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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

A society called "The Association OF
Married Women for the Control OF
Husbands' has been formed in Berlin.
The aim OF the society is to enable men,
bers to prevent their husbands from get
ting into mischief. 1t employs detec-
tives, who, upon complaint of mem
Der against her husband, are sent out 10
watch the suspected man at night, aud
eventually induce him to attend meet
ing of the association. At this meeting
the husband is informed of the proof
against him and he is threatened with
exposure in case he does not promise to
feform. ALL but one of the men arraigncd
by the society last year found it ex-
pedient to accept reprlmand and re-
form without uttering protest, but the
culprit who refused to submit to its dis
oipline betrayed its secrets to the news.
, papers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
English MEADOWS.

How and when men first learned to
make hay will probably never be known.
For haymalSing is "process," and the
product is not simply sun -dried grass
which has been partly fermented, and il,
rs much the work of mems hands ms
flour. Probably its discovery was due
to accident, but possibly men learned il
from the pikas, the "callinghares" of the
stcppes, which cut and stack hay for the
winter. That idea would fit in NIGEL,
with the theory that Central Asia wa.
the "home Of the Aryan race" if we
were still allowed to believe it, and hay,
making is certainly an art mainly prac,
ticed in cold countries for winter forage.
Probably there are no meadows in the
world so good as those in England, or SC
old. Yet from the early Anglo Saxor
times old meadow has been distinguished
from "pastures, and has always been
scarce. Two-thirds of what is now es.
tablished meadow land still shows the
marks of ridge and furrow; and from
the great time required to make 6
meadow-ten years at least on the best
land, 100 on the worat-men have always
been reluctant to break up old pasture.
The ancient meadows, with their great
trees and close, rich turf, are the sole
portion of the earth's surface which
modern agriculture respects and leaves
IN peace. Hence the excellence of the
meadows of England and the envy of the
American.-London Spectator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
An Engineering Curiosity.

There are few more interesting eugin-
eerino achievements than the little mar
row-gauge railroad running to Caracas,
the Capital of Venezuela, from its sea-
port, Guayra. The distance between the
two cities as the crow fiies-supposinr
for moment that he could fly through
the mountains--is only six miles, but the
the railway connecting them is twenty
three miles in length, and constantly
twists and turns on itself.
The road runs IN zigzag fashion up
the mountain to an altitude of about
5000 feet above its starting point, aud
then descends some 1900 feet in the same
manner into the Valley of Caracas.
Twenty-Five thousand rails were used
in laying the track. and Of these over
$4,000 are bent. 1t is jestingly said that
the engineer almost died of a broken
heart because he could invent no excuse
for bending the remaining 1000. He did
his best, however, and no one who has
to ride over the line and finds himself
shaken at every one of the SAG sharp
twists which the track makes will find il
in his heart to condemn the poor mar
for not making perfect job.
Two passenger trains pass over the
road daily, leaving Guayra at 80 in the
morning and at 3 80 in the afternoon
making the journey in two and a hal
hours. This is a speed, exclusive O
stops, of not quite ten miles an hour. =
Parsons Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
A Yenomnus Bird.

But one species OF venomous bird is
known to the student of pathological
oddities-the Rpir N'Doob, or "Bird of
DEATH" feathered paradox of New
Guinea. 1t is not large or formidable
looking creature, as one would naturally
expect, being scarcely as large as com
mon pigeon, but longer and of more
slender build. 1t is of a gray, glossy
color without any special markings, ex.
cept the tail, which ends with blood
red tip. The bird is comparatively
helpless, being a BILE to fly but a few feet.
and can be caught without difficulty !;
however, it is unnecessary to say that its
poisonous lite causes the native Papuans
to let it severely alone. Persons bitten
by the creature are seized by maddenino
pains, which rapidly extend tc eycry
part of the body. Loss of sight, con.
WILSON'S and lockjaw are the other symp.
toms which follow in rapid succession.
The natives say that there is not case
on record of survival of the bite, there
being no antidote, death always ensuing
within tho short space OF two hours
st. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

