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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
Snukes in the Land Of Che SKY.

thrilling experience was that of a
young Ashcville On. c. physician while
hunting wild turkeys recently. With gun
IN hand he had occasion to get over II
large fallen trce-trunk. Crouching down.
in the bushes in order to keep out OF sight,
Of the turkeys, he carefully put his left
leg over the log to get as.ridc of it. The
moment his leg was over he felt sting in,
the calf of it and hastily drew it back. !
drawing with it a big RATHER, fungs firmly
Embedded in the sensitive flesh Here was;
situation to make II man slightly ncr-i
vous. In the dense woods, far from camp.
with dose OF snake poison in ones SYST
lem, would worry even IN old hunter.
The young man acted quickly and SEN.
;ibly. Killing the reptile, he stabbed t,s.:
wound made by the fangs with his hum:
ing knife. Over and over again the keen:
Knife did its work until the blood flowed;
freely. Above the knee tight bandage,
made of IL twisted handkerchief prevented,
blood from returning To the heart. The
wounded man then fired his repeating
rifle, alarming his comrades, vino carried
hnn miles to camp. Here whlskey was
freely administered. The next day it was
evident that these heroic measures were
elective. As soon as possible the patient
was carried home and eventually rccov-
cred, although the wounds made b. the!
snake and knife were year in healing. i
= cavity was left III the leg extending to-
the bone.
Frequently the mountaincers capture
rattlers alive. y long stick with a Slip
moose of stout Irvine answers rs Il tran.
The snake is induced to strike ana tic
moose is slipped over its head and drawn.
taut. Then his snakeship can rattle andi
strike to his hearts content. The sound;
of Il rattle las Il business-likc tone to it. !!
Every woodsman knows it quick as nj
wink, and respects it. a snake always,
rattles before he strikes, unless disturbed
while asleep. Then the snake bites with
out an introduction. The snakes are!
brave. They rest in exposed places where!
they can see all about them. When they.
strike they do not turn and run, but re-.
coil nearly one-half their length aud viii,
wait their chance for another attack.
Unless disturbed they do not seek fight
-Ne,o York Tribune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

OF trotting over there. he told me, are
vastly different to ours. There horse is
disqualified according to the number of
times he breaks. Instead, as over here,
OF bringing the horse back to the gait
with the reins, the French driver rises in
his numbering cart and belabors his steed
with the club until he or she returns to
the trot. An American is always scooped
up by the owners of trotters over there;
and can get rs much work to do MS he
p.stscs. Their tracks arc on the grass.
and the course often four miles; in fact.
that Is the favoritc distance. In trotting
races they handicap the horses by dis
lance allowances, exactly the same as
handicap races among men,"
us there much OF demand for trot-
tiers by the foreign markcts?"
eyes, much more SO than is generally
known. The continental countries of
Europe pay extraordinary prices for our
best stock, but the South American Re-
publics, especially the Argentine, give
even better prices. In South America
there are now many ranches breeding
trotting stock, and they don't seem to
care what price they pay us for sires and
dams"
ado you think Maud SIS record of
2:0S3 is likely to be soon bcatcn?"
Eyes, do. | think Sunol will break
it next year"
"But Sunol is only four years old" l
said, "and Maud S. was nearly nine
when she made her wonderful record.n
"That is So" lie replied. al have
seen Il horse do the half mile in one min
ute. The surroundings were all that
could be desired and the track a down.
hill one. 1t showed, however, that the
pace was there if only you could keep up
the stamina of the animal. Sunol is n
downhill mare. She stands three inches
higher at the hind quarters than at the
withers, and is TO me the very epitome
OF Il trotter, and may perhaps realize our
dream OF two minutes n mile"
'Do you know what Mr. Bonner gave
for Sunol!"
No, do not, but he has said be-
tween forty and fifty thousand dollars,
and expect it was $;45, 600"
"What induced Governor Stanford to
part with the marc2"
"Not money, you may be sure His
great ambition is to breed the best trot-
ter, and he and Mr.. Bonner have had
different ideas on the subject. When
Mr.. Bonner made an offer for Sunol, it
was IN acknowledgment that the Cover
nor had won, and, besides, Mr.. Bonner's
ambition is to own the fastest trotter, no
matter where it comes from, and he
would be the first man TO bow TO the sue
cess of Il friend. "-McD York Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A French electrician has found that
the electric current retards the separation
of cream and preserves the milk.
Professor SIP. Langley's latest re-.
searches Indicate that the mean tempera-
ture of the sunlit soil OF the moon is not
greater than the freezing point of water,
or thirty-two degrees Fair.
Waste water power can be converted
into electric energy, conveyed from ten
to 100 miles on n small copper wire in
amounts from ten to 500 horse power at
cost not to exceed $500 per mile for
the greater distance and the larger
power
= Peat is even more plentiful in Brazil
than in Ireland, and it is largely used for
making paraifin for candles aud lubricat
ing oil, which are obtained by distilla-
ton. One establishment EMPLOYS 300
workmen, has 33 boilers with Other
necessary apparatus, and is capable of
turning ont SO tons Of peat paratfiu a
month.
Many bacteria, states Professor Law.
are capable of doubling themselves eyery
hour under the best conditions, IL single
bacterium giving 16,777, 22O in twenty
four hours. In forty eight hours the or.
spring from germ measuring one fifteeni
thousandth of an inch would fill half
pint measure, the number reaching 2S1..
500. O0o. 900.
10 take out machine grease use rain
water and soda. To remove oil and
varnish from silk try benzinc, ether and
soap very cautiously. To take out paint
mix equal parts of ammonia and turpen-
tine. Saturate the spot two or three
times, then wash out in soapsuds Paint
can sometimes be rubbed out of wooden
goods after il has dried.
In observations with kites and balloons
Professor Lconhard Weber has found
that the atmosphere is negatively electr-
fed up to height of about 100 yards,
beyond which it is positively electrified
III degree increasing very rapidly with
the distance from the earth. The mega
tive electrification of the lower strata of
the air is attributed to the presence of
germs and dust particles.
Observations recently made in Italy in
regard to the microbc of malaria show
that at Il certain period of its develop
mcnt this microscopic creature has enc.
mics to fight in n globulc of blood, and
that, III order to escape from them it
makes use of its flagella or whips, with
which it tries to beat off the inimical
microbc that is bent on absorbing it and
generally ends by doing So
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

