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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21
MONKEYS ami Rhcum atism

The mention Of monkeys and grip is n
reminder OF what was told me while
since by asdoctor whose specially is the
treatment of rheumatism and kindred
diseases. He does not give his patients
prescriptions to be filled Mt the drug
stores, but supplies them with medicine
OF his own preparation. When the bot
tie is exhausted the patient must apply
to the doctor for more medicine, and of
course must pay an additional fee "That
siuil is something that found out at
great expense" said the doctor, land ]
propose to have the benefit of my expert.
mcnts. used to have a collection OF
monkeys to practice upon, and they cost
me great deal Of money first and last.
~ monkey has rheumatism Just like o
human being and Can be cured in the
same way. l used to give monkey E
good attack Of it by wrapping him
warmly in flannel all but one leg, and
then tying him over night on the roof OF
shed. In tho morning he had lard
case Of rheumatism in the exposed leg,
and then l experimental to find oul
what would hest cure him. 1t took a
long time and great many monkeys,
but | found out at last, and that's the
way discovered the remedy which !
give to my patients lie added further
that, while experimenting, he was
obliged to be very crcumspect to avoid
falling into the hands of the police or the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals, and whenever they were too
close upon him he moved his menagerie
to another locality. He said also that he
was greatly impressed with the intclli-
Sence OF the monkeys; when suffering
from rheumatism they quickly realized
that he was trying to relieve them OF
their pain, and submitted more readily
than does the average child to his treat
ment. Happily for him, they did not
possess sufficient reasoning power to COM
prehend that lie was the cause of their
troubles by leaving them on the shed
roof over night in the manner desert bed.
Chicago Her1M.
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Tanning Hides.

n leather manufacturer, who has been
on his travels, has sent a trade journal
| some interesting notes on the methods Of
tanning adopted in various countries.
While walking out one day in Antigua
he came upon hut about eleven feet
square, matched with sugar cane, and on
entering he found himself in a very
unique aud primitive taunery. A big
brawny colored woman was hard at work
taking the hair off skins. Her method
was Of tie simplest. The skins had been
put IN lime for about week, and wero
being unhaircd by means of n board,
after which they were stepped in various
tan liquors in u series of tubs, und the
product was ready for market, the leather
was crude but scrviceable- and sold
readily in the island.
John Chipamau was founu 10 have a
rude and primitive process. After steep
ing in solution of lime, the hides are
cleansed and beaten, then tanned with
extract of gall. The hides are uftcrward
passed backward and forward through
the smoke of straw, which issues from
Circular furnace built underground, and
gives the latter IL yellow brown color.
The process is then complete. Some
times the leather is BACKED with n solu-
ton q! gals and copperas, or simply with
lamp-black. India has forty eight large
tanneres
Hides are tanned there by softenine in
water for Il few days, after which the
hair is scrapcd Off The hide is then
treated with qnicklime, and after remain
ing in this condition for two or four days
is placed in the tan, which is made from
the bark of the babul or any other tree
yielding good tanning solution. There
1t remains for n fortnight or three weeks,
after which it is removed, and when
soaked i'll clean water for short time
aud dried is ready for use.
When intended for the manufacture OF
shoes the leather is usually stepped in &
solution of red dye for day or two be-
fore being worked. From the undyed
leather bucket, for wells and water bags
for the water carriers are made Some
leather Nater skins of superior dcsciip-
ton, called chaguls, are also made, which
are used by travellers to carry drinking
water. Besides the manufacture of diff
iercnt and characteristic forms of shoes
used in various provinces, European boot
making has also been learned in the
bazars of the larger towns. In some of
these hides OF animals arc beautifully
tanned with the hair intact, and a fine
soft skin of greenish butf color Is made
into trousers, coats, legyins and gloves,
the skin used being that Of the deer
i'ittSJuIy Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

