Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-09
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Millcdgovillc, Ca, has youthful
citizen WHO not only walks but cats in
his sleep.
A plan for opening hotcl at the foot
of tho Pyramid OF Chcops, in Egypt, IS
under consideration OH.
Honey Lake, Ilhsson County, Gail, dry
as limo kiln for two yonrs pnst, is now
filling up ngain with wntcr. /
Jane Simmons, colorcd woman, OF
AIillcdgcvillc. Qa., Inns followed thd
lntchering business for twenty years.
The Natlona, Museum Mt Washington
las como into possession of two stamps
issued Under tac act Of 17G5, which led
to tho American Revolution. ,aed
Tho largcs, single pension which has
ever been awarded in'this country has
Just been drawn in Indiana by Charles
Flahcrty, m engincor on the Vandalia
road 1t amounts to S13, 3,070. - s5lj
I'orty-ono years ago c. Lougfellow, q
tlruggist at NIachias, Me-, inserted MI
isomcnt of his business in tho tirSS
s5aio of tho local paper. lt.hos-anpcarc9
sIasssS cry issue since, and Longfcllow .ha{
prosperous. a
sasFhcre Is lady living on the cns
Esitlc Of tho iivor," says IN Augusta,
Maine paper, ''who Is in hor scventicj
and is cutting now set of teeth. scyl
crnl months,ago the gums became painful
and in n short time tho teeth began ta
appear " al
A grocer at Iynchburg, Va, who had
been in business for thiricen yedrs with
outmaking a cent, oouldn't figure oui
how it was uptilh his head clerk was taken
sick, thought he was going to die, and
owned up to having embczzlod about
Si7, 900. 4
"A merchant in Nebraska had only 81
to put into his safe tho other night. . III
put up pacard TO that effect, but burr
glars blew it open, aud were so mud ai
the smullncss of tho sum that they wenl
to the merchants house and hauled hid;
out Of bed and t!Nimped him almost n
death. u
A Maine soldier, who was partic5S
pant in one of tho battles OF 'Shcrmanq
March TO the Sea, n fight lasting several
hours, AYERS that from tho firing OF til;
first hostile gun until tho battles clos,
his conscious oxistenco was lost, and ht
WAS never able to recall singlo incident
of the fight.
A messenger, sent to bring doctor Il
dress the wounds of laborer injured In
IL qunrry ut Upper Merton, Penn, and
being Of the opinion that the man would
die, took it upon himself to notify the
coroner. When tho luttor visited the
scene he found tho injured man on q fail
way to recovery. -
Tho Japanese never sleep with tlit
head to the north, This Is because tlit
! dead in that country are always buried
with the head toward tho north. in
sleeping rooms of private houses, and ol
hotels even, a diagram of tho points. ,ol
thc compass is pasted upon the ceiling fol
the benefit of guests.
Henry Stratford, of Kingston, Onta,
rio, has received letter from England
which went into the sea when the steam!
ship Oregon was wrecked and sunk in
1886. The letter in question was found
buried in tho sands of the beach near
Cape Hatteras, N, c.. The mail bag con;
tanning the missite driftcd 400 miles from
the scene of the wreck.
Tho birth of popular expression is
ascribcd to the first John jacob Astor /:
Being German by birth, Mr.. Astoi
supposed that 20. X wns an nbbrevia,
ton of 'nll correct which, in his own
mind, he spelled 'oll korrect. Tho joke
upon Mr.. Astor found its way into print,
and was SO much appreciated that his 20.
K. soon passed into common usc.'