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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
The Rubber Eraser.

Attention has recently been drawn to
an extract from the proceedings of the
French Academy of Sciences for the year
1852, in which occurs the following pas
sage relating to the erasive properties of
india rubber:
"Those who make use of pencils from
lead mines in drawing architectural de-
signs, plans of Notifications, etc., resort
to crumbs of bread for rubbing out the
pencil marks. NJ. Magalh,eus tor, as we
spell the name, Magellen), member of
the Academy, worthy descendent of
the great navigator who discovered the
straits south of Patagonia which now
bear his name, proposes more effectual
and convenient eraser in the shape of a
piece of rubber, which can always be
carried about Rubbing by this new
method is found to more satisfactorily
remove the marks of the pencil aud all
other spots which appear on the paper"
American Stationer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Human and Artificial Hair.

Tho bulk of human and artificial hair.
and in fact of hair goods, is imported,
about ninety per cent. in fact. or the
two, human hair is the most called for.
"Hair- raising" is n sort of industry in
Europe. Tho peasant girls, who arc
much in the air, get their heads cropped
once year, and thus furnish portion
of the supply. They are satisfied with n
stipend so small that I'm American woman
would scorn to touch six times its value.
OF the material imported, France sup
plies half tho trade, and England and
Germany divide the rest. The raw
material finds its way here in great guam
titles and is made up on this side of the
water. The business is young yet in this
country.
People speak of black hair, but there
is no such thing. The darkest hair, Mt
best, is but dark brown, rs will be seen
by separate test of each shred. The
darkest hair is common to the Chinese
race. This is used to large extent in
this country in cheap work The best
blonde hair comes from Sweden.
Medium shades are best secured in
Russia. The best grades of all quality
come from France.
The durability of hair is little under
stood. If properly preserved, hair will
last forever. An instance recently came
to light through the press of popularity
OF hair. a lady had been buried about
ayear. 1t was finally determined to re-
move the body. When the remains wcro
uuearthed, the flesh had all decayed; but
the hair had so grown that the coffin was
full. 1t has been found, however, that
such hair is not durable; it is brittle and
without vitality. Considered from the
standpoint of her head, woman is, to say
the least, peculinr. York ~ arg
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Wigs and Dan,lenux

The hair dealer states that fifteen per
cent. of the human race are bald, the
greater proportion of which class are
among the males. In this day and age it
is very small matter to make a better
looking head of bald pate than nature
bcstows on the average individual. In
France, England and Germany there is q
special industry, consisting in the manu-.
facturc of ''hair lace" of n texture So
aGsicate that the ordinary individual
saild not detect it from the glistening
skin OF the bald head. 1t is imported to
this country with other raw material. Go
down into the cellar of the dresser and
one will find bcvy of girls sewing hair
on slips of this lace, which by careful
handling develops into wigs and
bandeaux. These articles on this deceit
tul lace look exactly like fresh-rclcased
scalp with tho natural hair attached.
The only way an individual with one
can be detected is to find him with it off.
Does the reader know what n bandeau
ISL 1t is lady's wig. Imagine the sur
prise OF seven cighths of the readers who
never knew that some women were bald.
They arc. Elisha had female relative
to whom he transmitted his peculiar con-
dition. Her defendants are not so nu-
merous as his, but there are bald women
for all that. A bandeau differs from a
wig, it parts squarcly in the middle aud
each side is composed of long shreds. It
can be done up in chignon, net or other,
wise, Like any woman's natural h;IE N
can be frizzlcd, curled, wovc or combed
straight, aud not n mortal knows its dece&
1ulness, except its possessor and its max
er. The old wig never compared with
the now regime. That class got its
owners into frequent embarrassing situa-
tions. The present kind alleviates all
embarrassment except that of the hnpless
individual who marrics for beautiful
head of hair, to find it counterfeit.
Y0rk .Nens.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Queens Weather.