highlanders what Holm did for the 500,
natives he discovered on the east Green
land coast. He has thoroughly carried
out this purpose. He has made a com.
plete enumeration of the inhabitants, and.
his long association with them enabled
him to secure photographs of folly hall
the Arctic highlanders. He brtfgs back.
large quantity of chronological material,
including tents, costumes, sledges, boats,
dogs, and photographs of the people and.
dwellings,.
Eight days after Peary and Astrup.
left the party and pushed forward by
themselves they saw, says Peary, "the.
land at the head of the st. Georges.
ford, and then for two weeks were baf
fled and hnrrassed by storms, fogs, Gre
vases and steep ice slopes, while trying
to weather the feeder basins of the ST..
Georges and Sheard Osborne glacier
system, the Hatteras of the northern in
land ice sea. June 26 we we're under the.
eighty-second parallel, when the land
which had been keeping in view to,
the northwest confronted me to the north,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
They Catca and Devour Microbes.

Any physician with the least smatter.
ing of microscopic knowledge will tell
you that hundreds. thousands or even
millions of deadly microbes enter the
human body every day by. way of the
respiratory organs and the esophagus.
"But why" you ask, 'are these deadly
midges comparatively innoxious7" Be.
cause they are caught. killed and de-
voured by minute guardians placed at
every vulnerable point throughout the
system! In one sense of the word these
watchful guardians are simply blood
cells, but they are called phagocytes and
seem to be endowed with an extraordi
nary amount of reason. They have in.
dependent power of motion aud not only
wander inside the veins but oftcu make
their way outside the tissues and pursue,
devour and digest any bacilli, whether
poisonous or otherwise, with which they
come in contact. So long as these
phagocytes remain on guard the body Is
safe from attack; but, should they relax
their vigilance, millions of invadin !,
parasites would pass into the blood and
destroy life, either by numerous mechaui
cal LESSONS or the poisons which they
secrete. The discovery of the uses OF
the phagocytes, which only dates back
to January, 1891, is one OF the most
marvellous revelations of modern science
st. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

DO confined, and there, selecting som,
stout young tree, two men get their rope,
over his head and one forearm,
and two moro theirs owe
each one of his hind legs. TIL,
last two then pull bruin, going on OPP
posite sides Of the tree, until they get
his hind parts close up, with leg Oh
each side. All four of the men now
keep tight strain Of the rope with three
turns around the horn of their saddles,
their horses facing the bear, aud holding
back. There must now be another man
on foot, who taking a strong rope,
makes one end fast to the leg of the bear
just above the ankle, in such manner
that it will not draw too tight; he then
does exactly the same with the other
hind leg, mud keeps on until he has eight
or ten turns on both. The ropes which
the first two men fastened to the legs are
cast loose, and now the bear is well &C.
cured. The tree is between his hind
legs, and the rope behind it. The front
ropes are taken off either by Stacking
them with long poles, or are left on for
bruin to chew off Mt his leisure. The
animal with his whole body free, car
move around the tree, and not injure
himself. Great care is taken not TO vex
him unnecessarily, as bears sometimes
die with rage. After bruin has become
accustomed to his quarters, he will soon
be very tame, for the species is very sus-
ccptiblc to kindness.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

vessels, having become fouled with ths
anchor-lines. A specimen captured OF
Barbadoes required seven oxen to draw
it over the land. Accounts on less reli
able authority are given of its assailine
boats, swamping them with upliftec
wing. A beak consisting of two Aeshy
horns that extend forward from its head
assists it in giasping its prey. Being
carnivorous. it would presumably devour
human beings. Tales are told of its at.
lacking divers. swoopiug from above,
SO that the unfortunate, while helpless
to escape, beholds living cloud sc .tling
over him with eager jaws to gobble.
The devil fish is particularly fierce when
accompanied by au offspring, of which
it brings forth only one at birth.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
Active Volcano In Indian Territory

