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moth may have been dead anywhere
from Eve to fifty thousand years, yet its
flesh was so perfectly preserved and the
eye so fresh thut scientific man said he
could hardly distinguish between It and
the eye Of a living animal.
Thousands of years ago this gigantic
creature had persisted, perhaps failing in.
to creyasse in the ice, aud eyer since
had been frozen up like solid rocks.
Gradually undermined by the river tho
body had fallen out, as we have seen.
About thirty pounds of the red hair
and wool was collected by this fisherman,
the tusks aud portions of the feet, and
all sold to Russian official, who i'm
mediatel sent word to st. Petersburg,
whereupon the Emperor ordered that the
entire skeleton should be preserved. Tho
skeleton was secured, with some of the
skin and hair, and all are now in the
Royal Museum of st. Petersburg, illus
trating the enormous size of the prehis-
toric giant.
This was in the last century, and ever
since people have been on the lookout
for these giants of tho ice. Several
specimens have been found, the most re-
markable by Russian engineer, named
Ben Kendorf, in 1876 He was engaged
in surveying the coast off the mouth of
the Lena and Indigirka' Rivers, and his
story is SO striking that give it just as
it is taken from letter written to q
friend then in Germany:
"Afterward VIC landed on the new
shore, and surveyed the undermining and
destructive operations OF the wild waters,
that carried away with extraordinary
rapldlty masses of soft peat and loan.
While we were all quiet we suddenly
heard under our feet sudden gurgling
and stirring which betrayed the working
of the disturbed river.
"Suddenly our jaeger called loudly
and pointed to q singular aud unshapely
object, which rose and sank through the
disturbed waters. 1 had already re-
marked it, but had given it no attention,
considering it only driftwood. Now we
all fastened to the spot on the shore, had
the boat drawn near and waited until the
mysterious thing should again show it.
self. Our patience was tired, but ut last
black, horrible, giant-lilsc mass was thrust
out of the water and we behold colossal
elephants head, armed with mighty
tuslls, with its long trunk moving in the
water in an uncarthly manner, as though
seeking for something lost therein.
Breathless with establishment, 1 bcheld
the monster hardly twelve feet from me,
with his half open eyes yet showing the
whites. 1t was still in good preserva-
ton.
ga mammoth A MAMMOTH" broke
out the Tschernoniori; and 1 shouted,
Here, quic&lyl Chain and ropes! ="
AS the animal again sank, we wait for IN
opportunity to throw the ropes over his
head. This was accomplished after many
efforts. We then threw chain around
his tusks, that were eight feet long, drove
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

it, showing that here was graveyard
of monsters of the olden time. When
the account reached the centres of civil
ization men went out to see if It was
true, and in a short time an extensive
ivory trade in these ancient relics sprang
up.
There was then an indefinite idea of
the animal which bore them, but grad
ually the fact became known that they
were the tusks of an enormous elephant
known as the mammoth.
Imagine Jumbo third longer, third
higher and covered with coat of woolly
hair from two to three feet in length;
imagine him armed with huge recurring
tusks ten feet in length, and some idea
can be formed of this king of the ele-
plants that lived in the long ago. For
long time very exaggerated idea of
the animal was entertained and some Gu
rious pictures of it were made, but final
ly specimen was found and then an
other.
The first and best specimen was dis
covered by native fisherman. He saw
Its tusk protruding from the bank or
tunda, and watched it for several sea-
sons, until finally he found it lying upon
the beach. The wild animals had been
feeding on it, AVID, think of it the nam.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
Princess Bismarck.

