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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
Collectin; Fads of tao Wealthy

Several wealthy women in New York.
collect fans. The Into Mrs. John Jacol,
Astor had very costly and interesting
collection of these breezy articles. Mrs;
Levi Z. Morton has also progressed sat;
isfactorily in this direction, beside get
ting together fifty or sixty trunks of ali
sizes and kinds of finish and decoration,
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, owns a.
single fan which is valued Mt $4,000.
Among Mrs. Astor's specimens were sew
eral of the works of Vernis Martin. Mrs.
Newbold Morris is another enthusiastic
collector of fans, and Mrs. Frederick
vanderbilt and Mrs. Hicks-Lord are also
able to make very good displays. Mrs.
Whitney has very valuable fans, but does
not buy with view of gathering them
into collection. The particular hobby
OF her husband, ex-Secretary Whitney,
Is Turkish rugs. His delight in unique
specimens of the art work of the far
East of this kind is almost unbounded.
Ii he finally secures rare rug with an
unusually rich and satisfying combina-
ton of color he will sit and look at i.
for an hour at time, noting the shad-
ings and getting the different effects by
changing his point of view. The elder
Rockefeller is also very fond of these
beautiful bits of Eastern carpet. The
particular fad of w. X. Vanderbilt is
the collecting of oak carvings, and he
has some very fine specimens, for which
he has paid very large sums of money.
He is also fond of growing rare fruit,
and grows great deal of it ON his Long
Island farm. This also has called for
what other people would regard as very
startling expenditures of money, but the
result is that in winter his table is sup
Piled after fashion that is not equaled
by anybody else in New York OF New
port Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
pENr1rIoN OLE surRn

a Scotch sheep breeder says the lamb
when about month old possesses eight
temporary iucisor teeth-usually termed
the "milk teeth" The after dentition
is considerably affected by the nature of
the feeding. When the sheep are on poor
keep the centre pair of incisors are
"shed" at about one year old and nre re-
placed by two large aud permanent teeth
AT about two years old second pair of
large teeth are required; ut three years
OLD third, and at four years a fourth
pair; the animal is then termed "full
mouthed."
When the sheep are literally fed the
FIRST pair of permanent teeth are acquired
Mt about ten months old, the second at
eighteen, the third at twenty-scven and
the fourth at about three years. There
are, however, exceptions to every rule,
and the teeth cannot always be relied on
in correctly determining the age.-Faim,
Field and iStocEmaa.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
HOW TO GET RID OF soRRrr.. ).

Sorrel is one of the worst of weeds,
when it is not rightly managed. To gel
rid of it some advise to manure the land ::
to apply lime to kill the acid in the soil |;
to drain the land; and sc forth, but very
few seem to have any certain panacea for
this persistent weed. But having van
pushed Canada thist.es, was not afraid
Of sorrel and applied the same treatment
to it as was effective with the thistles.
Manure only makes it grow more luxuri-
antly; it loves manure; acid in the soil is
not the cause of it, and as for lime, 1
have often seen it growing about lime
kilns and at the very foot Of heaps of
waste lime with the greatest freedom. 1t
grows most on the driest land SO that
draining is no cure for it. But to turn
it under deeply, put the land in corn and
use cultivator and hoe to kill the young
plants, and then SOW the land at the last
working of the corn with rye and pea
vine clover, and the sorrel will be got rid
OF for four or five years, when it will be-
gin TO appear again. Then repetition
of the treatment will finish it. Sorrel
spreads from the roots worse than any
other weed; hence, the land should be
turned under at least seven or eight
inches. 1t is then smothered and the
roots die and only the seed is left. A
field which is in clover was covered with
many patches of sorrcl this spring. 1
moved the clover early in June when the
sorrel began to get red with blossom.
The stuff was gathered and burned. In
July, the second growth of clover was a
beautiful sight, level carpet of brilliant
blossoms with the clover standing over
two feet high, and the mower was put to
work, leaving surface upon which not
a sorrel plant can be seen. But .sit is
not dead but slecpeth" only, and will
probably appear in the spring, when I
shall turn the clover under eight inches
deep and plant corn and seed down
again in the fall. expect that will
make III end7ef it.--4meriszas#s Aqysowss
turist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
DRYING APPLES.