"Queen's weather" may we'll be rec
ognized term in our language. Tho
singularly happy fortune of the Queen
with regard to the weather in oil her
comings and goings has been remark
ably exemplified on two occasions in this
week Of almost incessant torrent Her
Majesty was favored at the MARLBOROUGH
House garden party, when the signs had
been so unpromising that an official no.
tice had been issued of a possible post
ponement OF the fete. Yesterday, again,
by marked exception to the general ex-
perience of the week, Queens weather
prevailed long enough to allow fair
journey to the Isle of Wight. In the
evening, as if to make amends for their
temporary forbearance, the skies opened
their aoodgates again and the rains were
of almost tropical severity. London
Ncps,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Tho disposition of that sentimental

Tho disposition of that sentimental
pledge, the cngagcmeat-ring, has at last
been carried before tho French courts.
and now we know to whom, when its
significance is broken, the token shall
revert. In the Mines Court in France,
recent divorce case came up, in which
the wife claimed rs hers certain articles
of jewclry presented to her before their
marriage. Prominent among these was
the engagement-ring. The judges do
cided that not only is woman entitled
before the law, to all those articles of
value which lover has seen fit to p-cs-
ent to her before marriage, but that the
''ring offered for the purpose of recalling
the engagement of two persons consti.
tutes the most personal and most irrevo.
cable of all souvenirs given in view OIL
marriage"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

The Senate of Caracas, Venezuela, has
lately passed measure embodying the
taxation of bachelors on the ground that
they enjoy peculiar privileges for which
they make no return. Fathers of families.
say tho Senate, support children and
promote the "moral perfection of So
ciety." All bachelors must therefore be
taxed according to their incomes and
the revenues thus derived shall promote
the Introducing of other peoples children
into Venezuela. Should such law pass
the American Senate, exclaims the CHI.
cago Ne'os, n bachelor would soon be a
"rara avis"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

State Senator Lee, of Franklin, Penn. =,
has been making an investigation of the
amount Of money invested in the oil
producing business in Western Pennsyl-
Vania. He says it would DO very easy
matter to obtain tho number of barrels
produced and an average of the price
paid for it, but the millions of dollars
which have been paid out for bonuses
and leases cannot be estimated. There
Is one thing certain, he says, and that is
that the oil produced never equalcd in
value the amount invested. Senator Lee
regards tho Bradford or AlcKcen County
field as IN exception. 1t is twenty miles
long and five miles broad at its widest
point. Anywhere within well.defned
limits oil could be found. There arc
about 1000 wells in this territory which
have produced 100000 barrels OF
oil. This mas been sold ut IN average OF
ninety cents barrel, or S144 900, 900.
The 1000 wells have cost on IN average
$4,000, which would be $4,000, 900.
Senator Lee says the money invested in
oil Is greater than that invested in oil
tho iron industries of Pittsbure and
vicinity.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

According to tho Marino Record, the
new, tonnage of the first six months of
the present year Is represented by 10
steam vessels, with tonnage of 60, 022,
md 30 sailing and tow vessels with q
gross tonnage of IL, 45o, making total
Of 1o9 vessels having o gross measure
ment tonnage of 70, 4s1 tons, including
steel, iron, composite and wooden YES.
sells of flrst-class design and equipped
with oil modern inventions. Of the new
steamers, 1e are vessels having tonnage
between 1000 and 1000 tons, and 10
have tonnage between 1000 and 5000
tons. The average tonnage of the above
IL is 1909, and of the 10 it is 2307. II
must be said. however, that from Is to
IS per cent. should be added to the fore.
going tonnage, rs several of the modern
high classed, steel built propaliers are
already on record as exceeding 5000
tons capacity. OF the above new steam
tonnage Excluding the smaller vcssels),
Cleveland ahipyards are to be credited
with tleast 10000 tons, as against H.
600 tons for West Bay City, II, 900 tons
for Detroit, and stiil smaller totals for
Buffalo, milwaukee, Grand Haven, Du.
luth, etc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Artificial Wood.

