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, 1890-03-19
Fruit and Plants damaged.

Mobile, Ala, March 3..-Ice formed this
morning to the thickness of a quarter of
an inch. Inquiry to-day among garden.
ers shows that every been, pea, SQUASH,
and tomato plant III the country is dead.
BeetS are cut down to the ground, bus
may sprOut. One farmer had a magni-
tcent crop of green peas, and all were sold
TO birmingham. The harvest was to nave
begun to-day The same farmer had about
twelve thousand young caulitloWer plants
out, and all are now dead.
The acreage of cabbage planted this
year was somewhat larger than last year,
but the crop was fully six weeks earlier
and in fine condition, The shipment had
already begun. 1t is impossible to say
what is the damage to this crop.
Cabbage apparently unhuIt willif really
injured fail to head up, but it is admitted
by the most conservative tanners that abon
20 per cent of the nearly grown is destroy
ed. The new plants are reported unln-
Jured, but there is no further supply of
plants to replace the old ones which ara
frosted.
Pears had fruited, but the fruit in all
frozen.
Mays Landing, N. j., March 3.-The
fruit growers of this county are greatly
Ss''NA ~ N1 IN WIN CuuD vi lHO IBdSJH ION
days has probably totally ruined their
crops for the coming season. Never before
We're trees so far advanced as this time of
the year. Thousands of peach trees were
hudded and had even blOssOmed. There
buds and shoots are all killed, running the
trees for one season at least and in MANY
cases killing them. Charles A. Mason who
owns one of the finest young orchards in
South Jersey, has lost at least q thousand
peach trees III this manner From Elwood,
G%ermania, and Hammonton come similar
reports. Over 20, 900 acres of land were
cleared and planted with young fruit
In this county last year and the injury to
them will be great. a83 eddie
Lancaster Penn, March Sat a meet
Z ing of the Lancaster County Agricultural
Society this afternoon reports read showed
that the fruit crop in this county has been
practically destroyed by 4the late froSts.
There will, it is said, be no early fruit ar
all.
Harrisonburg, Va, March 3.-For the
last forty-eight hours the weather has
been the coolest of The season, the mercu.
ry crawling down nearly TO zero. Itsis
thought peaches, apples, and small fruit
have been killed, 8..ss1-t
st. Augustine, Fla, March o3.-The
weather is still frosty, bat is mOderating.
The mercury was at 25o last night. sBa-
napas, guavas, and early truck gardens
are badly damaged. Orange trees are
: badly snipped, and. in some localitiespfLe
i trees have beenw killed. oTherewwin lh6 a
eJgreat loss on next seasons crop aassathe
trees are all in bloom.
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FROZEN FLORIDA.
A killing Frost Destroys a Big Fruit Crop
at Pensacola.

Pensacola, Fla, March "a killing
frost occurred here yesterday morning, in
all probability destroying the fruit crop
throughout this country. Reports from
west Florida are to. the effect that the
fruit crop in thar sec. ion is badly damag-
ed and will probably be d total loss.
, 1890-03-19

