Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
CURIOUS FACTS.

The potato-bug has twenty-five Para.
sites.
The gem symbolic of the month o,
May is the csicrald.
The earth, according to gcolcgists, i:
500, 900, 900 years cid.
a lady in Clarke County, Ga, has
never tasted water in her life.
The area of London is 1870 square
miles. 1t has about 1900 miles of streets.
There is no Company in the Army,
because the written is too much like /.
Asparagus was originally wild sea-
coast plant, and is Il native of Great
Britain.
The postage on a single rate letter to
the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, is
fifteen cents.
cubic foot of fresh water weighs
SO pounds; Il cubic foot OF sea water
6l.25 pounds.
The English battleship Benbow and
the Italian warship Italia are the largest
war vessels ailoat.
Prcsidio del Norte, Mexican town of
some 1000 inhabitants, is said to be with
out any resident physician.
Small diamonds fixed in the front and
back sights of rifles are said to enable the
marksman to take good aim oven in a bad
light.
The loftiest inhabited spot on the
globe is the Penthouse of Ancomara ON
the Andes Ill Peru, 1000 feet above the
sen level.
Jerome Wood, of Long Lake, n. y,
found the name of Annie iiotiyson. of
Sheffield, England, in an umbrella, wrote
to hcr and later married her.
A blanket fish is one of the Florida
curiositics seen i'll the gulf between Key
West and Tampa. 1t looks like an un-
tanned cowhidc floating in the water.
"Grcascr" in the United States is
name applied in contempt to natives of
Spanish America, especially to natives of
Mexico, from their greasy appearance.
Ten years ago the plains near Dcming,
Arizona, were feeding antelope. Oac
week recently 5000 head of cattle were
shipped from Dcming to eastern cities by
rail-
The coal bill for single trip of fast
steamship is 100000. About 100
GALLONS of oil per day are required to keep
the Journals and bearings of her ma.
chlncry fabricated.
Caviare is made OF the roe of the
sturgeon, salmon, cod and other large
fish. 1t is - Russian dclicacy which is
imported in kegs II is often served
spread on slices OF toast
y child born to Mrs. Wallace Mt Kclso,
Washington, had no openings a; the ewes,
the skin complct' i, covering those mem
beers. \ snrgicai operation was performed
to supply the deficiency.
The late Mr. Fields, of Danvillc, XIV,
slept every night for sixty-sevcn years in
thc house where he was bora; never ate
but one meal out Of it, and was only
twice outside of his native county.
Statisticians claim that for every TO-
600, 900 passengers carried on the rail
ways in this country one passenger is
killed. They also claim that more peo-
pie arc killed every year by falling out
Of windows than there arc in railroad &C
cidcnts.
a Garfield (Orcgon) citizen has dis
covered that the squirrels that are SHOT
and left on the ground are devourcd by
their fellows, and he turned tine knowl-
edge to account When he kills squir-
rel he cciS Q hc,c in it aud puts in strych-
nine, a. S.way has killed large
BctweenS Ural and the Okhotsk
Seas i'll SibtHY, there is spot half rs
large as the State OF Michigan, which is
frozen ground to the depth of ninety
four feet. That is, it has never thawcd
out since the world WAS created, and
probably never will, and even if it should
nobody would have any use for it.