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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
VALUE OF AlILLEr.

MIllet is one of the most largely cult
waited plants. 1t furnishes large part
OF the grain food to the half civilized
Nations, rs those of Asia and Africa; the
fodder Tor cattle of civilized farmers.
and some varieties furnish sugar. 1t is
thus the staff of life to moro than half
the people of the world more truly than
wheat is to the civilized quarter of them.
And 1t deserves the notice of farmers
quite as much as any other plant grown.
The fodder is especially rich IN the albu-
minoids and fat, containing fifty per
cent. more Of the former and nearly as
much o! the latter than timothy hay.
But, like oil the grasses, it requires to
be cut and cured before it is mature,
and while the blossom is not past. AT.
ter this stage it becomes hard and woody
and the seed heads are covered with
sharp thorns that are injurious to the
stomachs of animals that are fed on It.
The cured hay is very agreeable to all
the farm animals, and the product is
easily onc-half more than any other kind
OF hay. For these reasons it is valua-
BILE crop and should be sown every year.
1t Is an excellent medium for the summer
seeding of grass or clover, and it leaves
the land in mellow condition favora-
BILE for the fall growth of the grass.
American Dairyman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
The Nicara ia Canal

The committee appointed by the Ma
tional Nicaragua Canal Convention at its
meeting in st. Louis to prepare an nd.
dress to the American people giving in d.
formation rs to the feasibility OF the
Nicaragua Canal and its commercial and
other advantages to the United States,
has just finished the preparation OF such
address.
The address is supplementary to the
resolutions adopted by the ST. Louis Con-
ventlon, which pointed out the advan-
tages OF the canal and urged its construc.
ton, ownership and control by the
American people rather than the Eng
lish, French or any other Nation. II
takes the position that IL canal, Joining
the Atlantic aud Pacific Oceans, should
be constructed for the most important
commercial, strategic and patriotic rea.
sons, and says that the subject OF such !,
canal is the most vital connected with
the welfare, growth and prosperity OF
the United States. 1t declares that the
only feasible route for such canal is by
way of Nicaragua, and points out that
the conventions of the two great two
political parties have endorsed the pro.
ject.
1t appears that all the engineers have
agreed in expressing n decided prefer
ence for the Nicaragua route, because
among other reasons, only 26s miles O.
tue entire distance of 1891 miles from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through
Nicaragua will have to be excavated
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

GA very profitable way for farme,
to spend any leisure that he may have at
his command" thinks the American
Farmer, sis among the dealers in the
articles lie produces in the nearest large
city. He will learn many things of i'm.
mense value to him, one of the most i'm.
portant being the great advantage of
sending produce to market in the. best
possible shape and of the highest quail.
ity. 1t costs but little, if any more. to
produce first-class article than an in.
ferior one, and to send it to market in {
way that will show its superiority, while
the advance in the price obtained is ou
of all proportion to the labor and cos
REQUIRED"
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supposed to be fatal to beauty, but their |
influence depends upon age.
The New aslamtse, TWINS.


The new Siamese twins do not come
from Siam, says the Pail Mali Gazette.
They are natives of Orissa, in India, and
the following description is sent to us by
correspondent, who saw them the
other day in Poonah: The names of the
children are Radica and Doddica. The
two little girls are three and half years
old and are really pretty children. The
popularity OF their connection is that
there is flexible bony attachment from
breast to breast, and below this there is
a visceral connection. There is only
one navel. The children were born in a
caul
If food is given to one, the other is
satisfied. and if medicsne is administered
to one the other is affected, but not to
the same extent as the one to which it
was given. The most curious circum-
stance is that when sentence is begun
by one child the other frequently fin
ishes it. When sleeping one child lies
on her back, and the other on her side,
which gives an idea Of the great fexi-
bility of the connection. The children
are very good friends, and seldom quar-
rel, but when younger their proceedings
we're not marked by that unanimity
which they have since discovered to be
essential to their circumstances. AS
might be expected, when their relations
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

