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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
PRETTY LITTLE JAPANESE WOMEN.

In size the Japanese woman is small
compared with those of America or
Northern Europe, her average height
being four and one-haif feet. Her COM
plcxion is peculiar to all NIongolinns,
which is especially true of servants and
outdoor labo-ers, but the upper and more
refined class, those not objected TO the
scorching rays of summer 5 sun or chatting
effects OF Il spring wind, are rs fair as the
average American woman. Her bcauti-
full dark hair, kept glossy by the frequent
dressing of the native coiifcur, her dark
eyes not so obliquely set as artists paint
them, faint tine complexion slightly and
make her skin appear more opaque than
that OF "A light haired, blue-eycd damscl
of Sweden. Her form is plump, as
nature intended it to be, not being
pressed into unhealthy Shapes by means
used in more civilized lands. The most
that can be said against her form is that
her limbs and feet are short, shapcless
aud clumsy Chicogo Inter- Ocean.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
FADS IN PERFJMERy

Some of the latest fads are, first, per-
fumcd shoes. If your purse is plethoric
You can afford the Russian leather shoes
which are very smart, indeed, but if you
are obliged to count the cost then have
your shoemaker inserC your favoritc
sachet with anis root between the leather
and lining of your shoes. Another per-
fumed device is the closet sachct This
is an invention Of Mrs. Harriet Hubbard
Aver and will Mt once recommend itself
to refined and fastidious women. At the
opening of Mrs. Ayers new rooms on
Fifth avenue, in New York city, the
other day these exquisite sachets were
shown. They arc as deep and wide as a
church door and are hung over all your
frocks, thereby giving each one that sub
tile, lingering fragrance you so much de-
sire. The sweetest one ofnll was of pale
lavender India silk lined with white and
embroidered with violets. Needless to
say that it WAS padded with violet
powder. Hang one of these delicious
sachets in your closet and when you walk
you will, like Jean Ingclow's young
lovers in "Dividcd," be Shaking out
honey. treading perfume. y Ciicago
Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

OF whistlinS are also regulated by the
action of machinc-movcd lever pressing
against the air-valvc and forcing it open
every few seconds.
Lighthouses are the most numerous
Of all the signaling arrangements that
dot our COASTS, and probably few readers
who live within sight of the Atlantic or
Pacific waters, or the Great Lakes, are
familiar with the aspect of the light
house tower. The great bnrrcl-shapcd
crystal lens, with its rainbow multitude
of cleaning prisms, carefully covered
through the dny and jealousy guarded
by the keeper from the sullying touch of
prying fingers, the queer little lantern
room at the top Of the winding light
house stairs, and the wonderful view out
scaward from its windows, are sights
accessible to long shorctl residents but
perhaps many such residents are not
familiar with the various kind of light,
for not only does the fact of light being
fixed or ''ilash" determine its location,
but so do also the intervals of flashing,
the color of the light and its magnitude.
There nrc fixed red and white, flashing
red and white, fixed white with red
flashes, double lights, and so on.
The flashlights are not caused by re-
volving lens, as one might suppose, but
by II revolving framework around the
lens proper, set here and there with red
or white pancs MS the case may be. The
light, of course, is only seen when one
of these revolving pancs passes before il.
The flashes can be produced ut longer
or Shorter intervals by adjusting the mn.
chincry which regulates the revolving
prisms This is nm important mntier,
since the revolving lights are in part dis
tinguishcd by the numbc: of seconds in
the interval between their flashes.
Lights are known ny of the first and
second order, and SO on, according to the
size Of the lens, the first being the largest.
1t is wonderful 10 see to what perfection
these lights have been brought by skill
and careful study. The lamp ITSELF even
in lirst-ordcr light, is not such BRILL
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
Normegians First Sailed Hitler.