But Hull isn't satisfied with getting
rocks broken on his skull lie is irving
to accustom himself to having chunks OF
pig iron broken Oh his Uranium. 1t is
better to have thick skull sometimes
than skull full OF brains.
Sebastian Miller is another strong man
who has speciality. Breaking cobble
stones with n blow of his fist is his chief
claim to distinction rs strong man, al.
though some years ago Miller was n
wrestler of note
Cowboy Samson" is still another ex-
ample of what the strong men do in the
way of variety of muscular acts.
The Cowboy" puts his heels on one
platform and his neck on another, thus
making bridge. Across his body n
plank is placed, and on each end of the
plank is stationed q horse, the two play
ing seesaw. The Cowboys body thus
frequently supports $500 to 5000
pounds.
There are tricks in ali trades and some
OF the performances of these muscu!a,
gentlemen are not nearly rs hard as they
look. Take the "chain breaker" TO,
instance, who has not a rival in his line.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

OF fifty to sixty pounds, and, as stated
above, on the muscles of the neck, not
on his head.
DID you ever hold piece of ice in
your hand and pound it with pick2
IL you have you will realize how little
the palm of your baud receives the force
Oh the blow. That is the case with The hasn
with the 'iron SKULL" and is also the
principle applied by Miller, who breaks
rocks with blow of his fist. Only in
his case the position of the ice pick is
reversed. Miller holds the rock on n
sharp pointed iron with one hand and
strikes it Il sharp blow with the other
hand.
The COWBOYS feat with the horses is
easier than it appcarss The lettering of
the board shifts the weight constantly
and so the cowboy is bearing n weight
OF l2O0 to 1900 pounds instead of $500
or 3ooo pound-no great weight to bear
when it lis remembered that the ordin-
arily strongly built athlete can lift in
harness from 1900 to 1000 pounds.
The man in the circus who pulls
against horses is also good example
OF the deception practised by these
gentlemen; but this trick is easy of ex
PLANTATION, and has some time since ceased
TO be IN attraction. Each and all wear a
harness that has straps and metal buckles
running from their wrists to their ankles.
All the mnu does is to keep himself
straiSht.-Ne,o YORK. Herald.
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It will doubtless surprise these who have
seen Samson at work to know that the
hardest part of Samson's act is to pre-
vent those links from swapping prema.
turely. But it is fuct, as the writer
well knows, for he has seen Samson be.
hind the scenes and in the workshop
carefully prying wide open every link
i'll his chain and rs carefully bending
them together again.
the result is to fracture each and
every link through the core, but Oddly
enough preserving the skin intact. ANY
sudden strain thereafter put on the
chains is sure to make them snap like
rotten cords. That is the secret of
Samsons work with the chai:.s given to
the public for the first time.
Hull, who has the ROCKS broken on
his head. wears an iron cap which fits
tightly and has square top surface.
The cap weighs 1919 pounds. 1t has
handles which are held by Hull in such
way that it brings the force of the
blow not OH the skull but on the muscles
of the neck. A twelve pound sledge
welded by strong man will ordinarily
net hit blow harder than 1875 pounds,
and the force of that is usually essencd
by the careful aim it is necessary to take.
Then the thickness of the stone and iron
takes away also from the force of the
impact fully fifty per cent. Hull is
therefore really OILY sustaining blow
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| faris ne received large sums for POSING
Tor sculptors and painters, and his photo.
| graphs sold for time better than any
oil the other public favorites. Even here
MS photographs have a good and stead
sa'e because of his manly beauty. In his
work Sandow is said to be the personifi.
cation Of forccful grace.
About the last of the famous stronr
men to fall victim to Shadows power
was the noted "chain breaker" Samson.
and he fell after long and bitter strup.
gle.
But at his own particular speciality.
breaking steel chains. Samson can still
claim first place. Here is n partial list Of
some OF his feats: Breaking with one
blow OF his first steel chain stretched
between posts, and capable of sustaining
strain OF 6oO0 pounds; tearing apart
the links of the same chain in twenty or
thirty pieces by wrapping it around his
hands and pulling in opposite directions
breaking three steel chain bracelets on
his biccps ut the same time, by the sud
den expansion CT the muscles, and lastly
and best of all, the breaking in half of
silver dollar or half dollar with the
thumb aud foreiinger of either hand.
Only one Other living man is said to do
this silver piece trick, and he is not likely
10 cause Samson any worriment profess
sionaliy, since he is the present Gar of
ltassia. Although Samson is the only
strong man doing the chain breaking act,
it IS nat all strength that does it. A lit
tie knowledge of metals helps him ma
terially.
Another prominent performer, and
quite alone in his act, is Andrew Hull,
who is styled the ilamboyant "NIan with
tue iron Skull" Hull cannot properly be-
classcd with the strong men, since he
does not lift heavy weights, and in ap-
pcarancc is Il mere STRIPPING compared
with them.
He has rocks broken on his head with
slcdgc hammer, and does not appear
to suffer from the blows. lie has been
doing this, or rather getting It done, for
the last two years, ut least eight times u
day. The rocks that are shattered on
his head vary i'll weight from eighty
pounds up to his record rock, which
weighed 1SG pounds. This rock was of
Scotch granite, and it took thirty three
blows of tweive-pound sledge hammer
III the hands of stalwart athlete to
shatter the rock. This feat was lately
accomplished before the Gate City Ath-
letlc Club, of San Francisco. At another
time a refractory rock, weighing 124
pounds, was struck sixty six blows, while
it rested on Hull Uranium, before it broke.
And the blows were not light ones, for
they were struck by Il QUAR- lyman.
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ENGLAND'S AGED ADMIRAL.

