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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
POPULAR scIEScE.
he diameter of Mars is 400 mile,

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Steel magnets lose their permanent
magnetism ut the boiling point of almond
oil.
The polar diameter is twenty eight
miles shorter than the equatorial diane.
ter.
Consumption is believed to be more
pre- valent in Ireland than in either Eng.
land or Wales.
Somebody has discovered that eggs
laid in the spring and early summer are
superior in quality to those laid late in
the summer.
neutrality-suspicious., is the medical
term for color blindness, and statistic:
show that men are much more chroma.
topseudoplically inclined than women.
Not less than fifty per cent of the pco.
pie in Alaska are Athlete with chronic
diseases. Two-thirds OF the children
born do not live, or rather do not out
live their parents.
If the eaith should cease to revolvc
altogether, the oceans of the equator
would forsake their beds and hasten
toward the poles. Probably the entire
globe north of Boston would be sub.
merged.
The report of the Spanish Medical
Commission that was sent to Paris to in.
quirc into the nature Of the epidemic of
so-callcd "chlorinc" has been received.
The repor! declares that the disease is
Asiatic cholera.
Professor Butcher, OF Darmstadt, state,
That in the case of some old women a
complete rejuvenation occurs when they
have reached an advanced age, and he
instances two, the Marquis dc Mirabcau
and Margaret Vcrdur, who renewed their
youth, one at slxty-fve, the other ut
eighty years of age.
The Calling gun is now worked by an
electric motor i'll the American Navy.
The motor is attnched to the breach CT
the gun. Hitherto a couple of mcn were
required to serve the gun, ono to train
the piece and drop the shot, the other to
work the firing crank but now one man
is sufficient. By touching switch he
can train and operate the gun at will, s.,
rs TO fire either single shot, or at the
rate of 1900 minute.
Some doubts arc entertained MS to the
desirability of employing electric motors
in colcrics. One of the objections which
have been raised is the possibility Of gas
explosion being caused by n spank oc.
curing at the communication of the
motor where the electric current is con-
veycd into aud out OF the rotating arna-
turc by means Of the brushes; another
objection is tho use in the pit of driving
belts, which not only take up space, but
cannot be kept in good working order
i'll dirt and damp situations.
A ray OF light moves with such
amazing velocity that it might wrap it.
self eight times round the earth between
five ticks of the clock, and yet it would
take that ray of light fifty years to come
from the North star to this Garth. When
VIC look at that stca,ifast, unchanging
star Mt night we see it in the light that
left it half a century ago; and ifthc ON.
nipotcnt hand that formed it, set it in
its place and called it by name should
suddenly destroy it, we would continue
to see it in its own light fifty years after
it had ceased to exist
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
To Drain Zuyder Yea.

Tho commercial societies of Holland
have petitloned the Government to OK.
anime again the project to drain tho
Auyder Zee and to carry them into effect,
If possible: thus adding about 759
square miles to the territory of Holland.
The total cost of the work would be
about 100, 600, 900 of forms, besides the
cost of changing tho coast dc.cnces of
the country to meet the changed condi-
tons. In 1875 the Dutch Chamoer voted
the equivalent of about S47, 500, 900 for
the work, which would involve the
erection of dixie twenty-six feet high
above tho water and twenty-five miles
long. boston Transcript.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
He Had His Ransons

Mothcr-"Johnnic, where have you
becn2"
Johnnic-"In swimmin'."
Mother-"Didn't tell you I'd whip
you if you went in the water"
neutrality-suspicious."
Motbcr-"Thcn why did you do it7"
Johnnic-"'Cause, the liclkin' won't
hurt morc'n fifteen minutes, and the
swimmin' III feel good for a wcek."-
Detroit Free preso,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
rnE USE or onAIN cnAxr.

