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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Man Eating Snakes.

The existence of man-eatino snoso,
has been doubted by nnturalista. but
can prove the facts from my own ex,
pertence," says Charles E. NIichaelis
who has just returned from the PhiI;n.
pine Islands. tIn 1886 I was liyin,
then ut Ti-rando. One of our servant.
was short, broad-shouldered Japan.
csc named Picul. He was a cattle
herder and frequently in the woods.
Several times he told us of the exist.
enoe OF monster python fifty feet
long, not mile from the plantation.
gave him gun and buckshot to kill
it, but it never materiallzed. and wa
became incredulous.
Zone day Picul was missing. Hi,
gun and hat were found in tho woods
and brought in One of tho native
hunters examined the ground and gave
his opinion. Picul must have been
caught by snake, us no blood had
been shed, but there had evidently
been struggle. The ncxt Sunday, in
company with an Englishman named
Mason and their native crackers, I took
to the woods to look for our lost sery.
ant. The natives lead us to the edge
OF track of submerged land, covered
with long grass. The wator was about
three inches deep. Hero in the mud
was the truck of a big snake. The de.
preston made by the body in the mud
was quite eighteen inches wide. Sud.
denly one of the men called out:
"Look.l look!' Three hundred
yards away the water was agitated in.
to waves, and gliding toward us was "a
yellow snake that looked 100 feet long.
& Tho head was MS urge us n bucket. It
was bright yellow, striped with
black. To watch it gliding toward lis
was trying on the nerves, but we
waited and ut forty yards gave it two
loads of buckshot in the hoad. 1t
reared ten feet out of the water and
dashed about, but finally sank and the
natives hauled it on the bank with a
rope. 1t was just thirty-eight feet
long-our fears had added tho other
sixty. To keep it from the white anita
it was at once cut open and skinned.
Inside was the lower jaw of n human
being and leg and thigh bone, whilo
loin cloth was rolled into perfect
knot, no bigger than mans fist, and
this Picul's sisters identified, so tho
poor fellow had fallen q victim to this
horrid reptile. New York Telegram.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Cause OF Tornndocs.

From tho Gulf of Mexico to tho
North Pole and from tho lakes to the
Rocky Mountains is vast extent of
country crossed by no mountain chains
to intercept or retard the velocity of
air current. The extcnt of this coun-
try is equalled by mono on earth. Cold
MIR being heavier to tho squnro inch
than warm mir, tho cold nir, when COM
ing iii contact with warm current
from the south, always prcdominntcs,
forcing tho warm mir into tho upper
currents. Tho cause of cyclones is tho
meeting of head wind from the north
with II head wind from the south. They
meet like two vast armies of mon. Tho
pressure Mt the point of meeting is 30
great TINT tho mir, by comprehension,
becomes heavier to tho square inch
than wood or the human body, hence
either ono will float i'll the Same man
her that wood will float in watcr-it
floats because il is lighter to the square
inch thnn water. Place water in IN
ordinary wash bowl and remove tho
plug and it will DO observed that in
passing out the water forms circular
reaction. Air being liquid does the
Same i'll passing either upwards or
downwards; hence the funnel,shapod
spout of tho cyclone centre. When
two immense bodies of air coming from
opposite direction meet, tho only
egress is upwards and sideways and in
passing upwards it forms tho funnel
the samo rs water passing out of
washbowl downwnrds. Tho theory that
II cyclone forms IL vacuum is absurd.
Withdraw mir from glass jar with an
air-pump, and, feather within
the vacuum formed will drop with tho
same velocity as lead, or, on the other
hand, you can compress air until it fs
heavier to the square inch thnn wood,
i'll which case wood will float in tho
mir. The lifting power of n cyclone is
caused ~ by the compression or dem
sity of tho air, and (2) by it's velocity.
Combining tho power of density with
that of velocity, which occurs Mt tho
centre or funnel, no power can resist
it. Tho feeling of suilocation or diff
Guilty i'll breathing when near the track
OF IL cyclone is caused from tho COM
preston of Minneapolis Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
.Marriedl" Igasp. .'To whom ?"
"ro an old friend of yours, I

