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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

The Railroad Gazette gives stats.
tics of the new cars and locomotives
built in the United States during the
year 1893, from which it appears that
IN engine and passenger cars the re.
cord, as compared with previous years,
is not 30 bad as was to have been ex.
pected; but the number Of new freight
cars has fallen off from 9S, 1875 in 1892
to 50,OS2 in 1898. The statistics are
gathered from the principal manufac
tuners throughout the country, but
do not include railroad companies
shops, and they are summarized rs
follows: Locomotives built in 1898,
1858; in 1892, 2O26. Passenger cars
in 1888, 1880; in 1892, 2195. Tn,
fifty thousand freight cars make mn
addition of only about four per cent.
to the total stock OF freight cars in
the country, though in capacity the
addition is much larger, the new car.
being built to carry twenty to thirty
tens, while the average capacity Of ali
cars in service is much less. The bust
ness is low very dull, and especially
in passenger cars, nh unusual numbcI
OF which We're built early in the yea
to accommodate Worlds Fair traffic
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
AGRICULTURAL.
tories OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
OPEN SHEDS.

Every poultryman should provide an
open shed, facing south. 1t is one of
tho greatest conveniences, if not neces-
stiles in the poultry business: A shed
twelve feet long by six feet wide,
closed on the ends and back; will make
splendid shelter for the fowls, and
protect them from rain and snow.
During the breeding season it will
make splendid roosting place for the
young chicks, and by closing it at
night it will be q safeguard against the
destroyers of the young broods. Build
1T so that rats minks, weasels AND
others of this class cannot enter.
What you will save in one season this
way will build you several of such
sheds. American Farmer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
CURIOUS FACTS

Illinois is next to Pennsylvania in
coal production. I
Prior to 1867 tea was sold in Eng
land for $50 pound.
Cows are used in Japan as pack ani-
mails never as milk givers.
There are twelve postal deliveries
in the 'tE. c." district of London.
Napier's coin weighing MACHINE was
put in use in the Bank of England in
1874.
In the Far West girl who works in
railroad restaurant is known as
"biscuit shooter"
A Chinese missionary states that
seven-tenths of the natives of China
are opium smokers
Louis Cyr, s'the modern Samson"
can lift 4s4 pounds with one finger.
He also holds 102-pound dumb-belI
at arms length with perfect ease.
Workmen boring for an artesian
well in Louisiana struck maple log
in sound state of preservation at a
depth of $40 feet below the earth's
surface.
What is believed to have been the
largest mule ever reared in America
was sold in Kansas City in 1883. II
was 49, hands high and weighed 1875
pounds.
The latest trick to catch the patron
age of the public, adopted by several
shopkeepers in New York and Brook.
Ign, is to run free stages or give free
car tickets to shoppers. !.
Down in Mexico an old man named
Brown makes living by peddling cof-
fins on a mule cart. Collins are bought
from him by families at distance
from town and stored away for pos
sible use.
Wee Hung Pen, Chinaman who
left Arizona year ago with his pretty
American wife, after losing fortune,
Is now reported from Africa as having
n good claim in the Matabele country
that will more than replace his vanished
million.
The German National flower is the
humble blue bottle or corn flower, and
when the German Emperor goes among
his people in summer, and when he
has come over to Cowes, the faithful
and patriotic blue-eyed Teuton sports
his blue bottle.
An invitation to dinner in Japan
commences rs follows: "I beg pardon
for thus insulting you, in begging your
company at my house to dinner. The
house is small-and very dirty. Our
habits are rude, and you may not get
anything to eat; and yet hope that
you will condescend to be present with
Ills at 6 o'clock"
A curious bridge is found on the
Canadian Pacific Railway. Here ire
mcndous chasm had to be crossed, and
the best way that could be seen of sur
mounting the difficulty was by resting
the bridge on two trees which were
growing in the abyss below. The tops
of the trees reach the ground above,
and the bridge rests upon them.
The belief in Chinese Columbus
was first allowed by scholars only
about fifty years ago. The claim is
that Buddhist priest in the fifth CEN
fury crossed the Pacific TO this coz
tinent and returned, making written
report of his discovery. The report
still exists 1t was translated into
French in 1871 by NJ. de Guignes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Secondary electric currents were dis
..-...l T.. Inranh Hanrv

