The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

- The French chemists are expert
menting with cold, and in recent
test it was shown that n dog would
die at ninety light degrees nelo" Zero
while u snail could live TO one hum
dred and ten degrees below.
|. The simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal Il drop OF
nitric acid aud allow it to act for one
minute On rinsin. with water
Craylish- white Stain will lie seen II
the meta is iron; black one if it ls
steel. ,l ,-e...s, r,'
-E,nrils Ibscn, the Norwegian au'
thof, carries small mirror and comb,
:and from tilce to time he gamces ct ms
hair, ard if'any part of it appears to De
in place he forthwith? combs it nto the
disorder thatimnarts pictures OF him
that scared expression.
-Archlnke Eugene OF Austria, who
was a year ago q candidate for she
arch b;shorric of Giu.ntz-waich went
| to carlina! who ias taken bis par
t ents, Jewish peasants, to live with him
+ in his paiace-has accepted the com
mand Of an infantry brigade STONED
ct Olmutz.
-Eret lIartc, although past fifty and
in poor health. is a very handsome
man. Ii: face retains an appearance
of youth, while hi, hair IS s;l"e:y
white. lie has slender figure and an
erect and graceful carriage. He is
clubman and much sought after in So
ciety, but goes out infrcqncntly.
William Watson, the English poet,
has entirely recovered from his recent
attack of insanity, and is writing once
more with all his accustomed grace
and charm HIS new poems, among
which are some very powerful sonnats,
will soon be published in the London
papers. and liavc already been copy
rightcd in America.
The first President Harrison, the
"rippecanoe" OF historic fame. left
many descendants, two OF whom live
in Washington. They are named Rey-
nolds and they have in their posses
sion big llair-oloth armchair that
was given to "I'ippecanoe' by the Ia
dies Of Indiana 1t is very nrcomlort-
able, as there are great raised hcwers,
done in worsteds end an American
eagle in beaded worl..
-Ecccntly- published pictures OF PAD
crewsl.i show that his remarkable hir-
suite development was not conGenlal
1T least, in the portraits Of him at the
ages Of three and ten there are no III
GicatiOnS OF IN extraordinary growth
OF hair; in fact. at THOSE ages his hair
was straight and short, but Ivy the time
he reached eighteen iiis mead had be-
gun to assume the appearance thai IS
now familiar to the mu:'ic-lOrlng put
! tic.
w. MARTIN Conway, who is lectur-
ing Il the Royal institution, III London,
on his recent explorations in the il;n?-
a!avas, has travcrse,l more ground in
those perlous regions than any other
explorer. Although bis iourneyings
there have covcrcd over three thousand
mics, lie says that She portion OF coun-
| try which he explored, compared with
the mountainous region that hes not
yet been touched, is as the size Of
postage stamp to u large quario page.
-Galusha A. Grow, just elected con-
gressman-at-large from Pennsylvania,
is one of the most interesting living
links connecting the present with the
past When he entered politics Lin
coin and Sherman we're country law
ycrs Grant an obscure captain on the
Pacific coast, aud Garfield a mule
driver Oh the OHIO canal lie say Clay
and Webs ter in their Old age end sum
ner and Everett in their prime. Air.
Grow will be seventy one next August.
HUMOROUS.