Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
SELECT sIFTINGs.
Man is ninety per cent. water.

The waltz shas entered upon its 1o2d
Ieason.
A spring of natural cologne has
broken forth in Algiers.
A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.
The first settlement of the English in
Bengal and British India was at Calcutta
In 1859,
Mrs. Sarah Barnett, of Lafayette, Va.
took to her bed forty years ago and has
not left it since.
An artesian we'll at Tripoli, Iowa,
Spouts water twelve feet above the sur
lace Of the ground.
In the year 1859 persons who feasted
or were idle on Christmas Day in Massa-
chusctts were fined five shillings.
Some of the handsomest shops in Paris
are now devoted to the sale of Japanese
wares, and are wholly conducted by
Japs.s
There is not blonde clerk in jaw
Gonld's employ, and it is said that he
dislikcs to do business with men with
fair hair.
a porkcr in Otoe County. Neb.
emerged from an attack of cholera with
its bristles, formerly black, very pro
nounced gray.
The mummiticd remains of Santa
Tonga, or Big Heart" one of the old
chiefs of the utes, are in cave near old
Fort Casper, in Wyoming.
A Hindoo god, over a thousand wears
old, largely composed of gold and
precious stones, was sold ut auction the
other day in London, for $12, $50.
Steel pens were not so called from the
material used in manufacture, but from
the name of the first manufacturer. n MIR.
Steele, who began business in England
in 1903
law in Prussia provides that any per-
son carrying stick or an umbrella in
such way as to be dangerous to other
travellers may be punished by fine or i'm
prisonmcnt.
Word comes from Wheeling, w. Va,
that live bat has been found there i'm
bcddcd in solid rock in crevice Just
big enough to contain it and utterly
shut away from the outside world.
Only four gowns of American silk
have ever hccn made. OF these Mrs.
Garfield was given one, Mrs. Tom Thumb
bought another, and Mrs. j. r. Higgins,
of Midd!cboro, Mass, is now having one
made from material furnished by silk
worms of her own raising.
Red pepper is obtained from sort of
capsicum, and sometimes called chillcs.
the seed of which is the most pungent
and is ground up fine with the skins. Ii
comes from Cayenne, zanzibar and other
parts OF Afri n. The plant can be
grown about the same as our pcppers.
and is sometimes grown with them.
\ new sect has been formed at Monaco.
France, called the brotherhood of the
Sons of God" 1t resembles in some
features the Essences, its members NIB.
staining from tobacco, flesh, intoxicants,
and favoring an ascctic life. Its SYM,
Dol is ''5i3; its badge god, green and
purple ribbon; its missionary language
Nolapuk.
'Zep, the hermit fisherman" who
lived Lonely life near Stonington,
Conn, has amused n fortune of sou, 900
from an annual income of from $500 to
S5hO, which he has made from his fish
ing boat during the past forty years.
He started with capital of 500, which
he invested i'll dory, and his annual
expenses, food and all, have rarely been
more than So.
Dltck ioon was shot III WaShoe
Lake, Cal, recently. Such n bird had
never been seen there before and it is
supposed to have been driven out of ITS
course by storm while migrating south
from the Arctic regions. The bird
measured eight feet six inches from tip
to tip of its expanded wings, and six
feet and three inches from the point OF
its bill TO the end of its tail. The bill
was nearly II foot in length
The talest building used tor dwelling
purposes in New York city, is the one
known as the Osborne Flats. at Fifty
seventh street and Broadway, which is
~ feet in height; the Dakota Flats,
Eighth avenue and Seventy second
street, l55 feet; Munro Flats, Fifty
ninth street, 40 feet east of Sixth ave
nue.. los feet Navarro Flats, Seventh
avenue and Fifty-ninth street, lag!
feet. The measurement is from the
curb level to roof.