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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

the whalebonc we are so used to seeipol
being covered with sort of hair that
interlaces to form sieve or net when
the huge beast elects an enormous mouth
full of water filed with grit, ''thus CATCH
ing the clos by the myriads at each sue
ton and election of the water in its
mouth. This is its food in the fall, win
ter, spring and summer; but what the
clio lives on no one hes yet informed us.
The fox, on its part, occasionally fur
nishes food for the Eskimo. but as the
Eskimo is not an animal we are not called
on TO show he is fed either in the sum-
mer or winter. Still it may be interest
Ing to note that no less distinguished
Arctic explorer than Sir John Ross has
partaken of the polar fox and pronounced
the meat of delicate flavor and excellent
quality.
Thepolnr bear, besides refreshing him
self on an occasional whale, does good
dea! OF Iishing on smaller scale, and in
the summer months when the salmon are
running up the Arctic rivers to spawn
this borcal brnin can frequently be seen
where the shallow rapids and ripples
are located fishing with his paws for the
salmon that have to run the gauntlet
here. He is very great depredator on
the reindeer caches or cairns of the ma
tiyes, or where these people have hidden
the meat of the slaughtered reindeer un-
der huge stones. Thcy-the Eskimo
hunters-gct as big ones as they can
carry, and when there are several of them
IN the party these are pretty large, but
the big polar bear is usually more than a
match for all of them and can nearly all
ways tear down the cairns if he can scent
or smell the meat. To prevent their DO
ing this the native hunter piles snow over
the stone cache and converts it into ice
by pouring water over it all, thus not
only destroying or effectually imprison-
ing the smell of the meat, but also fur.
nishing glacial mortar for the stone
work that most thoroughly resists the
stout claws of this huge beast. Still. with
all their precautions, the Eskimo hunters
iose many caches OF reindeer, seal, wal
rus and musk-ox meat through the depre-
dations of polar bears, wolves, wolverines
and even the weaker but more cunning
animals as the foxes, sables, etc.. and
thus contribute in no small measure 10
the winter food of the Arctic animals.
But of all the curious ways that the
polar bear has of securing his food I
know OF none more strange aud interest,"
ing than that related by Captain Hnl,
ana Doctor Ray, two trustworthy travel
ers IN this country of strange sights.
They have known the polar bear to take.
q stone OF huge chunk of ice in its fore
paws, and from favorable height, as
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

a lady writes from California to the
Boston Transcript, "Bret Harte's famous
prophecy that we shall be ruined by
Chinese cheap labor was accentuated for
me the other day when;I saw China
man go into San Francisco savings
bank and present his bank book at the
cashiers desk. His money was brought
TO hin in wooden tray or drawer, as is
the custom in this specie paying State,
and poured ina shining yellow stream of
double eagles into his canvas bag. He
llfted it with difficulty to his shoulder,
and carried away eleven thousand dollars
with as unconcerned an air as one who
is mere mortal, and not a celestial,
might take eleven. had the curiosity
70 ask his vocation, and learned that he
is pawnbrokerl In time our cousins
from far cathay may become the Roths-
ehiids oflsnerica and such signs as
9 Ksi, Banker; 1--we Lee, Lawyer, bl
common on our streets.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

knocks tho smaller brute senseless and so
far away from the hole 10 the ice that it
cannot escape by that way, even if the
blow is not fatal at once.
In tho winter time the ice is covered
with snow, and this is ''hollowed out" by
the seal into little snow-house covering
the hole through the ice, and connecting
at the top of the dome with an aperture
about the size of a silver quarter, called
the ;tblow-hole," for it is through this
that the seal breathes when in want of
fresh air. Here the polar bear watches
Tor many long hour if necessary, and
when the first few puffs or snorts of the
seal are heard, he brushes in the fragile
dome OF the resee if snow-house with his
paw, impaling the creature on his curved
claws. and proceeds to show how polar
bears, ut least, can subsist in the Arctic
winter.
The seal, on its part, lives on fish, and
one who has ever had occasion to come
In contact with the countless school and
myriads of fishy creatures that swarm in
the Polar seas can readily believe that
the seal is we'll provided with its favorite
food.
what the fishes live on no one knows
altogether, but that they have enormous
supplies on which they can live, even in
the perpetual ice-cold water OF those
dreary regions is well attested by the
immense numbers that are known to ey-
list there, making the Arctic and sub
Arctic seas truly the fisheries of the
world.
The sea-horse or walrus lives on clans,
fish and an occasional seal, but if the
flavor of the meat is to be taken us a
criterion two-thirds of the diet is clans.
No one has ever seen the walrus at the
bottom of the shallow northern seas Dig
ging for these bivalves, and just how he
does it is not we'll known, but that their
long tusks are employed in this work in
some way is undoubted. Captain Hall
says that they come to the surface after
digging each clam aud spit the shells out
of their mouths, as those shells have been
found on the thin, recently formed young
ice in the fall of the year where the wal
rus has stuck his head through to breathe;
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

