Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-07-22
CURIOUS rAors.
Tho clock tower Of the British House
Of Parlia mont is $50 feet high.

Tho clock tower Of the British House
OF Parlia mont is 800 feet high.
Green vegetables will retain their
color, it IS said, if cooked in an uncoy-
cred vessel. +
Forks were not introduced into Eug-
lapo until the reign of James l., in the
Seventeenth Century.
Audiences in Russian theatres are for.
hidden by law to manifest their displcas-
ure at actors by Kissing.
A merchant in Germany has been fined
heavily for Using aquotation from tine
Bible to head an advertisement.
Edward Mcdonald, of Allentown,
Penn, owns or did own dog which
weighed but four ounces when it was
five months old.
A man who enlists in the United
States army now may wear crayat if he
chooses; privilege which has been
denied him heretofore.
A set of false teeth mado OF ivory by
New York dentist for George Washing
ton and used by him is on exhibition at
the Patent Office in Washington.
In olden times, when every part OF the
body had its price, the beard was valued
at S5-a large sum for the time-while
the loss of leg was only estimated
at So.
The Massachusetts State Board of
Health has found that of 1918 samples
of wall paper collected in twenty cities
and towns, $3.50 contained arsenic in APP
preciable quantities.
Mark Remission, Of Phillips, Me-, had
the smallest bear probably ever seen by
man, and he has been mounted artistic
oily. 1t is six inches from tip to tip and
ID three inches in height.
The famous Oroff diamond of Russia
was once the right eye of the great idol
Serringham in the Temple Of Brahma.
This precious gem was stolen somewhere
about the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century by French solder.
The streets of London are cleaned be-
tween eight in the evening aud nine in
the morning. Many Of the carriagcways
are washed daily by means of hose aud
the courts and alleys inhabited by the
poorer classes are cleaned once day.
The Chinese make what is called achi-
wa-hi, or grass cloth, from the fiber of
the common nettle. 1t is said to make
splendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc.
When made into betting for machinery
it is said to have twice the strength oil
leather.
A couple of months ago Philadelphia
woman bought rustic table made of
the boughs of some tree from which the
bQrtS had MT hoap ra,n1vod -.
weeks ago the table began to throw out
green sprouts and soon after the whole
table was in full bloom.
The Chinese are ahead of the world
in the preparation of roast pork for the
table. After it is come out of the oven
it is hung in the smoke of various arc
matte herbs, which gives it delicious
flavor and robs it of the porky taste
which is offensive to some palates.
The witch plant, which is the aston
ishment of the native Australians as we'll
as the foreigners, resembles our common
plantain in the matter of leaf. Six or
eight of these leaves, sometimes an inch
and three-quarters broad an five inches
long, often spring from q single 'stool."
which sits fiat on II bare spot without
the least sign of q root.
The foot of horse is one of the most
ingenious and unexplained pieces of me-
chanism in the whole range of animal
structure. The outside hoof is made up
of series of thin, verticle lamine of
horn, about 500 in number. Into this
is fitted about 500 more thin lamin;e,
which belong to the coffin bone, both
sets being elastic and adhcrent.