The wife of Prince Bismarck has been
rarely mentioned in the chronicles of the
German Court because she seeks to
avoid anything like publicity, but for all
that she hos been of great assistance to
the man whose name is so closely linked
with the progress of the fatherland in
the last thirty years or more. The Prin-
cess is a member of distinguished Ger
man family. She married when her
husband was little known. She has al
ways been believer in the greatness of
her spouse, and has devoted herself to
making his home life as peaceful ms his
public career has been full of acrimony.
Her tact has had much to do with smooth
ing away in social intercourse aspcrities
created in the course of political con-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
The mammoth was formerly as com
mon as are horses to-day, aud the ivory
A WHALE FROZEN N AN IoEBEEo.

from its tusks is still an important COM
% qSsS we e 80 % pSaaas a ssks aa s
fine specimens bring large prices. One
tusk was sold some years ago for $500,
and fifteen years ago ten thousand were
received in London. They weighed
about one hundred and forty pounds
apiece, the price being Is. Cd. per
pound.
The mammoth is not thc only ice giant
the ice cliffs of the North conceal. Some
years ago hunter, in travelling across a
rough country. came to deep crevasse,
and upon looking in saw tho body of
some monster that had been washed out
He lowered himself into the chasm and
found it to be huge rhinocerous, an
animal that was as we'll fitted to live in
Siberia as the mammoth, having cover.
ing OF thick hair and wool to protect it
from the rigors of the cold. Tho head
of the monster was large and the nose
armed with two tuslls, one of which was
enormous, being nearly four feet long
and large enough to be used as club by
the natives.
If you can picture an ordinary rhino-
cerous third larger, or perhaps half as
large again. covered with reddish hair
and an Undertaking of wool, with n
tuslS four feet iu length, another two feet,
some idea can be had of the strange
creature that ronmcd the country with
the elephant and perhaps fought with it,
rs these animals are known to do in
Africa to-day.
The big rhinocerous is also we'll known
to the Chinese; its horn is supposed to
be the tooth of a big dragon or uni
corn, and when grounG up forms valu-
able item in medicine.
We need not go SO far back to find
animals preserved in the ice. Whalcis
tell of gigantic whales which have been
seen entombed in iccbergs, and several
authentic cases are on record where big
whales have been observed thus impris.
oned, held aloft and floating around at
the whim of the Arctic currents. -Me,o
YORK. Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
A Well That Flows Gold.

There is wonderful we'll down in Del
Norte. 1t is an artesian well with an
abundant flow of pure water, sufficient
to irrlgate considerable body of land.
That would be enough for any ono but a
San Luis man, but this is mineral water.
1t is effervescent, very palatable and OK
trenlely healthful. Nor is this all. The
force of the water brings up from the
depths an occasional lump of native sill
yer or gold nugget The frugal farmer
has placed sack of wire netting over
the mouth of the well to catch the metal
and prevent it from choking the COWS.
Local scientists claim that, alta great dis
lance down and under an enormous pres
sure, the water is washing away ledge
of rock, whose softer parts go into solu-
ton and give the water its mineral quail
ties, but whose gold and silver, not be.
ing dissolved, are brought to the surface
in metallic state.-Pike's Peak (Ool.l
Herald. 4,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
Mysteries of Geography.

In 1776 the Hesslan General, Enip.
hansen, sailing to help the English sub
due the rsbellious colonies in, America,
said anxiously to the captain of the ves-
sci: els it not possible, considering the
time that we have been under sail, that
IN one of these dark nights We have
sailed by America, where these rebels
area" Mistakes equally as absurd were
made by those who pretended to be we'll
up in geography aud to have close
knowledge of America and tho Amer;.
cans.
In 1770 Lorenzana, the Archbishop of
Mexico, wrote history of that country
in which he expressed the opinion that
California bordered on Tartary and New
Mexico on Greenland!
Jacques NIareau in 1903 made a man
"of the discovered and undiscovered
portions of the American continent"
which shows large river rising at about
the present site of Kansas City and flow
ing west to the 'sGulph of California, /"
which is marked as running up nearly to
the latitude of Portland, Oregon.
The editor of 'Notes for the Curious"
owns an original copy of Hcylin's
"Cosmographic" q652), containing a
map of North America which has Texas,
Louisiana and New Mexico (not by name,
but by location) marked as islands. A
great chain of mountains runs across
from Virginia to the Pacific at about thu
latitude of Memphis, Tenn. The heaSe
waters of the Mississippi are located at
about the same place; California is cut
off from the mainland, and the Rio
Grande rises in big lake in Montana
and flows southwest into the Gulf of
California, which is there called "Mare
Vermiglio.
Smith never, during his lifetime, sue
cceded in convincing the English that
Virginia was not an island; in vain he
wrote home, Virginia is no isle, as
many doe imagine"
Henry Seile's map does not show
single trace of the Great Lakes of North
America Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
Easlor to Save Sight than ANY Sense.