An active volcano is one oil the curios-
tiles of the wonderful Indian Territory.
About forty.fivc miles west of Chickasha,
in detached spur of the Wichita Noun
tains, there has existed for eighteen years
IL fully developed volcano-on a small
scale it is true, but sufficiently awe in.
spring, rs these phenomena always are,
to have frightened away its discoveries.
Eighteen years ago Chief Quanah and hi,
people pitched their camps on the west
fork OF Cash Creek, hard by one of these
spurs of the Wichita range.
After sentinels had been placed Oh
duty they bctook themselves to slumber
In the night the whole band was aroused
by the screams and yclls of the terrified
scntincls, and the surrounding country
was lit up by bright glare cmanating
from the mountain-sidc. They fled with.
out even gathering up their camp
cluipagc. Many months after this event
Quanah gathered his tribe together and
went back to investigate. AS they up.
preached the spot it required all then
courage to induce them to proceed neal
enough to discover the cause of their
fright. They found smoke issuing from
the side of the mountain. They i'm.
agined it to be the abode of the evil
spirit, and approached it cautiously al
first, but becoming emboldened as they
proceeded, ut length found themselves
near enough to toss rock into it. From
this they set to work carrying stones as
large AS they could lift and threw them
into its mouth, with the purpose of fill
ing it up. After some time they found
no Roadway was gained by such proceed
ing, and they abandoned the attempt.
The vent is oval-shapcd and is three
feet long aad twenty inches wide.
Smoke issues from it continually, and al
long ami irregular intervals it sends forth
blu.sn-colored blaze, rs if from burn.
ing mine. There are known to be cx.
tensve coalbeds in that country, but
even ii it could have taken fire from
some internal agency it does not seem
possible for it to have snouldered for SO
long n period. 1t is therefore decided to
be miniature volcano. Galveston (Tex.
as) News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

ments to travel on foot and by means of
sledges.
The expedition sailed on the Kite,
n steam sealer, which ON July 80, 1891,
left the party on the south shore of Nc
Cormick Bay. After constructing n
house, series of boat trips and short
excursions was begun. These trips con-
tinued through the winter and until May
Sd Of this year, when Peary and all the
party, excepting Mrs. Peary and Mr..
Verhoeff, left for the north. On June
Sd the supporting party returned, having
parted from Peary and Astrup at Hum
boldt glacier. From this point they
continued northward until July 18th they
discovered Independence Bay, After an
absence of ninety three days, during
which time Pcary and his companion
travelled over 1900 miles across inland
ice, they returned to Mccormick Bay,
meeting the Kite. which had in the
meantime returned for the party.
While preparing to return home, Mr..
Verhoeff went on a short geological trip
to neighboring settlement. Not return
ing, search was made, and after some
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
The Great Japanese Tree Lilac.

Syringa Japonica, the great tree lilac Of
Northern Japan, certainly improves with
age, and the large plants in the garden.
of Eastern Massachusetts, where this
fine plant was introduced several year.
ago through the agency of the Arnold
Arboretum, are better than ever thi:
season, being covered with their immense
clusters of creamy white flowers, which
stand up boldly above the masses of rich
dark green foliage. Among small late.
towering trees Syringa Japonica here q
the North has no equal when once it il
established in deep, rich soil with suffi
Gent room to insure the growth ana
ripening of its upright, rather rigit
branches, which, when the plants arl
we'll grown, form compact, rathc
formal head. The largest plants il
Massachusetts are now nearly twenty fee
high and twelve or fifteen feet through
the branches. Garden and Forest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

