Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-06
CURIOUS FACTS.

cOhlVUS faults.
Monkeys are worshiped in some parts
of Africa.
Hares turn white in the Arctic Circle
II winter.
Ten days per annum is tho average
amount of sickness in human life.
Philadelphia, Penn, is to try the pncu-
matte tube system for her mails soon.
The Chinese cultivated wheat 27OO
years before the beginning of the Chris
tian Era.
Recently, at Amador, CAL, block of
marble weighing 100 tons was quarricd
aud cut up into columns for new pub
lie building.
A recent issue OF the London eng
land) Times contains 157 death notices,
aud the average age of the descendants
was over sixty.
The musk antelope can send forth such
such a powerful odor of musk that even
at tho distance of 100 yards he can
smother his enemy to death.
Lancaster County, in PENNSYLVANIA.
grows moro tobacco than any other
county in the United States. The crop
grown there i'll 1889 amounted to 10
217, 500 pounds.
An experienced dealer in watches saws
he has known many men who have tried
to wind their watches every morning in-
stead OF at night, but he has never known
one to succeed.
1ncitatus, the famous horse of the
Roman Emperor, Caligula, was actually
consecrated as priest, had Manager of
pure ivory, and was never given drink
from anything but gold pail.
The Algerians know what a real
plague of gtasshoppers is. In ono DIS
trlct OF that country alone over $4,000
gallons of the eggs of the pest were
gathered and burned last year.
HOLSTERS often travel in regiments.
seeking new feeding grounds. Their
migrating armies are always led by the
biggest and strongest ones, while the
MANNED and weakly struggle along be-
hind.
Weaving appears to have been prac-
tlced In China more than 1000 years be-
ioro 1T was known in Europe or Asia.
The Egyptians ascribed the art to Isis.
the Greeks to Minerva and the Pcruvians
to the wife of Nance Capsc.
To protect itself from the rain tho
orang -outang crooks its arms over its
head. The hair on the orang's upper arm
points downward, while on the lower
arm it points upward, the apparent pur
pose being to shed the rain like thatch.
The old parliamentary oak" tree in
Clipstone Park, London, England, is be.
licved to be 1900 years old. The ia
nous ''Cowthorpic" oak is seventy-cieht
iect ID circumference Mt the ground, and
at one time its branches covered more
than an acre of space.
as n memento of the French Exhi
bition at Moscow, the Empress of Russia
has been presented with large egg of
enamcled silver. Inside the egg there is
a bouquet of violcts composed of dia-
monds, held together by ribbon of the
same stones. The egg is suspended from
an artistically arranged ribbon of mink
enamel.
The fact that the oil Of eucalyptus was
used at Sandringham as a disinfcctant
during the Duke of Clarence's illness. has
given London new fad The druggists
have treblcd the price of eucalyptus oil
on account of the sudden demand. and
the railroad cars and stations, omnibnses
and even the streets are said to smell like
u paint shop.
Judge Gilmore, of Columbus, Ohio,
has very ino watch. 1t is known as
the Eclectic, and is the only watch of
that name ever made. Everything about
the watch is hand made and full lew
eled. The timepiece was made in Switz-
erland by special order and cost 5000.
The Judge has carried it twenty-five
years and it never varies.