Secondary electric currents were dis
covered by Joseph Henry.
The swiftest bird is the kestrel, or
sparrow hawk. It has been known to
make 100 miles m hour.
Redwood trees have remarkable
vitality. In forest that has been cut
over the young trees start by millions.
A Western geologist says that Kan
sas can raise wheat for another l00O
years before exhausting the necessary
properties Of the soil.
White spots on finger nails aye usu-
ally caused by pressure when the nails
are in their Uniformed soft state. They
cannot be removed, but will grow out.
1t has been noticed that persons
using vinegar and oil as regular srti-
cles of diet are seldom attacked by
cholera, and later investigation proves
that the "comma bacillus" is quickly
destroyed by weak vinegar.
The Traction Company, of Balti-
more, uses devices by which the Fire
Departments hose is carried over the
tops of the cable cars, and thus there
is no delay to traffic during the con-
tinuance of fire on the line.
A German method of protecting
iron and steel from rust consists i'll
coating them electrolytically withper
oxide of lead. A suitable coating
can be applied in twenty minutes, and
the temper of steel articles is not af-
fected.
A single match requires 1-2O0ths to
1-100ths of grain of PHOSPHORUS for
its production, yet the consumption of
matches is 80 large that it is estimated
that the total of 1900 tons is less than
the amount consumed i'll Europe i'll
their manufacture.
An authority On hypnotism says that
hysterical persons are very difficult to
influence. They are SO welded to
their own fancies--mental and physi-
cal-that they prove very obstinate
hypnotic patients. Even if an infiu-
ence is gained it passes of very
quickly.
A German bookbinder has made n
collection of old volumes damaged by
the insect known ms the bookworm, N
minute beetle which sometimes does
considerable mischief. To guard
against the ravages Of this pest tho
Arabs write the word kabknj, the
name of the din which presidcs over
insects, upon their manuscripts, which,
they hold, protects them from the raw
ages of his subjects.
The eggs of the octopus, when first
laid. are small, oval, translucent gran
ules, resembling little grains OF rice,
and not quite an eighth of iii inch i'll
length. They are attached to com
mon stalk, to which every egg is sep.
arately secured, rs grapes form part
of bunch. Each of these clusters
contains about one thousand eggs,
and n large octopus will produce from
forty thousand to fifty thousand.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
HOW GRAPE Is MADE.

Many persons cannot belief that
Grape is made of silk because it is not
glossy. Genuine Grape is of pure silk,
from which, by secret process of
manufacture, all the gloss has been
taken. The peculiar wrinkles which
are supposed by many to be n charac-
teristic of tho goods, are caused by n
solution of gum. The cloth, when
made, is dipped in the gummy solu-
ton and allowed to dry without press
ing. Grape can always be mado
smooth by washing and ironing Now
York Telegram.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
THE FASHION IN uANpKERcHIErs.

The handkerchiefs in vogue for
evening use are dainty bits of lace or
silk gauze, those of real point or duch-
esse with centre of finest linen lawn
still remaining the favorites for n
bride, or to put the finishing touch to
an elaborate toilette, especially when
the latter has n garniture of similar
lace. pretty one can be found for
81. %, with n narrow border of duch-
esse lace, and similar pieces let in at
the four corners; while for S25 IN en-
quisitely fine specimen, almost en-
tirely composed of point, can be pro-
cured. The handkerchief of silk eauze
is usually pure white or of n creamy
hue, but the delicate tints of pink,
yellow, ecru and heliotrope are ia
vored. The edge is embroidered in
white or colored floss silks, and one
variety displayed has n narrow hem
stitched border with row OF the elk
embroidery just above it. A Partisan
novelty in silk gauze shows square OF
pale yellow with an edging of black
lace set on, the lace broadening Oh
narrowing to meet the irregular out.
line of the gauze centre piece. An.
other imported sample is of faint
shade of pink crepe with wide border
of colored embroidery.
The fancy white or tinted China
and Japanese silk handkerchief fol
ordinary use can be purchased for al
most any price from nineteen cent.
upward, and comes with the plain hen
et'l"h, IN added initial, or with q:
embroidered finish ofwhite or colore;
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
Floating Islands of the Aztecs.

sin by-gone days of war and strup.
gle, these islets of reeds and bulrushes
enabled the Aztecs, who on their first
entrance into the Valley of Mexico had
hard work to maintain their footing
against the earlier inhabitants of the
country, to exc out precarious ex.
istence. Here they raised produce of
various kinds, and in all probability
the islands then really fioated, being
mere accumulations of water plants
matted together. There is o town, as
we'll as lake, called Xochimilco.
where are to be found Aztecs of nm.
mixed blood, who are said to speak the
Aztec tongue.
"a vast amount of vegetation grows
upon the surface of the lake, and is
called cinta. It is made up of many
varieties of reeds, rushes, tula and
water plants. Large blocks of the
cinta are frequently detached by heavy
weather, and, getting into the canals,
block them up, and prevent for some
time the ingress or egress of boats.
The Indians cut out rectangular blocks
of the cinta, and, scooping mp mud
from the bottom of the lake, gradually
build up patches of garden ground
wh'ih is unsurpassed in fertility. To
give additional solidity and compact:
ness, trees are planted round the
edges, and ultimately, through con
stapt acaretions, the islet becomes so
substantial that it touches the bottom,
OF the lake, and ceases to beia floating
garden in fact, though it remains sd
in name. "--Opting, 49, ..-.---j
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

