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

''Did you ever shave a womani" was
the queer question put to an uptown
barber by customer who was being
shaved. "MTany time" said the bar
Der, who went on to tell of his experience
IN that line of business. "Thcre are Ia
dies in town who have quite nous
tache, and Others who have something
like chin beard, and have operated on
both kinds. l shaved tho upper lip of
a lady yesterday afternoon to prepare her
to go out to a party. She Keeps down
the growth of hair by clipping 1T, but
she wanted 10 look extra fine on this oc-
casion. Some of them who are troubled
as she is pull out the hairs few at n
time, till they get rid of the whole
growth, and there is now an electrical
way of removing them without pain
from any part of the face. but know of
ladies who get BARRIERS to shave them at
times, and others who shave themselves
Just like men. tell you there arc more
kinds Of folks in this barharous world
than some people know of."-Meso York
San.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
CoREAN SOLDIERS

Corea and who possess the confidence of
the native merchants. Corca does n large
part OF its buying through its merchant
guild and in this way large sales are made
ut one time. DIr. Townsend tells me he
has been shipping cotton here direct
from massachusetts, and that the peoplo
who have been accustomed to the poorer
and cheaper English goods like our pro-
duct much better. The average Corean
spends all he makes on his back and
his stomach, and the people according to
their incomes, spend ms much upon
clothes rs any people in the world.
Business with them has to be done
largely upoN the credit system, and they
think nothing of forgetting to meet their
payments at the time they are due. In
terest is here Mt the rate of from to s
per cent. month, and the country is too
poor to nave banks.
drygoods box. They are arranged
around narrow courts with little plat
form two feet wide running around their
outside and forming a sort of shelf two
feet high, going entirely around the
court. On to this shelf or porch each
store opens, and the merchant sits out
side his store and not in it. He has n
curtain in front of his goods and he
brings out piece by piece as you ask for
II. lie keens his hat on while he trades
and smokes during the whole transaction.
sitting on his heels, he does not APP
parentiy care whether you buy or not.
and am told that he considers that a
large order should bring much higher
comparative price than smaller one.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Mr. Townsend wanted, not long ago, to
export some small Corean mats to the
United States. He asked merchant the
price, and he was told they would be
ten cents apiece, and was asked how
many he wanted. He replied that lie
would take $4,000. whercuron the
Corcan, taking his long pipe from his
mouth in establishment. said: ..Jh, il
you want so many shall have to charge
you twenty cents apiece! 1t will be i'm
possible to ill your order Mt less than
twenty cents" And so it is with all
business. The more you want the moro
it costs, and n large order scares the
merchant by the thought that you arc
taking all his stock and he may have
trouble in buying more. The coin used
In shopping is, of couIse, the cash. and
In buying you always take n servant with
you to carry your moncy-bag for you.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Enormous Snidcrs.

An enormous spider, writes a CORE
sppndcnt from Calcutta, India, was
found ciinging to door curtain, and
when alarmed emitted ii grating sound
but whether with its mand,bcs or with
its feet could not be ascerlaincd. Ii
showed no disposition to run away OF
even to move from the spot where ii
was until it was Kill ed with The blow OF
Il stick. II is quite two inches in length
and half an inch in breadth, and The two
segments of the body arc equal in size.
1t is distinctly short legged fora spider.
but the eight legs are very strong and
heavy. The body, too, is covered with
fine, short hair, and is all of n dark
brown color. The two fangs are like Il
sparrow's claws and exceedingly sharp,
and if stretched out straight would,
with the .cshy part, measure nearly hall
an inch each. find it difficult to convey
an adequate impression of the terrible
and formidable appearance of the
monster. The common large running
spider to he found in every house in
Calcutta unhcsing tatingly tackles and
destroys the largcs. cockroach. Judged
by that standard that spider ought to
make its prey of small bird or mouse.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The preponderence of foreign-born
,seamen in the American navy was made
the special subject of discussion in Adj
miral Porter's annual report some time
ago, and was then represented in the
light of menance to the nation. In.
squiry among officers at the navy yard,
set on foot by the New York Times, in.
dictates that the Admirai's report caused
much less sensation in the service than
among landsmen and civilians. Hardly
an officer could be found to agree with
tho statement that the prcdominence OF
foreign-born sailors was menace to the
navy, mud few seemed to think it dis
Sadran;aue
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