Antiquarians, historians and scholars
now generally agree that Icelandic records
and persistent researches for many years
have established the fact that Norwegian
navigators discovered the North American
contingent at the beginning of the 18th
centpdy, or about 500 years before the
first voyage made by Columbus in search
OF it. The fact is also established that
attempts were made by adventures from
Greenland to found colony on the shores
y New England. Where Therwald was
buried, or where Thorfin and Gudrida
landed and lived nobody knows. 1t is
evident that The locality is not far from
the latitude of Boston. The best in
formed students of the subject believe it
was on Rhode Island, and that the mys
ferrous old stone tower at Newport, of
massive masonry, resting on seven col
umns, the foundation stones of which
are hewn spheres, was built by the Nor
weglan colonists, as sacred structure.
1t was there when the English colonists
first came and the Indians then residing
there had no knowledge of lis origin. If
the Mortimer did not build it, who did,
Echo answers "who did2' The whole
records OF Rhode Island make no mention
OF such structure being erected there.
-Ne,o York Voice.
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Entertaining Chat About Tea and coffos

Some weeks ago dropped in at Black
alFs and drank cup of his famous cof-l
fec. lie took a scat beside me and told
me things of coffee and tea which ore as
interesting as they will be new to con-
s'lmcrs OF these two nccessarcs of life.
''Do you know, he said, "that within a
few years you will drink the last cup of
Java Collect The public does not gencr-
ally know that the coffee plantations i'm
Ceylon have been stricken with n blight
the last thrcc-four-ycars which has
been progressing through the East, ex!
tending through the islands of Java. SUI
matra and others, to the extent that it
threatens the total extinction of coffee
culture, specially i'll Java. The estimated
crop III Java last year was 100, 900 piculs.'
y picul weighs l33 pounds. Five years
ago this crop yielded 1900, 900 piculs,
So You can Imagine that if no material
change Tor the better sets in it will be but
short time when the world will find
Java coffee but "Reminiscences. We get
the other hest coiTccs from the East India
Islands AMI Arabia, md, of course, in
thcm.wc shall find 10 II certain extent a
substitute for the Java. There arc also
some very fine coffee grown throughout
Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa
Rico, Bogotan, Maracnibo, Porto Rico
and Venezuela. The bulk of the entire
colicc product, however, comes from Brn.
I'll, which has II pcculiarity of its own.
These coilccs are harsh and rank, as com
pared with the mldcr kinds IL was
estimated that Brazil once furnished six
ty-tlvc per cent. Of the entire product of
the world. There have also been of late
years one or two partial failures Of the
crop in Brazil, which account for tho
high price of coffee here. You will
probably remember" he continued,
THAT coffee was very low from 81 To
81; in inct the prices were 40 very low
that brazilian planters did not have tho
berries picked, it bringing them in debt.
In consequence they allowed their plnntn.
tions To rum down, which also in part
accounts for the present shortage. -
Chic"go Ucrah
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
4 niiI.I. nIiOY.

These buoys are sca-sgnals of com.
parativcly modern type, and though II
thousand dollars is often expended for a
single buoy, they are, of course, less
costly than the maintenance of light.
houses and their keepers would be. The
buoys are their own sections, and ring rs
Justify as if it were the Fourth of july the
ycar round.
The bcll-buoys noatcd in American
waters are composed Of IL simple iron
framework tapcring upward to II point
from the round raft on the waters sur
face. Up in the apex hangs the bell,
and it is great surprise to one who,
sailing by, hears its constant ringing, TO
be told that it hns no tongue. Directly
beneath the bell is groovcd iron plate,
and IN this is cannon-ball which, run
ming from the centre down any groove
to which the swirl of the waves inclines
it, brings up with bang against the
edge of the bell.
The advantage of this arrangement
over bcll-tcnguc is plain. The least
INCLINATION of the buoy sends
the heavy ball rcsoundingly against
the metal, while in calm waters
the bell-tonguc might not be moved
with sufficient force to strike. Then,
too, the cannon-ball, sent constantly in
all directions outward, gets II uniform
wear, while II clappcr would wear only
on two opposite sides. The link would
also soon wear away by the friction.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

The only soprano in the world who
makes higher tones than Patti is Miss
Syoil Sandcrson, daughter of Judge San
dcrson, Of San Francisco. She is tall,
willowy girl, with throat like II white
pillar, gold blond hair and black eyes,
with great depths of diablcric in them.
She dresses beautifully. is extremely
bright and intelligent, and. as her father
is a wealthy man, was quite belle when
the unusual capabilities of her voice iirs;
became apparent, and she went to Eu-
rope for study. She was twenty -onc
then; she is now about twenty -four.
Masenet, the composer, was enc of the
first to testify to her unqucslioEcd gifts.
He has just completed an opera for her.
i'll which occurs the musical marvel of :.
run to second upper A. We shall no
doubt be called upon to pay our tribute
to the neat little gymnastic feat ut some
Culture day.-Puts6u,y Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
SEA SIGNALS.
DIFFERENT METHODS OF WARN
ING MARINERS.
Tho Uncanny Boil Buoys and tho Whist
ling Buoys-Land "Spindles"-Shrill
Fog Horns-Tho Lighthouses.