In the opinion of many, the religious
tales of a. l.. o. e. are the best Sum
dny-school stories in the language.
The initials stood for "a Lady of Eng
land, " and her name WAS Miss Char
lottee Maria Tucker. The announce
ment OF her death will bring regret to
large number of people who have
been interested and helped by her
books.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

There is something solemnly funny
to the New York Sun in one duty of
the United States agent Mt the Priby-
low Islands. 1t is to be present on
every occasion when seals are killed
by the employees of the company
licensed to lake $500 skins year.
The agent sees the killing done, and
counts the skins as they IRE delivered
to the ship that brings them to San
Francisco. The killing is cold
blooded and almost revolving perform
ance, since it is ordinarily done by
hand, and the victims nro often very
tame.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

MIR. Selous, the African explorer, is
Of the opinion that tho native races
now scattered over large extent of
Mashonaland, where there arc ruined
and ancient gold workings, are de-
scended from commercial people
who some three thousand years ago
penetrated from southern Arabia to
MashoDeland.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

OF the American railways now in tho
hands of receivers, three attained that
condition in 1888, four in 1889, five in
1890, fourteen in 1891, twenty seven
IN 1892 and more than eighty in 1898.
The securities represented aggregate
over 50, coo, 900, 600.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

Women are being substituted for
men in the New York stores. Stewards
old establishment hos employed 1900
men. The number is to be cut down
to 200, women being employed in
their places.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

The conclusion experiments for
rain making were not wholly lost
Professor Hazep, of the Weather
bureau, who watched their effects, is
convinced Tint they, in some instances,
served to prolong the drought. They
may yet be utilized to break up excess
siye rains.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
ENERGETIC ENGLISH WOMEN.

Lady Hopetoun, wife of the Gov
ernor of Victorin, has been killing deer
in Auckland. Mrs. Alan Gardner has
peen making n record in India for
hunting chectahs, shooting and spear
ing panthcrs and sticking pigs, and
Mrs. Tyacke has, with her husband,
shot the largest number OF bears ever
killed in one season N Kulu, in the
Central Himalayas.
Mrs. Arundel -Colliver has been
superintendent of the clearing house
branch of the postofiice, and one OF
the best paid female officials under the
Crown. She entered the service rs n
telegraphist about twenty years ago,
and the great extension of female EN-
pioyment i'll the department soon after
gave her rapid promotion. The Dow
aGer Duchess of Londonderry has re-
Gently been appointed church warden.
The Countess of Carlisle employs at
Castle Howard women gardeners. Miss
Murdoch and Miss Buck. two women
students Mt the Manchester New Col
lege, Oxford, have been invited to I'M
dertake the joint passionate of the Uni
tartan Church Mt Cleveland, Ohio.
English women have furnished shining
lights for the lecture field; they cru
SADIE tremendously as temperance re-
formers they travel indefatigably over
the globe robed in most unbecomingly
sensible clothes; they wrap themselves
III remarkable garments and penetrate
unexplored regions; they spring into
renown as Alpine biologists, and in
Australia they succeed as agricultur-
ists.-New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

!" A syndicate of farmers and denlers
in butter has been formed in Nor
mandy, France, to wage war against
the fraudulent sale of oleomnrgarine
as pure butter. They have petitioncd
tor law to compel makers of butter
substitutes to give all such compounds
totally, different color from butter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

The report of tho Board of Hoalth
sor New York City for the past year
shows that it was the healthiest since
1877,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
Superintendent Stump says that the
tide OF emigration is turning toward
Europe.

1t is estimetcd that ninety-two per
cent. of therworld's population dwell
10 the Eastern Hemisphere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13

1t is stated, andon good authority,
that tho average pay of oil the preach
ers in tho United States is $500 per
year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.


HAS NO LIMIT.
They talk about woman's sphere,
AS though 1t had limit.
There's not place In earth or heaven,
There'e not task to mankind given
There's not blessing or woo,
There's not o whisper, yes or no,
There's not life, death, q birth,
That has feathers weight OF worth,
Without woman In t.
EEoto Fialb
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04

The Board of Health of the
City of Little Falls, hereby
give notice that due regard for
the public health demands a
complete sanitary reform
within the limits Of the vii
lage.
THEREFORE, 1T IS ORDERED,
that on or before May Is, 1894,
every manure pile or other &C.
emulation of filth within the
limits of the City of Little
Falls shall be removed from
such limits, and that all such
accommodations upon private
property shall be removed by
or at the expense Of the own,
ers thereof. The Accommodations
upon the streets and alleys of
the city shall be moved by or
at the expense Of the persons
who caused the same, where
known, and where not known
shall be removed by the Street
Commissioner of the city at
the public expense.
The Street Commissioner
and the Police Of the city are
ordered to report to the health
officers of the city every VIOLA
tion of any provision of this
order which shall come to
their knowledge after the time
stated.
Every such violation will be
punished according to law.
Dated April. q, 1894. i
By the Board, .
O. G. TRACE, M. D.,
Health Officer.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
who Will be Named9

