Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-06-05
CURIOUS FACTS.
Paris streets are cleaned daily

| Paris streets are cleaned daily
Bottles are made by machinery
In Canada liquor dealers cannot hold
office.
Dried elk meat sells for 800 ton in
Oregon.
There arc 9742 locks and keys in the
Grand Opera House, Paris.
J The Sancens were the first to wear
\ orange blossoms ut weddings.
A dove that had reached the ago of
thirty-two years died at Grccncastlc,
Penn, last week.
A new fad mn ong fashionable young
men of Philadelphia is the wearing OF
gold buttons ON Ovcrgaitcrs.
1t is curiously noted that girls who
work IN candy factories lose their taste
for swcetmeats inter the first week.
An oak tree fclled in Branch County,
Mich, the other day, measured five feet
in diameter, and, according to the rings
on the stump, was 49G years old.
The Chinese ut Marysville, CAL, had
celebration few days ago, in which the
big dragon was carried by forty men.
The procession was three blocks in
length.
The fond owner of valuable dog
has had made for it broad collar on
which is engraved court scene from
the reign Of Charles II. The edge of
the collar is set with row of tur-
quoises.
A policeman in Dubuque, Iowa, cap
turcd n deer with lasso on his bea. the
other night, and attempted to take the
animal to the station, but instead was
given lively turn around town, his pris-
oncr finally escaping to the woods.
The first offender whom Mayor Post,
Of Tampa, Fla, called upon the other
morning was the last man who appeared
before him when he was Mayor of the
town Of Tampa five years ago. For the
sake of "auld lang sync" his honor only
assessed II fine of 81.
An attempt is being made in England
to get the directors OF blind schools to
adept the system OF writing invented by
Mile. Mulot, which has the immense adj
vantage over thnt now in use of produc-
ing lcgiblc characters. Mile. Mulot has
done much toward improving the con-
| dition of the blind.
| Queen Ol9a of Greece presented the
Grown Prince with chapel and altar for
use in the field upon the occasion of his
assuming commend of the First Regi-
ment of Infantry recently. The small
church can be divided into numerous
pieces and carried in bags. 1t can he set
up on low or mountainous lands.
The Chiltern Hundreds, for which Mr.
Parnell and Mr.. Healy, the Irish agita-
tors, applied, is n tract of crown land in
Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, to
which is attached the nominal office of
steward. AS members of Parliament
cannot resign, when they wish to 90 out
they accept this stewardship, which le-
| gally renders their scat vacant.
y Milwaukee man had horse that no
blacksmith could shoe on the hind feet.
At length the bright idea was hit of
chloroforIning the horse and putting on
the shoes. This was done When the
beast came to himself he nearly kicked
his hind quarters off in the attempt to
get rid of the shoes; bat it was no CO.
Science was too much for brute force.
Two men of Palmersvillc, Tenn, re-
Gently cut down IL tree. On the trunk,
about eight feet from the stump, was n
gnarl which covered little hollow. On
cutting into the hollow, which had been
completely overgrown, they found inside
n frog which was lifcless but well pre-
served. BY counting the grains it was
estimated that the tree was Mt least
thirty years old. The frog had been
preserved for years In his air-tight home.