One of the biggest land deals on record
has been consummatcd with the Bra il.
liam Government by New York, Tits
burg and Washington capitalists. The
principal object Of the promoters of the
@cheme is to open up valuable diamond
and gold fields i'll far Western Brazil
and in order to prosecute investigation
and carry on the work company with n
capital of 5000, 600 is in process of
formation. Tie grant is for between
30. 900 and 60, 900 acres of land border
ing the Amazon River, in the region Of
the Andes Mountains.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
rho Irridesecnt Sunbeam Treatment,

1t has long been known that n free
exposure to sunlight or diiTused day
light is tranqnilizing to the nerves, and
the physicians at Ale sandra. acting
upon This, have carried the test much
lurther and distinguished between the
elects OF different colors in the light.
The sashcs of an asylum window were
ilicd with glass of various colors. and
;hc walls and woodwork were painted to
match the glass. ~ patient suffering
rom meiancholia, who refused TO eat.
vas placed in one of the rooms with.
walls and windows of bright red.
Three hours exposure to this influence
produced clccriuincss and he asked for
food
This seemed very important to physi-
clans, who know that with The insane
whose malady begins with mclancholia
the refusal of food is the earliest, the
most common, as well as the most
dangerous symptom, and is generally
pers sted in until nourishmcnt has TO be
administered by force: so that the re-
moval Of that fancy and the restoration.
d healthy, spontaneous desire for food
caused by only few hours sub cotton
to light influence is an important fact in
The annals Of medicine. Another melan-
choly patient, who always kept his hands
over his mouth so as 10 shut ont food
and air, was placed in the red room and
soon began to improve, and the next
day had so far forgotten the halluclna-
ton that he ate with hearty appetite.
Still another patient, n violent maniac.
was placed in II blue room and became
quiet in an hour, while fourth was
completely cured after passing n day in
q violet coloIed room.-Noso YORK. HeralA
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
India-Rnbber Horse Shoe.

''Thc proposed substitution of India.
rubber for metal in the manufacture of
horse shoes is based upon various SUP.
posed advantages" snys q wcll-known
New York authority to n ALau and E1.
1,tSs reporter, zone of these being that
the former enables horse to 90 easier
over all kinds of roads and rough O,
smooth ground without slipping. The
cOntrivance brought forward for this
purpose is such us to obviatc in one in.
stance the necessity of using an iron
shoe, which can be novel momentarilv
when the horse is shod with an iron
shoe. According to this design the shoe
consists of all India rubber bottom niece
nodded to fit over and around the FROG
Of the hoof, with ledge or protecting
rim rising up the front and around the
level where the nails are clamped, the
pro lection having an edge under which
a steel band or other appliance can be
drawn and nipped tight to retain the
rubber shoe. The band is connected bv
studs, which pass through the heel part
of the hoof, this being cut away from the
inner side for the purpose, and the stud
or studs may work scientifically to OBJ.
tain grip or fixing. II the rubber shoe
is used with an iron shoe the frog por.
ton or pad has front plate and two
side wings partially imbcdded in to hold
the rubber shoe in place. If tho rubber
shoe be divided or made thin in the
center, swivel or other bar can be con.
traated from the rear to reduce the width
of the pad, so that it enters easily and
also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes
in position.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The Agricultural Department at
Washington is compiling directory of
all active departments, boards, societies,
colleges, oranges, fair associations, farm
ers' clubs, farmers alliances and other
Organizations devoted to agriculture,
horticulture, dairying, fruit culture, viii
culture, forestry, stock-raising in all its
several branches, fish-culture, bcc-cul-
ture, silk-culture and like industries.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
receipts.