The chalf of grain is Natures way of
protecting seed between the time it falls
to the ground and that for it to grow
again. Now that grain is stored in barns
or stacks the chaif is scarcely less neces-
sary. 1t is often noted in thrcshinp
damp grain that the straw may be al.
most rottcd where the band went around
the bundle, yet the grain will shell out
with little apparent injury. -Boston
Cultivator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

Southsea.
The little apparatus, which can be
readily constructed ut home, has two
frames. to which n movable platform is
pivoted. Above this platform is sus-
pended a small stick, to the point of
which is attached the bait that is to ex-
cite the appetite Of the little rodent. The
platform, being horizontal, is supported
at one end and held in place by book
or box, but accessible to the mice. The
bait is suspended above the loose end.
AS soon as the mouse has traversed the
pivotcd center its weight is sufficient to
rock the board and the anima! tumbles
into the pail OF water at that end. Its
cries of distress before it browns attract
the other mice, and they come to see
what is going on. They also tip the
board and meet with similar fate.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Don't let your tomatoes grow too much
vino.
The we'll fed horse is always at pre-.
MUM.
The garden pays the best of any patch
on the farm.
In applying liquid manure do not put
it on the plant.
Give the boys and girls chance to
raise chickens.
Lettuce is good scdative aud is used
as such in medicine.
By milking COW gently, more fat
globulcs are given Off aud better j,
quality OF milk procured. -
The late Charles Downing is reported
to have said eff could have but ono
pear [ would take the Sheldon"
Bantams are kept almost entirely for
amusement and their small size. Sep.
TENDER is tue best time to hatch them.
When carbolic acid is used either in
the food or water care must be talscn not
to use too much, as it is deadly poison.
Over fat hens are a nuisance. They
are always lazy, generally broody, uud
lay few if any eggs. Better market or
cat them.
Corn has tendency to produce fat
rather than milk, but oatmeal is better
than cornmcal to quickly fattcu old COWS
or steers.
Probably one of the best uses for de.
horned cattle is that they can come
closer together in manger without injur-
ing each other.
All of the poultry drinking vessels,
feeding troughs Or feeding boards should
be thoroughly scaldcd and washed OF
every week or ten days.
English goosebcrries, if not In n shady
place, should be mulchcd to keen the
roots cool. They do better if planted
in the shade of large trees.
1t is not very well to have the chickens
on the roost and make the ducks and
geese stand under them. Better it is to
provide quarters for them alone.
Tho Golden Queen raspberry is a de. 4
licious fruit, but so delicate in color and =
flavor that it soon spoils after picking,
aud is therefore unsuited for maket.
ing.
a hen cannot secure enough lime in
her grain food to form the shell of an
egg. If broken oyster shells arc liber.
ally supplied you will have no more soft.
shell eggs.
Stimulating food is needed by the
fowls during the moulting season.
Wheat, oats and linsecd meal, with a
liberal supply of bone meal, is better
than corn.
Hens, at least, should have rs much
liberty as possible this season.. They
will do little, if any, damage. while they
will pick up much that would otherwise
go to waste.
1t may he n little trouble to place
dropping boards In the zen house, but
the time saved In cleaning the house
when they are put up will more than
pay for twice the trouble.
From elaborate experiments carried
out at the Alabama station the con-
illusions are that no change of color was
observable In tho butter from feeding
either cottonseed or cottonseed meal.
Guincas nre an excellent hclp to n
farmers. A small flock will forage over
a good sized farm and keep the injurious
insects at bay. It would DC we'll for
farmers to keep flock for this purpose
alone.
Both corn and potatoes send out from
tho young plants long roots which reach
quite wide circumference; so in max
ing hills of earth around the plants be
careful to avoid cutting off the ends of
these roots.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
Baseball Al Sen.

A hint as TO how baseball might be
played at sea is given in the Pail Mall
Budgets note OF trip to Norwry, in
which'a game of cricket on the packet
is this described: Tho ball was tied to
about twenty yards of stout line.
Whenever it was knocked cut to sea the
fielders had to haul In the line, which
generally became entaneled at this criti-
cal moment, and defcd the excited eff
forts to release it ere the batsman had
piled up the runs. AT other times the
batsman would be lassoel by the line
attached to the ball, and time had to be
called to unravcl the line.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

