Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-11-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

come insecS are In o state OF maturity
thirty minutes after birth.
The husk of Iud.an corn is being used
for the manufacture of paper.
a Chinese newspaper published in San
Francisco has been sued for libel by an
Indian.
The Columbian River is SO clear at
low water that salmon fishing can only be
successfully conducted at night.
Anew mineral has been discovered in
Texas which is said to be seven times
stronger than any other when made into
wire.
The largest watermelon reported this
season weighed sixty-two pounds, and
was grown near London, Rusk County,
Texas.
In the Philippine Islands canary seed
is ground aud made into most palatable
bread which is in common use among the
people there.
A Michigan business man advertises
by sending a dollar note up in paper
balloon every evening, the money be-
coming the property of the finder.
People in Japan are called by the fam
lily name first, the individual, or what VIC
should call Christian, name next, and
then the honorifc-thus, 'Smith Peter
Mr."
Probably the rarest stamp in existence
has been sold in London for $50 pounds
sterling. 1t is an American five-cent
stamp, issued at Brattleboro, VT, in
1910.
Lizzie Arnold, of Fenton, Mich,
weighs only eighteen pounds, and is
twenty-seven years of age She has re.
ceivcd overtures from circus managers,
but her parents prefer to keep her at
home.
A statistician has computed that man
might add $500 to his income by saving
the clippings Of his hair every time it is
cut and having it manufactured into soft
pillows, mattresses, etc, No hair is so
soft that of human beings.
DR.. George H. Cramcr, in his descrip.
lion of the Tabasco coal forests, in
Southern Mexico, speaks of district
where an Intoxicating liquor can be man
ufactured from palm juice in few hours
at an average cost of ten cents gallon.
The Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, Eng
land, one of the most famous and most
Important tin mines in the world, has
been opened to depth OF 2472 feet, and
the main shaft is now hcing sunk deeper.
at the bottom tho temperature is nearly
ninety degrees Fahrenheit. (:
OF the entire human race, SOC, 600, 900
are we'll clothed, that is, they wear gar
ments of some kind; $50, 900, 900 ha-
bitually go naked, and 700, O00, 600 only
cover parts of the body; 500, 900, 900
live in houses, 700, 900, 600 in huts and
caves, and 250, 900, 600 virtually have
no shelter.
1t was during the three hundred years
between the Norman Conquest aud the
death OF Edward III. that some twelve
hundred inconsistencies were founded in
England. In the twelfth century it was
ms much the fashion to found religious
house and endow it with pnro chial tithes
as in the sixteenth it was to found
grammar school.
The ancient Firms believed that mys-
W. S'AA AAio az of5S VIZ VIC iip Vi tui-
mainou, who Matched it in his bsom. He
let it fall into the water aud it broke, the
lower portion of the shell forming the
earth, the upper the sky; the liquid
white became the sun, and the yelk the
moon, while the little fragments of
broken she'll were transformed into stars.
The mummifcd corpse of some old vik-
ing who departed this life perhaps
thousand years ago was dug up recently
in peat bog at Holstebro, Denmark. IL
was scwcd in a deerskin, with sinews,
very neatly. What there was of the old
pagan was we'll preserved. He seemed,
however, to have lost part of his anatomy,
particularly his nose and part of his
skull, in aight, as vikings were apt to
do, seeing that their life wns one long
battle. Such rs he is, he will have the
place of honor in the royal museum, that
bousts of few such relics.
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