Drying apples on farm is at no time
fast way of making money, but this
year, when fruit of all kinds is scarce.
those who are fortunate enough to have
any apples at all should aim to save them
in every possible way When dried they
are out of danger from rot, and, although
not as good as green fruit, cannot fail to
be acceptable and in good demand. They
must bring high price until next sea-
son, at least, when we may hope to have
q more fruitful year. Where persons
have no evaporator or drying house for
the purpose, enough for the family use
may be dried in the warming oven of
the range or stove by slicing the apples
and spreading them on plates or paper.
Leave the oven door open for the steam
to escape, and where there is no warming
oven attached and the baking oven is
used be careful they are not scorched,
Many persons dry considerable quantities
by stringing the quartercd apples and
hanging them around the stove in the
kitchen, but in this way they get soiled
from the dust and flies. A Better way is
to spead them on clean boards, set them
out in the sun in the drying days. If
protected from insects by pieces OF mos
quito nets, sun-dried apples are not in
ferior to those evaporated by artificial,
heat.-Ne,o Yo,k World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

more valuable manure. one-half pound
OF Iinseed meal, where carrots or some.
other roots or ensilage are not fed, will.
tend to keep the bowels open and score.
tion good. For travelling horses there
seems to be but little doubt that oats are
the best although usually the most costly
food. Horsemen agree that for a road
horse oats hare no substitute. Great.
transportation companies using horses
make rather free use of corn. Most of
them use come oats. should desire to
give one feed day of them and the rest
of corn, with a little bran mixed with It
on the score of economy. A trial of feed
ing grain before and after rnatcring re-
suited in m advance of importance to the
practice of watering before feeding.
This matter went over with some care,
and believe it invites change of prac.i
tice on the part of those who feed grain
before watering horses. Grain mixed
with hay for the horse was more effective
than when either was fed alone. Ohicaqo
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

In tho Normal College Of New York
city the choice of ono of three languages
is offered to tho pupils, and of 1851 atu.
dents this year 1148 chose French, 577
German and SO Greek. s'The fact that
more did not choose German may seem
strange at first sight because of the largo
German colony in New York, (" comments
the San Francisco Chronicle, "but it is
pretty certain that the superior attrac-
tons of the French language and the
comparative ease with which it may be
acquired had the greatest influence in de-
termining the selection. Until German
is printed in Roman type its very appear
anco will be foreign to the American,
while nothing but complete reform OF
the structure of the language will mako
it other than difficult tongue to mas
teri
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
A Brigadc's Record of Endurance.

Professor N. S. Shaler, in his ethno-
graphic researches, sought the record of
a body of troops whose ancestors had
been for many generations upon Ameri-
can soil, and he found it in the First
Brigade of Kentucky troops tConfeder-
ate). In Scribner's he says: "On Nav
z, 1864, this brigade. then in the army
of General Joseph Johnston, marched
out of Dalton 114O strong, at the begin
ming of the great retreat upon Atlanta
before the army of Sherman. In the sub
sequent hundred days, or until Septen-
Der l, the brigade was almost continu-
ously in action or on the march. In this
period the men of the command received
1850 death or hospital wounds, the dead
counted as wounds, and but one wound
being counted for each visitation of the
hospital. AT the end of this time there
wore less than fifty men who had not
been wounded during the hundred DAYS.
There were 240 men left for duty. and
less than ten men deserted. A search
into the history of warlike exploits has
failed to show me any endurance of tho
worst trials OF war surprising this.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