One of the largest buildings in North
ern Germany is new Hamburg hotel,
just completed, and built entirely of
paper boards compressed to the hardness
of wood. One rather unexpected adj
vantage claimed in behalf of the new
building material is the circumstances
that, by beng impregnated with certain
chemical solutions, it can be made abso-
lutely fire-proof. The same process of
manufacture also secures itagainst the at.
tacks of destructive insects, and might
thus specially recommend it for use in
certain river valleys of the American
tropics wood eating ants have been known
to demolish large frame buildings in less
than o month.-Ne,o YORK. Eoiee.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
The Fur Trade.

1t is announced that the take of f,,rs
In the Hudson's Bay territory last winter
Is the Smallest known for many wears.
The company's steamer Erik has lust
arrived at Montreal with this bad news.
Upon the other hand, the Boot and Shoe
1Tade Journal lately printed some sta
tistics which show the actual quantity of
furs sold in London since January at
public auctions alone. They were
astounding even before we learned that
last winters supply from the Hudson,s
Bay posts was remarkably small. Three
million opposum skins have been sent
from Australia, and 10000 kangaroo
or wallaby. Half million foxes, pr.v.
silver, blue and common" have ar
rived from various parts, 260, 600 mink,
3o,ooO marten, lynx, musquash, otter
uncountcd. Seals are not referred to.
but no fewer than 1900 sea offers have
been sold. 1t must be recollcctcd also
That London is not the most important
market for fine furs; though it has be-
come the great centre of the trade.
Paris, Lcipsic, Vienna, New York,
Nishni Novgorod, demand enormous
consignments, which go direct. Russia
consumes vast quantity; so does China.
In both countries they say that the best
skins of the sorts most favored there
never reach the western markets. AS
regards the "Siberian" sable, which
really comes from the Kirilc Island in
the Pacifc, this is, doubtless, true in the
main; for it is II monopoly of the Rus
sian Government, which sends vessel
every year to collect the produce, and
those which are struggled through go to
China. With such figures before us,
and the means of communication, the
clearance of land, increasing steadily, it
is evident that the worlds supply Of
furs will soon be exhausted. London
Standard.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

a Clergyman at Pottstown, Penn. i,
who at the age of sixty-scvcn is hale,
hearty and active, has lived for many
years or one meal q day, which he eats at
night. This curious way of living hns
completely cured him of dyspepsia, from
which he was formerlya terrible sufferer,
Ind he declares that he is much healthier
md happier than people who cat their
three meals day. Probably we cat too
much, comments the Chica7o Herald, but
one might as we'll ask the man who is
fond OF tho pleasures of the palate to
staryc on no meals day as to live con.
tented!y on,one. meal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Origin Of the Term 4sIaverick. !,

The term tmaycrick" belongs pecu-
iiarly to Texas, and, although it is now
In national use-from Maine to Texas
and from Florida to Oregos-not one in
thousand knows its true derivation or
what the word actually means. uMaye-'
rick" signifies, literally, O calf or yearling
without brand. Generally the calf fol-
lows the COW, aud the brand of the
mother is placed upon the calf. either at
the spring or fall roundup Such is tho
unwritten law OF the western cattle coun-
try, and all who are engaged IN the bust
ness regard it in strictly honorable
way. But to whom belongs the calf or
estray who follows no mother, and who
has no brand upon its hide7 This is the
story. When the cattle business began
to take form many years ago, Texas was
tho mother of the industry In 1854,
young man named Joe Maverick was the
largest stock-owner in all the States and
Territories. His headquarters were in
Texas, and his Business was the breeding
and branding of stock.
From some unaccountablc cause Joe
Maverick grew richer in cattle day by
day, while his poor but honest neighbors.
large aud small herd owners alike, be.
came poorer and poorer.
Maverick finally became the cattle
king of the vicinity, and then his neigh
bors began to look for n cause for his in
creasing wealth. 1t finally leaked out,
through his cowboys, that he had beea
In the habit. of appropriating to himself
all the unbranded calves aud yearlings
wherever he found them running with
out parent, and stamping on their
young hides his own peculiar brand.
The story got abroad, and wherever in
Texas lot of unbranded calves were
found the owners jokingly called them
''Joe Mavericks" After awhile it be-
came simply ''Mavericks," and SO it re-
mains to the present day.
The circumstance is forgotten, but the
fact remains, and tho title has since
found its way into every State and Ter
ritory of the Union where the herding of
cattle has grown into a regularly organ,
lied business.-Tin,es- Democrat. r
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
Silk From WILD Hemn

