Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
CURIOUS FACTS.

The only space ON the London omnibus
where an advertisement does not go is
underneath.
A gopher hunt was organized at Lock
ford, Cal, and the hunters cleaned up
2Q00 scalps. 81, to4 .ll
A German jeweler exhibits large
model of locomotive and cars made en-
tirely of solid gold.
\ man ut Suisun, CAL, has made n
clock that will run $50 days without
winding second time.
In default Of snow the lumbermen in
northern Pennsylvania covered the log
slides with crude petroleum.
An Aberdeen (Scotland) granite dealer
sends to this country annually, il is said,
$500, 900 worth of stuff for grave stones.
Milk from Il COW which had been bit
ten by mad dog is supposed to have
fatally poisoned Il whole family near
Malta Bend, Mo.
There has been an advance in the
price of sponges at Key West, Fla. One
lot of 1870 lunches was lately sold for
the fancy price of $4,000.
According to the Registrar General of
England there are ccntenarians in that
country ut the rate of one to each 1877
600 of the population, or about 800 in
ALL
Farmer Becker, of Coolbaugh, Penn,
recently found Il 800 pound bear under
his hay stack. He and his son had II
tussle with it, and after Il hard fight they
killed it.
While blowing in IL field the horses of
Farmer Guss, of Martinsburg, w. Va,
suddenly sank into the ground and went
fifteen feet below the surface before they
found the bottom.
Trains on the Pennsylvania limited
have the market quotations posted, Il
stenographer and typewriter render
gratuitous service to the passengers, and
II waiting maid is provided for TIE ladies.
Oscar futile, of Santa Cruz, Cal, was
splitting kindling wood when he tackled
Il large piece of redwood He found Il
tive-cent piece of 1850 lodged in the cen
tire of the limb. 1t was blackcncd by
the sap.
Farmer Gardner, of Portcrville, Cal,
set six traps one night for coyotes. Each
trap was sprung, but the coyotes got
loose by eating their legs. This heroic
surgery lost Gardner $50, rs the feet do
not count as scalps.
Albert tombstone Campbell, late of
Mexico, believes that he has a valid
claim to the titles of Earl of Annandale
and Earl of HEARTFELT, and is in London 10
press it. Both these earldoms figure in
the books as extinct.
The date palm is successfully culti-
waited in Hillsboroush County, Fla The
trees come into bearing in six years, aud
one cultivator has trees which bring him
in from S. to $15 each. They produce
good crops every year, without regard to
the weather.
Not the least curious imitation Of the
Eifiel tower is one i'll ice, fifty metres
high, which has heen inauguratcd in St.
Petersburg 1t has platform reached
by stairs cut Ill the ice, and this is lighted
by electricity so that one can eat and
dance there.
Two beggars, Charles Gcrke, aged
tiftyeight, and Mary Eichmillcr, aged
SIXTY, were recently married ut l.ouis-
vile, Ky. When the magistrate asked
the groom how they would get their sup
port, he answered: "llustle around and
live some way"
A farmer named Walker, in Lough-
borough County Court, Ireland, was
mnlcted iii Sl5 for damages to lawyer
named Giles, who lived and had Il fine
garden 300 yards away from one of the
turner's fields The complaint was that
the farmer allowed his field 10 grow up
to thistles aud that the wind blew the
down over into the plaintiffs garden.
Walkers defense was that he had kept
three men and woman pulling up the
thistles.