The Union and Knickerbocker Clubs
are unique, asserts the New York Sun.
In them the association of gentlemen"
ideas is carried out the fullest. Neither
one has charter, and any member of
either club can be held responsible for
the entire debts of his club. BY declin-
ing to avail themselves of the protection
which the law gives to chartered cor
poration the members of these clubs as
sumo the risk of unlimited liability asso-
Citations, but they hold that the secrecy
with which their freedom from legal
trammels surrounds their institutions Is
full compensation. Neither club ever
takes any steps to enforce payment OF
membera' Indebtedness. A member can
run up bill of couple of thousand OF
dollars or more on big dinner, for in
stance, and should he fail to meet his
debt OF nonor when the bill is presented
no attempt is made to force settlement.
Should such case arise he would simply
be expelled, and thereby be forever ostra-
cized. Cases of the kind are, however,
80 rare as to be practically unknown.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
uhouldn't wonder If ] aome day adopt

Shouldn't wonder II j some day adopt
herln
But when Katie Playfair came back in
May, with cheeks as pink as the mount
ain daisies themselves, and Miss Thor
burn preached her ideas, the elder sister
refused the offer, with many thanks.
81 couldn't spare Pearl, o said she. az
II am going to settle on farm in
Orange County-the great butter-making
region, you know.-and want Pearl to
enjoy the buttercups and the roses and
the young lambs with me.n
"Going to settle, chi" said Mis- Thor
burn. ooh, it that's the case, make
no further objection"
eyes" said Katie, blushing charm
ingly, "AIr. Vail has contract as car
penter to a railway repair-sLop there,
and Pearl and are TO live always in the
beautiful country"
"Well, my DEAR" said good Miss
Thorburn, 81 hope you'll be very happy.
And mind, you're to take no thought
about tho wedding bonnet. I'm going
to mako you present of one, all
trimmed with white lilacs"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
A Wolf in q Snakes Embrace.

There was great commotion near the
wolves cage in the Philadelphia Zoo one
night. A long, deep cheat tcpsled over
on its side, the lid flew open, aud big
yellow snake, with open mouth, glared
around. Seeing that no enemies were
tormenting him, and recovering his lost
temper, he dragged himself lazily from
the box.
With the dim Pickering light of the
Pickering gas-jet glinting on his shiny
back, the snake made his way toward the
wolves den. Embracing one OF tho
wheels, he gradually made his way up
ward, and was just dragging his tail
across tho iron bars to the top of the
wagon when one of the wolves spied it.
With snarl, he leaped for the bars and
took firm grip of the snake with his
teeth.
In an instant the scene changed from
quiet to pandemonium, the other wolves
bowling and dashing themselves against
the bars in fury of rage, while the long,
Ethe body of the snake waved and
twisted like willow wand in the hand
OF drum-major. It's body was useless
below where the wolf had grlpped it, but
quickly looping itself around the iron
brake-rod, it managed to get coil
around the VOLTS neck.
BY this time, which was not more than
three seconds from the time the first noise
was heard, the head keeper cried:
"Bring the cther!" to the watchman.
There was no time to be lost. The VOLTS.
eyes were protruding from his head, and
the bones could almost be heard to crack
as the snake excrted its great strength.
Tho snakes eyes glittered and its Jaws
moved nervously from the pain the wolf
was inaicting, but both were nearly
motionless. A sponge saturated with
ether was applied on the end of pole to
the nostrils Of each combatant, and in n
few seconds Ales -sHakc felt in -arr- inert
heap on the floor, just as the wolf re.
leased his grasp, reeling from side to
side.
The snakes wounds were dressed and
he was hustled back into his box, and the
wolf, who was weak but unhurt, was
allowed to recover at leisure. York
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
KauAL lNrHE cRAvE.

Cr@sus IS dead; remove his robe
And strip him of his gold;
The Reaper grim has come for him,
His form Is still and cold.
The crimson stream has ceased to flow,
The naughty head is lying low,
He's done with worldly pomp and show,
Here rests his pulseless molds
Upon yon bier pauper lies
His soul has taken flight;
His senseless clay wears no display
Alb, tits sorry sight.
His unsuccessful course is run,
With tribulation he Is done,
His perfect rest is just begun
The rest Of death'slong night.
Lay this one in his marble tomb
And yon one in the ground;
Ger this stately shaft uprcar,
Ger that a simple mound.
But which shall sleep the sweeter sleep
Which first shall break the silence deeps
Ali they reequals In Deaths keep,
Till Gabriels trump shall sound.
-Frani; B. Welch. in brakes Magazine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
FEEDING noRsEs.