teen dogs and three sledges, kept on
their course. Peary had killed an abund.
ance OF seals and walrus for dog food
during the winter, and travelled In the
hghtest marching order. Pemmicap,
pea soup, beans and biscuit formed his
sole provisions.
Eivard Astrup, who accompanied Peary
on this journey Of 1900 miles, is young
Norwegian who had lived in the United
States only IL few months when he volun.
teered for the expedition. He was skilled
In the use of the "skie,' as the peculiar.
snowshces of Norway are called.
Peary's enumeration of the Arctic high,
landers gives total of less than $50 souls.
They are apparently decreasing in NUM-
bere, but not 80 rapidly as was supposed
few years ago. In their recent inter.
course with the whites they have been,
favored beyond most savage people. A.
large part of the men whom they have,
seen were rough, and they haven't al
ways been treated with Justice, Eane.
had serious difficulty with the natives.
and two of his men accused these people,
of plotting against their lives. This time.
they have been treated by their white
visitors with kindness, consideration ands
generosity.
On the North Greenland coast Pear,
found no traces of human beings. IL
has been favorite theory with some,
scientific men that the east coast derived.
its population from the MGR alton of peo-
pie living on the northwest coast. There,
IS no evidence whatever to substnntiate
this unlikely theory, and it is probable.
thae the remains of Esquimaux huta-
found on the shores of Robson channels.
In Grant land, indicate the most rc-th..
ern limit OF human occupancy.
Peary intended to do for the Arctic
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

The condition of agriculture in Eng.
land is so seriously depressed by COM
petition with the cheaply- wheat
of America that it Is suggested seriously
to give bonus to wheat growers to make
up to them the losses sustained by the
culture of this crop. A proposition has
been made to the effect that an income
tax should be levied on those persons
whose incomes are derived from rents,
for the purpose of paying this bonus to
the farmers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

In his article on "The Bcttcrment of
Our Highways, in the Atlantic Monthly,
Professor N. s. Shaler speaks as follows
OF the influence of bicycling in the mat
ter: "The sudden access of interest in
the construction of highways which
oharacterizes our time is in good part
due to the invention of the bicycle. The
vince. carriage propelled by foot power
Is relatively old continuance, but until
the last quarter of century the machine
adhered to the old type of the four.
wheeled vehicle. 1t required the hardy
spirit of our time to lead the inventor to
the conjecture that a man might ride on
but two wheels. In its social Importance
the bicycle deserves to rank next to the
railway and the telegraph, among the
inventions of our waning country. The
use of these instruments, the number of
which is probably now to be rcckoned
by the million, affords to those who em4
ploy them constant object lessons as to
the condition of our highways. Where
man is drawn by horse, he needs to
have very keen sympathy with his
beast in order to perceive how appar-
emily slight differences In the condition
of the roadway may greatly vary the
amount OF strain which is put upon the
propelling agent. When, however, his
own thews are employed, every little &C.
oident OF the way makes distinct i'm
press on his body. Thus every cyclist
becomes a critic of the highways he
traverses; aud as these people are scat
tered far and wide over the land, and
are of station to make themselves eff
cient developers of public opinion, we
have through their art gained very
stimulating influence in favor of better
roads"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
Trout n, Mice-Eaters.

During the past few days trout have
been caught in the upper Annandal,
streams which have been feeding On tn,
mice, or field-voles, with which GU,
pastures are plagued. A Moffat lady.
who had got a present of trout from /,
friend living near Evan Water, was the
other day surprised to hear her domcsti,
scream, and, on inquiring the cause.
found it was due to the presence of
yole In the stomach of half-poun6
trout. A gentleman angling in MofTa
Water caught pound trout near Bodies.
beck, and on cutting up the fish foun,
q whole vole in Its stomach. The wolfe
run to the streams In dry weather. ani
many of them are drowned. 1t will b,
strange if the trout has to be classed will
the hawk, the owl and the weasel az
s'natural enemy. ''-Dumfries Scotland
Courier.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

explore. They are quick to adapt them
selves to their surroundings and possess
unusual skill in contriving means by
which to attain the desired ends.
In dispatch to the Navy Department,
from st. Johns, N. F., Lieutenant Peary
says: Omitted States Navy claims high.
est discoveries on Greenland east coast
Independence Bay, SO degrees north
latitude, "a degrees west longitude, dis
covered July 4, 1892. Greenland ice.
caps end south of Victoria inlet"
Lieutenant Peary presented his idcas
d exploration to the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia in January,
1871. His plans showed SO wide n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

