Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-05
CURIOUS FACTS.
A group Of foxes is called a skulk.

A group of foxes is called a skulk.
Psychologists fail to agree as to the
purpose for which the pyramids We're
built.
1t is said that sharks will never bite
swimmer who keeps his legs in constant
motion.
The Coliseum, at Rome, afforded space
for 100000 spectators. Tho length of
the arena was PSI feet, its breadth 176
feet.
Builders calculate that the weight of
an audience closely packed exerts
strain of eighty-fve pounds per superb
cial foot upon the door.
1t is a curious fact, that the Austral
ian swans, being black and so not show
ing the dirt as much as their white breth-
ern, pay less attention to the bath.
There are over two hundred per-
sons in Chicago whose fortunes are
known to exceed $1,000, 600, and half a
dozen whose wealth beyond the the mil
lion dollar limit would be large fortune
in itself.
During the Ohio flood in 1854 Miss
Stella Adams cast a bottled message on
the waters. 1t was picked up by Louis
Renaud on the Louisville lcvee. Cores
pondenee followed between the two, and
they were recently married at Madison,
Ind.
A family in Dover, N. j., who have
long been missing valuables, were
amazed to find them in the secret nest of
n pet goose. Among the articles which
the bird had appropriated were two gold
thimbles, Il tortoiseshell comb, scarf pins,
spools of silk, silver lace aud watch.
The latest researches show that III
Ronc's most ilourishing period the city
had 300. 600 inhabitants; in 1886 A. ID.
it had 800, 900; in 1877 only 1900;
under Leo Y. 40, 0U0; in 1887 about 49,
600; in 1871 it rose to 244, 900, in 1881
300, 900, and in 1889 more than 49,.
600.
According to Herodotus, Babylon was
n square fifteen miles on each side, with
100 brass gates. 1t was composed of
twenty-five streets each way, fifteen
miles long and $50 feet broad, crossing
each other at right angles, besides four
half streets 200 feet wide, facing the
walls.
George p. Craig, of ewinnett, Ga,
has two hogs that perform the Office of a
calf to perfection. Mr.. Craig Ind been
complaining that his COWS were falling
short OF milk for several weeks, and
upon close examination, TO his astonish-
ment, he saw these roguish hogs had
been imbibing the milk of the COWS, both
remaining i'll the same lot together at
night.
While cutting fourtccu-inch sticl, OF
timber at the Omaha mine, says the
Glass Valley tCal.) 7Idinas, Sam Mon
tour found live frog imbcdded in the
centre of the stick. Aside from the
frogs limited quarters, the timber was
sound. His frogship probably derived
sustenance from the sap of the timber, but
where did it receive air fromi Or does
the frog require aira Instances such as
this are frequently recorded.
In the town of Nlaryfcld, CAL, Jose
Ignaco AureQue has been confined TO his
bed for thirty-five years. He was in.
jurei by an accident iu n mine and hus
not been able to put his feet to the
ground since. His only attendant is IN
adopted son, who has devoted his time
and means to the support of the aged in
valid. A good woman of Menlo Park
has contributed Sc month from her
private purse for the past twenty years.
Mr.. w. A. Carter, in recent lecture
on "Marinc and Fresh Water Fishes, -
said that fish have the power of in.
iucncing one another by sounds and
action. He had observed n shoal of
carp following tho lead of single one,
which conducted them to quantity of
food at n considerable distance away
He had also noticed that certain fresh
water fish, such ms trout, were sub
servicnt to ruler, which might be seen
swimming Mt the head of his tribe. The
same was possibly the case with some
marine forms, like the herring aud bass