The apparent reluctance of any
Republican from the Mississippi Val
ley section of the Sixth congress
sional district indicates that the
choice of st. Louis .county's conven-
ton will probably be endorsed by
the district convention, for the Re-
publican nomination for congress.
It is therefore of considerable inter-
est to Republicans OF this section to
learn who will probably he the
choice Of the Republicans of the Lake
Superior region. There are two
candidates for the nomination
Hon. G.. A. Towne of Duluth and
Hon. A. D. Kinney of Ely. Both are
we'll known men of ability and Re-
publican leaders, and either would
ably represent the district in con-
gress. 1t might be judged from the
newspapers of Duluth that Mr.. Kin
ney had by. far the strongest follow
ing in that city, but we'll posted cit
liens of that city claim that the
newspapers d. not represent the
sentiment correctly in that respect.
A prominent Republican of the state
who has extensiveinterestsi in Duluth,
Little Falls and other parts Of the
state was in this city a few days
ago, and was very positive that Mr..
TOWne had the support of a large
majority of the Republicans Of
Duluth. The papers. he said, were
in the cOntrol of men opposed to
TOwne, but the most of the Repub-
lican voters and workers were firm
in their support of him. 1t is nat
ural that if any ST. Louis county
man is nominate ted he will be the one
backed by that delegation, so the
real fight will be in that county.
With two good men to choose from
that county will not make a mis-
take in taking either, but it is right
fly n matter of general interest here
to know who will probably be that
man. Our Informant is one who is
in good position to know the condi-
ton at Duluth, and unless he is
greatly mistaken G.. A. TOWne is the
coming man.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
Linc0ln's Advice to Lawyers.

John Ct. Nicolay contributes to The
Century some fragments that Lincoln
wrote from time to time. Often they
were penned for the mere purpose of
practice in literary composition. Through
painful, rugged ways the solitary man
educated himself in a pioneers cabin
and from his own deep thoughts in the
fields and woods.
One of the fragments is set of notes
on lecture to lawyers. Lincoln tells
lawyers never to accept full fee in ad-
vance and nothing more than a small
retainer, because the man must be more
than common mortal who can feel the
same warm interest in prepaid case as
in one where he is working for his fee.
A good hint is conveyed here also to
those who hire lawyers.
In the following sentences there are
suggestions which, if lawyers adopted
them, would make the world better off
and happier than it is now:
Extemporaneous speaking should be prac-
ticed and cultivated. 1t is the lawyers avenue
to the public. However able and faithful he
may be in other respects, people are slow to
bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
And yet there is not more fatal error to
young lawyers than relying too much on speech
making. If any one upon his rare powers of
speaking shall claim an exemption from the
drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in adj
vance.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neigh
bOrs to compromise whenever Won can Point
out to them how the nominal winner is often
real loser-in fees, expenses and waste of
time. AS a peacemaker the lawyer has a SUI
perior opportunity of being good man. There
will still be business enough.
Never stir up litigation. n worse man can
scarcely be found than one who does this Who
can be more nearly tiend than he who habit
ually overhauls the register of deeds in search
OF defects in titles whereon to stir up strife
and put money in his pocket? A moral tone
ought to be infused into the profession which
should drive such men out of it.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
Two Accidents.

While playing around some wheel
barrows at the brick yards yester-
day a 6-year-old son of Jos Miller,
fell over one of them and broke his
left arm. He was Immediately
brought to the city. Soon after
another boy OF the same age, a son
of Eugene Monisette Of Ripley was
brought to some doctors Office, hav.
ing broken his right arm in falling
out Of a little express wagon.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
CaStOria.

dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me OF its
good effect upon their Children
DR.. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell. Mass,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04

For several years the southern agricul-
tural papers and experiment. stations
have been urging agriculturists to raise
less cotton and more corn and pork. Any
portion of the south is favorable for the
production of grain, vegetables and al
most every kind of fruit. By raising
food products and not putting everything
into cotton the planter would not be
obliged to go into debt for what he. ate,
and the price of cotton would be higher
besides. This advice begins to be taken.
Less cotton will be grown in the south
this year, and there will be large and va
ried crops Of other things. ~
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04

The Centaur Company, II Murray Street, N
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
Et tn. Brute!

Yes, Fuller, am proud to say
was not on that side, and did not
train with your gang" -J.C. Flynn
Pride goeth before a fall, you roll
licking, frollicking fountain offun, so
don't get vain.