In summer, as would be expected, the
polar beasts and birds have the easier
time in procuring their food compared
with winter.
The polar fox then finds an abundance
of cider-duck and dovekie eggs, and &C.
casionally catches the birds themselves.
while in the winter time he has to Skin,
mish around pretty lively among the
ptarmigans and polar hares to keep his
appetite down to zero. If .,hensedn
whale, or one that has had its blubber
stripped from it by the crew of whal-
ing ship, floats ashore there Reynard is
sure to bel in for roya; feast, while he is
usually surrounded by a perfect polar
menagerie of white bears, wolves, woly-
crimes and others. all living in compare
tive harmony, for the simple reason that
IN the huge carcasses there is enough for
all and ample to spare. But, as usual
thing, it such an enormous chunk of
meat as that floats ashore in the Eskimo
country the people are remarkably dill
gent about camping alongside of it, for
then the problem of dog food for the
winter is settled, while ii tight pinch
comes in their own diet they are not
averse to whale meat in the least. But
usually when the Arctic whale isl 'fensed"
of its blubbcr, or fat, of foot or two in
depth it sinks and only floats ashore
wnSn the gases Of putrifaction are de.
veloped, ah,. then its flesh is decidedly
''gamey," if not worse.
The polar whale, on its part, lives. On
small marine creature not longer than
q grain of corn, millions of which are
needed to make meal or even mouth
full for this monster. This minute clio
borealis, as the scientists call it (not near
SO long as its nance, or whale grit" as
the whalers, less POLITICALLY, style it, often
abounds in such enormous quantities as
to change the color of the sea to deep
olive-green. Through this mass the
whale lashes its way, right and left, the
back part of its teeth (Which furnishes
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
An Educated Tarantula.

A half-breed boy of Mexican and In.
dian blood recently attracted much at
tention at Winslow, Arizona, by the per-
formances of an educated tarantula he
owns. He carries the big, formidable
looking insect in large wooden box
slung about his neck, which, when ex-
hibiting his pet, he places on the ground
as sort Of stage.
at the command of its master the tar
antula mounted small ladder, rung
bell and performed on miniature ira
peze. Then, to the humping of tam
BOURNE in the hands of the boy, it pro-
ceeded to revolve slowly about as if
waltzing, and when it had finished sal
uted the crowd by lifting one leg three
times.
After its performance was over it
crawled to its masters shoulder, where it
sat, occasionally running around his neck
or down into his bosom. The boy SAYS
he tanned the spidas when, it was young,
first by feeding it every day until it gre "
accustomed to him, then taught it the
tricks it knows.
He declares that it is much more in
tellgent imam my dog, and very tract
able, though Incorporating in its en-
nifty to any one but himself. 1t is as
large as q silver dollar, when curled up,
though its legs are two or three inches
long.
The body is an ugly dull brown, COW
cred with short, coarse black hair, which
also covers the limbs, but it is very sparse
and bristly. The eyes are small and
CLEAN like diamond points, while the
mouth is furnished with slender, over
tapping fangs.
The power OF spring in these creatures
is said to be something incredible, leap
of ten feet being no tremendous exertion.
The boy, who owns the only one who has
ever made friends with any other living
creature, is from the Mongollon Mount,
aims, lying soutN of here six miles. Dls-
et (Asisona> Nfss
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
I'M AN OLD GARDEN.