think"
I rapidly run over in my mind all
tho old maids and widows of my &C.
quaintance and discard them all as pre-
posterous.
81 went down to Brookside farm
last week." he said, neryously.
A light breaks in upon my olouded
brain.
"Not to Hazel Deanep Not to Witch
Hazel?" He laughs.
you've guessed it, my boy. We
are to be married the 18th of October.
1t will be very quiet, as I have Mt
given my Witch much time, ,ut,
Harry" laying his hand on my shout
der, "you will be there and wish tho
old man joy-eh, my boy?"
answer something, I know not
what, and rush from tho Office. see,
ms in dream, n curly brown head
pillowcd on tho neck of an Irish set.
ternnd hears voice saying:
81 havo an idea, brilliant one,
Nap. Wo viii get even some way"
go homo and read tho poem which
l interruptod'at tho brook. I read tho
last verse twice:
Break, break, break.
At tho foot OF thy crags, o sea
But tho tender grace OF u day that is dead
Will mover come back to mo.
-Chicago Nows.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
LITTLE ONE, SLEEP.

Little one. slcepi
Dear withcrcd bud, we will no, wecn
FOR God IN His wise Providence
Knew best, ard took thy spirit hence,
anu where His angels yigils keep,
Little one, sleepl
Little ono, sleep.
In rcsttul slumbers soft and deem.
beneath the brown September leaves
mhero wind of autumn means and grieyes
Anousn wintry tears thy grave shall steep,
Little ono, sleep!
Little ono, sleep!
Sometime the April suns will peen
ABOVE the hills, green leaves will sprln,
Around thy bod, wild birds will sins,
anu springtime's earliest roses creep.
Littlo one, slcepi
Little one, sleep.
Never dreaming OF the storms that sweep
Tho human soul in mortal sin.
With fears without and FOES within
gov grioi on bitterest anguish heap
Little one, slecpi
Little one, sleep!
Thy happier lot shall be to reap
Joys with no sorrowing seed to SOW;
Smiles where no binding tears shall low.
From life to lifo ono painless leap
Little one, sleep!
Little one, sleep!
Thy memory in our hearts wen keep,
Striving to turn tho Joy we miss
Into hope OF holicr bliss,
When these dtmmod eyes no moro shall
weep
Little one, Sleep
Montgomery NJ. Folsom, in Atlanta Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
sauIrrcls Destroying Birds, EGGS,

Tho number of song brds that be-
friend man, us it is often said. do not
frequent human hnbitations for mans
sHko Mt nll. They nro only anxious
to got near mankind because noar man
they nre free from tho destruction by
wild squirrels which are always thoir
most invotcrnto enemies in tho woods
and destroy lnrgo numbers of birds
eggs. But tho cat near tho abode of
mnn is almost equally destroyer Of
young birds. Boston Cultivator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Daby,s Dimensions.

From measurements of 100 infants
born i'll the Royal Maternity Hospital
of Edinburgh. averages havo been oh
tanned They nro practically tho same
for American children, and arc as fol.
lows:
Average weight of mnlo infant Mt
birth, 1855 pounds
Average weight of female infant at
birth, 1928 pounds
Average height of malo infant at
birth, 1874 inches.
Average height of female infant Mt
birth, 1898 inches.
Each inch of tho male infant COR
responds to 2.56 pounds. Each inch
OF tho female infant corresponds to
2.62 pounds. The range between tho
shortest and tallost mulo infants was
ton inches; between tho shortest and
fullest female infants, eight inches. =
st. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Libby Prison in 1905.