When someone mentioned the name O
Boulanger in the presence of Henry NJ
Stanley, the explorer asked; "Who is
Boulangcr9 never heard of him before. "
This illustrates how brief n career some
noted mcn may have. Stanley was in
the wilds OF Africa for less than three
years, and in that time Boulanger rose
from obscurity to the greatest notoricty
in France, and dropped back TO his
original obscurity again. Well might
Stanley ask the question.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

She will take leaf and roll it up and in
cert 1t III her ear. Gradually the weight
Is increased by the addition of other
larger rings, till the lobe often gives way
and splits. Carl Book, in his book on
''rhc Head Hunters of Bornco," asserts
that he has counted MS many as sixteen
rings in single ear, each OF them the
SIZE OF II dollar. The rings are generally
made of tin, and cut so that they can he
removed at pleasure. Sometimes disks
OF colorcd wood running up to I'm inch
and half in diameter are used. In adj
dition 20 this mutiation of the lobe. the
helix of the car is pierced or slit in
several places, and IN these holes pieces
OF colorcd ribbon or cord are tied, or
buttons or feathers inserted In Fig. 6
there Is given Il sketch made from one Of
the illustrations in Books book. 1t ,cp-
resents the head of Dyak belle, the
measurements Of the ear being us fol-
lows: Total length Of the car z. inches,
length of the cash in the lobe 4.75
inches, distance between the level of the
chin and bottom of the ear 2.S5 inches.
-Sm ft"neisco Ch,oniclc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

burial mounds, out both in England and
on the Continent, after the commence.
ment of the tenth century, the fashion
appears to have declined and earrings ar,
neither found in graves nor discernible in
paintings or sculpture. NJ. Violet Cedric
observes that the style of head dress and
wearing the hair may Ill some measure NC.
count FOR this. In the thirteenth century,
however, the fashion evidently revived,
mention being made of earrings in III,
"Roman dc Ia Rose" but there is; nc
graphic description of their form, and
neither monument nor miniature is found
to assist MS. In the sixteenth cen.
fury earrings were in high favor except
among the purists, who denounced
the ''womcn who were not ashamed to
make holes in their ears whcreat they
hang rings and other jewels Of gold
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

That the influenza now epidemic in
Europe and parts of this country is COM
parativcly harmless in itself is well cs-
tablishcd. Yet the reports of many
deaths of invalids or aged persons who
Ind contracted the molady show very
clearly that such classes of people cannot
afford to disregard its carly symptoms.
Their feeble frames and low vitality may
not be able to resist the assault of puny
enemy. Nothing short of physicians
care, therefore; should satisfy them if at :
tackled by the disease. Persons in robust
health can ignore the approach of the un-
pleasant epidemic if they like, but those
TO whom existence ut best is struggle
cannot take too great care of themselves
ut this time. When the candle is already
flickering it frequently takes only another
capfui of wind TO blow it out.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

civilized nations i'll other parts of the
world. Take, for instance, the Kailir,;
whose ears are pierced at Il very carly age
and the hole continuously enlarged IN
I'll 1t is capacious enough to hold n snuff
box, an ivory knob or lions tusk.
But the boss people of the world for
slashing and distorting the ear are tho
Dyaks OF Borneo., The lobcs are pierced
when the child is only six months old,
and from that day the hole is forcbly in
creased in size till it forms loop from
one to four inches, or even more, long. e.
AT first wooden pegs are placed in the
hole; these are afterward replaced by n.
couple of Tin or brass rings, while if the
Dyalt belle cannot afford such luxllries
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
Continental TrOtting.