indicates big jaws, and big jaws presup-
pose large teeth and voracious appe.
utc- A prominent chin indicates will
power, determination, and overbeariny
disposition, and no woman is willing to
be thought domineering. On the other
hand chin too little or recedinr midi.
Gates weakness -perhaps of health. it
may be Of character. 4 very small chin
is Indicative OF small and possibly def.
Client teeth, frequently far apar, poor di.
gestion and consequent bad health. and
no one can be beautiful ideally or other.
wise, who has poor health, for health
is the foundation OF beauty.
AS much depends on the nose "a q,
the chin. The nose of the ideal beautv
is of generous proportions. 1t must he
SO to indicate self demand, sound udo.
ment and discretion. Whether the nose
be straight or hooked, Greek, Roman or
Jewish, matters little. Either NAV he
beautiful, but in either case the nose
must be large enough to Indicate its own
individuality and that of its owner.
Between the nose and the chin lies the
mouth, the perfection of which is the
most essential element of beauty. Tor
although every other feature NAV be
ideally perfect, bad mouth will spoil
the symmetry OF the whole countenance.
i he s.Zo oistle mouth, within reason.
. able bound, isnot material, although. of
course, it should not be too large in pro-
portion to the face, the size of the
latter being the. only criterion of iude.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
Strange Us, For n Skeleton.

In America skeletons are neither legal
tender nor muniments of title, but it is
different at the antipodes-in that rs in
many other things. In New Zealand,
for instance, European cannot acquire
title to new piece of land till the midi
vidual Maori title is exiting uishcd, and
that has to be done before native land
court. In this court the '.Tohuusas,
or Judges of local law, declare that there
is no valid title unless the last preceding
owners thoracic skeleton is produced.
1t appears that among the NIaoris,
when the land of late desceudent be-
comes the property of another man, the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

became strained there was considerable
tension between them, but when it
gradually dawned upon their infantilc
intelligeuces that when one was hurt tie
other had to cry out of sheer sympathy,
mutual understanding was arrived ut
that flows" should be discontinued, and
now baimy peace reigns supreme.
For their age, the twins are particu-
larly intelligent. They have been
taught English for the last three months,
and, although they do not speak more
than few simple words, they seem to
understand it fairly we'll already. The
twins have excited good deal of inter
est among the medical profession in
India, aud there is little doubt that
their appearance in London and America
will be welcomed by scientists no less
than by the unscientiic sightseer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
WHEAT BRAN FOR LANDS.

Some writers are becoming eloquent
OF late in the praise of wheat brar for
sheep. We have seen its benefits de.
monstrated for other stock. The edition
OF the Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower
In an article designed to advocate "gen.
erous feeding makes this plea:
ut IS hardly too much to say that
generous feeding of lamb all summer
and all the fall will create constitution
where only poor one existed to begin
with. We have often wondered to see
how cosset or some lamb that had had
extra attention, and was about twice as
large as the average of the flock, in au-
tumn when the trying season of parasites,
dlarrhea, and other troubles of sheep
HE came on, would go through every
transporting rains, fogs, slushy grass,
diarrhea, paperslSin, all around him
without particle of injury. His mag.
nificent vitality, created by months of
liberal feedine-all his life, in fact-car
ries him unframed through evils which
lay waste the average flock. The farmer
ought to begin at once with his lambs,
II he has not already, giving them ali
the Wheat bran they will eat up clean
once day at least, better twice, and if
there are any weaklings remove them TO
smaller flock and give them extra at
tention-feed for that priceless vitality
and force, that constitution without
which sheep is about the poorest piece
: u property in the line of live stock"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
A Pathological Giant.

Here is a great big apple which Mr..
NJ. V. Cox sends to the Republic all the
way from Silver City, n. NJ. 1t is for
mally entered as the champion apple of
America. In his letter 3lr. Cox says:
"Last year You mentioned the big apple
from Arkansas which measured Ia
inches in circumference. 1 ship by to-
days express, prepaid, 'The Republic
Apple, a sample of New Mexican fruit
for exhibition, 1t is eighteen inches in
circumference and weighs two pounds
q ounces. 1t is from the fruit rauch
OF Colonel W. L. Thompson, of this
county"
This description has been verified in
the Republic editorial rooms. Placed
upon exact postofiice scales this apple
weighs two pounds II ounces, having
lost perhaps by drying about an ounce
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
ONE WAY TO TAKE OFF HORNS.

