Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-07
CURIOUS FACTS.

John Rink, of Jcnner Township, Penn,
has colt, which when six months old
weighed 614 pounds. IS
Lockjaw resulted from the injury re.
ceived by boy at Pittsburg, who was
struck in the back with an apple.
The camel is used successfully as pack
animal in Australia, and is considered su
pcrior to the mule for that region.
The Government Mt present is coming q
So goldpicce, but it generally commands
u premium of between thirty-6ve and fifty.
cents.
There is advertised for sale in Worces-
tershire, England, a piece of property on
lease which has I'LL years yet to run.
1t was made for 1000 years in 1900.
Frank Crone, wealthy merchant OF
Erie County, Ohio, has been married to
his sisters granddaughter. The groom
Is sixty-iive and the bride twenty -four.
There has been discovered near Visalia,
Cal, the stump of scquoia which, four
feet from the ground, measures forty-two
feet in diameter and 1875 feet in circuu-
ference.
The operator OF in electric car ut Pitts
ourg reversed the current very suddenly
and the iron work became so heavily
charged that two passengers received Sc
we're shocks.
John Slago, OF Audcnried, Penn, was
to have been married, but on his wedding
day he was accidcntly shot in the face
and badly hurt while hunting wild tur-
keys for the wedding feast.
The soil of Bradford County, Fla, is
said to impart Il peculiar gloss to straw
berries, making them look us il vanished,
and giving the berries a beautiful appear
ancc. 1t is due TO the silica in the soil.
A Pocahontas County CIV. Va) ghost
in the shape of ii woman in white wear
ing q belt stuck full of revolvers turns
out 20 bc nothing but the shadow of
tree rs thrown agains. wall by street
lamp.
A farmer, driving from Northampton
to Akron, Ohio, was attracted by what
appeared TO he Il large tree all one
blaze of FIRE. Investigation revealed the
fact that the phenomenon was simply Il
brilliant phospiorescent display.
A line drawn from She centre of the
heel To the centre of the great toe is
called the "Meyer's line" 1t shows that
the range of the feet is scarcely ever the
same in two individuals, and, therefore,
to expect IA tit from uniform lasts is to ex-
pect the impossible.
Martin Ericsson, of North Dakota,
stumbled and fell while walking across a
piece of land from which some under
brush had just been cut In falling he
opened his mouth and fell on sharp
grub ten inches high. The point en-
tered his brain and he died almost in.
stantly.
John Peyton, OF Maine, was apparently
as healthy man rs there was in the
State. lie was sitting in chair when a
friend came up. spoke TO him, and
slapped him familiarly on the shoulder.
He died instantly. The autopsy showed
no evidence of heart failure or apoplexy,
and the cause Of his death is a mystery.
c. L. Alexander has ON exhibition at
his store in Madison, n. D., very per-
feet little specimen of the tinny tribe,
presented him by his friend, Willard
I.aughlin. 1t came forth from 100
foot artesian we'll twenty miles southwest
81 Toward. This well, it is said, flows
with wonderful force, and throws out
small fish freely during the spring and
summer.
About two years ago a severe frost
burst the bark of an orange tree at Au-
burn, CAL, all around ica- The ground,
aud 1t subsequently, Eel! Off, leaving a
space of from eight To. twelve inches on
the tree without any bark. Still the
upper part of the tree lived and is alive
and thrifty to-day, bearing fruit. The
fact Of tree living after being COM
pietely girdlcd is probably unprccc-
!entcd.