There is nothing SO pitiful as school
room of children not one of whom has
seen the light of the sun. There is no
substitute for the loss of eycsight. And
SO when excessive work, long hours of
toll under the Pickering lights that man
has made in the futile attempts to turn
night into day, or when approaching age
bias made inroads on the sight, there ls
enforce the wanting strength in all posi-
bic ways. Science has made this easier
in the case of failing sight than in that of
any other organ. AS time chills the
marrow in old bones, as time takes from
the nerves and muscles of the arm, and
Us time saps somewhat from the pigments
of color and turns our hair q plaintivo
gray, SO time flattens the lens of the ma
tural eye, draws its curves into moro rigid
and straighter lines, and refuses tho vi
tally that could once have repaired any
waste. The eye has grown weaker, just
as all other members of the body do when
they have seen the zenith of power como
and go.
All that is needed is that another lens
be placed before that older and moro
PiiCSiCoo Oue, siil Lllt all llueS Oh HpnC
be sent to the retina at just the proper
angle. Opticians can tell after the brief
est of tests just what is needed, and they
are provided with glasses to meet all
needs. Men who deal in those instru-
ments say that nine out of ten of their
customers arc those who find some diff
Guilty with their eyes, but dislike to be-
ieve it is advancing age. They think
all they need is something to tide them
over some present difficulty that has
made reading or sewing painful at night.
As matter of fact, however, they will
probably never be able to do without
glasses again. And they never should
want to. 1t is but natural that the bod q
should feel somewhat of the ravages of
time when one has seen forty years come
and go, for few of us conserve us We
should the forces that have been given
U.s. Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

Thus it came to be believed by all
that the big rat was an actual fact. No
one could be found, however, who had
met with the tyn-schu until hunter
from the far north was discovered who
sad he had seen one, and here is his
story:
81 am n fisherman, and some years ago
Travelled in Northern China and Siberia,
following up the rivers to the northern
ocean. One winter the cold had been
more severe than usual and VIC started
down the Lena before the ice had gone.
1t was ST i'll very cold, but we kept on,
hoping to secure many fish TO dry and
carry into the interior later on.
Zone day. we were passing high
cliT that was partly undermined by Il
turn in the river, when my comradc
asked me if had ever seen n tyn-schu.
replied no. We'll, said he, there is
one coming now
81 looked up, and there, about forty
feet from the beach, was a big black
mass of something. could see two
long teeth, a long tail and its shaggy fur,
and it was evidently struggling to get
out, ms the ice cliff was cracked.
when nc secs the sunlight my
comradc said, ait will kill him, and
when we come back we shall fird Inn
dead And this was true, for several
months later when we went back there
lay the monster on the beach, dead. 1t
had crawled out of its hole and died in
the sunlight, and was mostly eaten up
ly bcnrs and wolves 1Yc cut off tho bitr
teeth, which were as much as two men
could lift, and took them up the river,
where sold one, which heard was sent
to the Emperor"
Such was the Chinaman's story and
that nc believed that the rat was really
living creature there can be no doubt;
and the belief is supported by the find
ing in China of gigantic bones, beneath
tie surface, of these rats that have acct
dcntally been caught by rays of sunlight
The origin OF this superstition is veri-
table giant of the ice; huge elephant
which existed thousands of years ago in
nearly all countries, and especially about
Northern Europe and Siberia.
In the long ago OF geological ages the
climate OF the far north was much milder
than Mt present, and the Siberian islands
in the Arctic Ocean were covered with
trees and were the home OF vast herds of
monster elephants. When the first white
men visited this desolatc region thsy
found the shore in some instances literally
covered with the. tusks, everywhere pro-
truding from the sand, partly hidden by
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

roversy. 1t is said of Princess Bismarck
that she is happier, now that she and
her husband are permitted to live quietly
upon their estates, than she has been q.
any time since the King of Prussia made
her husband his ministerial representa-
tive. In this connection the story is
told that once, in company, Princess
Bismarck expressed longing for the
life of n plain German gentlemans wife,
when the Prince said, in manner at
once grave and gay: "That time will
come, my dear, when. grown old, the
nation will have no more use for us"
If there is regret in the Bismarck mansion
that the day of retirement has arrived it
is not harborcd by the wife, Chicago
Post
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