Nayemura sakusaburo, druggist of
Hikone, in Omi, Japan, has succeeded in
converting wild hemp yachyo) into a
substance possessing all the essential
qualities of silk. Nothing is said about
the process, but it is asserted that trial
OF the thread has been made at the first
silk-weaving establishment in Kioto and
other factories with excellent results in
every case. The plant in question grows
on moors and hillsides. Its fiber is said
to be strong and glossy, in no wise in
ferior to silk when properly prepared.
Cultivation on an extended scale would
present no difficulties. = Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

The New York News has found that
"thc census returns for New England
show continuance of tho drift from the
farms to the cities disclosed in 1880.
In Rhode Island tho cities have in-
creased rapidly in population, while the
rural districts have fallen off. This is
largely due to immigration. The Super
visor says that there are many families
III the State which cannot speak the Eng
lis language, even sufficiently to tell
their names. There is food for thought
Tor the American people in these facts.
Is it not about time to check such immi-
gration7"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

"Thc experiment OF the great common.
wealth OF Ohio in establishing and main
tanning free bureau of employment will
be watched with much interest by So
biologists and political economists" OBJ
serves the Chicago Herald. "If State
is successful in maintaining au employ
mcnt agency through which employers
and unemployed arc brought together.
it will be the opening of an entirely new
era in the labor world"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

The travel to Europe during the sum
mer of 1890 has been almost as great as
it was last year. What effect this will
have on the finances of the country, OBJ
serves the New York Noes, is, of couisc,
mere matter of guesswork. If $4,000
people go to Europe, and each one on
an average cxpends $1,000, that is $780,
600, 900 taken out of the country, but as IN
offset to that we have the money brought
here by immigrants. We have official
reports of the number of immigrants but
the statistics are confessedly incomplete,
aince they do not include arrivals by
land from British America and Mexico.
We may say that from 400, 900 to 7bo, 900
immigrants'arrive yearly, but this is a
rough approximation which may be
$4,000 or more out of the way. There
are no means of knowing the average
amount brought in by each immigrant.
1t may be $50 or $100 We mayiapprox-
innate the number of tourists but we
cannot estimate, with any degIte of ac-
curacy, the average amount 9f money
they take out of the country. it is prob.
able, however, that one Offsets the
other, or as much money is brought into
the country by the cmigrants as is taken
out by the tourists.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

The Southern LumJerman calls attcn-
ton to the fact that while mills in Iowa
and other Northern States have been
compelled, by the hot weather, to sus-
pend operations, the mills of the South
have been humming right along every
day. "There is no doubt" boasts the
Courier Journal, "that our Southern
climate is superior to anything north of
the Ohio"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

<,tAtt1i1f - M. -, =.
New York, says the !. = 'mes Oh that city,
is fast becoming 4 c{t-coal, smokc-rid-
den civ invest; a,t;. ,ns show TINT the
uso of bituminous CON; on the increase
in tho mills, factories, pubNc buildings,
etc. Tho Times adds: MY YORK has
less excuse for using soft coalsn"n any
other city in the Union, bccatSo an-
thracitc may be had here cheaper tfSsEP IN
any other city. The soft-coal sm&Se
pours in ut open windows in srlTocatins
volumes, for it is frequently heavier than
the atmosphere, and the SCOT getting in
upon fine fabrics and delicate or light
tissues, bcfouls them and Injuries them
beyond computation, in the aggregate.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
The First Cornpoppor laughed At.