Sir Provo Wallis HIS Boon Going to Sea
and Fighting Tor Ei.hty-sovcn Years.
Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, the
senior Admiral OF the British fleet, cell
ebrated his hundredth sSSirbhdny on
Sunday last, and is still in the service.
In no other country in the world would
such thing he possible, and it has
never occurred in England before. The
old man is still hale and hearty and, to
oil Appearances, likely to enjoy life for
some time longer. He has drawn pay
from the navy for ninety-s six years, has
been actually in the service for ninety
OF these. and it is eighty seyon years
since he first went to sen. He waf-
born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, April IL,
1871, while his father was stationed
there as chief clerk of the navy yard,
and, according to custom then pre-
Willing in the case of sons of officers or
people of influence, was placed on the
pay roll OF one of the vessels of the navy
when he was but i years old. In 1900,
when ., he went aboard the Cleopatra
for training. and four years later made
his first voyage i'll hsr. The Cleopatra,
after fight in midocean, was captured
by tho French frigate Vile de Milan,
but was rescued by another British
vessel n week later. III 1908, ut the
age OF seventeen, he was made q Sec
ond Lieutenant, and was i'll many ac-
tions during the French war. He was
Second Lieutenant of the Shannon
when that frigate defeated The Chesa-
peake i'll the famous fight off Boston
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21
TIE GARDEN OF YEARS.

entered tho beautiful Garden of Hears
In springtime of long ago,
through heaven tho breezcs, like chariot.
GERS,
Crove in pageants OF cloud white as snow.
The sunlight fell soft Us the moonlight at
eve,
And the night was as fair rs the dny.
|. And thought there was nothing on earth
that could Srievc,
cut that all the sweet world must be gay.
WAS only child in the Garden of Years.
And my hopes were in bloom with the rose.
And the music of life rams, in chimes in my
From the dawn Of each day to the close;
So played with the butterflies, carrolletl
with birds,
And dreamed of the stars while slept.
The language of life was mothers kind
words,
Aud into Co.'s bosom crept
But leorncd, as grew in tie Garden CT
Years,
a lesson of nouruful surprise
learned with tho hopes of the world there
were fears,
And found there We're sorrowful eyes;
found ;hc heart weary in many breast,
And saw that TO many n home
Where Owe hal invited some radiant guest
The Angel of Sorrow had come
found, in the beautifu! Garden of Years,
|, too, had Il cross must bear:
but Whenever L locked for Gods smile
through nv tenfs
Ifcund my LIES rainbow was there.
And one day chaucel the Wise Gardener
10 meet
Who Taught RE what love should have
known.
That .ic who from sorrow leads others worn
Shall find paths OF peac Coz his own.
AEi nov Srander still is the t;ar,lcn OF Years
that IN TINT old spriug.ime sublime,
Whose memories TALL like n curfew that
cheers
From the far away towers of Time;
For blessed is h. who life's sorrow abutes.
~ Forsiving rs he Is forgiven
Fer him shall life angel, through death one
The gates
OF that Garden Eternal calicl Heaven.
-Einestr. MurticG, il, Congregutionalist
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anced his wife, weighing lis pounds,
on his chin, Nine. Cyr standing on n
ladder while he accomplished this act.
Since that time Cyr has CURED up with
one hand a bell weighing 265 pounds,
curling the bell fairly from the floor to
a full arms length above his head and
not getting under the iron and pushing
it up. That also is the record OF one
hand curling bell.
But the Alsatan Hcrcuies's most Won
derfu exhibition of strength was the
lifting of platform holding eighteen
men foot clear of the skids, the entire
lift registering $500 pounds.
His performance supplants DR.. Win
ships harness lifting by at least 500
pounds. Cyr is not large man, and
his arms and back do not give evidence
OF his wonderful muscular development.
In fac. the Alsatian looks rather fat when
stripped.
Kennedy raised dumb bell weighing
1880 pounds, standing astridc of the
iron and lifting it clear off the floor with
both hands. Kennedy's dumb bell lift
has never been duplicated, and stands as
Il record.
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Sebastian Miller also hada try at that
1880 pound dumb bell, but had to get