my Nu tbO'IUS UUEtIICftSt. y
Another storm, now over the great
lakes, will give us II FLIP by this
evening, to be followed in turn by
a third and last round, now central
in Dakota.
Nine inches of NOW bad fallen
~ Boston by 8 Am. The wind was
blowing 18"miles I'm hour, and the
thermometer rising slightly.
An area of high barometer, accom-
panied by extreme cold weather,
is over the entire South, making this
Tie chilliest spell they have had this
winter.
The thermometer was q be low
freezing ut Jacksonville, Fla, This
morning, SOM thing entirely unpre-
cpde"ted. W. shall doubtless get IA
taste of, it in a few days.
This, the worst snow,Storm Of the
season began at an early hnur yes
tsrday morning. During the morn
ing, after about an inch had fallen,
for a short time the sun showed itself
while the snow ceased to fall.
But The stOtm seemed to be but
resting for h greater display of its
power. About 2 P. NJ. it again be-
gan falling, this time the fakes fol-
lowing each other SO rapidly that they
came in regular clouds, binding The
footpassenger like smoke or thick
fog.
A strong veering wind blew the
Snow in almost n horizontal direc.
Fon, and it was very unpleasant
f'r all who were obliged to be out.
of doors.
The horse cars we're in very b i
shape. Ordinarily few cars run ON
sunday afternoon and evening, but
yesterday evening a much less mum
Der than usupl ran, The electric car
lines running 10 the northern depoIs
were: unable to make their trips, it is
said. The horse cars struggled slow
~ along, each car having fou' horses,
Most Of the cars were loaded almost
beyond their capacity. The West
End Go. had a large number OF
street snow ploughs at work, with
six, eight or 10 horses attached,
which slowly made paths Tor the
cars to travel IN. Even with tn 8
assistance theshorses found much di-
fic"lty in drawing the cars, especial
Iv upon an upgrade, often falling
down or drawing the cars off The
proper track upon switches or in
especially deep drifts. Had the snow
not been rather wet, the wind would
have been. sufficient to almost stop
horse car travel, by piling up impas-
sible barriers.
Trains or the Albany road ran on
time today In spite of the storm,
There was but lille. snow west of
Springfield, and only four inches in
Springfield.
The New York mail train due here
at 6 u. M. came in late, but the AL
bany people made up several minutes
of time after they got hold of the
train.
The Old Colony road had a snow
, 1890-03-19

put, matters once more upon a favour
rable .tooting.V
The ice harvest has been, or will
be il il hol6s, of great value to Sa-
lntoga and adjacent places. Fully
$4,000 is daily distributed, and a
large number of men, idle from the
dull Winter, have found profitable
and unexpected employment.
Rondout, N. Y, March Sin the
Catskills this morning the mercury
i" the thermometers registered from
10 to 100 above zero. Ice formed
rnpidly on lakes and ponds. On
high peaks in the range this evening
the wind blew hard. No snow has
fallen for a week or more.
Nyack, N. Y, March 3.-The
Lower Hudson is filled will, ice this .
morning. There is good sIeighinig
in RockIand County. The prospects
of the icemen are becoming brighter.
Troy, N. Y, March 3.-The cold
weather has again put Lake ''ham-
plain in condition for ice and denIers
nre taking advantage Of The weather
90 put every available man al work.
All north-bound trains are filled
with harvpsters and Iaborcrs. The
river at Troy is once more filled with
inch-thick ice, but The current is very
swift.
Whitehall, March 3.-Yrsterday
was the busiest Sunday this village
has seer since war times. The cold
weather of Saturday night tighrened
up the ice on South Bay, and the
hundreds of icemen who had been
waiting ~anxiously for such a time
did mot loose a moment in taking
advantage of it. Laborers were Of
feled double wages, 81 II day, and
there were plenty ready to work.
The scene wns a booming one. The
crystal cakes were IIeaved into The
ice houses all along the bay shores
with all the rapidity that could be-
acquired by men and horses, To.
day the boom started up again nll
along the lake. The weather %contiu-
ued good last night, adding an inch
or two to the ice.
If the present weather holds tor n
few days there will be enough ice
harvested to take off the keeneSt edge
0f the famine, but few men who are
not already in the business will! risk
their money now, as the season is
getting SO late and the danger from
,thaws is SO great. There are some
dealers who are prepnfed to put ice
up rapidly, These will be enabled
to get up a good quantity. Elk
congressman II. G. Burleigh of
Whitehall has perhaps the best ar
rnngement on Lake Champlnin. He
is located at Addison Junction and
will probably secure 50,OOO tons
w. B. Eddy Of Whitehall is aIso
operating at Addison Junction, and
he will probably get the next largest
stock. John Ryan Of Whitehall will
get 10000 tons or more. He is
putting up in South Bay,
A nnfhnr March, hli1yo~d
, 1890-03-19
Another March blizzard

Pedestrians who with dihic lily
breasted the vigorous north wind
early last evening and witnessed the
speedy gathering of huge drifts in
2sequestered hooks, feared n repetition
of the terrible blizzard Of two wears
ago. 31'a !" a7' aa
-'6Tt may come yet.
la9 No clear weather is yet in sight, so
say the Signal service men.
: The storm that has 'favsoufed us
: with the first snow storm Of any, ac-
count, This winter, was central over
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Where 1t Always Rains.

