Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-09
CURIOUS FACTS.

The art gallery at Sacramento, CAL,
has many Chinese visitors.
An Augusta OIe.) lady, who has
reached her scycntieth year, is cutting
hcw set of teeth
VIM. II. Clark, colorcd student, took
the prize at the inter collegiate contest
in Ohio, for the best essay.
1t is said none of the ssbluc coat bows"
who go all over London without hat or
| cap in all wcathcrs had even touch of
the grip.
Mcddybcmps, Me-, is proud of a six
year-old child, who has just performed
the feat of spelling 400 words on stretch
without missing once.
Since Mayor Grant began his warfare
on overhead wires in New York city
more than $500 poles and ID, 800, 900
| feet of wire have como down.
DR.. Know, the German physician who
discovered antipyrine, is said to have
| more than Il million dollars from the
sales Of the drug to sufferers from thu
grip.
An engine on the East Tennessee aud
Virginia road is regarded with supersti-
tious dread by the railroad men, 1t has
killed twenty-scvcn people during its
career.
A cat in Santa Cruz, CAL, has become
so expert in climbing up the door and
raising the latch to get in that the carry
ing of Il big rat docs not now interfere
with her performing the feat.
I.cmucl Case. of Ironton, Wis, is said
to he unable to drink cupfu of almost
any liquid without having 70 cirervcscc
from his mouth rs though he were an
animated mineral water siphon bottle. I
a onc-lcggcd colored man in Egbcrt
County, Ga, has produced the first bale
cotton every season in that county for
several years. He is prosperous, aud is
accommodating handsome independence.
The largest forest in the world stands
on ice. 1t is situated in the Ural and
Okhotsh Seas. 4 well was recently dug
in this region, when it was found that at
depth OF $50 feet the ground was still
frozen.
lSridgton, Me-, has mt least one absent
minded citizen. lie met with an acct.
dent and was confined to the house for
several weeks, but forgot entirely that he
held IN accident policy emitting him to
S25 Il week.
The sudden appearance of mouse on
the floor Of the British House of Com
mons upset the dignity of the eminent
gentlemen near it and led to little panic
that made it necessary to drop business
for awhile.
Iron is rollod so thin at the PittSbury
Irou Works that IL, 900 sheets are re-
quircd to make single inch in thick
ness. Light shines through one Of these
sheets rs readily us it docs through
creased tissue paper.
II is not often the case that man
passes his entire life in the home in which
he was born, but such was tho experience
of Samuel Banlcy, highly respected
citizen OF Portcr's Corners, n. y, who
died recently aged ninety -one years.
w. NJ Brooks, of Roxbury, Mass.
who is ninety. six years old, is the cham
pion sold subscriber" He has taken
the Boston .jouy"0t thirty consecutive
years, til. Christian ReyiNt,r sixty-fivc
and the PASSPORT Sentinel scventy-onc
years.
Mrs. Joseph Richrodc. OF Hanover,
| Penn, left her fifteen months old baby
in his cradle aud went into another room.
Tie promptly crawled out, provided him
self with three sulphur matches, and
sucked their heads off. The doctor
| couldn't save him