Tcousti1u Miller also naQa try at that
1O3O pound dumb bell, but had to get
his knees under STICKS held in his hands
to swing it clear of the floor, and so al
though his lift shows his immense mus.
cular power it does not compare with
Kennedy's performance.
a lew years ago the Paris papers were
fnil OF accounts of the various perform
ances OF Sandow, young German ath-
iete. Sandow met and easily defeated
all the professional strong men in France
who competed with him in dumb bell
lifting and putting up heavy weights.
After Sandow had conquered all the men
IN the gay capital he journeyed to Eng
land, and continued to win his contests.
AT the present writing Sandow is still
going through England and Scotland.
and occasionally putting the local strong
men to blush. He expects to visit the
United States next season. and hones to
continue his trumphs Although he In,
been so successful across the water. and
easily stands at the head of strong men
there, it is very doubtful whether he win
be able to beat Cyr or Kennedy or Miller.
But there is no dou5. that he will maize
money here, for his reputation has pre.
coded him, and he is said to be the most
perfect specimen OF muscular manhood
ever seen. Indeed his admirers say that
he Is rs handsome as Greek god" In
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

John Bratiano, the Roumanian states
man, whose death is ANNOUNCED, was for
many years IN interesting figure in Euro
pcan politics, and succeeded in rnising
his country from the rank of dcpenden,
principally to that of M indcpend ant
kingdom. He was not always consistent;
but as the Philadelphia Record observes,
f'that has been Il failing OF great states.
men i'll moro important countries than
Po,u.,ffisSSaF "hTs ~ VG - 80 r 81
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harbor in 1913. The Captain having
been wounded and the First Lieute-
nant killed, the command of the frigate
and her prize devolved upon young
Wallis. He was promoted for his gal
lantry and efficiency in this action. and
in 1919 was made Captain I he dates
of his promotion after this were as fol-
lows: Rear Admiral, 1851 Vice Adj
miral. 1857; Admiral. 1868; and Adj
miral of the Fleet, 1877. 1t was only
by the special order of the Queen thai
he was retained in the service after he
had attained the age of seventy, ut
which the rule requires retirement.
This was on account OF the exceptional
length and character of his service.
He was created c. G. b. in 1878.
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After the gangs of Chinese tbo, - =

After the gangs of Chinese that wer,
employed in building the Canadian Pa
chic Railroad had been discharged
nearly all OF them, asserts the New Yorl
!Sun, made their way surreptitiously t,
this country. We now learn that TIN
Chinese laborers who have been engaged
in building the Tehuantepec railroad il
Central America are making their wal
through Mexico to the Uaitcd States. L
is thus that our Chinese population il
slightly increased from time to time.
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A strange spectacle was witnessed

A strange spectacle was witnessed tn,
'ther day in Cincinnati. People passin.
along one of the streets were astonishec
to see scores OF women hard ut work il
front Of their residences with shovcls anc
brooms. They had got tired OF waitin!
for the city authorities to clean thei
streets, and had sailed out to do it them
selves. Every spcck of dirt was re
moved from curbstoae to curbstone, and
highly satisfied with their work, they re
tired in triumph to their household af
fairs.
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Queer Combination of "Twos. -