D. r. Parkman tells of IL curious pie-
nomenon in Chattahoochee County, q
place where rain falls perpetually The
spot is located on little knoll IN thin
wood on the shipp place, two miles
from Thad. Mr.. Parkman says the dis
covery was first made last Thursday, and
that rain has been falling steadily ON the
knoll since that time. The downfall
covers space of fifty feet square This
space is perfectly wet and the leaves on
the ground are full of water. Mr.. Park
man says he visited the place with G. A.
Mcbride at noon Tuesday. There was
not cloud to be seen in the sky, and the
leaves everywhere on the square were az
dry rs finder.
II stood with the space between me
and the sun" said Mr.. Parllman, "and
saw the raindrops coming steadily
down from the sky. held out my
handkerchief and it was soon saturated
with water"
Mr.. Parkman says that everybody who
hears about the phenomenon is skeptical,
but that the many who have visited the
place in the last few days have gone away
convinced. No one has yet offered an
explanation of the mysterious rain
fall. Mr.. Parkman suggests that some
powerful unknown substance attracts the
moisture from the atmosphere. -.Sauan-
nah Rene.
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6|FIE41|7|llI[T|fF1l
A PERFORMING LION.

The manner of ''roping" the lion down
is very singular. A stout leathern
collar is introduced between the bars,
and by means of poles put about the
animals neck and snapped together.
A stout rope, fastened to this collar, ia
led through ring in the floor of the
cage and out between the bars. Tho
attendants then haul the lions head tight
down TO the floor, and all is ready.
The trainer then goes into the cage
and makes the acquaintance Of his big
pupil. First he pats him on the head,
strokes his face and talks to him in sooth-
ing tones.
This is kept up until the animal be-
comes quiet, when the trainer leaves the
cage, releases the lion, talking to him all
the time, and feeds hirs.
There is no deviation from this system
until the lion ceases to be frightened.
and has made an end of showing re-
sentiment. Then the traiper begins to
hit his charge light, sharp blows with the
whip, without which nobody ever enters
wild beasts cage. As soon as the ami
NAL has learned the meaning of the whip
he goes into the next higher class.
Instead of pulling the lions head
right down to the floor, the trainer gives
him an inch or two of slack. The at
PENDANTS have hold of the end of the
rope, outside the cage, and at the least
demonstration on the part of the royal
pupil they pull his head down. As the
days go on the amount of slack rope is
heightened, inch by inch, until the lion
is able to move around the ring.
Then the trainer will hit his charge
smartly and make him retreat in a circle
around the ring that is within foot of
his fierce jaws, first one way and then
the other, until Mt last it takes but
slight tap to make the beast jump side.
wise.
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Hair Embedded i'm Wood.

Evidence of somebody's firm belief In
the old superstition about boring hole
in thrifty tree, placing therein lock of
ones hair and pairing of the nails and
then carefully plugging the hole, in the
hope that rs soon rs the deposit became
solid wood all fear of future headache
and other ills would be dispelled from
the mind OF him whose lock of hair was
contributed to the tree, came to light in
the quaint town of Wells one day this
week. While saving shingles from a
tree that recently stood near the Boston
and Maine station in that town, William
Maxwell came across inst such an exhi-
bition of human deposit. The nails and
dark brown hair were firmly Embedded
in the solid wood, being separated only
when the machinery converted the wood
into shingles. The hair and nails could
be traced in four of the shingles cut
from that particular part of the tree. 1t
is hoped that the bringing to light of
these emblems in so rude manner has
not broken the charm. --Leioiston (afe. y
Journal.
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100000 FOUND IN AN ASH BARREL.