This is tho way an Ohio Farmer cor.
respondent says he got the best of his
bull: " 1 put on him muzzle, such as
are used to keep horses from biting, or
eating their bedding, covered the lover
part OF 1t with cotton flannel which I
kept wet with chloroform. In about
ten or fifteen minutes the bull concluded
to lie down and take nap. While un
der the influence of the anesthetic, to
such a degree that [ could touch the
cyeball without. his flinching sawed of
oil his horns, dressed the stumps, with
antiseptic cotton, took off the muzzle,
and put ring in his nose, all of which
was done in twenty minutes from the
time l entered the stable, and that, too,
without any suffering. The bull soon
got up, minus his horns, with q jewel in
his nose, and probably will never know
how it occurred. 1t cost the price of
three ounces of chloroform, but [ did
not have any tied legs, or mcn-setting
on handspike."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

by three locks to the tevel OF the lake
Tney will sail along the San Juan River
and the lake on the lake level to IA point
within three and one-half mile; of the
Pacific Ocean. Here they will be low
cred by the locks to the level OF the Pa.
chic Ocean.
The committee says the cost, inciud.
ing the payment OF interest during the
progress OF the work, will be less $780,
900, 900, and the time required for the
completion of the work is within five
years. The climate of Nicaragua is
healthy, and out Of 1900 northern men
employed in constructing a railroad
through swamp only two died during
a period OF four months. o. 300 nor tn
ern engineers aud skilled echaaics W no
have worked for the canal company for
three years not one has died from Il dis.
ease incident to the country.
ALI surveys and examination of strata
requiring removal have been completed.
The jetty has been constructed and the
harbor of Greytown has beea restored 50
that vessels of fourteen-feet draft have
an easy entrance. Extensive wharves.
landing places and permanent buildings
have been constructed, temporary camps
erected, telegraph line made, the canal
cleared of timber for twenty miles, and
railroad twelve miles in length cor
structed and equipped. The bigge.t
dredging plant in America, that FORM
eriy used at Panama. has been purena Sc j.,
! and over mile of the canal has been
dredged. The exclusive franchise for
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

to which it belongs will, if transferred
to the physiognomy of another, almost
stretch from ear to ear. All these things
are matters of proportion, aud those are
probably not far wrong who assert that
mouth one and half times the width
of the eye is in proportion and correct.
The upper lip should be bow shaped,
while the lower should form the arc of
circle, and to be ideally beautiful the
lower lip should show more red than the
upper. The lips should be only mod
crately full.
The forehead is the characteristic
feature of the human race, for no ami
NAL, save the elephant, has what may
properly be called forehead. The
forehead of the ideal beauty is low and
broad, rather than high and command
ing. A high forehead generally indi-
Gates the possession of brains, and the
ideal beauty is not supposed to have
any. a low forehead is almost as bad
as one too high, since it betokens ami
mality of nature.
The eyes are a leading attribute of
ideal beauty. OF course they should be
straight, that is to say, at right angles
with the nose, for eyes turned up at the
outer angle are Monaghan, and turned
down give an unmlstakablc expression
of slyness or roggery. Eyes half open,
exhibiting narrow opening between
the lids, are indicative of dcceitfulness,
while wide open eyes are characteristic
OF impudence, of aggressiveness without
perseverance, of brazen insolcncc. The
color is n matter of little consequence,
but in passing it should be understood
that there is common mistake with re-
gard to the color of the human eye. No
iris is one of solid color; all arc streaked,
notified, speckled or spotted, and the
predomiuance of one color gives an i'm.
preston that the whole eye is thus
tinted. The eyelashos should be long
and dark in order properly to shade the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