Recent reports represent King Ohio,
of Bavaria, as sinking deeper and deeper
IN his religious mania. He remains so
long in kneeling posture as to be un-
able to rise without assistance He fire.
quently summons his priest to his bed
side at night in order to confess, and
exclaims to those about him: "You do
not know what sins was guilty of yes
,terday. dare not close my eyes until
have received absolution."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
The Wonderful Forage Plant of Call
fOruiu

Many people, whose only acquaintance
with alfalfa is through the medl. nj of
the newspapers, are n little skeptical rs
to many of the claims made for that
wonderful forage plant. They do not
understand how 1t can go on, year after
year, producing such immense crops
without fertilization. or, ut least with
no other addition to the soil than is
furnished by the water used in irriga-
ton. But if they understood the mar
vicious root development of the alfalfa
plant some of their skepticism would be
removed, and part of the mystery. at all
events, would be explained. The &C.
companying illustration will serve to
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Our knowledge concerning the CON
ditions under which the poison which
creates hydrophobia acts has been some
what advanced by the recent experiments
of NJ. talt CIR, of laris. According to
the experiments, the dried virus has is
poisonous properties destroyed III from
four to six days. On the other hand,
earlier experiments of The same savant
show that an animal which has died OF
rabies may retain the poison in that
part of the brain called the mcdula OBJ
longata for six or seven weeks. 1t is
evident that this fact may be of i'm
portance in cases where persons have
been bitten by animals supposed to be
rabid. If the body of the creature In.
been buried it may he possible to cxhumc
1t after many days and make experiments
which mny serve to show whether
danger from the wound is to be apprc-
hended. In this way unfounded anxi-
cites may be allayed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Great as were the predictions made of
the usefulness of the Brooklyn bridge,
the reality far surpasscs the most san
guine estimates. During the year end
ing December /, 1888, thirty three mil
lion passenger crossed the bridge and
the total receipts were $1,912, 254. 50.
The bridge paid $3.50, 900 to the two
cities and also made many extensive
changes and improvements out of its net
receipts.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Magnitude of The Potato Cron

The Importance of the potato crop can
hardly be estimated. From the small.
insignificant tubcr from the mountains
has grown up one of The greatest indus
tries OF the age. One hundred wears apo
they were hardly known rs an article of
TODD. Now there Is scarcely table in
all this country, or urope, that is not
supplied three times day with The lus.
rious esculcnt. 1t is n staple in every
household, and forms the main portion
Of the food for the poor and luborinp
classes.
In Germany, the crop for 1858, amounts
to the enormous sum total of Dps 6I4, 1874
bushels, valued at S232, 1SS, 54s, while
the entire wheat crop of that country il
only one hundred and four million bush
els. With its immense population, what
could Germany do without the potato2
In sweden, the latest reports show 5O,-
iS4, ISL bushels of potatoes, and only
3,4UG, III bushels of wheat. The potato
crop in that country is equal in value to
all the other crops combined, oats cx-
ceptcd. In Scotland, England and Ireland
the ratio is greater.
In the United States, the crop for the
year 1886 was 1853, 05l 900 bushels while
IN 1881 1t was moro than $50, 900, 600
bushels, valued at moro than one hun
drcd million dollars at the local markets.
Cotton growing is the leading indus
try of nearly all of the Southern States.
For many years cotton has been king of
our products. yet who realizes that the
market value of the potatoes grown in
the United States is equal in value to
one-half the entire cotton production.
all of the oats, barley. rye, buckwhcat
md rice combined is worth less in dol.
ars and cents in the market, than the
potato crop of our country.-bur,a,
Field and St0ckman,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Their grotesque alphabet is making the
Germans nation of ncar-sighted people,
states the Trenton On. j. Amerimn
Defective vision is not only acquired,
but it appears to be handed down to
offspring. Cohn found over six per
cent. of elementary pupils in Germany
considerably myopic; while i'll Antwerp
DIR. De Nets finds only two per cent.
Slightly affected
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

