Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20
CURIOUS FACTS.

There are hardly dozen Hebrews in
the British army.
John B. Curtis, of Portland, Me-, is
worth 81 900, 900, and he made it out Of
chewing gum.
AT recent rural Pennsylvania ball
the attendance consisted of four girls and
forty-eight boys.
According to chewing gum manufat
turer, the Chicagoans consume more gum
than the Inhabitants Of any other Ameri-
can city.
The most skilful amateur bull-fghter
in Mexico is the son-in-law of the Presi-
dent of the Republic. He is mau of
great wealth.
A large gray wolf was recently caught
in Connemaugh township. Penn. 1t was
the first animal of the kind seen in that
section for many years.
The largest lot OF bananas ever brought
into New York arrived recently on fruit
steamer. There were 20, 500 punches,
and they came from jamaica.
A mission Indian who acted as guide
for Fremont on one of his expeditions
across the plains, died at San Diego, Cal,
recently at the age of l02 years.
A citizen of Addison, Me-, has the re-
mains OF an ancient walrus that was
washed out of clay bank near his home.
The bones were at least fifteen feet under
ground.
The waters of the Ochtahatchee Lake,
off tb,D,,.,I nd
channel recently and an immense number
of the finest kinds of fish were secured
by the citizens of that neighborhood.
The practice of clothing soldiers by
regiments in one uniform dress was not
introduced by Louis XIV. till 1865, and
the practice did not become general in
the British army for many years after
ward.
An English travelling harpist has been
discovered cheating the railroads by car
rying his little girl done up in the green
bag with his harp. lie had gone all over
England and never paid fare for the
child
A runaway horse attached to n gro
GERS delivery wagon run mile and II hall
along the Lchigh Valley Railroad track
at Glendon, Penn, in a race with coal
train on an adjoining track, and escaped
with II few scratches.
In n library in Paris, the largest in the
world, is a Chinese chart of the heavens
made about six hundred years B. G. In
this chart, 14G0 stars are found to be cor
rectly inserted, as corroborated by the
scientists of the present cay.
Three children in the Sheffield Eng
land) workh0use were done TO death re-
Gently by the medical officer, who care
lessiy wrote a prescription for twenty
grains OF Dovcr's powder in ten packages
instead Of ten grains in twenty packages.
Since the oldest woman of Vienna died
n short time ago, most animated COM
petition has been in progress for recogni-
ton rs her successor. This competition
shows TINT the Austrian capital has no
fewer than five ladies who arc all over
100.
The blue ageratum, which is cherished
in England us border flower, was in
troduced into Ceylon where it spread SO
rapidly, running wild in the island, that
it now costs more than 81, 250,00 an
nually to keep it down in the coffee plan
tations.
]. w. Nance, a Texan, advertised that
he would be at Murfreesboro, Tenn, to
buy all the hens he could get Mt twenty
five cents apiece. He came along in n
poultry car capable of holding 5000, and
he had to telegraph for another, as there
were 10000 pullets waiting for him