The former customers of Berlin
Germany restaurateur will have the
sympathy Of epicures everywhere. Mine
host has but recently failed, and the set.
Element of his affairs has brought to
light very peculiar bit OF trickcry.
Venison was always to be had at his
place, and it must have bcca popular
dish, ms venison is necessarily scarce and
expensive in Berlin. One of the res
taurateur's creditors is dealer in horse
flesh, and that gentleman has brought
IN large bill. Inquiry develops the
fact that the venison of the establish
ment was nothing else than this same
horseaesh. The revelation is cruel
one and seems almost unnecessary.
When man is eating horsehesh and sup
poses that he is eating vcnison he is all
right. He is, practically, eating yeni.
son. And it is misfortune and loss,
financially and otherwise, if he is evel
enlightened on the subject.
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stake in the ground about twenty feet
from the shore and made chain and rope
fast to it. The day went by quicker
than thought for, but still the time
seemed long before the animal was Sc
cured and the water had loosened it.
The soft peat or marsh land, on which
he stepped thousands of years ago, gave
way under the weight of the giant and
he sank us he stood on it, feet foremost,
incapable of saving himself, and severe
frost came and turned him into ice, and
the moor which had buried him. The
latter, however, grew and 1ourished,
every summer renewing itself. Possibly
the neighboring stream had hcaped over
the dead body plants and sand God
only knows what causes had worked for
its preservation"
If this specimen could have been pre-
served the entire skin of one of these
monsters could have been mounted. In
recent years other specimens have been
found, and there is hardly locality but
has produced its teeth and bones, show
ing the wide range of the great ele-
plant.
Near Colchester a fine specimen was
unearthed, and ut Scarborough the teeth
have been drcdgcd up in numbers, show
ing that where the water now flows for
merly was grazing ground for the hairy
elephant.
Iu Italy the bones have been discov-
cred in the volcanic gravel OF Ponte
Mollc, showing that they roamed Italy
when the site of Rome was covered bv n
river of lava.
In Germany prehistoric man undoubt-
eddy hunted the mammoth. Near Cron-
stadt its bones have been found in great
quantities, packed as closely as if they
had been placed SO artifcially. In the
village of Thiedc, near Brunswick, eleven
tusks were found in a heap.
In the southern portion of this coun-
try an allied form-probably as large,
but without the hair-was found and
called the American elephant. Recently
one was discovered near San Juan,
Southern California.
The writer as soon as he learned of
the find attempted to reach the spot,
but little was left to tell the story. The
railroad had cut directly through the
skeleton, so that the tusks were all that
could be secured and some of the teeth.
The locality was examined afterward by
the writer, who found that the body
must have laid in bed of fine sand
that was undoubtedly quicksand, and
in this trap the big animal had been
caught thousands of years ago, to be
held until to-day.
The mammoth has lived its time, and
belongs to past geological ages, the ex-
act cause of its determination being a
mystery. That it was known to man
and hunted by him is very probable.
The evidences of this are rare, it is true.
A piece of tusk has been found in France
with a fairly correct representation of
the mammoth engraved upon it, pre-
sumably by some prehistoric artist.
Again, arrow heads have been taken from
beneath remains, while the much dis
cussed elephant pipes of the interior
Indian mounds of this country may be
evidence in this direction, though this
is not positive.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.

