Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Tho cultivation of the Egyptian date
palm is to be tried on largo scale in
lndla. +AE i- .aniatac. ~. 4,,
+ Ex'Congrcssmnn Stephen F. Wilson,
Of Wcllsboro, Penn, has built Tor him
self granite tomb in shap, of log
cabin.
A hundred and twenty thcu,aud
fishermen arc always afoat round The
English coasts, gathering the harvest Of
the sea.
Tho .swcct-sccntcd Peruvian hc';o.
trap;. or ''chcrrypic. was in troduecd
from South Amcr.c, in 1910. having
been discovered by tho celebrated Jus.
sicu when botanizing among the Cordi-
lcr,s.
Oac portion OF West Main street.
Gainesville, Ga is known to some by
the startling name of dead Mans
Row." In tho past seventeen years
four mon have been killed in almost tho
same spot.
There have been two spring, discov-
cred in Bramwcll W. Va, which are
only about fifteen feet apart, the water
OF one of which is colder than ice, if
possible. while the other almost rcacho,
n boiling temperature.
Rice boyd OF Uaioatown, Penn, has
been pasturing his cattle Oh 800, 600
coal field, never suspccting its value.
lie sold it to ncighbor not long since
/ for $780, and the purchaser disposed
of it at once for 800, 600.
Alexander S;mp'on, for some years
reporter on tho Kansas City Tlm0. re.
ccvc word the other day from London
that he had fallen heir to the estate of
his aunt in L linburgh. Scotland. The
tate is valued at $500, O0).
Pro;honotary Collner of Clarion
County. Penn, has highly priced war
relic in tha shlpc of scrgcant's report
book which saved his life. A III ME
ball struck the book and spent its force,
though the blow was heavy enough tc
knock the soldier down.
At Portsmouth. o ID. the wedding
of Uncle Aaron Noe, n Clay town shin
farmer, aged eighty three, to Mrs.
Lizzie Diwson, widow of Lucasvillc.
was stopped BY tho groom's son. A. N.
Noel, he taking the marriage license
from him.
Visitors to the v,ults of the Pantheon
in Paris remainder the echo which the
guide u'ed to p:oducc by shouting and
pounding on drum. This has been
forbidden by the minister OF the inter
Tor as "a dissertation of the abolc of
the illus;rious dead
What is known as the stree of life"
Is growing in the United Brethren
Church at Falmouth, Penn The plant
is OF tho spice wood variety. It has
now attained the height of 3 feet, AMI
shot from the earth through knot.
hole in tho pulpit floor. i
A fossil forest has been discovered
near Franent in Scotland Forty or
fifty fossil tree trunks have been already
laid bare, and the full dimensions Of tho
forest are rs yet unknown Oae of the
trunks is about three feet in diameter, /
and they are for the post part OF free
stone.
Negro is lure Spanish for black, and
Is derived from the Latin word Niiar-
black. The spanar Is, Icing near
Africa, appropriated the word to the
inhabitants Of that continent in car,y
times. They applied it more particu-
larly o slaves, and hence the English
application of the said time to the dark
skinned race
AT wedding which took place re-
Gently at Chiselhurst, England, the Of
fic ating clergyman left on. the wor Is:
"With this ring thee We'd" etc. The
omission was not referred to until tie
bridal party were assembled at break
fast, and then the party repaired once
more to the church, where the service
was rcrforme | a second time.
A little girl only six years old ar
rived in San Francisco from New York
week or two ago, wholly unattended,
with tag pinned to her dress request.
ing that she might be well cared for on
the way. Sic had no money. and was
wholly depend ent on charity. She was
living with IN aunt in New YORK city,
and her father, who lives in San Fra:.
cisco, sent for her.
Champion Shayers of the World.
The greatest shavers in the world are
fhe Chinese Evnrv woak ot io,.t -