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

THE number of cxiles in Siberia this
year amounts to 10000 souls.
a RUSSIAN guard on tho Prussian
frontier ncar Slupca recently shot dead
fonr persons who wcro about to cmi-
CRATE to Brazil.
TUE house in Nizhniy Novgorod has
been preserved in which Peter tho Great
lived before he went on his famous Asov
campaign in 1885, In the courtyard OF
that louise Is ut present school for
river nuyigators The building will be
converted shortly into q museum.
a SYNDICATE OF French merchants has
bought 100000 pools Of wool i'll Usoon-
Ada. The company proposes to estabs
lish large ranches of Russian, Spanish
and French shocp in the prairies OF
karal;ool and in the oasis OF Penlcnsk,
with tho Wow OF raising tho finest wool
in Central Asia.
~ COMPANY has boon formed undor
She supervision and control OF tho Gov
crnmcnt for the irrigation OF tho
stcppcs in South Russia. IL propose, to
! dig canals ana lead water to lands be-
longing To the Government, to various
rural constituencies and TO private per-
| sons.
! A ToI.sToI colony has been established
in Fishniyolotsiii, Tvcr, Russia. TIE
/ members are mostly aristo:ratic or
wealthy, their Chief being II v;ch land
| owner. Thy call themselves tho
iolstowji They work at agriculture
all day long Tho ladies' among them
dress like peasant girls and go about
bar:footcd. Tho police arc Watching
them closely.
TIT: authorities of tho government OF
Taurila, liusJia, have issued an order
that women buthing in FREQ waters
shall wear bathing suits. The women
Of faltcon prepared petition to the
general government urging tho rep al
Of tho order and declaring that tho
curative powers of tho water have no
effect upon those who batho lii Clothes.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
Ono OF Those Touches of Nature Tint
| Mako the Wholo World Kin.
Ten O'clock in the building of tho big
city paper. Tho electric lights arc burn
Ing and 5no whirl of presses and click OF
typos mako n busy scenc. Editors,
reporters, proof-readers arc busy pre-
pairing tho days doings for tho morrow.
Detroit Froe Press, is pushed carefully
open, and bluo-cyod, faxen-curled
maidcn of six summers and as many
winters enters. Nobody knows how sho
got there. Nobody saw her climb tho
stairs or walk through tho hall. Sho is
ragged, dirty and has been crying.
'ls you tho cditor-man?"
Eyes, little one; what can l do for
youp"
"Rubo is doad, an, = thought NAV bc
! I-'.' ;:i-~ L--vGrT-d 0Out it?"
"Who is Rube?"
"Why, didn't you oyor hear Of Rube?"
"fou sec, there are 90 many people
that l can't know them ALL"
Tho big-bearded man was actually
ashamed of his ignorance.
But Rube wasn't poople-he was nv
brother. IIc sold papers an blaclsod
boots and all that. 10 wasn't very rich
an ma said the city man would bury
him-but he was good to mo-"
"Did you sell papers, too7"
mo, stayed homo, but Rubc brought
me candy dogs an candy roostors and
licked bad boys that mado mo cry. An
II you'd toll folks how good he was,
maybe they'd think better Of him."
/ What do you want mo to say, little
onep"
why, that no was twelve yoars old
nm was helpin' mother and-oh, don't
know-but 'member ho YVES always good
tor me-"
Before tho little mourncr Loft the
office sho was tho recipient of handful
of coins donated by "the boys" of the
Office and tho big editor ordered the
lanitor to accompany her homo.
Thus 1t happened that tho readers OF
tho great paper wero mildly astonishcd
to read on the mornings local page:
BlED-festerday, Rube, the ncwstog aged
twelve years. IIc IVES the support OF his wild.
cwcd mother and loved his little sister better
than llfo almost. He was buried In the potter s