Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-10
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louisiana has the largest farm in I
world.
& A Yankton North Dakota church
electric lights.
a sixteen-year-o tcamster in
Michigan town weighs $40 pounds.
Previous to the time of Elizabeth
only article TO assist in eating was
jackknife.
Football has been prohibited at
Carlisle (Penn.) Indian school as
sstiendish'' game.
A handsome young girl, of AIilwauk
Wis, has eloped with dino musel
freak who has no hands.
A Florida paper says that alliga
meat, properly smoked, resembles ha
but SO closely that it cannot be told Fl
that fish.
The termination "olani" in Hawai-
names means ssof the heavens" T.
Luliuokolani means LILLY of
Heavens"
The Bank of England was establish
in 1894, md is older than any of the
situations ofitho class in any other of
great nations.
The locomotive engine is said to II
maximum life of about thirty yd
The annual cost of repairs is from tie
Fifteen per cent. of its first cost. {
The number of Indians in the URl
{ States who can read English is stated
be over 5000; the number who can
indian languages is over 10000.
The people of the United States d
sumo twenty eight out of every
pounds of sugar made in tho world,
thirty pounds of coffee in every 100.
The proceeds of the Oberammer
Bavaria) Passion Play of 1890,
elusive of receipts from the sale
photographs, amounted to S165, 0001
In Switzerland every man is hisE
assessor. After % mans death the s.
eminent carefully investigates his dE
aud if he has been defraudin *
Treasury it collects the back take
interest.
The royal standard of Persia e.
apron. Stout old Gao, the FL
blacksmith, raised q revolt which i
successful, and his leathern s.
covered with jewels is still borne IS
van of Persian armies. g
The last executions for witchc
which there is any record occur
Poland, January II, 1775, when nj :
women were burned at the stake.
were accused of bewitching the Ia =
rendering it unfruitful.
jacobs well and the plat of hi
surrounding it has been sold ~
Greek Church by the Turkish
mcnt for $40, 900. The same CO M
headed by n wealthy Greek, of NJ
Russia, are negotiating for tho "
building in, which it is SO IS
patriarch Abraham was born.
A singular accident occur red Il
Francisco, Zeal, the other week. IL
Fountain was carrying sack of ~
when flames suddenly appeared 4
right side but were quickly exiting b
An examination showed that rs
bottle of potash tablets had been "a =
and the blaze had started from
source. ~
Some one asserts that in nine CT
of ten, ships leaving New York, Il,
or Philadelphia for distant por E
prov;sioncd so close by their owudH
II a shipwrecked crew CT ten me Ii
picked ap and fed for three d
would put everybody on short 81
"a loss of four days on sailing time
do the same thing. g
The so-callcd showed piano
vented by an Austrian manufact}
really case resembling PIN IS
franc and containing six violiI
yiolas and two violonccllos, the st
which are tuned to different
Circular bands connect the instr 81
and arc brought into contact NJ,
strings by means of the keyboard s.
The word 'gazette"i is from tfy
of an old Venetian coin, worti RI
onc-half cent OF our money. MI
is applied to newspapers bccausH
tho sum charged for reading
written Journals that made their ~
ance in 1850. After the paper W.
it was handed back to the owrl
charged the next conner q gaz RI
taking peep at it.