Weeds run riot where lilies grew,
Stately and lovely and pure as truth,
In the old, dead days when the garden knew
The beauty that blesses the time Of youth
Notifies creep to the crumbling sill.
And briars climb. where the rose once
bloomcd,
But clump of rue holds its tenure still,
And remembers the beauty that fate has
doomed.
Moss grows quick on the path where trod
The feet of youth in the days gone by,
And the feet of those who were nearing God,
And the time to lay work down and die.
wonder IL ever on moonlit nights,
Ghostly footballs. through mold and moss,
Come and go where tho old delights
OF life and loving gave place to lossi
Lovers have walked here hand in hand.
Here, by this dying tree, was told
A story sweeter to understand
Than the tales Of all poets, young or old
Where is the lover who told his love?
Where Is tho maiden whose lips he kissed9
ah, but the grave-grass grows above
Those who no longer are mourned or
missed.
Poor old garden of dead delights,
Haunted know you aye, night and day.
The gull from tho sea, In his laniward
flights,
Hints Of tho fleet years that flew away.
Ever and ever while nettles spread
Over the beds where the lilies grow,
You think OF the past and its long-since
dead,
And the beauty and brightness that once
you know.
Your heart is truer than hearts Of men.
Opoor old garden, for men forget;
They bury their dead and go on again.
Aud life has room for but brief regret;
But you mourn forever for lost delights:
You gricve for the le ,uty that could not
last;
And share your sorrow on lonesome nights
When my heart remembers It's happy
past.
Eden E. Rerfortl, in Lippincott.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

W. Hamilton Gibson, the American
author-artist and naturalist, says on the
subject of selecting National flower:
li,..If there has been one feature stronger
than another in the amiable and entirely
needless controversy, it has been that the
one and only authorized floral claimant
for the National honor, the ono perfect
symbol OF the democracy, unity, grace,
wealth, prosperity, generosity and
reckoning welcome of the new CONT
nent should have found only bare ma
jority. Say, rather, what is our Ma
tional aower2 What other could it be
than the golden-rod2"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

A New York Paper notices the fact
that the cost of new buildings erected
during 1890 In that city will probably
exceed $77, 1000, 900, while the total
amount expended for the same purpose
in 1880 was only 500, lis, 1926, and sug-
gests that "the enormous increase with
in such brief period is SO entirely out
Of proportion to the concurrent incsssser
of population rs to leave no pos
room for doubt that this branch of CT az
prise has been cgregiously overdone."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

Russia tolerates some things to which
certain Of her more enlightened neigh
bors take strong exceptions, remarks the
American Dairyman, but she seems in
clined to draw the line at oleomargarinc.
The manufacture of this material has
been prohibited and its sale very closely
restricted. Any dealer selling oleomar-
garine for genuine butter is subject to a
heavy fine, and for second offense he
loses his license. This is n practical
method of encouraging the dairy inter
ests, and at the same time of preventing
fraud upon purchasers who call for butter
and who are supposed to know what they
want to obtain.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
ARCTIC ANIMALS.
low THEY LIVE IN WINTER AMI
IN SUMMER.
The Polar Fox and His Prey-Arctio
Whales and Beers-The Muck OK,
Wairus ana Reindeer
Seals and Fishes.

"And why not tell how theyliyein the
fall and spring!" one may ask, queries
Lieutenant Schwatka in the Brooklyn
Citizen, but when say that in the cold
est parts of the polar regions there is
hardly any fall or spring, but summer
rushes into winter ut rate we can hard
~ comprehend, while winter jumps into
summer with suddenness that would
sprain the back Of the clerk of the
weather if he attempted to follow its
changes in these cold regions; when ex-
plain this fact it is clear to see that no
one would be called upon to give q
spring and fall catalogue of Arctic diet
for its wild and savage denizens.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
a Professional Visit.