on the mountain-two by tram, an hour
with hon se,, an hour in kagos and jinrinki-
silas. and there you can sit i'll that great
ri cage, the Fujiya lIo'cl, and iirt with
pretty girls in four languages
Pretty girls in four languages settled it,
and we were OF for the japanese Saratoga
The road lay through rice fields or through
rural villages where thy were pounding
rice or weaving c,cth for the japanese
kimono. a man with the sincws of Il Her
cules would meet a powerful woman and
then would come siege OF Japanese polite.
ness.
1T is great honor to meet your honor
able sell" says the woman, smiling aud
bowling double.
NO you confer an honor upon me, and
(bowing almost to the grounD am aston
ished that one so honorable should speak to
pigmy like myself"
Your politcness Blowing still lowcrl
overcomcs me-"
"And your gracious con dcsccnsion (bow.
ing almost to the ground) fills me with hap.
pincss."
And so these Chcstcrticlds so on with n
dozen more kind sayings anu polite bows
for five minutes.
All the houses we passed were open as
sheds and their whole interior could he
taken in ut Il glance. There were no chairs,
no tables, no beds, no stoves, but always a
screen, Hover vase, and Il bath tub. Some
times the bath tub, which is u half barrel,
was in the back room and sometimes in
front. 1t is warmed once Il day by little
shcet-iron stove in the side of the tub, the
pipe of which runs through the half barrel.
a handful of charcoal warns the wafer for
a whole family. They do not battle, but
simply sit there and soak.
In three months in Japan have not seen
drunken nor an angry man. Neither have
seen Il saloon and rarely n meat market.
Tobacco is seldom used and opium never.
The diet Of the people is AS innocent rs their
costume.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

the bright cultured Yankee girl, enthusias.
tic. frail hut magnetic. In front was the
swelling tcndons.
1t would be an immense attraction ii the
manager of the Chicago Fair could have a
dozen ct these japanese jinriksha runners
ut the Fair Eli PruKrxs
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

The st. Louis Chief of Police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be
photographed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

average mind that peas and bean multi.
piled by cabbage makes roast beef. So
to find out exactly what the meaning OF
opposition is one must first learn some
thing about the history of the planet
Mars.
Mars is the fourth planet in order of
distance from the sun. 1t is nearest to
tic world on which VIC live of all the
great superior planets that make the solar
system. Mars travels around the sun in
mean sidcrcal period of CSC. 97G7 days,
on an orbit inclined one degree and
fifty-one minutes to the plane Of the
ecliptic, Mt mean distance of 100, 81 900
miles from the sun.
This orbit is considered eccentric, iu-
somuch that its greatest distance, 1872
BOA, 900 miles, exceeds its least, 1885,
$4,000, by more than 81, 900, COO miles.
When it is nearest to the earth it is in
opposition.
Now the foregoing statement is tech
nical, and to the laymap's mind tells
little. What the average man can see
when looking through telescope at
Mars is great big star.
1t doesn't seem to be anything else,
but it is. People who nave made study
of the planet believe that it is really a
good deal like the wor' ,.n,i Shlle thcy
do not &c :. :, as to actually say so,
they t;nihk it possible that it is inhabi-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
THE SARATOGA OF JAPAN
ETIoU ETTE THAT IS AMUSING.

Eli Perkins Takss Soms Snap Shots at
Life in Miyanoshita. The American
Girl Always Several Laps Ahead Of
Every Other.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

An Ever Ready Mouse Trap.
An English journal called Invention,
Illustrated an cvcr-ready mousc-trap,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

T you Americans want to
$, c nature and fun and love
and sent mcnt.' said Sii
Edwin Arnold as he sat on
the .rania of the Grand
Hotel at Iok vllama, go up
TO MiyanOshita. the Sara.
tosa Of Japan"
Where is it ?" 1 asked.
"Four hours from here
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16

dry up IN crossing thousand miles of
desert.
If II people can construct such Choir.
nous works us canals of the Dimensions
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
MARS MYSTERY.
Is, THE PLANET THE HOME OF
ANOTHER RACE?
There. Arc Said to be Signs on It's
Surface of Work That Could
Have Been Done Only by
Human Beings.

-
lP to n recent time
comparatively few poo
pie had anything but
an indistinct idea
of the planet Mars.
But within the past
few weeks this planet
was in what the AS.
'tronomcrs call apposi-
ton. That is very
like saying to the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29
WAS NOT CHOLERA.
1t is Claimed that the San Antonio Case
We're Cholera Morbus.

