Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-09
CURIOUS FACTS.

$4,000.
The New York Excelsior cent of 1883
is worth So.
There arc twenty-three acres of land
to every inhabitant of the globe.
The very finest brand of Havana cigars
fetches $500 thousand in Paris.
In British India twenty eight million
acres arc cultivated by irrigation.
Boston was the first city of the carly
colonies to have free public school.
a Pittsburg widow has had three hus-
bands, each Of whom was over six feet
TALL.
The month of May, 1891, was the
wettcst May in Europe for nearly seventy
years.
California counties are growing poor
through paying a bounty on coyote
scalps.
Tho largest bay in the world is Hudson
Bay, measuring $50 miles north aud
south by 600 miles wide.
On June 4, 1912, war declared by the
United States against Mexico, on nc.
count of the proposed annexation of
Texas.
The ponies of NIanipur, India, arc col
ebrated, and it is claimed that it was In
Manipur that hockey or polo was in
vented.
There is a boy in Ccntrcvillc, Iowa,
whose hair always curls day or two be-
fore the arrival Of storm. When his
barometric locks begin to kinl the peo-
plo in his neighborhood prepare for
rain.
There urc many odd ways of getting q
living. One of the oldest is pursued by
tho salonniers of Paris, who make pro.
fession Of tying gentlomen's cravats. An
expert artist in this line can earn $40 an
evening, it is said.
Garfield was tho first Knight Templar
ever elected President. Fillmore, on
the other hand, was waited into the
State Legislature from Eric County, N.
Y, as an Auti-M Mason, during the excite
ment that resulted from tho abduction
and murder of William Morgan.
Before the end of his reign, Henry
VIII. had organized his navy, established
dockyafds at Deptford, Woolwich and
Portsmouth, SGT up the admiralty and
navy offices, and placed all naval affairs
on footing which for the most part re-
manned as he left it for over century
The peasants of Russia believe that
drought will be relieved by soaking the
body of righteous man in water. The
wife of dead bcadlc wanted to he
buried beside him, but the grave wa:
empty. Upon search the dear departed
was found anchored in the river near by.
The smallest "moonshine" distillery
ever captured by the revenue officers was
found recently at Atlanta, Ga, and sent
to Washington rs n curiosity. It's ca
pacity is about three gallons. 1t is con-
structed so as to be operated as an ordi,
nary cooking stove, and it is complete in
every detail.
DIR. Jeroleman, Brooklyn physician,
who jumped into the East River and
rescued lad from drowning, got back
to shore to find some mean rascal had
made off with his hat and medicine
SHN"S- 80 wa nun u NlSlb u
a patient when he heard the cries for
help and went to the rescue.
A hermit named Brunei, who for fit,
years had lived in tower OF tho
Church of Our Lady of Grace at st,
Etiennc, France, has just been murdered
by some unknown person and robbed Of
the savings of his lifetime. Visitors to
the church often gave aims to the hermit,
and it was q tradition In the ncighbor
hood that he had boarded up large sun
of money.
Saginaw Bay, Michigan, was at on,
time the greatest fishing grounds of the
great lakes, but it is so no more. Tn,
cause of the falling off is traceable tc
sawmills and salt blocks. Every winter
fuse mattef q tell nd into th,
river, and this in time n6ds luo way t.
the bay and is washed upon the spawn
ing and feeding ground OF the fish.