Professor j. w. Sanbprn says: The
attempt to make hay the chief ration Of
horses imposes severe tax upon them.
and the result is seen in their distended
stomachs and the spirltlcss and clumsy
horses of many farmers. All intelligent
students of the horse give little hay, and
feed grain more literally than to the
ruminants, for the double reason that the
horses will make poorer use of the hav
than the steer or sheep and will be less
easy OF me ton. Good horse feeders give
but ten to twelve pounds of hay a day
ana iced once or twice daily. Acolt is
Kept for his muscle; hence a fatteninp
dies is out of date until matured and set
to work. For the horse, bran mixed
with corn-meal will serve to assist diees.
ton, while, incidentally, it will make
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

A recent writer in the Nineteenth
Century, in an article on our RAILWAYS,
has pointed out that although our mile
age equals that of the whole of Europe,
ne have only one mile of line to every
twenty square miles of territory, while
Great Britain has one mile for every six
miles area. To provide ourselves as lib
orally as the British Il will be necessary,
remarks the San Francisco Chronicle, to
extend the system to 100000 miles.
AS we have considerably less than 20O,-
200 miles at present, to complete the
stupendous system which the writer
thinks we shall ultimately possess we will
have to build at least 800, 600 miles more
OF road. at the rate OF 5000 miles a
year this would take half century to
accomplish, but it is noticeable feet
that the average annual construction is
increasing with an accelerated ratio,
therefore it is not improbable that before
the first half Of the twentieth century
has passed we shall be as well gridironed
with roads as England. If the business
OF the roads maintains anything like the
present proportion to mileage, when we
,osscss 500, 600 miles of road the annual
.arniagswill probably reach the enormous
gum Of three OF four billions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
EPIDEMIC collie IN CALVES.

This fatal form of collie occurs in calves
soon after birth. and depends upon un-
sanitary conditions. 1t may be epidemic.
but IS generally local, affecting the newly
born calves of herd or immediate
neighborhood. In the early part of the
attack the calf appears dull and weak
and refuses food. Soon follow the symp-
toms OF gripping pains and violent dis
charges from the bowels, followed by
temporary relief. But soon all the SWIM.
toms become aggravated and the calf
dies from exhaustion. The treatment
must be prompt and efficient in order to
save the calf, as dram of essence of
ginger and two drains of laudanum in
boiled milk every hour until relief is Sc
cured. The veterinarian would give by.
hypodermic injection thirty drops of
Magendie's solution Of morphia every half
hour. Milk punch IN great prostration may
save valuable calf. Boiled milk should
be given in pint quantities after recovery.
Cleanliness must be thoroughly enforced
IN all things pertaining to stalls and feed
ing. The vessels fed from should be
scalded out with boiling water after every
feeding.-American Agriculturist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
DESTROYING WEEDS IN TIE 1.Amx-

DESTROYING WEEDS IN TIE LAWN.
A correspondent in the american Gar
den writes as follows:
I'll have tried several methods of clear
ing our lawn of dandelion and dock, and
find that nothing is so eirectual in total
~ destroying them as small quantity of
turpentinc poured upon the plants. 1
had dug these weeds out quite clean, but
they came up again stronger than before.
| then experimental by applying car
bolic acid, kerosene aud turpentine.
Kerosene had but little effect upon
them, while the acid and the turpentine
destroyed them outright AS turpentine
is much the cheaper of the two, it was
given the preference, and 1 am now US
ing it upon all weeds that are hnrd to
kill as soon as they are discovered, and
am well pleased with the result. A tea
spoonful of turpentinc is sufficient to
destroy almost any weed"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
POULTRY HOUSES IN oncnAnDs.