Captain Chester, author OF $50 and
Under" and an authority upon turf mat
tiers, tells Inc that trotting is fast grow
ing i'll favor on the other side of the
water.
"On the other side" he said, eng
land, Franco, Germany and Austria have
all taken it up, especially the three lat
ter, and III France an American driver,
even of mediocre ability, can make n
handsome living. Only the other day a
man called on me, who is by no means a
iirst-class man with the ribbons. lie
went over to Paris about year ago, and
told me that what chiefly amused kim
was the get-up of the drivers. Their get
up is tsLboots, with jockey jacket and
cap Of most fantastic desiga They carry
no WHIP, but Il miniature club. The rules
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
GROWING OLD.

Pm growing Old, they tell me;
They say I'm getting gray.
And that my face has not the grace
II had once Oh day.
And in my gait show it
That / am growing old
Hurrah, wouldn't know it
If | was never told.
I'm growing old, they're saying
Hurrah They do not know
A cheerful mind is not the kind
To any Older grow.
The worlds as bright as ever.
I'm happier each day,
And I'll feel young forever,
No matter what they say.
Hurrah, for growing older,
And better all the while.
No look ahead TO when Pm dead
win take away my smile,
That braveiy will be showing
And lighting up my face
They think Pm older growing,
Hurrah! It's not the case
III. c. Dodge, ia Detroit Free Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

of this object is assigned mt $50 n q
the place of its discovery being Tarenu,n'
in Calabria.
The earring seen in Fig. is also of
the nature OF II votivc Offering to Venus,
the design being that of two doves. It
is skctched from one Of the illustrations
III the Gazette des Beaur- Arts, the original
having been discovered in Etruria and
dating probably to the fifth century. 1t
Is OF Soldand cnamc,, the national colors
OF the plumagc beng most faithfully re-
produced.
That the earring was used in Britain
during the Bronze Period has been
proved by DR.. John Evans in his can
cient Bronze Implements :" In bar
row at Cowlam, in Yorkshire, r,u.hlne
the temporal bones, he says, which were
stained green by the contract, were
two earrings of bronze. They we're
made by beating one end of Il piece OF
bronze flat and forming the other
into pen-shaped termination. The
pen had been passed. through
round, the other and fab end being
bent over it. Thus the earring must have
been permanently fixed in the car. This
scoop or basket form of the ancient
Briton's earring was sometimes carried to
a ludicrous size, as witness that repre-.
sented in Fig. 4. This was taken out OF
stone cist at Orion, in Morayshire, Scot.
land. In this case, however, the earring,
or rather the car-trough, was of gold,
and might have been worn by some un.
subdued Celt who caused the Roman
many an unhappy quarter of an hour in
his home. Earrings Of silver have also
been found i'll the British barrows OF
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
tliatsl,ing.s


nfuanza has. broken out four
atfting the present cen
81 ths laSt hdi s :Isa7, when $780,
600 peFs0ng ESR London were u:
tackled and 1893 deaths were attributed
to its presence during six months. 1t is
further recorded that in the six weeks of
its greatest violence no fewer than 5000
deaths occurred in excess of the ordinary
mortality, other complaints being aggra-
waited by the depression incidental TO the
disease.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

- fom the --latest source of information
Igfe PERSONNEL of the Brazilian navy con-
ssts of admiral, 2 vice admirals, 10
rear admiralss 20 lirst-class captains, 30
ffigate captains, so lieutenant captains,
'ya7n 8 a S,lisptepnants, 10 second lieu
tenants 81 SSS9 iseancn, 346 marines, 500
apprentice marines, $50 engineers and so
members, oflIthe medical stall. Cadets
enter tho 'Impeffal Naval School of Rio
Janciro'bctwccn the ages of twelve and
fourteen. The preparatory course is di-
vidcd into three yearly periods and the
final course comprises four years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

School s-gcneraiis sympathize with
one of their nuinbefwk subjected to-
the teachers rod, but in school at
Marysvillc, CAL, the other day, lad
undergoing punishment struck the
teacher, n woman, when the other boys
ponpced upon him and gave him severe
,siiahhina.sl
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
A Corn Conipefition

j. +. Bradley, OF Northbornc, MoXl
offered S35 sewing machine for TIC
best twelve ears of cora that were
brought to him. The corn was weighed
and Eli Circles, of Carroll equity, won
the machine, his twelve ears weighing,
eighteen pounds and eleven ounces. 1t.
was pronounced the l'%t corn ever raised
in tic county.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

