Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-09
CURIOUS FACTS.


Burch, Logan County (W. Ya.) man for
$4,000.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles an
hour on street car system.
Moro than.four thousand persons per-
ished by hurricane Which devastated
Barbados, October TO-, 1880.
Four. Geographic messages eau now lie
transmitted over one wire at one time by
using the quadruplex system.
1t is estimated that $50, 900 persons in
the United States are engaged in business
depending solely on electricity.
Eighteen years ago Il Kansas City man
paid $4,000 for 4 lot, and was laughed ut.
The other day he sold it for ii132 900.
An Ohio girl has photograph album
containing the pictures of fourteen men
to whom she says she has been Ell,
gagged.
In colony numbering scvcnty-!ivc in
Tularc County, CAL. no church or saloon
is tolerated. Board Of Trustees governs
the whole.
j. j. Banta, Of DeLand, Fla, has
Dutch Bible nearly 300 years old that his
family carried to the State of New York
when first settled.
Will IGcnscrs wife, of Punxutawney,
Penn, decorated favoritc cat named
Jonathan with II ribbon and bell.
Jonathan then climbed tree and hanged
himself.
A wealthy citizen of Alameda, CAL,
who died Il week or two ago, provided i'll
his will that if any of his children slarry
first cousins they shall forfeit their share
Of the property.
The cost in human life OF the wars of
the last thirty-threc years, beginning
with the Crimean War, is computed at
mortality from sickness.
While Charles Lawson was boring up
stumps at Everett, Mo-, he found pow
der can containing $3.50 in gold and sill
yer coin. 1t is supposed it was hidden
during the War of the Rebellion.
III transmitting message from San
Francisco, CAL, to Hong Kong, China,
via New York, Canso, penzance, Alden,
Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singapore,
about fifteen minutes are consumed.
There are four brothers in Crawford
County, Penn, all of whom are stalwart
men and married, and not one Of whom
is on speaking terms with any of the
others. Property litigation is the cause.
Five miles an hour is considered good
walking for a man, but w. II. Young, i'll
Morgan County, Georgia, can beat
this He walked all the way from
Duluth to within a few miles OF Madison,
distance of over fifty miles in less than
ten hours.
Oaths were taken by Abraham B. G.
1892 Gen. xxi, PA, and authorized
1491 B. c. zen. xii, lD. The admin
istration of an oath in judicial proceed
ings was introduced into England by the
Saxons. That administered to Judge
was settled in 1874.
The bridge of the Pennsylvania,
Poughkeepsic Il Boston Railroad ut Port
land, Penn. recently completed is one
of the largest in the United States. 1t is
925 feet 81 inches and the viaduct is
993 feet Z inches, making a total OF 1921
feet and ] an inch.
A young lady from Caldwell, Ohio,
created little scene i'll the ticket office
at GAINESVILLE the other day. She laid a
late-improvcd six-shootcr on the counter
and proceeded TO search for her pocket,
then bought ticket for Seattle. Wash,
showed her guu in her pistol pocket and
departed
Since 1862 more than 60, 900 bodies
have been buried in the Pottcr's field, on
Harris Island. New York city. There
are no single intermcnts. The bodies are
placed in trenches, dug in regular rows.
forty-iivc feet long, fourteen feet wide
and ten feet deep. Each of these pits
will hold $50 bodies.
The estimated number of Christians is
over 40S, 900, 900: of Buddhsts 420,-
600, 900; of the followers of Brahma,
$50, 900, 900; OF Mohamlaedans, $50.
900, 900; OF Hebrews, 5000, 900; of
atheists, dcists and indcls, So. O00. 900:
of Pagans. $1,000, 900, and of HOO
minor crccds, 1913. 900, 900.
Several weeks ago, while Mrs. N. G.
Dcatrich, who lives near Philadelphia,
was gathering hickorynuts, blacksnake
coiled around her ankle She cnleav-
ored to shake it OFF without avail, when
in her desperation she heroically pulled
it oil her ankle and threw it from her,
which certainly required much nerve for
Il woman.