In the marvellous days 10 come, when
men learn the secret III soaring through
the air, toward which they are as vet so
vainly thriving, it will be fine thing to
go abroad some starry summer night, and j,
floating over the wide and dark Atlantic.
look down upon the watcry thorough
fares picked out with the long, dazzliu.
chains OF varied lights, and dotted with
bobbins rcd and black buoys by the
thousand, all as familiarlv known to old
mariners as to us are the signs upon our
streets. Moreover, if human ears could
hear SO far, there would come, from hun
dreds of miles, above the laugh of looms
and the boom of breakers, the long weird
whistles and the melancholy tolling that
are old Father Oceans uuccasiny orchestra
-thcbcll buoys and whistlins buoys that
rock on the waves day and night with
their mOurnlul music
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
VEIL HEADACHES.

"A case OF veil headache" said the
physician, ms the woman passed out.
''Fivc cases of headache come to me now
where there used to be one.,i And the
spotted veil is the ca, Z ofit SThc head
ache comes from the eyes, which are sure
to he more or less affected by the con-
tinual wearing Of the dotted face veil
pulled closely over the eyes, MS women
wear ii today My liaticnts come to me
with one OF those ridiculous little wells on
and tell me that they have Il constant
headache with disturbed vision, and that
they fear they shall have to wear glasses.
But when | tell them they will only have
to stop wearing the face veil, they look
hurt and tell me they arc perfectly sure
that the veil doesn't hurt tlssse in the
least, and that don't quitces{ .derstand
the case, BIT then no physician, so far
as patient is convinced, ever did quite
understand the case. '"-Ne,o York .Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
A Big Snake Skin,

The skin shed by rattlcsnako which,
was found on the bank of the illinois,
River, and is now preserved ut the boy's
seminary Mt Tahlcquah, in the Indian
Territory, measured thirteen feet long,
is fourteen and -cighths in circum-
ference, and has fifteen buttons. Tho
person who has examined, measured, and
reports upon it, says that it is very dry,
skin, and therefore assumes that it prob
ably shrunk considerable in drying, but
this is not so, as the skim OF snake is
thoroughly dry when shed, and conset
Iucntly represents the full size of the
snakc.-!Seattic Post-InteUigenccr.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
MASCULINE FASHIONS.

The new style of dress which is af-
fected by society girls for its masculinity
is beginning to make its appearance, in
spite of opposition from modest women
and men who prefer women should APP
pear rs women. 1t consists of Jacket
like cutaway coat. a vest, shirt front,
collar and nccktie just such rs a man
might wear. For theatcr wear there is
black waistcoat, exhibiting the broadcast
possible cxpansc of Numbered linen, n
high collar and a white nccktie, for all
the world like the dress suit which fash.
ionablc men and walters wear in common.
hear of wealthy banker who was sit
ting in his library the other evening as
his two girls came into the parlor prev
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
DRESS AIDS FOR MOTHERS.

The maternal pride that prompts al,
mothers to dress their children us well as
possible under adverse circumstances,
also induces them to spend many an hour
over their clothes without bcgrudrinm
either the labor or time. Fortunately.
tho most appropriately dressed girls are
the p!ainest clothed, just at present; but,
by being plain in style. it does not allow
that the little frock is not to be of n
dainty material, ,astcfully made and in
& becoming manner. Do not put too
sombre Il color upon sad-faccd child;
neither have all around sashc; on stout
little figure, which requires tapcring ef-
fleets. a little thought will soon settle
this part OF the task, which is tine sim
plcst. Blouse suits of the cottoas imitat-
ing flannel; lawn-!canis flannel, which is
part cotton; and Atwood blue -an,i white
tlanncl, and serge are the most comfort
able of play dresses, and for little ones ii
the seaside, nothing can replace them. Ii
trimmed in any manner, let it be with
cotton or WOODEN braid, according to the
material of the dress. Sew the gathered
skirt, which is amply full aud hcmmcd,
to silcsia undcrwlist, and have sailor
blouse. with the regular sailor collar and
coat or shirt sleeves, with round neck
or tiny band as preferred. Misses wear
the blouse suits made in similar style,
and their halfworn skirts may be entire
~ WORKOUT with two or three odd
blouscs made in this fashion, or us bcltcd
waists of wash surah or striped tennis
ilanncl.-LUiieS Home Journal.
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ious to going out to the theatcr They
were rugged ont with the new costumes.
their escorts had arrivei, but they were
chatting for few moments, when the
old gentleman, looking through the doors
that separated the rooms, discovered the
new attire and Immediately asked his wife
what 1t meant She attempted to cx-
plain, but before she had got fairly start
ed the old gentleman had cxcite,ily called
out: "Say, girls, stand up and let me
see if you've got pantaloons on. The
girls stood up, and the old gentleman
was satisfied that they were only half way
dressed i'll male attrc.-Nep York
Press.
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Making nm Ice Passage by Dynamite.