{ The reward of one duty done is the
power to fulfil another.
The test of every system, political .or
educational, is the men it forms. s
The fear of being called coward
makes lot, Of towards act like brayA
men.
The. turn in the long road travelled by
most men is usually the turn into th
cemetery.
IT'S astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to ravel if o SINGLE,
stitch is dropped.
The sudden death of friend of his
own age has greater effect on man
than 1000 sermons.
The world is getting on towards 8
o'clock in the morning, instead of 8
o'clock in the evening
When you find two men. iu tina. Same
business who claim to be friends, you
have two more hypocrites.
There probably never was man SO
good that he did not hope in his heart
that his successo, would be failure.
II people worked as hard after mar
riage to keep each other as they did be-
fore the engagement to win each other,
marriage would be more of success.
Why is it that everyone has something
to be ashamed off The fact that there
are no exceptions to the rule would seem
to indicate that no one can be wise
enough to prepare for to.morrow's evil.
Good manners are the settled medium
OF social life, as specie is of commercial
lifei returns are equally expected of
both; aud people will no more advance
their civility TO n bear than they will
their money to o bankrupt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

A census bulletin just issued shows
not only the radical changes that have
taken place in the class of vessels used for
transportation on the great lakes, but the
increase in the tonnage and valuation
during brief period of five years. In
1886 the net tonnage was G34, G52; in
1890 it had reached S26, $3.50. an increase
of 191 ,70S tons. The estimated value ol
these vessels in 1886 was $50, 597, $50,
md in 1880 the aggregate valuation was
SOS, 12S, 800, an increase compared will
1885 OF Sa7,531 $50. The figures pre-
sented also show that smiling vessels arc
fast giving place to vessels propelled by
steam.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

The pioneers of Arizona propose, an &,
'nounces the Army and Many Register, to
erect q monument to the memory of the
late General Crook. The papers of the
State have taken the matter in hand, aud
one gentleman, MIR. George w. Barnard,
suggests n shaft of Arizona onyx, q
sufficient amount of which he proposes
to denote himself. The suggestion is an
appropriate one and should find ready
adoption in the State whose peace and
prosperity were promoted by General
Crook.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
A Tankard Washington Used.

W. E. Dwight, of Plainwell, Mich,
has obtained an heirloom of which he is
very proud. 1t is tankard and bowl
of earthenwaro plated with bright but
much worn substance. The articles were
given his mother early in the sixties by a
colorcd woman who obtained them from
a New Haven Comm tavern. 1t is au-
thentically related that the vessels were
part of the table furniture from which
General Washington ate his dinner in
June, 1775, while making the journey to
Cambridge, Mass, to assume command OF
the American army.-BcSton transcript.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17
SIBERIAN JUlIBOS.
LEGENDS AND RELICS OF IRE
HISTORIC GIANTS.
Trapping n Mammoth = Tho Lore
and tho Romance Of Hunt
ing Big Animals In y
Eysone Age.

When the first Europeans visited China
and began to obtain information regard
ing the traditions of the country they
learned, among other things, that in the
natural history of the people was an
enormous subterrancan rat called tyn-
schu.
This rat was five OF six times as large
as horse, had terrible teeth and lived
chiefly in the northern country, where it
forced its way beneath mountain ranges,
so that when tremor of an earthquake
was heard in China the parents would
turn to the child and say:
"My son, behave yourself. The tyn-
schu is boring beneath the mountains,
making the earth tremble."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

by the classification of States made by
the Census Bureau, OHIO, Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska,
Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri
and Kansas form the "Northern Central
Division" while Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizonn, Nevada,
Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
California form the "Wcstern Division, u
the others being the North Atlantic and
Southern Central. This recognizes nc
Eastern States, notes the Boston Tran.
script, but it is not improper to apply
TINT term to all those east of the Missouri
River, for the centre of the United State;
from east to west between New York and
San Francisco is west of the Missouri.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that lady, who lost cloak
while trying on suits in cloak store, is
entitled to recover the value of the gar
mcnt and $50 damages for the trouble
and irritation to which she has been put.
She laid the cloak on the counter in
sight of the clerks, but when she needed
it it was gone. The court ruled that the
garment was temporarily in the caro- of
the clerks.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-17

Says the Baltimore Herald: Hump,
one of the Indian chiefs who recently
visited Washington, is as straight as an
arrow and 4 striklngly handsome savage.
Little Wound WINS never wounded in his
life, and Young Man Afraid of-His-
Horse is the most daring rider of all the
Sioux tribes. You can't trust even a
redskins nnmo.