Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

a Cinnamon rides wheel in San
Francisco.
London is larger in area aud in pop
ulation than Pellip.
The Car of Russia is the largest indi.
vidual landholder in the world.
at the 1876 centennial at Philadel-
phia an electric light was exhibited as
curiosity.
The river. approaches to Lake N;cua.
ragua abound with the only species of
fresh water shark known to scientists.
Tiles are said to have been first made
in England about 1916. They were taxed
in 1874, but the tax was repealed in
1888.
India rubber trees grow wild all owe,
Leo County, Florida. At Fort Myers
they are the chief shade aud ornamental
trees.
Horticulturists tell us that the orange
was originally shaped fruit about
the size of the common wild cherry. Its
evolution is due to 1900 years of cult
Walton.
1t has only been oighty-one years
since the first tomatoes were introduced
into America. The original plant was
cultivated us vegetable curiosity at
Salem, Mass.
The average length of life is greater
in Norway than in any other country on
the globe. This is attributed to the fact
that the temperature is cool aud uniform
throughout the year.
The greatest days run of au ocean
steamship was about SIS miles. The
steamer in question was 5b2 feet long
and had previously been known to
make 500 miles per day for three days in
succession.
The Government telegraph servic, of
Great Britain operates about 80, 900
miles of line, apd handles nearly 49,.
600, 600 kilograms year. Last year g., =.
600, 600 kilograms were handled in Lon
don alone.
Mummies taken from the Egyptian
| tcmbs, beaten into n tine powder and
mixed with oil for paint is one of the
latest industries at Cairo. The color of
this human dust paint is rich brown of
lively tone.
A wire netting fence 500 miles long is
one of the late Australian wonders. The
fence separates the colonies of New
South Wales and Queensland and its OBJ
ject is to keep the rabbits out of the
latter country.
At the castle of Slmonetta, Italy there
! is an angle in the building which re-;
echoes n pistol shot sixty-one times.
The echoed reports from twenty one to
thirty-three are always louder than the
report of the shot itself.
Remains of prehistoric man of the
oldest stone age, consisting of q rudely
Clipped flint implement among bones of.
reindeer and other Arctic animals, no,
longer found in that part of Europe, have
just been discovered in Hermann's cave,
IN the Harz. y;
-Four different peaks in the mountains
of Idaho are from thirteen to twenty
three feet lower by actual measurement
than they were fifteen years ago. &c.
ologists 90 not attempt to explain the
"why" of their settling.
Caterpllars from six inches to foot
long are common in the vicinity of the
Darling River, Australia. The natives
twist them together and boil them in
Kangaroo grease. Travellers who have
tasted this delicacy say that it is not al
together unpalatable.
The Eiffcl Tower, at Paris, is now the
highest clock tower in the world. A
| gigantic clock has been placed on its
second platform, and scientists daily and
hourly take observations on the motion
of the pendulum, it being their idea that
the revolution of the earth on its axis
may be visibly demonstrated by the cx-
pertinent