~ have been n sufferer from chronic
dinrrhoca ever since | cnme ont of Libby
Prison in 1865 and ut times il was very 30.
we're and my Inst attack Of IL nstrl mo over
six weeks during which time | tried all the
remedies ] had previously used and ha,l
several doctors treat mo for tho snmc but
Il bottle OF Thurston's l,lnck berry Cordial
md after using less than half n bottle was
relieved and nm once more regular. Thanks
to your Cordial, cheerfully recommend IL
toall the 'old boys" who are troubled with
that dreaded disease or anyone else for sum
mrr complaints. This testimony is unsnlic.
icd.-Yours truly, j. l.. Styron, Travelling
Salesman.
Thurson' Blackberry Cordial is prepared
by Thurston Chemical Co., Grand Rapids,
Ohio
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Sheep. Shearlny Machines.

So many trials of shcop-shearing mn
chimes have resulted i'll fnilure Tint tho
belief has become fixed TINT shcnring
by machinery is entirely impracticablc.
This idcn seems 10 be mistaken one,
MS machines operated by horse power
nrc i'll successful operation in England
and in Australia. IL is said that n
flock of 200 sheep will warrant tho
purchase of ono of these machines.
New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

For drinking chocolate, the French
lest way is to serve it in four-cornered
green cups, but the prettiest way is in
the pale brown cups that match the
contehss and are extremely narrow,
tall and fiariny ct the top.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
GETTING EVEN.

HEN summer came
L shut the books
in my unclo's Of
flee and prepared
to go on my va
cation. Uncle
was always very
good to me and
gave me July and
August of each
year i'll which to
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

Business colleges have existed in Europe
for over 200 years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

Owing to the recent money 4trlngonoy all
tho Rubber Shoe factories stopped work for
ucveraI weeks, tho only exception being the
Colchester Co.. the demand for the Colchester
spading Boot obliging hem to run continuous.
ly. This general shut down will cause consid-
ernblo scarcity OF Rubbers this winter. Tho
Colchester spading Boot is already sold ahead
ana Is pronounced the best Rubber Boot In tho
market for all around wear.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

IIatch's Universal Cough Syrup takos right
hold. Sold eyerywhere. % cents
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Dew has preference for some coIors.

4 wonderful stomach corrnctor Beecba...,a
Pills. Beecham's-no others. rs cents n hoy
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Rcwnrd for
any case of Catnrrh that cnnnut DO cursti bv
Hall 8 Cnlnrrh Cure.
-, i. j: CHENEY &c Co, Toledo, O.
We, tho undcrsigned, linvo known T. j. Che
ney Tor the last Is ycnrs, and believe him nor
fectiy honorable IN all business transact ioils
and financially able TO curry out any Oblgn-
WEST 4 rhUAx, Wholesale Druggists Toledo,
Druggists, To.z,.) }, OHIO
Hal Cntarrh euro Is tnkon internally, act
ing directly upon tho blood ind mucous snr-
iaces of tho system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, Zoe. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
Shortage I'm Rubber Boo,n and sho.,

National grants in al of education were
first made in tho United States in 1903.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

Roman school boys used wax tablet
and pointed stylus instead of slate and
pencil.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

Tho first law degree Is believed to hnve
been conferred by the University OF Paris
in 40
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

About oncthird of the houses in this
country are lighted by gas
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

We Cure Rupture.
No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, tcstinl0n ais, etc, to $. j.
HoIlensworth &s Co, Owego, TiOga Co., N. Y
Price 81: by mail. Sl.l5.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04
We Cure Rupture.

The waters OF tile ocenn compo 1-17S8th
part of the weight Of the world.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

RoDERr BRUCE held his first pnrlia-
ment Mt st. Andrews, Scotland, in
iHO0
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
Vick,s Floral Guide for 1894.

1t contains descriptions that describe,
not mislead illustrations that instruct,
not exaggerate. This year it comes to
us in suit of gold. Printed in eight
different colors besides black. Colored
plates OF Chrysanthemums, Poppies and
vegetables. On the front cover is a very
exquisite bunch of Vick's New White
Branching Aster and on the back is the
new Double Anemone 112 pages filed
with many new novelties of value as
we'll as the old leading varieties of flow
ers and vegetables.
We advise our friends who intend
doing anything in the garden this year
to consult Wick before starting opera.
tions. Send ten cents to James Vick's
Sons, Rochester, N. Y, for Vick's Guide.
1t costs nothing as you can deduct the
10 cents from first order. 1t certainly
will pay you.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
Solid Seven.