statues are rather creations than like
oesscs. While the human form may be
built on strictly mathematical principles,
Yet the attempt to apply exact mathc-
natics TO every portion will invariably
:esult In the discovery that no human
'orIn is perfect.
In theoretically perfect face the dis
ance from the point of the chin to the
:oots oil the hair on the forehead is di-
Vlded into three equal spaces from the
;oots OF the hair to point between the
eyebrows where the nose commences,
from that TO the tip of the nose, and
thence to the tip OF the chin. The face
should be exactly twice as long as its
width Mt the height of the eyes, while
each eye should be the width of the
mouth, and the distance between them
should ca lal the width of one eye. To
be perfect, the upper lip should be as
long as one half the distance from the
lower lip to the chin, while line drawn
perpendicularlY down from the lips
should touch the chin, and drawn up
ward should pass through the iope OF
the nosiril half way between the tip and
the base. The car should be at the
height OF the eye, and when the profile
Is examined, the distance from the tip of
the nose to check should be one-half the
length OF the nose.
Beginning with the chin, the ideal
face mas cnin OF only moderate prom
inence. y chm too large give to the &C.
minnie countenance too much OF mascu-
line strength; besides, prominent chin
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

readily secured, and this can be fed to
good thrifty cattle, at present prices
1t requires the very best of management
to realize fair profit from cattle. To
lot them make slow growth so that
three or four years is required fol-
growth, aud then when they are ready
for market, must be sold rs low-gSade
cattle, what will be realized for them
will not pay the cost of missing.
With cattle as with other stock one OF
the items necessary for profit is steady
growth from birth to maturity. 1t is, of
course, an Item to secure this at as low
cost as possible, and in wintering good
sheltering is necessary to lessen the cost,
for tho reason that less grain is needed.
That is, if cattle are comfortably shell
tered in winter they con be kept growing
steadily if they are well fed with rough-
ness-hay, straw aud corn fodder. Cat.
tic will thrive better with good shelter
in winter with hay alone than they will
with corn alone. Supplying bran in
addition to roughness will be of material
help, especially If the roughness is first
run through cutting box. FeetNfh
racks should be provided so as to lessen
the waste as much as possible.
1t should be remembered that the
value of the feed is the same, and the
work necessary to properly care for them
is the same, whether the cattle are of
good grade or are scrubs, while there
will be very considerable difference in
the gain secured in proportion to the
food consumed.
At best, under present conditions, tn,
margin of profit in feeding cattle is small,
and everv advantage should be taken to
increase them. Selecting good grade,
giving them comfortable shelter and care,
so as to maintain steady growth, are al
important.-St. Louis Republic.
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A man in Riverside, CAL, is urging
that city to so into the fruit growing
business to raise money for paving their
streets. He has figured it out that, if
the city would plant English walnut or
Seeding orange trees for street trees, in
dfteen years in the case OF the walnuts,
or ten yesrs in the case of the ORANGES.
the fruit from the trees would pay all
the expenses of street work and i'm.
provements.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

The extent of the building indus.
try may be inferred from tho statement
that the total number Of freight cars in
use on the various railroads In the
United States is about 100000, and
that from 120, 200 to 40, 900 new cars
are required annually to take the place
of those that become worn out, tue aver.
age life OF freight car being from eight
to ten years. Besides, adds the Boston
Transcript, there is constant demand
for additional equipment by the railroads
on account of the increase in their bust
ness.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
THE SKELETON PARROT CAGE.

courts the occupant makes speech after
this fashion: "My ancestor conquered
your ancestor and killed many of your
tribe. He ate your ancestors legs and
arms, cut off and cured his head for an
ornament, and Of his chest, which was
capacious and round, he made cage in
which to keep his decoy parrots, the ribs
serving rs bars, from between which the
parrot could look out, and many people
came to admire my ancestors parrot cage
and the land which was seized and held
even INTO this day. New York Re-
corder
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
Sir Edwin Arnold saws Of cho,a.,

