Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-25
CURIOUS FACTS

1t costs sss to patent carpet design.
1t is said that tho slot machine is over
$50 years old.
,o The ordinary watch givos 1fN, 144,-
ooo ticks during the year.
at Eddy, New Mexico, stratum of
salt has been struck which is forty feet
thick.
The namo Nebraska was first applied
to the river. In the Indian language it
means shallow water.
A Reading (Penu.) man has Just no.
ceived a letter mailed to him by his SOL
uier brother twenty-seven years ago.
An Atchison (Kan.) girl who is about
60 be married has announced that she
will pay the expenses of the wedding
tour.
Buddha is worshiped in Paris in yari-
Gus private temples, the devotees being
chiefly Japanese, but many OF Thorn are
frenchmen and few Englishmeu.
A boy of ten aud girl Of twelve in
one OF tho public schools at Portland,
Me-, are subjects Of good deaf of curl.
osity, as both arc bald as billiard balls.
AT North Adams, Mass, the other day
q couple who wore united in marriage in
church before tho regular service went
at once into tho choir and assisted in the
singing.
Tho number of lives lost by accident
and disease in the construction of the
Panama Canal is conjectural. Many
writers agree that it is something like
20, 900
A jewelcr has invented devise for
use in sleeping cars that promises to be-
come popular. 1t is u ladder composed
OF tubes of leather, that provide easy
access to upper berths.
ALASKA was discovered by Vitus Bch5-
ing as late us 1741, and became and re.
manned Russian territory by right of
discovery until it passed to the United
States by purchase in 1867.
oceania or Occanica comprises all the
islands and archipelagos in the Pacific
Ocean, and is often divided into four
great divisions named Malaysia, Micone.
STA, Australasia aud Polynesia.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York City, is said to have paid $3.50
Tor her new team of carriage horses.
They were bought in Paris and are dcmi.
range Perchcrons, half bloods, and are
beautifully matched.
There is n curiosity near Qbrdele, Ga,
in the shape of pine tree. 1t begins
from the ground rs two separate and
well-developed trees, and continues so
for distance of fourteen feet, when
they JON and so upward us one.
Henry Wagner, an old German cur.
dencr, was digging in his garden at Du.
buquc, Iowa, when he turned up the
rust-incrusted blade OF an ancient sword
Near the hllt could be made out scroll
inclosing the date 1880. The sword is
thought to be relic of the early French
explorers who first visited the valley OF
tho Mississippi.
The state bed of the last King of Po-
land was made of Smyrna gold braid,
embroidered in turquoises, with verses
from the Koran. It's supports were of
silver gilt, beautifully chased and pro-
fusely sot with cnamelcd and jewelcd
medalliens. 1t had been taken from the
Turkish camp before Vienna, and the
standard OF Mahomct had stood under it.
Plans for the irrigation, both in upper
and lower Egypt, during tho periods OF
low water in the Nile, include the build
ing of high barrage across the river
at the first cataract. Great opposition
hos been excited against this proposition,
as 1t involves the submersion of the
beautiful island of Philp aud ITS mag.
niticent monuments for several month.
each year.