A queer combination of 'ttwos" is pre-.
sented in the case OF prisoner sent t.
Ohio Pcnitentiary recently. He was
arrested February %, lay in Jail two
months, was convicted and sentenced to
two years for stealing two horses, being
received at the Penitcntiary April %,
and his serial number is %, 222, and he
had two fits on the second night after
his a!.-Bostoa HeraM.
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ardhn g9HHi ,lls1 & Ixtaariolnslr Z

timatcd from 500, 900, 900 to $l5o, 900,
900 The philanthropst's father was
Bavarian banker The foundation Of hi
fortune was railway contract with til,
Turkish Government. 1t has since been
enlarged by other railway manuuyrcs i,
= eastern Europe and by spcculations OF
the Paris boursc His son used to b.
II wellknown figure at Newmarket, ant
the Baron himself has of late years gon
on the turf.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

n census bulletin estimates the nation
al debts OF the world Mt S25, GSG,976,
COO. That is enough, estimates the
San Francisco E,mmincr,. to buy on,
any nation on the globe except the United
States, eGreat ssfitian or Frnnccl 1T i.
an amount of uncomfortable vas:ncss, mt
by the side of it the American debt ap
pcsrsinsighificant.
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1000, oOO. new rifles will c

~'-'S Nb'TNSi S~0fs ~ 'sf'aSS VIII Nco'
some $4,000, 900, but the excellence OF
the Investment is, maintains the New y ork
WorH, that it takes some time to max,
that many small arms, aud pending thcil
manufacture Russia will not disturb the
peace, About the time they are really
for, use n still better gun will be Invented
and this will cause further respite. In
ventiop, dogs !siSlp9siidcrable arbitration il
us o"q l.s l.' way ,syEsss 4isg..S
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at the head of the list, probably, is
Louis Cyr. the Alsatian. Cyr has lifted
more dead weight than any man living.
lie has put up weights in all kinds of
ways known, and is believed to have de.
monstrated his superiority to his brother
strong men conclusivcIy. Some are
these; Putting up n dumb bell weigh
ing lo2 pounds, lifting it with one hand
with case and holding it out horizontal
from the shoulder at perfect right
angle to his body. A littlc later the
same Gay Cyr lifted foot from the
floor 1O2 pound bell, 2Y2
pound bell and man weigh
ing $50 pounds with one finger, the
aggregate weight of the lot being 4S4
pounds. This feat is the record OF one
finger lifting. Again that day Cyr bal
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A New York paper advocates VIA con.
solidation of the city with Brooklyn AND
several outlying ttowns on the ground
that cities with large territory are more
healthy than those whose space is cir
cumscribea. ait cites tac fac. that Lon.
don's death gate is only ~. 5 in the 1000
while the number of deaths per acre il
eleven. The death rate of New York i,
given at 26. 6 in the 1000, and the numbe,
per acre as tifty-nine.t Every one vii
readily admit, says the San Francisco
Chronicle, that city with plenty OF el
bow room Is bound to have better healtl
conditions evcrythins else being equal
than 2 densely crowded Que, butt will b.
ciitdcult to make many people understan,
how the purely political act OF consoli
dating several cities within a given are
IS going to scatter the people now Twin
within the boundaries ofz toe pfopose,
lew city. Unless such Il dispersion ca
I've effected and the crowded sections %
New York relieved by mean of rapi
transit or some other method consolida
tion may reduce the number Of death
.ier acre, but we venture to say that care
fully prepared statistics will show tbs
yithiusits old limits the mortality wi
main as large Per thousand as it
Low.
f's'iskSs seas1st3r~syu 8
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Lapis I.azuli in Big Chunks.

Rich layers of Iapis lazuli have been
discovered in Ssmarcand, near the source
of the River Zc:yashan, by the village OF
Sabok. The sample presented to the
Governor of Sarmacand weighs abour
one pood (forty pounds), and is of rar,
beauty and purity of color. Aohiiacle!
p.iia Record. 20 aak4atag.
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The British Museum has just come into
possession of an almost complete collcc.
tion of the horns Of the animals of India
and Central Asia, Mr. A. o. Hume
having presented to it his Accommodations
of'many years. There are nearly three
hundred specimens, and onc species only
tho little fourhorncq antclope-is un-
represented. 40
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

The San Francisco Chronicle believes
:hat the Offering Of prizes for efficiency
n the railway mail service might be cx-
ended with profit to all branches of the
aostal service.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21

Australia has now 1850, 900 of people,
1900, 900 more than the population Of
;he American colonies when they de-
clared their independence, aud the same
Is Ireland at the present time.