IL. a. II. Dunslord, prominent Eng
iiSh Civii Engineer, IN II pamphlet pro-
poses To use dynamite in the northwest
passage through the Arctic. llo says.
''As for the proposition that we can
open II sca, we must remember that the
ice is not of great thickness; that wc
have powerful explosives that are pcr
fcctly effective when frozen, and That
every mass of ice detached in the course
of n stream flowing southwark will float
away of itself. don't, of course. mean
TO imply thnl il will be easy but That il
is within our power to make channel
wide enough for II part Of the warm
stream 10 pnss without losing all its heat
on the way. The mnin barrier with
which we will have to donl will be the
belt oi ice north ind northwest of Green
land. OF course, until il ~ completed
The channel will freeze over every winter.
hut Ito not think that the removal of
the ice thus formed will bc so serious a
difficulty us might bc expected The ice
being cnuscd merely by the freezing of
the channel will be smooth, not hum.
mocky, and after the first snowfall, can
be travcrscd easily by scdgcs or dog
trains, so Tint surface or Submerged
mines Gun be hid enabling the ice over
any desired length of section To be broken
up insinniancously.
"Ihc advantages to be gained by tho
opening Of the sea and the amcliorntion'
Of II climate can scarcely be ovcresLi-
@Msd, senlcripy habital,,lG The shQres Of
The Arctic, and the gI9wth there 81 cfvIls
lied communities :, 1t,ncI .o,,j r. IT.
Pacific, and the immense increase in
trade with the Pnciiic consls of America
and Asin. Thus would he opened lands
suitable for colonization within EASY
reach of Great Britain, and which, in
great part, belong to the British Empire,
valuable fisheries and considerable and
increasing trade in the Arctic. "-Sau
hrwhcisco Ch,onicic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

LIGHTHOUSE tLANTERN."
liant affair, but the careful arrangement OF
prisms causes all the rays to bc conccn-
tratcd and reflected TO the best possible
advantage.
Another curious arrangement of light
is that known rs the "scctor" One who
enters the "lanicrn" ms the little tower
room is called, Of n lighthouse having
this feature, will sec that, in addition to
the usual lens which the lantern contains,
long and narrow red pancs are inserted
between the other windows of the room
or "lantern." These have II special sig
nificancc. The lamplight shines steadily
red through these, of course, and white
through the other pancs, making, on the
sides upon which they are placed, long,
broad, rcd pathway across the winter.
Now this pathway sailors know to be u
safe and ccrtain channel, for the particu-
lar tower which bears the two red pancs
has two safe approaches, and with the
utmost care the two pancs have been set
so that the red light may shine directly
down them.
These are some of the many ocean
guides that bcckon to safety or warn of
danger. But despite the friendly glcam
OF numberless lighthouses and the wild
and melancholy warning of hcll.buoys
and fog-signals, many brave vessel has
been ground to fragments on the sharp
rocks or sunk silently into ocean abysses;
and there must be disaster and shipwreck
as long rs sailors sail the seas Youta's
COMPANION
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
Big Pacific Slope Stock Yar.ls.