explain to some extent the relation which
the roots of the alfalfa sustain to tho
plant above ground. The proportion ,s
certainly remarkable, but, after all, it is
rather under han over the truth. The
roots of alfalfa have been known in this
state Ia 20 forty feet in search of water.
The writer has personal knowledge o.! Mt
least ono such case. and has no doubt
bu: they are cutie common With such
power of drnining sustrnancc from the
depths os the soil. there is little wonder,
then, that crops should he produced
whic: are far i'll excess of anything
grown by n more shailow-rooted plant. -
SM Francisco Z. iUAic'c.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Cattle raising in the Northern Terri
tories is again increasing. Fifteen
thousand New Mexico steers have been
placed on Montana ranges and New
Mexico stockmen say that they expect
to sell SO, 900 cattle in that Territory
next season.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Charles Francis Adams, the distin-
guished railway authority, is of the
opinion that railroads will combine in
The future, and we shall have several
systems of 10000 miles or more each
lndcr one management.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

'PIotection for American actors" is
The last development of the movement
which has taxed foreign pictures, banned
foreign clcrgymen and stopped the i'm
portation OF skilled artisans.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

West Virginians were never entirely
pleased with the name of their state,
alleges the New York Telegram, and n
movement to change it to "Kanawha" is
afoot. In land where SO many musical
Indian designations may be found, it
shows q lack of taste, the Telegram
declares, to repeat the name of another
State with any modification.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

A Mexican sorccrcss has predicted
that Mexico will conquer the United
States in 1890, and some of the Mexican
papers say that she is infallible. Mexico
will assume big contract if it tries to
verify the prediction.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Tho small but intolcrablc pest to farm
rrs, the English sparrow, has been out
lawed in Canada, the President of the
Ontario Agricultural Department having
given public notice that this destructive
bird is no longer under The protection of
the law, and that every person was at
liberty to assist in its destruction.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Nearly 1900 women in this country
are commercial travellers, 2l3G are
architects, chemists and assayists, 22s
professional journalists, $50 authors,
20a1 artists, -, 1872 professional musi.
clans, 80 Government clerks, 243l
physicians and surgeons, 10 lawyers, 16d
ministers, PIG stockraisers, SO, 500
farmers, and 15i, 500 teachers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

During the past year the net gain of
new churches in this country was G43l
Of ministers, 1905, and of members,
774,SG On an average, therefore, II
churches were gained each day, IL
ministers and 2120 members.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The Boston Musical Herald proclaims
yet unprovidcd with national air pas
sessing the breadth and dignity worthy
of great country"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

1t is calculated that there are owe,
200, 600 lepers in British India, the ma
lority of whom have places in aims.
houses and asylnms, the others roamino
over the country and subsisting on on
charity. 20
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
The Chicago Times says thar farming
land of Illinois has decreased twenty per
cent. in value since 1880.

There are nearly 200 patients in the
Nevada State Insane Asylum. In view of
The small population of tho State, this
large number is looked upon as public
calamity.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

The Detroit Free Press suggests that
''Africa for the Africans" may be one of
The slogans of the twentieth century.
The Arab and the Ethiop make hot
Gghting mixture.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Reports from nearly 100 Consuls agree
that the United States is receiving the
icum of foreign population, and that
the steamship owners arc largely re-
iponsible for it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
Part Of n Letter.

DEAR JACK:
Knowing what an ardent sportsman
you are. old fellow, l send Q. box of very
fine gunpowdcr, extra powerful. Be
careful about smok-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
SIGHTS In C0REA.
STRANGE SCENES IN A FAR
AWAY COUNTRY
An Extra Horse Required TO Carry
Your Cash ''-COrcan Women
The Wonders of Seoul
Fat Corcan Children

PEAKING of Corca
and the Corcans,
Frank G. Carpenter
says in one of his
entertaining letters :
The unit Of money
is tho copper or
brass coin known ~
the " cash" Of
which it takes more
than 100 to make II
NJ c xican d ollar
worth here seventy
five cents. 1t cost
mo in the neigh
borhood of 80, 900
GO onal, - a. t.,l
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

Queen Victoria has requested that for
cign married ladies presented at co ri.
must be accompanied by their husbands
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-04
Gyp at the Coast.

