Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
CURIOUS FACTS.


Between 600 aud 700 tons OF ivory are
imported into England every year.
The average life of an ocean cable, as
at present constructed, is twelve years.
NIummics guaranteed to he 5000 years
old may now be purchased in Egypt for
1855 apiece
a Morgantown Penn.) rooster cholod
to death While attempting to swallow IL
small green snake.
The French army officers are now ALI
armed with rcvolvers; during the war of
1870 they had none.
a Canadian smuggler who has been.
converted by Evangelist Moody has paid.
$500 conscience money to the Dominion.
Government.
Iceboats may be said to travel faster
than the wind, because they acquire a
momentum, and in the lull of the wind
thciy inertia carries them along.
a sixteen year-old girl has been arrested.
in New York city for the atrocious
crime Of stealing her father',. trousers
while he slep: and pawning them.
a wild hog WAS shot recently nj Oak
Hill, CAL, which weighed $50 pounds.
1t was snow white and had tusks six
inches long. a pound of lead WAS found
in his carcass, the result of efforts OF for.
mer hunters to kill him.
What is known ms The stree of life" il.
growing in the United Brethren Church,
ut Falmouth, Penn. The plant is OF the
spicewood variety. 1t has now attained
the height OF three feet. and shot from
the earth through knot hole in the pul
pit floor.
On the railroad near Canton, Ohio, u
fine, large mastiii was killed by train
three months ago. Those living near the.
place declare that they have seen the dog,
or his ghost, almost every night since.
then and heard cries, rs of an animal in
distress, whenever train went past
Two cowboys i'll Texas got into Il dis.
putc over their relative merits rs marks
men. a test was arranged One namettI
Dugon hit Il Mexican dollar with revolt
yer at 200 yards. lis opponent mounted
his mustang, and, going ut full speed,
hit the dollar twice ut the same distance.
Near Rolling Fork, La. fvc-ycar-
old child of - colored woman was at
tackled by Il wilde 1t and severely bitten.
The mother ran to its assistance and en-
deavorcd t" beat the animal of, when he.
tried to carry the child Off with him. aud
did succeed in dragging it \ short dis
lance.
a little child of Mrand Mrs Glchrist,
few miles from Parksburo, W. Va,
met its death in Il strange way. The.
child was going up the steps with small
TIN horn in lis mouth, when it fell for
ward ON lis face, forcin. the horn down
its throat, decorating it so terribly that if
died from the effects of lis INJURIES
y workman under the supervision of
Lamp Inspector Noonan, OF New Haven,
Conn, was digging up Il dccaycd lamp
post, when they discovered Il live snake
coilcd around the base of the post. 1t
was dispatched with several blows of a
shovel. 1t proved TO he OF the poison
o'is adder variety, and two and half
feet long.
a farmer living about three mile.
southeast of Akron, Ohio. has u hen
which occasionally lays an egg Of solid
shell throughout. usually after none of
any kind have been laid for several days.
Six of these curiosi,ies have already been
secured. They are so hard that they can
be thrown smartly against wall without
any visible effect. 4
The term "watch" as applied to a
pocket timepiccc is not as old as tie arti-
Gle itself. The first pocket timepiece
was called "'rhc Pocket Clock" ard .'The
Nuremburg Animated Egg" 1t was
made in 1874, by Peter IIclc, of Nurem-
burg, and cost Il years labor 1t was
valued ut $500, and was about the size
and shape of Il goose egg.
At Newton, Penn, Giles Clifford, after
a sharp race, headed of 81 wood
chuck and reached its hole first, and
stuck his heel in the hole to block the
rodent Thcrcupon the woodchuck
stuck his teeth through Gifori's boot
and into his big toe. The foot was re-
moved from the hole instanter, and the,
woodchuck slipped out of sight in a
twinkling. Clifford limped Off, crest
fallen at being outgeneraed by u wood