William Beaverforden, the heavy.
weight travelling man, was in the city
yesterday. He is travelling for the West
ern Wheel Scraper Company, of Aurora,
ILL.,, and is just in from trip in south
eastern Ohio. The firm sells stone
crushers, graders and all kinds of road
tools. While in Washington G. H., o.,
the other day, Mr.. Beaverforden and six
other heavy. weights-Editor Grubbs, of
the Fayette Register Democrat, restau.
rant and candy stand man, contractor
and coal dealer, grocer, a county COM
missioner and butcher were weighed
together on the town hay scales. Their
combined weight was 2,054 pounds The
market master was afraid they would
break the scales. The county commits.
sioner Mas the heaviest OF the heavy
seven,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
WORLDS Fair Portfolios Free.

To bring our through car line running
between st. Louis, Louisville, Cincin-
natl, Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York, with it's
superb service OF vestibuled trains,
Pullman dining, parlor and drawing
room sleeping cars, before the travelling
public, we have prepared an elegant
portfolio of Worlds Fair views, taken
from the official Government photo.
graphs.
These portfolios will be issued weekly
until the volume Of twenty numbers is
completed.
Size of portfolio, 11x13 inches, sixteen
views in each, three hundred and twenty
in all, and will be sent free to any ad.
dress on receipt Of ten cents each in
coin or postage stamps, to cover cost ol
mailing. Upon receipt OF full subscrip.
ton, $500, each number will be mailed
as fast as issued. Sample copies can be
seen at the Office of this paper.
| Cut this out, state where you saw the
advertisement, and forward to 0. P
McCarty, General Passenger Agent
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R'y.
"Portfolio Department" st. Louis, Mo
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
California Excursions.

The well. known Phillips Excursion
Company has arranged to run bi.weekly
excursions to all principal California
and other Pacific Coast cities, from all
points on the Baltimore & Ohio South.
western Railway, via st. Louis, Kansas
City and Denver.
The parties will be carried in Pullman
tourist cars leaving Parkersburg 200 a.
M, Cincinnati 1925 a. m, Thursday,
January 25th, February Sth and 22d,
March 9Th and 22d, and passengers will
be booked through to destination. There
are no Pacific Coast tours offering so
good accommodations at less expense.
For full information address A. Phil
lips & Co., s. E. Corner Fourth and
Vine streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, or call
on nearest ticket agent Of the B. 4 o.
8. w. R'y.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08

YOUNG MEN-Who have become victims Of soli-
tary vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to untimey grave thous-
ands of young men of exalted talent and brilliant
intellect, may call with confidence.
DRS. FRANCE AND 0TTMAN, after years of cx-
perience, have discovered the greatest cure known
for weakness in the back and limbs, involuntary dis
charges, mpotency, general debility, nervousness,
anguor, confusion of ideas, palpta,ion of the heart,
timidity, trembling, dimness of sight, sddness,
diseases of the head, throat, nose, or skim afec-
tions of the liver lungs, stomach, or bowes-those
terrible disorders arising from the solitary vice of
youth-and secret practices, blighting their most
radiant hopes or anticipations, rendering marriage
impossible. Take candid thought before it is too
late. week or month may place your case beyond
the reach of hope. Our method of treatment will
speedily and permanently cure the most obstinate
case, and absolutely restore perfect manhood.
TO MiOOlE-AGED MEN.-There are many from
the age of 30 to 60 who troubled with frequent
evacuations of the bladder, often accompanied by
slight burning smarting sensation, weak ening the
system in manner the patient cannot account for,
On examination of the urinary deposits, ropy
sediment will be found, the color will be thin
miiish hue. There are many men who die of this
difficulty ignorant Of the cause, which is a second
stage of seminal weakness. We will guarantee a
perfect cure in all such cases, and healthy
rcstoration Of the genito-urinary organs.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08