Miss Landor, who recently died at the
old, fashioned seat of Tachbrook, War
wickshirc, England, was niece of the
poet Walter Savage Lander. Her house
was filed with curious oil Byzantine
and prc"Raph 1elite pictures which Lam
dor bought in Italy before the invasion
of that country by Napoleon I.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
EDBull invested 500, 900, 1000 in
construction during
Etcd States was about 5000

migration into this country
xcasing. Tie number OF
January TO October was
1000, against 1000 for tho
q the previous year aud 100, 900
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

of this object is assigned at $50 u, q. .
the place of its discovery being Tarenu,n'
in Calabria.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
A.LEGAL POINT.
The Way Bona Eide Settlers are Treated by
Lariated Claim Owners-A Sworn
Statement Settles One.

Mr.. D. E. Chesshier, Jr., Of ANA
rilIo, Potter county, stopped over in the
city last night.
Mr. Chesshier has been to Austin to
see Land Commissioner Hall about sec
ton of land located three miles from the
town of Amarillo, which has been "lar-
rated out'' ever since the town started.
Mr.. Chessheir is a bright young lawyer
who recently moved to Amarillo
from Williamson county. He
is enjoyinga lucrative practice
and is prominent candidate for
district attorney of his district. When
asked if there was much of this "'lariat-
ing'' practiced in the Panhandle, hsS
said: eyes, am sorry to say that there's
is great deal of it, and it is injuring
the towns very materially, as settlera5
viii visit Amarillo for the purpose of fl :
ing on q section of school land close to
town. A land agent will take him out
and show him q section ten miles away
and tell him that is the closest he can get
to the town. He will be surprised at the
number of vacant sections near town,
and will inquire where the people
are to. whom they belong. He will
be told that they are all taken, and that
the settler has returned home for his
family
dc. you apprehend, Mr.. Chessheir,
that the party whose section your client
Jumped will give him any further
tfouble?''
''No, sir. We haYe the sworn state
ments that the party claiming the land
was never on it to live in his life, and
that virtually settles the question. -
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
LARIATED LAND.
Panhandle Man Tells why Potter and Carson
Counties do not Sc tile More Rapidly.
Farmers are Kept Out

A gentleman from the Panhandle who
is in the city, and is well posted on mat
tiers there, was asked last night If there
was much 'rlariating" of school la1ds
going on there, said: Yes, 1 am very
sorry to have to say that it is SO, and
that several good towns have had
their growth retarded by reason of 1t.
Amarillo and Panhandle City have suf-
fered badly from it.
Three years ago, before the Southern
Kansas of Texas was built to Panhandle,
men in the employ of the railway town
site company located and filed on all
the school land within ten miles of
the town of Panhandle, think
built there at once. They have contin-
ued to hold it, doing nothing to improve
it and allowing no one else to go ahead
to do anything with the land.
Carson county is q fine section, AMI
Panhandle City is q beautiful little town
full of enterprising citizens who are
trying to build up their town, but they
can do nothing, as a settler can find no
school section vacant when he stops in
the county.
This is why Claude and Arm
strong county have been enjoy
ing such boom the past six
months. The ''lariatlng" business
was broken up by John Hoffer, STAG
land agent, who went there and maze
Claude bis home about that time. H
found the whole county ''lsriated ,ssut
by men waiting for chance to self at
high figures, but he went to work at once
and placed actual settlers on every sec
ton, and as q consequence armstrong
county is full of hardy sl1aers, and
Claude thriving town =.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
ZOE nARRIEp FoL.Ks

NoooNA, TEX, Afksis, 1890.
DEARSIRs- Received thssrdy clopedis
all right 4. The book issaif Sat Is claimed
foF 1t - j wisil ~ had have got
one te1 Ears a, wheEfsI was aEst paf-
risa wos3 frecon nend the5A tes5y
ye1Rg couNiRF they 5ke; hrfts ri 6od
ADVICE ans sinstrg tlo1 Pie ecept
my thanks. Yours, F. B STNEP.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
Blaze at Wnxahachis
special to the Gazette

optCLAI 70 LIIt UdLettes ?.
wAxAHAczIE. Tex, May 1s.-At ssh tlsx'
morning frame house belonging to Capt.
Dillon, was destroyed by IRE. An insurance
policy of $500 on the honae expired some two
weeks ago. Nothing vas saved. Origin Of ire
unknown.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22

~ fgesk HebSf Ftdbri9qed RIction-
9Sd the azetts year,
81 o. D1sss ta6rg a prepaid
10 cypress ilce aedfesi a. so Der.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the postofice at Fort Worth, Tex,
Monday, May 10, 1890. To obtain any Of
these letters the applicant must call for 'adver-
tised letters and give the date of the list. Also,
all letters advertised shall be charged with
accounted for as part of the postal revenue, as
per section $50, page S4s, United States postal