The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-03-16

Pittsburg is IN Europe as the CITY
of bridges.
The first workman who made pens go
81 piece for them.
English people send and receive 10000:
600 love letters yearly.
A bald-headed religious sect i'll Russa
holds that hair is sinful.
A line Of tryciclcs for passenger service
is proposed in London.
In small towns in Germany ouly chin,
ney sweeps wear plug hats.
A Chinese banknote 500 years old is
preserved in Chinese museum.
In small hotels in Russia each guest is
expected to find his own bed clothing.
Land is diminishing. The human race
may finally be drowned out Of existence
Organized lumbermcn Of the west have
adopted black cat as their symbol.
Most old settlers of Manitoba were sup
piled with wives by matrimonial bureau
In the year 7G4 the two seas of Con-
staniinople were completely frozen over
for twenty days.
A Guatemalan mother gives her con-
sent to her daughters marriage by be-
laboring the young lady with heavy
stick.
Buffalo has an Agency of Direction, a
sort of philanthropic intelligence Office
which makes no charge for IFS services.
In l4GS the army in Flanders used wine
that was regularly cat from the sndscons
with hatchets and distributed in the shape
of ice.
Biologists consider Kerosene TO be AMI
NAL oil Hence, what we burn in lamps
is tile remains of long extinct monsters of
the earth.
1t is said that the celebrated "Plant OF
Calvary" was unknown in the flora Of the
world prior TO the date of the crucitixon
of Jesus.
Manufacturers of glass in Dresden pro-
duce some Of their finest wares in furnaces
with chambers and compartments instead
of pots.
The extent Of the oscillation OF tall
chimncys may he exactly taken by close
observation of the shadows they cast upon
the ground.
That remarkable curiosity, fhc dwarf
pine tree Of Japan, is represented at the
Worlds fair by specimen of the csti-
mated age Of I0O years.
An ordinary japanese fan made Of split
bamboo, and covered with paper, is re-
markable aid for people suffering with
certain forms Of deafness.
It is claimed that with the beginning OF
the wear 5000 man will begin to rctroGradc
and will finally come to be Il creature no
larger than plant louise.
Walter Bcsaut thinks that the reason
WHY men have never, even in the most
ungoverned times, tainted so readily as
women is that they are slower Of imaSlna-
ton.
The safest lake in the world is lake
Urumia, in Persia, situated more than
1000 feet above the level Of the sea. t
contains % per cent Of salt as against SD
per cent in the Dead sea.
Ice is accommodating at the North pole;
some day, it is alleged by some scientists
the earth will fall out Of balance and man
will be utterly annihilated ly the rush OF
moving objects.
The making Of man cook in France Is
a long and tedious process. When
Young man decides to pursue culinary
career he selects his nominal instructor,
to whom he pays Il fee of $500.
A number of orders have been given to
Philadelphia iron workers for machinery
to be used in distilling alcohol from sweet
potatoes. A gallon Of alcohol can he dis
titled from buslcl OF sweet potatoes at Il
small cost.
1t was Professor Hufeland'S opinion
that tie limit of possible human life might
be set at 200 years this on the general
principle that the life of nearly all living
Creatures is eight time the years, months
or weeks of its period of growth.
Many persons who talk learnedly about
coffee and its maxi ing have seldom. fever,
tasted nure coffee All they know is Il
more or less strong infusion OF chlcorv'
adulteratcd with portion of coffee Pure
coffee doesn't taste so well.
The invention of playing cards has beer
variously attributed to India, China, Ar"-
bia and Egypt. There seems to he bn'
little doubt that they originated IN Asia
and we're introduced into Europe hy the
Saracens about The close OF tl'e thirteenth
century.
In the Isle Of Man it was formerly tic
law that to take away an OK or horse was
not fcon,, but trcspass, because of The
difficulty in that little territory ct conceal
inc or CARRYING them oil; bnt to steal pI2
or fowl, which is easily done, was CAPT
tai crime.
What are the lalcyon days? They are
the seven days before and the seven days
after the shortest day The haicyon, OF
kingishcr, is supposed to be breeding al
this time, for which reason the sea, foi
this fortnight, very considerably pre-