In the winter of 1887 Mr.. Francis p.
sKnowlton, of Hopkinton, N. H., pur-
cnased OF Mr.. Amos Kc liiccIyf-asnasoott-o6ff OF
ssaEs netting tr9siln his manufactory on the
main road and constructed the first corn
spoppcr ever made. The various parts
were cut the required shape and then
scwcd together with wiic Mr.. Knowl-
ton then made some for Judge Harvey
and Judge Chase, which they sent to
various parts of the United States rs Gu
riositics. Thinking that he could sec n
field of usefulness for the ncwly-contriyed
article, Mr.. Knowlton made several and
took them to Concord to hardware
store, hoping to introduce before the pub
lie useful utensil and to receive n rea-
sonable remuneration. His production
was scorncd and ridiculcd by the
proprietors, and they refused to have
anything to do with it. Unwilling to
be thwartcd in what looked to him to be
reasonable and sensible product, he
proposed leaving them to be sold on
commission, and was told that he could
leave one or two if he would paw storage
on them. From necessity he took them
o'S.A w AhoPhintou. He lrSC one lie
made was laid away for curiosity. 1t
has since been given to the Antiquarian
Society and now finds home in that
valuable collection. Soon after Mr..
Knowlton's defeat Mr.. Amos Kelley be-
gan pressing them into the required
shape, and by slow degrees they found
favor before the public. To-day no New
England homestead is without one. No
patent has ever been applied for so ia, as
IS known Concord az ~ People and
Patriot.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

According to the Atlanta Constitution
"tho new Gerard gun is Il terror. You
pull! trigger and one drop of condensed
carbonic acid enters tho chamber. Its
pressure drives out tho bullet with a con-
tinually accelerated velocity. There is
no flash, no report, no smoke. This ST.
lent gun can stretch you dead at dis
TANGO Of 1900 yards. a dangerous
weapon for assassins."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

a railway from Port Jaffa to Jerusa-
lem is about being finished, and tho New
York obseroer states that soon the pill.
grim can be whirled into the heart OF tho
Holy Land by steam.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

There is now talk of conference at
Rome to fix upon single meridian fol-
the whole worlds time. Tho scientists
are tired of this bifurcatcd arrangement
at Washington and Greenwich and want
one time governor for tho earth. Jeru-
salem is regarded as tho most desirable
point and will probably be chosen.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28
A Daring collector Of Relics.

During the great French Revolution
daring collector, Dufourny, used toSEe
up in the darkness of the night and tax
down from the walls the bills poste,
there in daytime, which it was forbidden
to touch under penalty of death. Th
collection which he thus formed at A!h
imminent peril of his life is now inEh
British Museum, as well as q very cifss..
Gus collection of the posters of 1885,
'Ne'o York Telegram.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

The Commercial Adcortiscr makes the
remarkable assertion that there is a
county in Washington which las been
settled for forty years which contains
several townships that have never been
troddcn by the foot of white man.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

1l!e estimated that the Eastern con-
sumption of canned salmon this coming
season will be double that of any other.
Its cheapness, together with the scarcity
of other kinds of preserved fish, re-
marks the Now York Tribune, has widely
enlarged its introduction to families.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

Fourteen thousand two hundred per
cent. is the highest rate of increase of
population in any town in tho United
States from 1880 to 1890. The town is
West Superior, Wis, whose site ten
years ago was bowling Wilderness.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

It matter of tradition in Japan
that fruit grows upon the bamboo when
there is to be famine .iu that country.
This year bamboo trcos arc, bearing
fruit.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

There is woman at sedalia, Mo-, Wild
becomes thoroughly charged with cleo
tricity every time she rides on the cleo
trio road.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

Tho latest revelation is That France
pays $500, 900 out of the public funds to
eubsidizo newspapers for tho support of
tho Government.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

ss6quises the Baltimore Sun.
s english syndicate has just paid
fhe 9 r>Iment of Argentina SIS, O0O,-
poo as;the last payment on system of
railway it has bought in that country.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-28

Peru has had its whole public debt
PAID OH by an English syndicate, the
railroads Of tho country, with certain
valuable concessions, going to tho Earl
OF Donoughmorc and the other English
men who shouldcred what our rcprcscn-
tativo in Peru calls "thc three billion
debt" "It is somewhat dazing to think
OF few private individuals putting
ss2So, 200, 900 in ono lump into any en-,