Chicago newspapers have lately gone
into merchandising in connection with
their efforts to increase their circula-
ton, to such an extent as to involve
them in some difficulty with their large
advertisers who object to the low prices
and good values offered. The most not.
able instance of this is the Inter Ocean,
which was compelled to dispense with
its very popular book department for no
other reason. 1t continues its Worlds
Fair Portfolio Department, however,
which is delivering about 1000 per
day at present and has just added a
comprehensive series of "Views of the
World" and book of music called
"Harmonized Melodies" on the same
plan. They are sold at certain price
provided the purchaser presents a GER
tain number OF coupons cut from the
paper.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell
as well, or that have given such univer.
sal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to
guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready to refund the purchase
price, if satisfactory results do not follow
their use. These remedies have won
their great popularity purely on theil
merits. Seybert & Co.. druggists.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
Says No, No, NOT!

Private Dalzell is out with a card un.
der date of January 2Sth. He says:
My attention has just now been
called to certain newspaper statements
nominating me for the presidency of
the United States. If l were not insen-
sible to such batteries | should be
greatly pleased and honored by this
most surprising compliment But none
of these things move me. For me the
"post of honor is the post of private
station" and neither seek nor desire
any Office at the hands of any conven.
tion or of the people.
From the little | have seen of men
sin the fierce light that beats about the
throne" of power have not been fas.
cinated with its charms, but rather re.
PEELED from its presence. 1t has little
= liking for me, nor for it. The airs as
sumed often by men "clothed with
little brief authority" have never made
me angry, but often filled my soul with
sadness, and sometimes with that "pity
which is akin to contempt" Their
ludicrous tricks and capers are often
amusing sometimes disgusting, always
painful to behold; and even in the cases
of those who have assembled the highest
eminences and sustained themselves
we'll there l have seen more to commits.
crate than to envy or desire. The two
saddest faces / ever looked into were
those of Hayes and Garfield in the very
moment of their final triumphs.
Johnson entered upon the great Office
with universal distrust, and left it with
universal disgust-a broken down man
in all senses. The most miserable man
in the Union to day sits in the White
House. longing for the close of his
term. have no desire for such splen-
did miseries. l must decline the prof
fered honor, as my old friend, Gen.
Sherman, did in the columns of the
Ohio State Journal February 8, 1876, in
reply to my letter nominating him to
the presidency. l was younger then,
and thought the old hero would jump
at the offer-and he did-but it was a
jump like Corbet took at Mitchell. l
wondered then how any man could re.
fuse the splendid offer. l wonder more
now that any man should accept it at
all.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08

Many of our readers recollect the
"blue glass" theory of cures for disease,
introduced by General Pleasonton,
which swept through this country few
years ago Twenty persons suffering
from smallpox were put in room in
Norway which was lighted by the rays
from red glass windows. Ten of the
cases were unvaccinated children, all
cases were of the most obdurate charac.
ter, yet all recovered, without fear and
maturation, and with few scars. A build.
ing has been fitted up in New York in
which the first smallpox patient who
will submit to the "red glass" treatment
will be placed, in order that the virtues
of the system may be tested.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
Tho Result OF q supper.

The following story is rather fairy
like, but it is absolutely true: A col
lege student has contributed several
blood and thunder serials for one Of
the sensational periodicals. Lately he
wrote to the publisher and stated the
facts in his case. He wanted to give q
spread to his club and had mo funds. If
the publisher would send him money
he would discharge the debt by writing
another serial within given time.
Now comes the marvellous part of the
story. The publisher sent MIN the
money! In due time arrived the story.
It was returned for very needful alter
ations, with a mild remark from the
patient purchaser to the effect that he
feared "the results Of the spread" were
too plainly seen in q number of care
less slips and mistakes.