"My nhme is Smith; you NAV nos.
sibly have heard the name before. ha
said with u smile as he held out hie
hand to the editor and prepared to seai
himself. "I'm from Smiths Hummock-
Walbridge @. Smith," he added in
tone intended to jog the editors mem.
DRY.
How d. do" said the editor.
II haven't aeen that article in nrini
Jet" said Smith, pleasantly, "but Is
suppose you have lot of stuff ahead.
all the time, and maybe it will be
sometime yet before mine is published. =
Eyes" said the editor, at will prob.
ably be o long time"
write all the comicai pieces for the
Smiths Hammock Post" but l suppose
you don't have to depend on any o6;Ss
man to write all of yours 2"
We do not" said The editor elaneino
YEARLY at pile of manuscript on the
desk.
@Pm going to send you quite a GOOD
deal of my work now" said Smith
"and I thought I'd ask you one of two
things first. Would you object to NV
using colored ink2n
Certainly not"
If the things are written in red ink
they'll be red, eh? But that's. moi
business. said Smith, checking him.
self. The article 1 sent You was writ.
ten in back hand. Will that Eotfe,
the printers any, do you think?r
Not in the least" replied the editor.
with part of 10 yawn.
In sending you short Jokes" said
Smith. shall put each on a separate
sheet. or how2 Will they all 90 in al
one time?' -
They'll all go in together,v said the
editor, taking up his shears and run
ming his eye over anewspaper.
Z Speaking of short Jokes" said
Smith, Il must tell you of n rathey
clever one I wrote forthe Post. Itvass
q sort of good-natured fling at the
editor who had recently become the
father of a ten-pound boy. It went
this way: Why is the editor of this
paper like Young Pastepott?' and the
answer was, because he makes people
set up nights. See the point. The
Post Is often set up at night, you
Il see. said the editor, rising. bat
il the connnudrum had been: Why ia
the editor of this paper like Young
Pastepott? the answer"-he advanced
toward Swith-swould be: Because
he's bouncer. Do you see the point ~,
The editor was pointing to the door.
Walbridge @. Smith sawthe point and
followed it and the sidewalk echoed tos
MS tread. Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
The Brooklyn Citizen believes that the

The Brooklyn Citizen believes that tho
census announcement that there are a
hundred and forty religious bodies in the
United States, exclusive of many indie
pendent congregations, will be received
with some surprise by most people,
whose knowledge of different sects docs
not embrace more than dozen or twenty
at the most. In the list, as disclosed by
the preliminary bulletin issued by the
Census Bureau from Washington, are the
General six-Principlo Baptists, the
schwerkfeldians, the Philosophical So
ciety, the Life and Advent Union, and
Others which to majority of people will
be entirely new.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

Statistics show that at the present
time in the United States there are en-.
gagged in different employments twenty
TX women to every 100 men. In Phila
delphia the proportion is fifty to 100.
Half century ago there wero in Massa.
chusetts only seven occupations open to
women. Now there are 2s4. Twenty.
two leading cities in the country show
842 occupations in which women find
employment.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

A Belgian gun manufacturer says it is
mystery to him what becomes of oil the
guns made. They are not perishable or
easily destroyed, yet year after year the
great manufacturers have increased their
works until the number of guns aud pis-
tolls that are made each year is something
enormous, and the trade instead of de-
,reasing is constantly growing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
A Glorious River.

The st. Lawrence is phsuomcnon
among rivers, says Natures Realm. No
other river is fed by such gigantic lakes;
No other river is so Independent of the
elements. 1t despises alike rain, snow
and sunshine. Ice and wind may be
said to be the only things that effect its
mighty flow. Something almost as
phenomenal as the st. Lawrence itself is
the fact that there is SO little generally
known about it. 1t might be safely
affirmed that not ono per cent. of the
American people arc aware of the fact
that among oil the great rivers of the
world the st. Lawrence is tho only abso-
lutely foodless one. Such, however, is
the case.
The st. Lawrence despiscs rain and
sunshine. Its greatest variation caused
by drouth or rain hardly over exceeds o.
foot or fourteen inches. The cause Of
this everlasting sameness of volume Isl
easily understood. The st. Lawrence is
fed by tho mighticst bodies of fresh
water on earth. Immense as is the
volume Of water it pours into the ocean,
any one who has traverssd all the i'm.
mense lakes that feed IL, and for the
surplus waters of which it is the only
channel to the sea, wonders that it is not
even more gigantic than it is. Not one
drop of the waters of tho five great
lakes find its way to tho ocean save
through this gigantic, extraordinary and
wondrously beautiful river. No wonder,
then, that it should dcspise the rain and
defy the sunshine. ,--- s
y -seSS
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

Professor Huxley says that the most of
the diseases among the laboring popula-
fion of the manufacturing and trade
centers of all civilized countries arc ow-
ang to undertaking.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

