Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-18
CURIOUS srACTs.

West India people eat alligator eggs.
A salmon with "two tails" was lately
caught by fisherman in Coas Bay, Orc
gon.
There are in the United States ninety.
sovon religious denominations; IN Great
Britain there are 257.
Paper from rags was made in 1000 A.
D., tho first linen paper in 1919 aud
paper from straw in 1900.
At the castle of Simonctta, Italy, thcro
is an angle in the building which re.
echoes pistol shot sixty-onc times.
Among Sir William Harcourt's Parlia.
mentary supporters at Derby, England,
were two voters 102 aud 103 years OF
age.
The first carpets made in Europe wer,
manufactured in Franco in 1864, in imi.
tation Of some which had been brought
from Turkey.
A postal card was recently sold in
Paris for $50. 1t had gone around the
world after tho person to whom it was
addressed, and bore sevcnty-two post
marks.
Vulcan, tho British ironclad, is pro.
vided with rudder weighing twenty.
two tons, or something like six toni
heavier than tho fudder used on tho
| Great Eastern.
There is n certain hill in tho South oil
Bohemia on whose top, if au equinoctial
sundial be duly erected, mau that ia
stone blind may know tho hour of tho
day by tho same if tho sun shines.
At New Orleans there is colored
woman who was grandmother at the
agc of twenty-five, and French woman
who was great-grandmothe three
months before her thirty birthday.
A bundle of spldcrwebs, not larger
than buckshot, and Weighing loss than
onc-ha'f dram, would, If untauglcd,
mako limo long enough to reach from
Philadelphia to Boston and back again.
Llanfairfochnn, Wales, is one of those
seaside resorts where, according to tho
decree of the Local Board, ladies and
| gentlemen must under no circumstances
battle within fifty yards of ono another,
A painful story comes from Pcl1in,
China, of young lady who, overcome
with grief ut the death of her husband,
dressed herself in her marriage robes and
swallowed fatal dose Of powdered gold
aud lead.
A portable sundial is not an uucom>
mon object in Spanish shops, aud it is
still in curront use in Spain. At Bur-
gos no loss than three different kinds arc
offered for sale, Mt prices warning from
nine to seventeen cents.
Three.quartcrs of second is the time
occupied by the fall of tho knife in tho
guillotine. The knife is weighted by
100 pounds OF lead, falls niue feet, aud
cuts through flesh and bone us easily as
through bar of soap.
AS lad in Newcastle, Ind, was div.
ing, two stones were struck together uu.
der tho water by another boy. Whom
the diver arose he complained that his
ear panied him. Since thon no cannot
hear except when spoken to in very loud
| tones.
While the Duchess OF Albany was dis
tributing prizes at tho annual show of
the Cottage Garden Society Mt Shutdown
Park, England, fox terrier ran from
tho spectators, mounted the royal dais,
and standing on its hind logs, begged
for prize, too.
| In Bellavista, near Portici, Italy, o
small colony includes more than twenty
people who are moro than ninety years
old, headed by farmer aged LOG, who
still works in the fields. They are all
natives, and have lived with hardly any
meat in their diet and drinking only
rain water from cistern.