,
five minutes, and this only when in
motion, since the draft ceases MS soon
MS the engine stops, thus enabling tho
machine TO be left without attention
during a halt or at the end of jour
ney. The steam tricycle. is made in
several different styles, with single or
double seats, and with phaeton, road
cart, delivery-wagon, and other at
tachments. The one illustrated has I.
single seat and detachable, single
seated road-cart, and with this-the
cart carrying load of 175 pounds-a
speed of twenty-five miles an hour is
attained on good roads. How long be-
fore some enterprising Yankee will
give us an American machine of this
model, substituting an electrical stor-
age battery for steam as tho motor? a
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

No less than thirteen cotton manufac-
turing plants, employing capital of
nearly nine million dollars, are 70 be
found within radiusfof S ten miles
around Augusta, Ca, operating, in round
number, 100000 spindles, COCO looms,
and employing 1890 hands, the annual
pay list amounting to about ono million
dollars. According to the report these
mills consume 1924 bales Of cotton,
and the annual product is $5,444, S23.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Telegraph operators it seems, arc dc,
vcloping adiscasc of their own. One or
two cases have recently occurred in
which the finger nails have dropped oil,
one after another. This affection is sup
posed to be due to the constan. hammer
ing and pushing with the finger ends re-
quircd by the working of the Morse sys-
tenn of telegraphy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The fact that the city population of
this country had increased from four per
cent. for the whole in. 1900 to twelve
and half per cent. in 1850, and twenty
two and half per cent. in 1880, was
made the basis for gloomy prophecies OF
disease, poverty and anarchy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Senator Reagan of Texas is the first
Senator courageous enough to employ a
female private secretary. Every Senator
not the Chairman of committee is
allowed private secretary, who receives
salary Of Sc day during the session.
good many Senators appoint their
sons or ncphews rs private secretaries,
rs the responsibilities attached to the
places are not heavy and the Sc II day is
not bad thing to keep in the family.
No Senator has ever been known TO make
his daughter or neicc private secretary,
but Senator Reagan shows his indiircr-
cnce TO traditions and his belief in the
equality in the sexes by making his wife
his private secretary. AT the beginning
Of the session the Senator dismissed the
man who had oiliciatcd IN that capacity
last summer and had Mrs Rcagan's
name duly enrolled on the books of the
Scrgcant-at-Arms. Mrs. Reagan is now
full-ilcdged private secretary, and
draws her So day just like man,
while the salary is all kept in the family.
Mrs. Reagan now has the right to go on
the floor of the United States Senate, n
privilege accorded to no other woman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The little town Of Brooklinc, Mass,
which is nearly surrounded by Boston,
is valued for purposes Of taxation Mt
$407, i54, OPS, which is more than one
and half times as much as the valuation
of the whole State of New Hampshire
1t is the wealthicst town OF its size in
America, and mainly because it has the
reputation of being taxpayers para
1ioo
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

indianapolis is to have soldiers,
monument that will be 2G5 feet high,
and is expected to cost $3.50, 900. 1t
will be constructed of limestone from
Indiana Quarrlcs, and, if the hopes OF
its designers and builders are carried
out, will be the finest and costicst SOL
diers' monument in America. The work
will take three or four years to complete
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

There are about 35, 600 deaf and dumb
people in this country, and they increase,
of course, as the population increases.
Thc'greatcst educational centre for them
is in New York city.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

A now phrase was invented by Lord
Compton, u Radical peer, who was re-
Gently Parliamentary candidate in Lon
don. "Thrcc rooms and cat" was, he
said, the existing standard of comfort for
the working classes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The French chemist who discovered
oleomargerine has now invented pro-
cess for treating steel by which steel
bronze and bell metal can be made at
fabulously low prices.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
BILL gYE IN THE SOUTH.
he Visits Some OF the Lato George wiass
inston's headquarters aud Feasts OH

N ole VIginny, sew
eral years after tho
close of the war. 4
1 am writing this
letter ut Norfolk, on
the seaboard, where
the Lynn Haven oys-
t o r grows rankest,
and the cherry-stone
oyster occupies his
little bed. The Lynn
Haven oyster grows
t o n great height
here, and tastes first
rate. Yesterday I ate
q Il i t @ n number of
them by request of
many citizens. Here
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The Argentine Republic is forging
ahead at tremendous pace. The only
parallel is to be found in the history of
The United States.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Tho people OF Franco have $500, oOo,-
200 invested in the Panama Canal, and
the chances are they will mover get back
cent
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