4 "Montana claims by analysis that he.
sugar beets are the sweetest in the wide,
wide world" observes the Washington
Star. Sand that enterprising young State
proposes to go into the sugar industry
and eclipse creation"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

hunters They also occasionally catcht
tawn or musk OF calf tint wanders tod
lar away from the herd. The reindee!
protect themselves by { .ght from d rads
OF wolves, while the musk oxen form
circle, tho calves and weaker ones inside
and keep them at bay. Wolves are alb
very destructive to Eskimo dogs when
ever they are desperately hungry, but not
otherwise. =
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

The Governor of Texas cannot make
both ends meet on q salary Of $4,000 a
year. Governor Ross during his term of
office had to sell farm to help pay his
living expenses. The Southern States
all pay their governors very small salar-
les, admits the Atlanta Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
=,
All Europe will long remember the
winter of 1890 -'91 as the worst of the
century.
century.

The Cincinnati Enquirer estimates that
h the last City years over $500, 900, 900
In cash has been raised to teach the Afri-
can TO love his neighbor as himself.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27

It is said that the city of Boston is
compelled to pay on IN average SIS, 900
. year on account of injuries sustained
By people who meet with accidents on
Che sidewalks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
BE CAREFUL.

Be careful of your associations! Bad COM
pany is not better than none at all.
BE careful what you say! You can recall
some things but never spoken words.
Be careful in your habits and in your dress!
Neatness and good manners should be neces-
sites.
BE careful of your diet! Proper food and
drink have much to do with happiness.
Be careful of your health! Money cannot
buy it-thcn why should you squander it?
BE specially careful at this season Of the
year! The air is full of poiSons. Malaria is
abroad. You need TO exercise great care
BE careful how you exercise this care! Re-
member that pure whiskey taken in water is
the best5Uay to counteract malarial poison
and all diseases incident to this season
BE careful what whisi1ey you use! Bear in
mind that Djffyis Pare Malt has the highest
standing and is the only medicinal whiskey
in the market.
Be careful that no druggist deceives you
be ciairne6 rs inst as goodi There is no
medicinal whiskey which is so good. je29-w
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08

There were no transactions in pipe line
certificates. There WAS not even a bid. No
Dody paid any attention to the commodity.
There was nG market. There were Il few
buying orders at outside Exchanges, pre-
sunl&Div Tor thC Standard. Field reports
showed about as much anathy there as on
Change. Refined 1T New York, 7iGc: at
Lc2dOn. ; g-l6d at Antwerp 16i sf
IL:NELASI, july 7.-Petrn!CUm easy: :. W
;lC7 6lsc: 7i7 gasoline, &C. Sc gasoline, zoe: go
napHtha, Gle
IRADroun PA, July National Transit
certificates opened atCI3fc; closed at 6sJ &C:
highest, GSi &C; lowest 6!1sc. Clearances, "A, :
COO barrels
on CITY, PA, July National Transit
certificates opened II Csc; highest, 6Sl tc; low
est, 675.c: closed, 81 C.. Sales. Is G0J barrels:
shipments. lOl.2lS barrels: runs. So 10 barrels
NEW YORK, July Petroleum opened
strong and advanced slightly, but after
ward reacted TO the opening figures and
closed steady. Pennsylvania, August oD-
tion-OpeninG, csc; highest, GSi &C. lowest,
isr: closing ut Csc. Total sales 5000 bar
rels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
A BAD HUM0R CURED
$1,000 Expended on Doctors and Medi-
cine without avail. Gave him.
self up to die.
Good Wife suggests Cuticura Remedies.
Uses them months and is
entirely cured.

was in the during 1S63-64 and took a heavy
cold at Gettysburg. from which never fully recoy-
cred In 1873 broke out in all over my chest
and shoulder. which il seemed impossible to cure.
tried all the famed doctors could find and to no
avail expended some five thousand dollars trying
TO hnd cure. but could not, and finally giving my
day. 10 try the CUTICCRA REMEDIES, which were
50 extensively advertised and used. followed her
suggestion. and am happy TO say by dilgent appli-
cation of yOur CCTICCRA REMEDIES for seven
months / entirely cured. after spending five
wears of time and money without avail, and am a
sound and well man to-day. You may refer to me
if you wish rs l will tell any who may call on
my experience. G. L. PEARSALL,
l Fulton Fish Market, New York.
APRIL Is. 1880.