Sir Edwin Arnold says of cholera /:
<'Morc people die from bronchitis, teeth.
ing and measles than from chol era. II
Is not such q terrible disease. 1 have
helped carry into hospital many persons
afflicted with it in the streets of India.
1t is no more than colossal, protcan
stomach ache. Simple precautions will
ward it of. Five drops of hydrochloric
acid in p.of ten every other day will
kill the bacillus. 1t cannot live in ar
acidulated stomach. think the Eng
lish and American constitutions are al
most proof against the disease when care
is exercised"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

Puget Sound (Washiugton) fisher.
men are using cold storage for the pre-.
servation of salmon, and rs consc.
queuce it has been determined to secure
the run of white salmon, q fish hitherto
not taken, or taken only in small guam.
titles. Americans and Englishmen arc
not partial to white salmon, which is,
moreover, fish that does not keep we'll
but there is a good demand for it in
Spain and Portugal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

the statement stronger, no two individ-
ual mcn-cver have the same ideal.
Undoubtedly an important factor in
ideal beauty of face is found in the shape
of the countenance. No face badly
formed can be beautiful, but the ques-
ton naturally arises, What is badly
formed facet The general opinion among
the aesthetics is that feminine face, to
be of good form, should be perfect
oval. A forehead too high or too low,
n chin too long or too short. check bones
too strong, any one of n dozen other
shortcomings, may mar the symmetry of
the whole, and so spoil face otherwise
perfect. This symmetry is not common
ly found-indeed, it is so rarely encoun-
tered as to be almost purely ideal. Even
the Greeks found it so seldom among
their women that their most beautiful
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25
A Northwestern railroad Presiden

a Northwestern railroad President,
millionaire though he is, has recently
put himself outside the most remote
possibility of adversely by the payment
by ono check of $136,350, for which an
Eastern company insures his life for
500, 900 and ten years hence begins to
pay him an annuity of $4,000. The
annuity is better known in England
than here, it being favorite method of
even the poor to guard against poverty
in old age. That our wealthiest and
most sagacious business men intrust
their own financial futures to approved
life insurance companies" remarks the
New York Mail and Express, furnishes
sale precedent to men of small means. "
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-25

Among the London cab drivers there
are ex-miitary officers, eS-doctors, ex-
lawyers by the dozen, one lord by
courtesy, one baronet, several honor.
ables, one e1.M. p, and dozen bank.
rupt landed proprietors, all which,
moralizes the Boston Transcript, goes to
account for the improved manners and
aristocratic appearance of tho London
cabby, who nowadays deems it beneath
his dignity to dismount from his perch
and fight his fare for the odd "tizzy, "
as he was wont to do in the good old
times
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eye; the eyebrows should be arched and
moderately heavy; n deficiency in either
lash or brow is n marked deformity.
The eyelashes should surround the eye
in such way as to close it, and thus
materially aid in giving it expression.
1t IS often supposed that the eye alone is
expressive and receives no assistance
from its surroundings. But this is a
great mistake.
The ideally beautiful face is sur
rounded by suit of abundant hair.
The question as to whether this is blonde
or brunette is not important, for there
are great painters on either side, and if
we count the light browns among the
blondes and the dark browns among the
brunettes the numbers of the two classes
are about equal.
The neck is very important item of
beauty. It should be of medium length.
That is, the distance from the collarbonc
to the chin when the head is in natu-
raj position should be about one half the
length of the face, or from the upper
tip OF the ear to the collar bone should
be the length of the countenance. A
long neck is ungraceful, suggesting
emaciation; short neck is equally so,
being characteristic OF embonpoint, not
to say dumpiness. But in each and
every case the heigth of the figure must
furnish the unitof measurement, and all
parts must bear correspondence to this.
The face of the ideal beauty is gener-
ally OF clear white with tinge of pink
IN the cheeks, and lips of bright red.
The color of the face should be an ivory
not chalk white; the latter is unnatu-
raj and ghastly, nor is the flush of fever
agreeable to the eye. a color toe