Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
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Mexican railroads have mahogany tics
and stations of fine marble.
a Maine man has invented II machinc
that makes mustard plastcrs.
Banana trees flourish and their fruit
rircns in the open air of Jacksonville,
Fla.
The inventor of tho stylogruphic non
is rcputcd to have made 81, 900, 900 out
Of it.
The smell of finely scrapcd horseradish
is said TO be IN clrcctual cure for head.
ache.
In Madagascar you can keep house,
live well and have thrcu servants for
about seventy cents per week.
Professor Frank Stouch has taught
~, 6S5 persons nj Reading, Penn, how
to dance. 1t took iifty-thrcc years to do
it.
1t was on Waiting Island, in the Ba-
hnmas, that Columbus first set his foot,
after weary weeks of almost hopc;css
cropping across the Atlantic.
An Allentown pcnn.) tailor has in.
vented II "shouldcr PROTECTOR" to pre-.
vent the powder on tho girls faccs from
soiling the young mems coats.
"Cocoanut Day" is celebrated in most
parts of India during the full moon in
August. On that day numbers of nuts
arc thrown into the sea as an offering to
the llindoo gods.
Next TO England, little Holland Is the
greatest colonial power in tho world.
The Dutch colonies have an urea of nearly
50, 900 squire miles, which includes some
ot the finest colonial possessions in the
world.
The Lewiston LOuraM says il would
seem ns If nobody need 20 with nm cmpty
stomach in Maine when snn-dricd apples
are selling for four CENTS II pound in tho
country stores and there's II mineral
spring on every hillside.
A Buffalo IN. " paper says niagara
River, below the falls, is unusually LOW.
and, what is more singular, tho waters
have bccn gradually fnlling for tho past
three or four years. II is still from $50
TO 200 feet deep, and is not likely to dry
up yet awhile.
The first lighthouse on this continent
OF which there isnny record wns built nt
the entrance of Boston lIarbor in 1715,
ut tho expense Of the Colony of NInssn-
chusctts bay. II was supported by n
lighthouse due of one pence per ton on
all vessels passing.
Two maudlin miners lying ON the rond-
side ut Easton, Penn, were mistaken for
Dnnr hV N rn4gnri,. a.
spread through the country. The dogs
oi Il hunting party got on the scent of a
skunk and ran il ont, nnd tho hunters
were very mail when they found there
was no bear.
1t IS now French law that every child
born in France of II foreign father like
wise born in France is French citizen:
while tn: child born in France of II for
ciSncr, 10 matter where horn, is II French
citizen il domicilcd there ut the time of
his minority, unless he formally decline
to bc 80 regarded.
Tho London road car-drivers have IL
grievance which approaches the ludi.
cro'H II they do not wear high hnts
they are suspended for II week. Re-
Gently n drivers hat was blown oil and n
cart went over il, so TINT hc was Obliged
TO resort to n low felt hat for tho re.
mnindcr of the day. For this hoinous
crime he was stopped and suspended for
one week.
On British railways it is unusual for n
freight train to exceed fifty tons, and u
mineral-train seldom comes up to 200
tons. In the United States, on tho CON
trary, trains of nearly 1000 tons nro run
regularly, the wagons employed being
capable of carrying from twenty to
twenty-five tons each, or about three
times the quantity usually carried by En-
glish trucks.