Poultry in an orchard will not injure
the trees but be an advantage. Plum
trees thrive we'll in poultry yard. Let
the hens have the shade of the orchard
until the trees are two years old, when
the hens may then be transferred to the
yards containing the plum trees. The
size Of the yard depends on the style of
the poultry house. II the house is one
entire building, to contain many focks,
each flock should be allowed an apart
ment 10xl0 feet for one dozen fowls,
and the yards should be not less than
10x10O feet. If changeable yards 1.-TWO
yards to each Hock) be allowed it will be
an advantage, as much of the green food
can DC grown in the unoccupied yards.
American AWicuhurist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
Girard COLLEGE

Girard College, in Philadelphia, was
founded by the bequest of Stephen
Girard, who left 50, O0O,0 900, besides the
proceeds of certain portion Of his es.
tate, for the erection and establishment
of college for orphans. This edifice,
of white marble, built in the Corinthian
style, is admitted to be the finest speci-
men of Grecian architecture in America.
1t was begun in 1883 and opened in 1913.
having cost in its construction almost
~, 600, 600. A marble static in the
lower vestibule covers the remains of the
founder. - Brooklyn Citizen.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
AGRICULTURE.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELarIysc
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
MATING TIE DUCKS.

a poultry authority advises that one
drake with five ducks is about the proper
proportions, and twenty females in one
flock is as many rs can be comfortably
kept together, the greediness of ducks
making it somewhat difficult to feed
them when the flock is too large. Select
the largest brakes and place tbs breeding
ducks together, away from those intended
Tor market, in order to avoid feeding
them too heavily. They should begin to
lay at any time after the new year
begins.-Reio York Witness.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

Pecan nut farming is one of the grow.
ing industries Of the Gulf States, notes
the Chicago Herald. After the trees have
once begun to bear they involve no labor
or expense, and yield, it is said, an in
come of $500 to $1,000 an acre, accord
ing to the quality of the nuts.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

"Twenty damsels of knowledge" re,
Gently got up debate upon the subject,
(which one of our notable living Amer.
leans has shown himself to be the pos
SCISSOR of the greatest intellect9" After
writing down one hundred names, plao-
ing them in box, and then taking one
out ut time and discussing each sue
cessiye individual, the choice finally
rested upon Thomas a.. Edison.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
The Worlds SIX CROP.

The production of silk throughout the
world last year is estimated at ii, 7O6j
tons, as against 1858 tons in 1888.
II, sSs tons in 1882, 10, 594 tons IL 1885.
and 9O02 tons n 1885. The average of
four years from 1885 to 1858 was 16,Y48i
tons. The 1889 crop was rather above.
It, although scarcely any silk was pro-I
duced in Syria and other parts Of thsl
Leyant. Reao York Past.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

Says the New York telegram: Our
Government psychologist declares that
single pair of sparrows, If blessed with
good luck, would In ten years attain a
progeny of 275, 710, 9s3, 6ss. We have
the sparrows here, and Australia will now
please sing low about her alleged plague
of rabbits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

There are no less than twenty seven
cities and towns in Italy now under the
rule Of brigauds, and oil the local au-
thorities are either sharing their plumber
or 50 afraid of them that ,ney dare not
interfere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

A we'll known electrical authority of
the United States navy, abiding to the
important part which electricity is des-
tined to play in the naval warfare of the
future, says that comparisop, 4 = s' 4
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06
prevailing five years ago
ia comparatively insignificant


IS + prevailing FIVE years ago
ia comparatively insignificant
<5h may come to be matter of
pic Importance. He takes this rs
Indication also of the tendency in
sdern warfare to accomplish desirable
end by any effective means, no matter
how complex or expensive. If ship is
to go into fight she must whip. A lost
battle is n national regret forever. So
modern ships are coming to be the fore
most examples of tho application of
science to practical things. Science is
daily coming more into our lives, but in
no department of life is it making more
progress than in warfare, and in warfare
no branch of science is making more
progress than electricity.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

Ehc Rdstway Aqs estimates that rail.
road construction this year viii reach
5000 OF $500 miles, against $500 miles
Cast year. 4