EVERYBODY smiled when the fat
woman ut the dime museum said she,
was going to take couple of rooms
for light housekeeping.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

'.Pino straw bagging." says tho Flori-
va Dispatch, sis pronounced, after a
thorough test, to be superior to jutc in
every respect"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

st. Paul, Mimi, parties predict de-
crease in the log crop on the upper Mis-
sissippi, the coming season, of about
twenty per cent. from last seasons cut.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Tho new public library building in
Boston is designed to accommodate the
most complete collection of books in the
United States. 1t will have shelf room
for 1000, 600 volumes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Helen M. Cougar, the Indiana Prohi-
hlbition orator, is very handsome wo.
man; with gray hair, although she is still
on the right side of forty. She has regu-
ar features, blue eyes and good figure.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Little insects are largely responsible
for the spread of pulmonary consump.
/. tion aud cho.ofa.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

A correspondent of the Chicago Her
Nd urges that the ordinary doctrines o.
law bc taught in public schools.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Steam Tricycle..

Vicomte de In Tour-du-Pin YER
clause describes in La Mature a steam 8
tricycle. which is claimed to DO prac-
teal success. The Yicomte has been
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

In Russia, eating and drinking take
up no small part oil u niun's eAlstvnce.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Mayor Alfred C. Chaplin, of Brooklyn,
has sent to the Board of Aldermen long
communication, the subject being the
growth OF the city, and drawing atten-
ton to building needs of the present and
in the near future. In the Introductory
passages of The message he gives tho
total number OF votes cast in the late
election in the cities of New York, Phil
adclphia, Brooklyn and Chicago, and
taking the percentage Of population to
each voter in tho various cities under
the census of 1880 as n basis, figures out
the apparent population of those cities
to-day. The table is rs follows:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08


reputation reputation
ia lSSl ia lssa
New York .....".... ,206,290 1855, 5a9
Philadelphia. .......... Si1.li0 1,0Ii,333
brooklyn. .............. 56dG63 7S2, oal
Chicago. ........ 503,lS5 74S2 Dis
In 1920, he says, the proportion of the
two cities to the population of the State
was less than onc-tcnth, while in 1880
it was more than ohc-third, and taking
the last Presidential vote as n basis the
present population is about two fifths of
the population of the whole State. A
computation of the figures he presents
gives the astounding result of 3, 800, 600
population i'll New York in 1920, and of
., 200, 600 in Brooklyn, but he thinks
that the excess of residence era in and
about brooklyn must continue to tell in
it's favor as compared with New York.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Arkansas has 800, 900 acres of prairie
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

When Chaplain McCabc was in Kansas
on tour endeavoring TO raise ST.
600, 900 for missions, little boy heard
his appeal, and thinking of the large
sum he had TO raise, determined to help
him. The first chance he had early in
the week he gathered baskctful of
chestnuts. width he sold for five cents.
lie sent this to Mr.. McCabe with the
note: "If you want any more let me
know" - Chicago Herald.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-12
He Clung to His Tormentor.

Boston Budget.
A friend narrates the following rather
jocose incident;
Proceeding down Joy street not long
since, his attention was called to little
negro boy who was crying piteously
and alternating his outbursts by MUNICH
ing a glowing hued red pepper. The
tears were streaming down his ebony
cheeks, and he was believing loudly
about the burning sensation in his
mouth and throat, totally ObliviOus of
the fact that the pepper was the cause
of his trouble, and that he was contlnu-
ally aggravating the pain by endeavor
Ing to nasticate the pungent article.
The narrator, noticing his trouble
and its cause. stepped forward and
snatched the pepper from his hands
and threw it into the street, whereupOn
the black urchin set up most vocifer-
GUS howl and dashed after his treasure,
while a burgly negress rushed out of a
doorway, evidently thinking her child
had been abused. The well-meaning
pedestrian did not linger to explain.
AS he departed he caught a glimpse of
the ebonized gamin again In possession
of the pepper, and yelling and munch-
ing as before. Adapting fragment of
a common quotation, it was case
where ignorance is bliss.