- The Union Stock Yards Company has
been Incorporated in San Francisco with
a capital stock of 50, 500, 900. The com.
pany will maintaia complete system of
stock yards on the Chicago plan. Adj
joining them will be erected two large
packing houses capable of handling 1000
hogs, 100 bceves and 1900 sheep daily.
These establishments will cost $500. 900
each. This industry will serve to in
crease the pork raising interests of the
Pacific Coast, which are now sadly lack
ing in ability to supply the home mar
kets. 1t will also turn cattle shin.
ments westward from the Ssages of
Nevada aud Idaho.-West Shore.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

The signals which send out tho shrill-
est warnings across the dark ocean spaces
are the fog horns or whistles placed along
the coasts where sea fogs gather thickly
aud stifie not only the light of tho
friendly lantern, but the tonc Of tho
warming bell. These are operated by
machinery and must be seen to be un
and Others, where water is not readily
procurablc, by the hot air apparatus
called the Ericsson caloric engine.
The trumpet. which is the mouth piece
of these Signals, is outside the engine
house, and the loud and shrill tone OF its
whistle is the result of tho vibration of
metal reed within it caused by the rush
OF compressed air forced outward by tho
action of the machinery. The intervals
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
Mnarlcm Still to the Fore in Tulips.

The centre of the bulb culture in IIol-
land is still at Haarlem, rs it has been
during two centuries and a half. Hya-
cinths are especially in favor just now,
and ground suitable for their cultivation
has sold for rs much as S13, 500 an acre.
as against about $1,000 given for land Of
other kinds. The expense of cultivation
is placed at about $500 an acre for hya-
cinths and $3.50 for tulips; aud it is
noted that artificial manures are never
used. Narcissus is also grown in vast
quantities near HARLEM, chiefly for ex-ll
portatiou to England.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
A NOVELTY IN Wells.

A novelty i'll veils under the name Of
grain de beaute has appeared and is made
OF plain tullc, either in black or white.
with couple of black waters so arranged
that one comes under the corner of one
eye and another at the corner OF the lips,
in imitation of the patches which adorned
the beauties of the last century. Patch
vcils are sparscly dotted with velvet spots,
and Russian net falls are the stylish ser
viceablc face covering. The fall below
the mouth and are drawn up from below
the chin.--Nc,o }o,I SIN.
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GERMAN FEMALE INSURANCE ASSOCIATE

WHITMAN FEMME INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
The women teachers of Germany. be.
sides Il great pension association. have had
an insurance association CT their own for
the last six years. For Il monthly fee Of
twenty-five cents, Il member can in case
OF sickness draw 81. 50a week for thirteen
weeks and for the same period again after
I'M interval Of six weeks. Over $4,000
have been paid out. Women between
eighteen and forty-.ive years old who have
Il doctors certificate Of good health arc
admitted. The society has n good sur
plus and is thinking OF reducing the fee
except when an unUsi,al amount of sick
uess Popular kdnut0y.
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KErcHIN, ON BEHIND.
I tell you, boys, it amt no ns

I tell you, boys, it amt no u .
A-setchin' on behind;
The steps you save by that ere russ
Are steps You needn't mind.
The man who walks with steady stride,
Ambitions swinging gait,
Will reach the goal, while woe betids
The laggard who is late.
fI2f not the lash of keen satire
tYliat drives the car Of fate;
He shall not slip who shuns the mire,
Forge OH, nor pause to pirate.
tell you, boys, jump OIL the cart
YAnd put on extra speed;
Let perseverance guide your heart
And nonor be your creed
Pearl Eytingc, in Judge.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERaTURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
HANCOCK DRESSES.

"Hammock" dresses, designed for
elegant wear on sultry, lazy afternoons.
arc announced. They are made with
long flowing Greek lines; they are steel
less, cushionless, half fitting, but grace
full withal, having nook of untidy loose
ness, and are made of all the soft, pretty
crepalines. challies, carmciitcs and also of
China silk, foulard and suroh.-Nc,o York
World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

A Congress of Beauty" is to be held
in Rome. Only Roman ladies of "the
strict four grand branches, viz, brunette,
blondes, auburn red and ilaxcn," will be
allowed to compete, and they must be
between the ages OF sixteen and twenty
five. There will be only two. prizes, the
first $4,000 and the second $1,000. ,td<i>
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03

eap'icums or peppers always form part of
the feast. A double. handful is not AN
excessive number to cat at one sitting.
and they are demolished, seeds and all!
One wonders what the natives throat is
paved with.-New York Tribune.