From my window | can see a hill
where, in winter time, the little folks
come every day to coast. Little girls
and boys, with their gay red and bule
and green sleds, have great sport
when the school is done, and all day
long on Saturday. Of course there
are lots of tumbles in the soft snow,
and much laughter shouting and
sometimes very funny things hap
pen.
One day, little Harry Hill, with his
dog Gyp, came out to coast; and,
while Harry rode down the hill on his
sled, Gyp ran close behind him till
they came to the bottom. Then what
do you think Harry did? He took a
piece of stout string from his pocket
and tied Gyp to the sled. Away
went the little dog, dragging the sled
after him up the hill.
All the afternoon Gyp worked for
his little master, and, when | saw
Harry going home. in the evening,
Gyp was trotting along by his side,
with his little black tail curled owe.
his back and he did not look one bit
tired.-M. N. Sanford, in orr Lit
tie Ones and the Nnrseru.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-04
Our Agricultural Resources.

The annual crop report of the de-
partment of agriculture shows that
there is a larger aggregate product of
cereals than has ever before been re-
corded. 1t will amount to about 81
200, 900 900 bushels, or fully fifty
bushels per head. This is about three
times the average supply per capita
of Europe from home production,
and receipts from other continents
amount to only about one bushel per
head. The aggregate potato pro-
duction is 200, 000, 900 bushels, the
sweet potato corp about 10000, 900
bushels. The production of cane
sugar is small, sorghum a medium
crop. Owing to the abundance of
moisture and the moderate temper
allure of spring the hay crop was very
large. The cotton crop is of medium
yield, with increased acreage. Fruits
have been fairly abundant, though
variable in production locally. 1t is
the ~"even" year, and apples are
plentiful for domestic use, while their
cheapness has favored expectation.
The wool clip of 1888 was slightly
reduced in consequence Of the reduc-
ton of 1ocks in Texas and elsewhere.
The estimated product is 296, 900, 900
pounds. The meat supply has been
very abundant. The area of maize,
as estimated for the crop 1888,
makes an increase of $780, 43 over
the crop of 1887, and 1904, 256
acres over the census crop of 1879,
indicating a gain of twenty n per
cent in nine years. The estimate of
wheat area makes a reduction of
305 ,645 acres from the breadth of
1887. The aggregate is 1896, 1873,
an increase of only 1905 05 on the
area of 1879, orlittle more than five
per cent. The exports will probably
be less than those of 1S79-90 by at
least 100, O00, 900 bushels, a quantity
more than ample for the annual sup
ply of all the increase of population
since 1SS0.-There appears to be a
further increase of the area of oats,
amounfipU 70 I or 2ze acroc ap6
about Al 900, 900 bushels increase in
the quantity produced. The yield
per acre IS twenty-six bushels,
against 25.4 bushels in 1887.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-04
Gemperamre.
Have You a Boy to Spare?

The saloon must have boys or it
must shut up shop. Can't you fur
nish one? 1t is a great factory, and
unless it can get 1000, 900 boys from
each generation for raw material,
some of these factories must close
out, and its operatives must be
thrown on a cold world, and the pub
lie revenue will dwindle. "Wanted
?, 900, 900 boys is the notice.
One family out of every five must
contribute a boy to keep up the sup
ply. VIII you help? Which of your
boys will it be? The minotaur of
Crete had to have a trireme full of
fair maidens each year; but the min
otaur of America demands a city full
of boys each year. Are you a
father?-Have you kindly given your
share to keep up the supply for this
great public institution that is help
ing to pay your taxes and kindly
electing your officials for you? Have
you contributed a boy? If not, some
other family has had to give more
than its share. Are you selfish, vot-
ing to keep tn. saloon open to grind
up boys, and then doing nothing to
keep up the supply?