A New York rng-piclscr Is reported to
have found $4,000 In grccnbncl,s in an nsh
barrel. This WINS rare piece of good luck.
but how much moro fortunate Is tho sufferer
from consumption who learns that, although
tho doctors may have pronounced his case
hopeless, DR. Plcrcc's Golden Medical Dis
coveiry will euro him. Consumption is n
scrofulons disease OF tho lungs. Tho " Dis
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Tho Monkey and the Mirror.

If any one OF a biological turn of mind
wants to have large chunk of pure
white fun he ought to go over and watch
the monkeys in the Zoo. The monkeys
powers of reasoning are limited, but he
uses what brains nature gave him for all
there is in them. A gentleman recently
passed in an ordinary five-cent mirror
with tinfoil back. 1t fell to the lot of
long-tailed monkey with ecru points
and vatican plaits around his ears. He
looked in andegot mad. 1t was the first
time he had ever seen himself, and the
imagined rival was so handsome that
pang of involuntary, jealousy shot
through his quadrumanous bosom: He
went on hunt. Holding the glass very
still, he would suddenly jerk itdown and
look for the rival. No rival.
Then he held the glass still and
ducked his head quickly. The rival
ducked as quickly as he did. Then he
grew cunning. He would peep slyly.
The glass was allowed to glide imper-
ceptibly to one side. TWAS of no avail
Then the monkey reached ono of his
hairy paws stealthily up to the glass and
made u sudden snatch behind it. No
game. That monkey brain was doing
great work. 1t was a Napoleonic
monkey that was conspiring against the
apparition. 1t was evident that the
monkey III the glass was an active
dodger, that he couldn't be caught by
activity. Hc must be trapped by
strategy. Placing the glass on the floor
of the cage the monkey pressed it firmly
to be sure nothing could be beneath it.
Then he looked; there was the other
impudent us ever. He pointed a finger;
so did the other. Number one grinned,
chartered and frowned; likewise did
number two.
1t was no use. 1t was rs if n human
being were confronted with indispuiablc
evidence of the existence of II fourth di-
mension in space, and were trying to
mentally grasp conception of its exact
significance. But the ecru philosopher
never said surrender. After his gray
matter had rested a bit he picked up the
glass and looked again. There was that
same old monkey, looking very thought
Jul and morose. He held him prisoner
against his stomach and carefully picked
the tinfoil off the back of the glass.
This did not reveal the prisoner. But
he was equal to the emergency. That
monkey, he argued, was evidently be-
tween the back and the front OF the
glass. He might be fatter than pan
cake, but there he was. A long black
finger worked around to the rear of the
enemy. A vicious scratch with grimy
fingernail. That fetched him. The
monkey showed up with cash straight
across the nose. Another! The pit of
his stomach was gone. All four fingers
at once. The battle looked like Kilrain
after the thirty -second round. He had
him. In less than minute that monkey,
who had SO fuolishly invited destruction,
was annihilatcd.
The ecru monkey had what was left
of the mirror in the straw, and went off
in triumph to hang from the perch by
the tip of his blue tail Washington
Post
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An Extraordinary Tree.

One IF the most extraordinary of Afri-
can trees is that known as the baobab. 1t
is almost forest in itself, and serves for
II complete sylvan palace on the largest
scale. Rarely growing more than seventy
feet high, its branches extend horizon
tally, supported by trunk which has q
girth greater, it is believed, than that of
any other known tree. One of these cx-
traordinary trees was found on measure
mcnt to be forty feet Ill diamcter. The
age of Notwithstanding the concentric
riugs-was found to be 5000 years at the
very least.
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Awkward Left Hands.

flow awkward most people are with
their left hands! There is no reason, at
least no necessity, for this, but it is
true. 1t is partly due to hcrcdity and
partly to habit and practice, but it could
be overcome. The left arm and hand
might be cultivated to the same degree
of dextcrity, which literally means right
handcdncss, as the right arm and hand,
but it involves trouble, time and patience,
and therefore is neglected. The left arm
has good reason to complain of this in
stice.--Indianapolis Journal.
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TAME LIONS IN, A PARIS CIRCUS.

