Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

White House.
Tho languages of the world number
about nine hundred.
mine of natural shoe backing has
been discovered in Utah.
The Declaration of Independence was
written with quill pen.
The French army on peace footing
consists of half million men.
When an animal tanner wishes to snb-
due tiger he hits him on the nose
I A cat nineteen years old is to be seen
in the family of N. b. Shaw, AGRA, Ny.
Fishermen have discovered that cod
at the Fishing Banks will bite at arti-
fetal bate.
Joseph W;tcher, of Warren, New
Hampshire's veteran hunter, has record
of forty-two bears killed.
A Georgia man has hen which lays
double eggs, each ono having an egg
within an egg, as 1T were.
Some Japanese chestnut trees at Santa
Rosa, Cal, yield enormous fruit One
dozen nuts weigh pound.
A Poughkeopsie IN. W woman has a
glass necktie, which, it is said, can be
tied in any kind of knot.
A grocer in New York advertises his
business by stonciling his name and ad-
dress in red ink on every egg he sells.
In London the windows of private
houses are washed by limited liability
company at the rate of eight cents win
dow.
A California paper asserts that one of
the tramps of the Santa Cruz chain gang
wears kid gloves when sweeping the
streets.
Ten coloIed men acted as pail bearers
OF the funeral of prominent white Epis
copal Clergyman the other day in Column
bus, s. G.
A bouquet of white roses hung on the
bell-knob of the house of dead person.
along with the Grape, is a new idea in
trappings Of woe.
When man coming to this country
gives an assumed name, boing only
known by it and naturalizcd under IT.
1t becomes his legal name.
a boy born abroad of American par
ents may become President of tho United
States before taking out naturalization
papers, as he is citizen without nat
uraliZation.
The time occupied in tho passage OF
! an electric cable message between New
York and London is NOT of appreciable
duration. 1t is instantaneous, like
lightning flash.
a Georgia couple, believing in the say.
ing that fruit cake improves with age,
kept their wedding cake until last week,
when, with their children, they ate it.
The cake was sixteen years old.
1t is said that Port Even On. w
man, who is fond of animals, has pur.
chased hammock, i'll which his canine
sleeps at night. He has taught the dog
to catch one end of the rope in his teeth
and swing itself asleep.
Charles Vail, an undertaken of Madi-
son, Ind, is proud of the fact that he
has buried moro than 90, 900 people; or,
as he claims, moro than any other man
In the world. he has been in the bust
ness sixty years and is eighty years OF
age.
The Arkansas Gazette, in order to
locate the largest family in its State,
offers $50 for the mother, $25 for the
father and solid silver mug for the
youngest child. The family must con.
sist of father, mother and living chill.
dren.
a Brewer (Ale.) woman, while hang
ing out her wash, discovered what APP
peared to be patch in the hem of shirt,
and, investigating, found it to be So
bill, which she had long before sewed
into the hem for safe keeping and for
gotten.
One very comfortable piece of stats
tics has been furnished by the Chautau-
! qua Association, to the effect that over
three thousand years would be required
for any one person to read all the liter.
airy works now in existence that are rec
ognized as standard
The Chinaman bears his fathers namo:
the woman, on marrying, takes her hus-
bands name and adds her fathers to it.
Thus, when Miss Wang marries Mr.. Ly,
while she might usually be called Mrs.
Ly, she must in formal acts sign herself
Ly- Wang. People of the lower classes
have names, the character of which
varies in different places.