Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-11
CURIOUS FACTS.
Russia invented paving.
Whalebone is SIS. 900 n ton.

Whalebone is S15, 200 ton.
hIalheur County, in Oregon, has pct
rified forest.
Diamond cutting by machinery wa.
urst done in Holland in 1889.
Gliding with gold leaf was first done
by Margaritone, an Italian, in 1878.
The first banana was brought to the
United States about fifty years ago.
There are 46, 900 oil wells in the Uni
ted States, and their daily output is $780,.
900 barrles.
The prescribed course of medical in-
struction in the Mexican National Uni.
versity is seven years.
Edward 1. Berry, of San Francisco,
che strong man of the Pacific Slope, lifts
1000 pounds fifty times day. lie is a
piano mover.
East CRANKY, Conn, has two centen.
arians in Mrs. Catharine G.. Gould, 1O1
years old, and "Aunt" Sally Brown,
aged 102 years.
Artesian wells were known at Thebcs,
Egypt, as long ago rs the time of Tim.
erton, 1000 years before the beginning
Of the Christian Era.
Mrs. Gaines, the property of Richard
L. Auchmuty, OF Lenox, Mass, is said
to be the oldest war horse living. She
is thirtysix years old.
When the Turk goes to his mosque to
worship he keeps his hat on, rs he thinks
nc would be unbecomingly familiar With
divinity if he removed it.
Washington is to have a museum fo,
all sorts of curious life saving appliances,
including the earliest kinds OF lifcboats,
rockets and life prcscrvers.
"Unclc" Wash Couch. who lives nca,
Senola, Ga, has four sons who are said
to have been born on the same day OF
the month in different years.
Jesse NJ. Pcrrinc, the Postmaster of
Utica, N. Y, has been for about fifty
gears in Uncle Sans postal service. He
was born in 1911 and is still in vigorous
health.
A wonderful echo is heard ut Eagles
Nest, Killarney, Ireland. a bugle played
On one side of the lake, at this point, is
repeatedly echoed as if multiplied by a
hundred Instruments.
The largest grecnback extant is ten
thousand dollar bill, and only one such
aotc has been printed by the Govern
nent. OF the five thousand dollar bills,
The next largest, there are seven.
The oldest arm chair in the world is
the throne once used by Queen of Egypt.
1t is made of ebony, beautifully carved,
and is SO hardened with age ms to appear
to be carved from black marble.
Few families can show record like
That CT the Gross family, of Richmond,
Ind. There are six brothers and five
listers of the family, and there has not
oeen death among them for fifty years.
The highest place in the world reeu.
arly inhabitated is the Buddhist town OF
Haine, in Tibet, which is 10000 feet
above sea level. The highest inhabited
place in the Americas is at Galera, Peru.
1855 feet above the sea level
Pcercsscs of Great Britain, Scotland
or Ireland, by birth, marriage or crea.
ton, are free from arrest or imprison-
ment In civil processes, and in the event
oil pceress being charged with crimi-
nal offence, she would be tried by tho
house of lords,
The whistling or sounding arrow used
oy the Chinese has bend of n buffalo
horn followed out, and with several holes
bored in it, it whistles as it flies through
The air. They arc used for amusement
generally, and by robbers as a sort OF
challenge to 'stand and deliver"