Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-16
CURIOUS FACTS.


Blue eyes oculists consider to bs tha
best. q,
A Philadelphia medicant is said to be-
worth $4,000.
1t is stated that oysters ten inches long
arc found in New Guinea.
Alexandria, Egypt, possesses the larg-
est artificial harbor in the world.
1t is believed that the hollyhock was
brought to Europe from China us early
as the year 1878.
In the United States there were 14,779
murders between 1884 aud 1889, and
only 55S legal executions.
In Bradford County, Fla, is hollow
stump from which comes a noise similar
to that of a boiling kettle.
A Harlem (New York; bride received
among her wedding presents rcccipted
gas bill of S17 from her father.
In clearing up the postofficc at As
toria, Oregon, recently, u package OF let
tiers mailed in1SS7 was found.
Five generations of one family sat for
their photographs in single group at
Springfield, Penn, few days ngo.
Under tho laws of China, the adult
who loses his temper in discussion is
sent to Jail for five days to cool down.
The King of Dahomcy has sent an en-
bassador to Germany to engage band
of musicians to play, not serve, for his,
dinner.
1t is said that in many Welsh villages
the yew tree and the church are of the
same age, the one being planted when
tho other was built.
A carpet used in room of the United
States Mint after being in wear some.
years, was recently burned in pans and
yielded $500 worth of gold.
The AIcxicans cat salt with their
oranges, both because they prefer the
fruit 50 seasoned, and because it is con-,
sidered to be moro wholesome with salt.
Tho first English theatre was that
erected by James Barbage, in 157G-77.
1t stood in Holywell Lane, Shoreditch,
London, till it was pulled down, in $685.,
AT L'Oricnt arsenal in France great
ironclad war vessel of IL, 900 tons Isl
nearly completed. 1t is strongly armed
with immense cannon in revolving tow,
! crs.
1t is estimated that the amount of gold
in the world is about six hundred and
thirteen cubic yards, and it would fit in a.
room twenty flour feet each way ii in o.
| solid cube.
| Out of seventy-six Irish Kings who
ruled between A. d. 4 and 1172, no less
than fifty-two died violent deaths either
in battle, by murder, or by thunderbolta
| (by the latter three were slain).
A faithful dog in Hamilton, Ohio,
didn't abandon its attempt to arouse its
drunken owner who had fallen asleep on
the railroad track, until an engine cut.
otf-its leg. 'iGHss' INN escaped injury.
a Japanese paper states that ar lEsaEa-
waza q family of six generations live.
The oldest is said to be 1872 years of age
and to be great-grcat- great grandmoth-
er, her hasband, aged 100, also being:
alive.
The first elephant seen in England was
sent US present to Henri III. by the.
King of France about the year 1856.
Numbers of people crowded to see the
curiosity, and a special building was
erected for it at the Tower. /
A good deal of interest has been ex-,
cited at the antipodcs by the appearance
after twenty-seven years of subnersion,
of the wreck of the British warship Or,
! pheus, the singular loss of which, with,
nearly 200 hands, caused such commo-l
ton at the beginning of the last Maori
| war.