Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-07
CURIOUS YAcrs.
A camel llvos forty years.

New Orleans was built In 1717,
Cats eye ia worth $15 to $50 a carat.
In every 1000 births eleven are twins.
Blankets were first made in England In
1910.
Tho cathedral Of Amiens was built in
1920.
A roy of light travels II 100, 900 miles
in minute.
Fifty dollars in nickcls weigh exactly
10a pounds.
Gas lighting was introduced into New
York in 1894.
The art of preserving flowers in sand
was discovered in 1888.
Modern history dates from the agc of
Charlcmagnc, about 500.
A Mazarin Bible brought $40, 900 at
recent auction sale in London.
Robert Bruce held his first Parliament
ct St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1909.
Tho first Attorney General of England
was William bonneville, appointed in
1877.
Daniel Potter and his wife, of Salem,
safy Of their marriage recently.
A salmon caught on the Pacific coast
had M iron spike seven inches long, with
q half-inch head, in its stomach.
In Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland, the peo-
pie have an annual masquerade in honor
of the birthday of Robert Burns.
Still another order has been started in
Maine-thc Permanent Haymakers' As
ISOLATION" Its lodges are called shay
lofts.'
Dagnesscau, one of the Chancellors OF
France, wrote an able and bulky work in
the successive interval Of waiting for
dinner.
The thoroughbred fox TERROR is short
haired, and may have white OF dark
brown tail, but the predominant color of
the body must be white.
A case containing representations of
every President of the United States in
mcerschaum has just been completed, and
will be sent to the Paris Exhibition.
A small lcasehold property in Worces-
tcrshire, England, is announced for sale
by auction, held "for the residue of term
OF 1000 years created in the year 1000"
Lucic Lafrancc lived ten years next
door to her sister in Montreal, Canada,
without knowing it, and then the pair
became known to each other through
their grocer. ....
There arc marriages still Mt famous
Gretna Green, Scotland. One Willie
Lang there takes the place of the ancient
blacksmith, and in the public house
spices dozen or so of runaway couples
every year.
Glass furniture is manufactured cspc-
cially for India, where the raiahs like
glittcrinS and SNOWY rooms. Glass bed
steads and chairs, huge glass sidcboards
and other articles of domestic use are
made to suit oriental tastes.
The fine compact sand which gives
such firm footing upon the beach at An
istasla, Fla, is scarcely half an inch in
depth. Below it lies bed of loose,
broken shell. Under the microscope a
pinch of this debris from the ocean bottom
is transformed into myriad of grottoes
towers and minarcts, built of glitt erine
crystals and gems of every hue.
A sailor, while his vessel is in port. is
always observed in New York to walk
along the middle of the sidewalk, where
as countryman who comes from To-
cality remote from great river or the
sea always walks either close to the curb
or close to the stoop line. This observa-
ton should, perhaps, be qualified by the
remark that, under certain conditions,
sailors are strongly inclined to take the
whole sidewalk
Mr.. W. NJ strothcr, of Lynchb,.rg,
Va, owns the memorial ring worn by
General Washington after the death of
his brother Lawrence. 1t is a cluster
diamond set in platina and gold On the
outside in curiously wrought style is
engraved the name of Lawrence Wash
ington and the date of his death. The
ring is mentioned and described in
Washington's will, and was bequeathed
by him to his brothers widow, who was
Miss Fairfax