A correspondent at Hamburg, Ger
many, says the deadly mortality by
cholera in that city is not surprising
when the condition and filth of its people
nre considered. lie says: Ceases arc
on record of four families consisting of
twenty-five persons occupying single
small room divided off into sections for
the use of the different families by chalk
ZINES. All married servants on an estate
nre housed in one ROOM"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

and northeast and then to the east, de-
tlecting me to the southeast. After
marching four days to the southeast, the
land still extending southeast aud east,
| made direct for it toward a large open
ing in the mountains visible oyer the
nearer submits, and landed July-f. July
4, after three days. travel overland,
reached the head of great bay, lati-
tude 81. 81, longitude 81, opening out
east and northwest. I named this In
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

Captivity is made as endurablc as pos.
bible for the Apache Indians who, with
their brutal chief, Geronimo, are con-
fined at Mount Vernon, near Mobile,
Ala. Geronimo has been the gardener
of the garrison, and has become noted
locally rs maker of canes. TO add to
his dignity he has been made a Justice
OF the Peace to sit i'll judgment over Of
tenders Of his tribe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

An article ia said to be sold in Paris
which consists of an aqueous solution of
iodide of starch and is Especially in.
tended for love letters" In four weeks,
explains the Chicago Herald, characters
written with it disappear, preventing all
abuse Of letters and doing away with all
documentary evidence of any kind in the
hands of the recipient.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

DR.. Manson, whose plan for seeking
The North Pole is to jab INTO the drift.
Ing ice in a stout vessel, and resign him
self to certain ocean currents, proposes
to lay in four years supply of provis.
Ions when he finally cnbarks on this
voyage. He will also take along an I'M
mense stock of patience, adds the chi
cago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

familiarity with existing conditions, and
were so practical in character that the
academy, which had previously borne
the expense of the expeditions under DR..
Kane and DR.. Hayes, accepted his propo-
sition and provided the outfit needed for
the journey.
1t has been the experience of Arctic
explorers who had heretofore attempted
high northern ATTITUDES by mems of
ships to find that once their way was
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

1t is said that careful analysis of all
the data collected concerning farm
wages from 1910 to 1865, in COMPARE
son with results of the more recent in
vestigations, will show that in fifty years
the compensation OF farm labor has very
nearly doubled.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

barred by ice it was
impossible to proceed
farther with their
ships, and, should
tn ey become ice
bound, they must re-
main there until their
vessels are destroyed
or drift out in the
springtime. Peary,
recognizing this fact
made careful arrange
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

dependence Bay in honor of the day and,
the great glacier flowing north into it;
Academy glacier. I reached inland ice.
again July z, with foot gear cut to pieces
and selves and dogs exhausted aud dead
lame from the hard climbing, sharp.
stones and frequent falls"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02

Last year there were 1889 widowera
married in New York City, while OF
widows there were only 1874, SO that
about twenty per cent. more widowers
than widows were married.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
Somebody claims to have figures to
prove that ono married woman out OF
iievery ten supports her husband.

The Supreme Court of Indiana has de.
cided that he who lies occasionally is not
liar any more than he who takes o
a dram is q drunkard.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-02
PEARY'S WORK.
RESULTS OF THE ExpI,oRER,s
TRIP TO THE FAR NORTH.
Peary and a Companion Travelled
Over 1900 Miles Across Inland
Ice-No Human Beings on tho
North Greenland Coast.

N an illustrated
account Of Lieu
tenant r. E. Peary's
expedition, which
returned recently
to this country, the
Chicago Graphic
says:
The success of
Lieutenant r. E.
Peary and his party
goes lar to prove
the claim that
Americans are Pc