1t is Claimed that the San Antonio Cases
We're Cholera Morbus.
Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 27.-The two
cases which State Health Officer
Swearingen yesterday intimated
might be cholera have been substan-
TALLY proven to be nothing more than
cholera morbus. The discharged SOL
dier Walter, who died Sunday, had
gorged upon lobster and cold beer
and was incinerated without bacterio-
logical examination. Army Surgeon
Dewitt, who saw Walter, says
the 'ase was nothing more than
chole morbus. Neither DIR. Swear
ingen Dr. City Physician Braunr agel
were sured of the character of the
case. Having no instruments for
making meteorological examination.
The second case, that of Charles
Haussler, is now practically settled to
have been caused by raw saur kraut
and beer and there is nothing to indi-
cate anything more serious in his
case than cholera morbus, which dis
ease is now prevalent. No supicious
cases have been reported and no un-
easiness is entertained by the health
authorities as to the status of the pub
lie health. The publication of these
facts in the newspapers have done
much TO counteract the effect of the
false rumors in the city.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29
A TALE OF THE SEA.
STRUCK BY A HURRICANE AND CREW
SWEPT OVERHEARD.
The Captain Caught the Rigging and Pulled
Himself Out Of the seething Water
and Lashed a Crippled Seaman to
the Mast-Drifting Away.
Special TO The Statesman.

Special TO The Statesman.
GALVESTON, Sept. o. Capt Amos
Sabean of the Schooner Mary Gibbon,
which was abandoned at sea Aug.
20, arrived here this morning from ST..
Nicheals, on the British steamship
Acme. Captain Sabean strtes that on
Aug. 10 he sailed from Portland, Me-,
in the Mary Gibbon with crew of
five men bound for Demarara, with a
cargo Of sugar shocks and white pine.
On Aug. 81 was struck by a hurricane
which ragged with fearful intensitylfor
two days and half, the barometer
going down until it registered 28.06 IL.
On the 22nd the vessel was struck
by huge wave and knockedHat, filling
her with water and washing William
Bowers, Reuben Bowers, Douglas
Bowers and Theodore Wolf, four of
the crew, overheard and driving John
G. Bruce against the bulwarks with
such velocity as to fracture his leg.
The captain was also thrown into the
boiling sea, but caught in the rigging
and by an almost superhuman eff
fort got back on board, procured
an axe and cut away the rigging
When the vessel righted he lashed
Bruce to the stump of the mast'and oiG
what he could to clear the deck of the
vessel which was almost constantly
swept by huge breakers. On the 23rd
they were sighted by the Spanish
steamship Vega who came up, took
Captain Sabean and Bruce aboard and
landed them at st. Michael, Isshere
Bruce is still in the hospital suffering
from his fractured leg. The
home of the drowned seamen is Fort
Medway, Nova Scotia, where Douglas
Bowers has wife and child living.
The May Gibbon was owned by b. G..
Morse of Boston, was of 1872 tF, -
gister, and was built in 1890. She was
abandoned in north latitude 1890;
longitude 60-52 west. Her cargo was
insured for $4,000. Captain Sabean
will leave for New York on the steam
ship Nueces which sails Thursday
morning. He regards his escape from
watery grave as miraculous.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29
GOT HIM THIS TIME.
AN EXPERT BURGLAR AND DEsPRR.
ATE FIGHTER IN JAIL.
A Houston Negro Caught in the Act Of Bur
glary and Vast Quantity Of Stolen
Property Found in His Den.
He is Tough.

Special to The Statesman.
HOUSTON, Sept. 27.-Abou q month
ago the police arrested a deperate ne
gro named George Irving, who was
supposed to be wanted in an adjoin.
ing county. He broke loose from the
city jail and on being closely pursued
jumped into the bayou. He was las
sooed but cut the rope and was only
landed in Jail after being beaten into
submission. The evidence was insult
ficiennt to hold him and he
was liberated but is again in
the tolls of the law and
this time for good. During the past
month lot night has passed with
out from one to as high as five bur-
glaries being committed. Last night
night Thomas Q. Dunn, assistant
cashier of the Houston bank, heard a
noise in his room. He grabbed his
pistol and started for the burglar, who
fled precipitately, Dunn firing at him.
He ran into the arms of two police.
men and 1t was only after hard
tussel that he was arrested. The of.
ficers at once went to his headauart-
ers, little corner grocery, and began
q search. There they found thous-
ands of dollars worth of
stolen property. There were
watches, diamons, cuff buttons,
and jewelry of all sorts. Besides there
were number of checks and bonds
belonging to parties at different
places between Louisiana and as far
west as Uvalde, Texas. A good deal
of booty has been identified, but there
is considerable which still awaits
claimants. Irvine is very uneasy and
wants to know If the charges of bur-
glary are the only ones against him.
Chief of Police Erickson thinks he Is
wanted in Louisiana or Texas for
murder as well as burglary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29
TEXAS CROP REPORT
WEEKLY REPORT OF WEATHER AND
CONDITION oP CROPS.
Temperature Above Normal With Cool Nights
Mo Rainfall-Cotton Picking Process
sing Rapidly-Corn Crop Very
Heavy-Good Grass.

