Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-23
CURIOUS rAors.

The area of the West India docks is
300 acres.
There arc seven millionaire editors in
New York city.
The coins of Siam ara made OF porco-
lain; those of japan arc made principally
of iron.
There are over three thousand millions
OF onyelopcs manufactured yearly in this
country.
In Carlsruhc, Germany, tho police limo
any ono who plays on tho piano with an
open window.
Tho wife of painter at Macon, Ga.
has given birth to child weighing
forty pounds.
a hunter of Chopalis, Washington,
recently killed cougar which measures
nine feet five inches iu length.
Partisan dandies now wear pink, blue
or red shirts in the evening, with regu.
lar low-cut evening waistcoats.
John Weiss, the concert singer, who
after an attack of tho Influenza lost his
voice, killed himself ut Badon, Austria.
Texas has double-headed cat. 1t is
perfect in form except tho two heads. 1t
has four eyes, four ears aud two mouths.
That which Americans call bowl is
known as basin in England. In Eng
land you nsk for q basin of bread and
milk.
Many New York people who have a
taste Tor ice cream nre trying tho fad of
eating Boston brown bread with their
cream.
Ben Dixon, colored man in st.
Louis, Mo-, has only two fingers, but no
can play eight musicalinstrumcnts at tho
same time.
French parents possessing seven or
moro children havo certain exemptions
from taxation. In Franco there aro
40, 0c0 families SO exempted.
A british French miner in tho VILLAGE
of Hickman, Penn, wngors that he can
eat any small animal alive. Recently he
performed tho disgusting icat of eating
live rabbit.
a woman ct Newark, N. j., is holding
six-ycar-old child us security for debt
of $40, due from tho mother, who is in
Canada, and refuses to give her ~ w.
til tho debt is paid.
Tho BARRIERS Of Nordhausan, Saxony,
arc compelled by law to cleanse and dis
infect their brushes, combs and razors
Immediately after use, and before they
arc applied to the hair or beard of an-
other customer.
An inInate OF Liverpool England)
workhouse, matchmaker by trade, who
is suffering from bad qyesight, has fash-
toned wonderful clock out of pins.
boot rivots, buttons, knitting needles and
iron bed laths. 1t took thrcc years 20
complete.
Tho largest apple tree in Ohio is in
Washington County, aud was planted In
1871 or 1902. The trunk, where IL ia
smallest, girths twelve feet two inches,
and the largest branch girths seven feet.
1t is Seeding, which bears largo yell
low apple of excellent quality for cook
ing.
Malcolm Townsend, tho author of
book of GLORIOUS Facts" says That tho
word Manhattan is traccablc to the Span
ish monas, drunkenness; monados, mana
dos, manatoes, n place of drunkenness.
A. confirmation of this theory, Mr..
Townsend says that Vcrrazanni, Flor
cntine navigator, who landed on the ISL
and in 1924, called it tho Isla AIanhattas
because he gave the Indians lots of liquor
and made them oil drunk
A woman in New York city gains a
precerious living by boarding and tax
ing care of fourteen old blind people.
Mornings sho lends them to their plnccs,
where they sit for charity or pcddlc small
articles, and evenings she fetches them
homo one by one. She supplies them
with their meals and gives them Ger
tain rude comfort. AS she is careful to
keep her proteges within tho law, shc is
not interfered with by the police.
A prisoner in tho Jail at Huntingdon,
W. Va, has developed into n remark
able sleeper. Ho has been there four
months, and on no ono day in that time
has he been awake moro than four hours,
while he often sleeps three or four days
in succession, it being impossible to
rouse him. He wakcns with n start,
looks about wildly for moment, then
appears to be perfectly at ease. His APP
petite is good, and he doesn't seem to
lose flesh