Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

Or. F. II. Gardner, of Washburn, Me.
wears y coat made out of dog skin tanned
by himself.
Catoni, tho Italian giant who has just
died, sold his skeleton to museum OF
anatomy for $4,000.
F. NJ. z. Jolly, of Alpharctta, Ga,
KILLED twenty-four black birds at one
shot a few days ago.
England has got an oldest Free Mason.
His nnipo is William Salmon; he is doc.
tor and Is 100 years old.
4 Rhode Island lady owns II talking
canary bird. 1t acquired language
through association with parrot
Mrs. John Louri, of Charlestown,
Ohio, has given birth to four children.
Several years ago she presented her hus.
band with triplcts, and year later with
twins.
~ century ago only three hundred
species of orchids were known, and those
very impcrfcc,ly. Now the latest au.
thority gives the number OF known spec.
cics rs ten thousand.
A man with pcnchant for statstics
hns computed that more than four mill
ion miles of blood pass through the veins
of an ordinary human being during life.
time OF seventy years.
The largest library in the world is in
Paris. 1t contains 10000 volumes,
l75, 000 manuscripts, 500, 900 maps and
charts and 100, 900 coins and medals. II
was founded by Louis XIV.
To take OIL his hat on entering the
room of friend or an acquaintance
would be II breach of etiquette on the
part Of Chinamnn. TO keep on hi,
spcctnccs when on II visit would he SC
too.
A horse fell into nn abandoned shaft al
Silver Fork, New, and lived nineteen
days without food or drink. Whcr
rescued tho animal was able to walk, and
in few hours was ublu to movo about al
right.
a New York publisher is shipping
every year 80, 900 American school books
for the schools of Japan. The English
classics arc dnily read in countries OF
which Shakespeare and Milton never
heard.
The largest tree in the world is re.
ported to have been recently found il
California, measuring 176 feet in circum.
ference ut distance Of six feet from tn,
ground. This would give diameter OF
about sixty feet ut that point.
Two sons of Mart Frnin and IL com.
pahion killed II grizzly near Shovel Creek
Col. The boys got reward of Sl0G
from fhn otn, ,,.1, f.,
three years by this dangerous animal. II
weighed, dressed, $40 pounds.
Tho olive trco IL exceedingly prolific
under civilizations; the fruit yields about
seventy per cent. of its weight
sivc of tho kcrncl--in oil. Italy is said
toproducc 33, 600, 600 and France z 900.
600 gallons Of olive oil annually.
In Austria and Hungary the Intin and
the Greek Christians und tho Hebrews
each have their separate sets Of public
holidays, when no labor can bc procured,
so TINT there Is n sort Of perpetual sim
mcrlng OF holidays all the year round.
q. w. Williams, OF Rochelle, Ga. says
that while pruning apple trees the oihc
day he observed one tree that forkcd
few feet from the ground and about four
teen inches above the two limbs or trunk
were connected by small limb growing
trom ono and centrally into tho other
perfectly uniting the two together.
In the Medical Museum in Washing
.on, ID. c., there nrc two skulls al
cracked up like couple of egg shells
that had been knocked together. ThoN
formerly belonged to n couple of Norfolk
Virginia, colorcd men, who buttcd cacl
other to death because n woman couldn'
decide which OF tho two she liked best