GALVESTON, Sept. 27.-The weekly
weather and crop report of the Texas
state weather service, was issued to-
night for the week ending Sept. 26. 1t
tis as follows:
Temperature-The temperature has
averaged slightly above the normal
during the past seven days with warm
days and very cool nights. The
temperature for the season continues
above the average.
Precipitation-No precipitation has
fallen during the week except good
shower over the central coast district.
The deficiency for the season has
been increased during the week.
Over the northern portion of the
state plowing and seeding is making
rapid progress in most localities except
in the Panhandle district there is COM
plant of drouth. The dry cool weather
has been unusually. favorable for cot
ton picking and rapid progress is re-
ported from all districts. Worms and
rust are reported from few localities
but no damage of any consequence is
complained of. The top crop is being
damaged by the continued dry
weather and many sections report that
it will be sharp.
Corn gathering is nearing compile
tion in many sections and the crop is
unusually heavy.
The grass crop over the western por-
tion of the state is needing rain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29
WEAVER'S GEORGIA TRIP.
HIS WALL WAS THE RESULT OF A TOO
VIVID IMAGINATION.
He Was Granted Respectful Hearings and
the Boy Who Threw Solitary Egg
Was Arrested-His Letter Is
Gross Libel on Georgians.

ATLANTA, Sept. 27.-Hon. w. a..
Atkinson, chairman of the Democratic
executive committee of Georgia, in re-
ply to the published address against
Weaver, and various kilograms which
have been sent out from Georgia by
Mrs. Lease, declares that they do
great injury not only to Democrats
but to the people of the state. He
says: According to his own admis-
sion, General Weaver received Ie-
spectfubhearings at Waycross and
Columbus. At Albany his speech
was listened to by several hundred
people and no effort whatever
from speaking. A prominent
negro of that place at the conclusion
OF Weaver's speech took the stand to
refute what he said and bitterly at
tackled Weaver and the third party.
Weaver was so indignant that a negro
should attempt to answer him that he
Immediately left the platform. The
only possible foundation for the great
ly exaggerated egg story spread by
General Weaver and Mrs. Lease is that
a small boy in an open air audience at
Macon threw an egg and he was
promptly arrested and punished for
it,"
AS to Mrs. Leases statement of
"disgraceful scenes at Macon, repeat
ed twice in the presence of the govern
ment at the state capital" Mr.. At
henson says: General Weaver or
Mrs. Lease did not appear as adver-
tised in Atlanta, they Would not go
up to the capitol where large crowd
was assembled to hear them. Govern
or Northern himself, hearing that
Weaver would not speak, claiming he
would not be listened to, went to in
sure him a hearing and the meeting
by vote guaranteed that he would be
respectfully listened to. L called on
the chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Peoples party of the
this guarantee and he told me General
Weaver had made up his mind not to
speak,"
"His claim of persecution is but an
overworked effort to pose as martyr.
His statements deliberately misrepre-
sent the people of Georgia and are
cunningly devised for campaign pur
poses. He did not want to speak in
Atlanta and would have had just as
fair a show in Georgia as any man
who ever spoke here. He Cancelled
his engagements in Georgia because
he sew that he had been imposed
l,,',ss,ar by his own party managers who
lied him to believe there was chance
for the Peoples party in Georgia. He
found such not the case and was
greatly disappointed by it and glad
to get out. When here he could not
conceal the chagrin and disappoint-
ment engendered by the weakness of
his party in this state. Georgia will
60 Democratic next Wednesday by
forty to fifty thousand majority.