This part of the lesson over, the
trainer strokes his big pet, talks to him
soothingly, and then, after leaving the
cage, unties and feeds him.
Before long the rope is not needed.
Hanging quite loose, so that the lion can
go all about the cage, he never does any
thing which makes it necessary to drag
his head down to the ring. Then it is
dispensed with altogether.
The first and most important part of
the lions education is now complete. He
has learned his alphabet, so to speak, and
the rest is all plain sailing.
The first thing to be done now is TO
teach him to walk over the whip. This
is done by tlogging and pushing him lin :.
til he is got over it, and then feeding
him on some particularly choice tidbit.
The next day he will probably step right
eve, of his own accord.
Now the whip is raised higher and
higher, until the great beast has to lear,
far into the air to get over it. lie is
well punished after each failure, and re.
warded both by kind words and caresess
and by food after every successful effort.
AT last it takes only an upward mo-
tion of the whip to make the lion lear
high into the AIR over the place where the
whip would have been if the motion had
been completed.
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ever since. Finally, she was sold only
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breaking up, and this work is rapidly
progressing. The mutilated hull lies on
the shore of the Mersey, spectacle for
guds and men. Soon even this will have
disappeared, and the Leviathan will have
become only name.
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education OF their royal charges and get
ting all ready to exhibit to the gaping
multitudes how easy it is to make the
iiercest of animals rs docilc as Il kitten.
There are very few meu who engage in
the profession of bringing up lions in the
way they should go. They cannot be
made wild beast tanners; they must be
born.
1t takes man of unshakable courage
and indomitable nerve to face an animal
which can kill him with single blow of
its great paw, and there are not very
many such men.
George Conklin, who is at present the
superintendent OF Barnum's big show, is
perhaps the most noted lion-tamer in the
country. He is one of the very small
handful of men who are not afraid to
enter strange den of performing lions.
His description Of the means adopted to
tame the great cat is very interesting.
1.-The first thing to be done" said nc
to a Journal reporter, sis to become ac-
quainted with the animal. This is done
by roping him down to the floor, and
then stroking him, talking to him, and
being close to him for an hour or SO every
day just before feeding him, which last
is always done by the trainer in person
exclusively"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20

NJ. VIE. professor OF chemistry a,
Paris, announces that he has disco, or d
a new compound, consisting of mixtu,e
Of phosphite OF chalk, carbonate OF r, 9.
fined potash, and sulphate of chalk.
which, placed around the roots Of the
vines. will defy the attacks OF the phyl
oxera, and will at the Same timo greatly
Increase tho abundance of the crop.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20
Outgrown h,s Father

Mr.; Hawbeck-Yod amt seen N,
son afore, have yer?
City Visitor-Why, no. Worry likel,
boy. isn't heP Takes after his father
Mr.. Hawbeck-You bet he does, wheI
he gets riled. Took after me four time
round TIL barn this mornin' cause J
spoke kind r irritated to him.-Judst
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20

Last Tuesday night 80 members of
the Washington Legislature went to a
theator, aud the Portland "Orogoni IN "
says they made show Of themsel, Ga.
IT. ey acted like lot Of school BOYS. aud
threw paper balls, rubber owe Shoes and
orange peelipgi OF each othor, and boot
ed and guyed tho pluyors.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20
TANNING A LION.
AN OCCUPATION THArREoUInEs
NERVE AND COURAGE.
A Trainers Way of Teaching tho
King of Beasts to DO Tricks
Life Depending on the
Little Whip.
CONTAINING

ION-T AMIN
may be very fas-
cinating, but it is
more dangerous
than amusing.
This is the time
of year when the
bold men who de-
vote their lives to
tanning and train
ing the king of
beasts are giving
the ii II i S h in g
touches to the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20
The Inst of the Grent Eastarn.

Our illustration represents all that re-
mains Of what was once the most famous
ship in the world, the Great Eastern.
Thirty years ago she made her trial trip,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-20

pythagoras invented the multiplication
table in about 575 B. @.
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