Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

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in Maine.
Trumbull County, Ohio, boasts of
fence of woven cornstalks.
A ive-year- child in NTonson, Me-,
is said to speak three languages.
Four-iifths of all the soda-water appa-
ratus in the world is manufactured in
Boston.
A business man of Cincinnati, Ohio,
places box of ice under his desk to keep
him cool.
The word Chautauqua is the corrup-
ton OF an Indian phrase signifying a
"foggy place"
A Philadelphia barber says that tn,
Western mans skin is the most irritated
Of any he shaves-they shave very close
y.
Duke Karl in Bayern, Germany, who
Is distinguished oculist, has just per-
formed the thousandth operation for
cataract
A farmer living near Emporia, Kan.>
OWNS horse eighteen hands and one inch
high 1t is five years old and is well
proportioned
The hottest weather ever known in the
United States was felt at Phoenix, Ari.
iona, in June, 1883, when the thermone-
ter marked 119 degrees.
a Wheeling CIV. Va.) barber has a IA.
zor that he has used constantly for the
last twenty-five years, and it does better
work now than it ever did.
Charles Micssc, of Hamburg, Berks
County, Penn, has designed a grouping
OF the forty-two stars in the national flag
so that they make u six pointed star.
From every State in the Union but
two, there have been sent to President
Harrison photographs of babies named
after him, until now the collection forms
big pile.
One of the interesting exhibits in the
crystal department of the French Expo
sltlon is an enormous glass bubble, cap
able OF holding nine casks of wine. Ii
has never been equaled in the history of
glass blowing.
The flag used to d:apc the casket of
President Lincoln is incased and hangs in
the private Office of the Secretary of War.
General Drum took care of the flag after
the rites had been conducted and took it
to Washington.
In certain town in Ohio, where
screens are not allowed to be used in
saloons, 4 big fat man is hired bv one of
tie more enterprisiug saloon keepers to
stand IN his door all the time. He OBJ
stmcts the view very efTectually.
Ii is said of the San Carlo Teatro. at
Naples, Italy, thai when they wish to
present Mount Vesuvius as the scene in n
play they simply remove the rear portion
OF the theatre, and 10 and behold. the
perpetually flaming and smoking volcano
revealed to the sight of the audience!
In looking through lot of second
hand books in Il store in Parkersburr.
w. Va, Seaman Cummings came across,
book which had been stolen from him
in Philadelphia twenty years ago. He
valued it very highly, as his father prc-
sented 1t to him when he was quite
young. He feels quite jubiant over the
recovery.
The Egyptians have always been rec
ognized for their ability in the manufac-
tnre OF perfumes, but due credit was
never given them before vase contain
ing some Egyptian ointment was opened
as the museum at Alnwick. The Der-
fume it contained still had pungcnt
oaor, although it was more than three
thousand years old.
Mrs. Wallace, OF Summcryillc, Ohio. was
cutting up an old dress that belonged to
her mother, who died couple Of years
ago. when the scissors came upon some
thing hard. Upon examination it was
found 10 be Il twenty dollar bill folded
and sewcd in hem. Mrs. Wallace is not
i'll the best of circumstances and the find
was very timely one.
4 suggestion has been made in tho
London papers to gid the dome of st.
Faul's. 1t is calculated that the rold
alone would cost S45, 900, and the cx,
penses OF labor and OF the costly scat
folding would probably nearly double
that sum. Undoubtedly the appearance
OF st. Paul's would be enormously i'm
proved by the gliding of the dome.
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