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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

A Federal judge has decided that
the wife i'll China of Chinaman law
fully in this country mny enter the
United States. The case OH which the
decision was rendered furnishes some
unique details of Chinese marriage,
observes the New York Mail and Ex-
press. Sam Van, who lives in Oregon
and is registered according to the
Gcary law, was betrothed in China
years ago to little lump of yellow,
squalling heathcnism, only two wears
old. He had never seen the infuntile
prospective bride. But that made no
difference; he took record OF his
VOWS, and her VOWS by proxy, on two
cards and brought them to America
with him. Six months ago, when the
girl had reached the nge of twelve
years, and WAS old enough TO be mar
rled, Snm sewed the two cards together
and sent them to China. The legality
OF the marriage was recognized in
China, and Sans wife was forwarded
to him. Meanwhile he appealed to
Uncle Sans court to permit his wife
to come in when she arrived. And
Uncle Sam has said that even China
man may have his wife with him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
C!ergymen Live Longest.

The new tables of mortality. saws
the Interior, continue to show that
clergymen are the longest lived of any
class. Representing their mortality
by 100, next to them come the farmers.
lOS; then the gardeners, ia; then the
agricultural laborers, 126; tho paper.
makers come next, 100, their i'm.
munity probably coming from the dis
injecting bleaches used in the procesa.
Next come the carpenters. 14s: then
the shop woodworkers, It's, where also
stand the ironworkers; glass workers
81 higher, 214, and earthenware
finishers still higher, 314, because Of
poisonous chemicals. At the TOP OF
the column of mortality are the ser
wants in hotels 397. The liquor dealers
testify by mortality of 274, and the
brewers by one of 245. 1t is soma,i
satisfaction to know that the doctora
reach up to 202. As for editors thew
die younger than the ministers, be.
cause they are too good for this wicked
world.-New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

bosom, darling and I'll love you all
the moro for it." And but for the
place in which he stood, he would have
sobbcd aloud in his agitation.
He took tho next train to Mill Hol.
low. He Walked up the garden path
in the twilight. He asked for Miss
Fanny.
"She hasn't come in yet" said the
servant. "They nre SO frightened
about her-master and missus-but ]
tell 'em she'll turn up all right"
Luke's heart stood still. A pre-.
sentiment of evil filled his mind. He
had seen Fanny into the car, and the
train stopped within sight of her
fathers door. So, in the gathering
darkness, two anxious men went down
to the depot, hoping against hope
"She stepped out on the platform
suddenly. Either she WAS bewildered,
or she did it on purpose. We were
going full speed. She had a blue dress
and white hat, and there's r red
mark on her face. They'll know her
by that"
That was the conductors story.
Ihht was the story that Luke and
Fanny's father heard Mt last. -
Did she step out on purpose or was
she 'bewildered?" God only knowe
no living being. Luke tried to be.
iievc that what sho had heard him say
had nothing to do with it. But i,
was too lato now to tell her what he
felt-too late to hide her sweet face
on his heart. He could only stoop
over her, rs she lay in her coffin, and
press the last kiss his lips ever offered
to any woman upon the cold cheek
that, even i'll the death hour, bore
still upon it that fatnl red mark.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
Native Australians shlftless.

Formany years there has been an an.
nual distribution of blankets and other
necessaries to the aborigines, says
writer in Chambers's Journal. Mis-.
sion stations have also been estab.
lished by Government and private
funds in different parts of the coun.
try, where as many of the blacks as
are willing to conform to the mild
rules laid down for the conduct of the
establishment are housed, fed and
taught. Their want of constraint and
their instinct for free, roaming life,
however, generally weigh more heaS-
lily than does even their liking for
regular rations and lazy life. The
majority prefer to become hangers. on
about the townships, and stations,
eking ont existence by begging and
doing odd jobs. Every station and
township has its little band of black
fellows and their "gins," who wander
about in wonderful assortments of the
cast-off clothing of the whites, beg
cling from every one and not NJ
ways clearly distinguishing between
"meum" and ''tuum." ''Bacca," and
sixpence arc what they most favor,
but nothing Mt oil comes wrong. The
men and women are alike inordinately
fond of tobacco and intoxicants. This
fondness for drink has had not little
to do with their downfall. 1t is a pit
liable sight to SEQ the poor creatures
loating about the hotels, begging and
praying for the maddening poison
which they know too well is fast de-
stroying them. Once having acquired
the vices of the whites, their ruin is
swift. A few, but not many, nre en-
ployed as cattlemen, shepherds and
general help about the stations. They
are also drafted into the police force
ms mounted troopers and crackers, and
have done and are doing some SPLEEN
did service in hunting down criminals
who escape to the bush. Many are
fine runners and athletes, but since
abandoning the old wild life their
prowess in these respects is waning
Mission work among the blacks can
not be said to have been successful.
Undoubtedly good work has been done
by the devoted missionaries who have
spent their lives trying to raise and
enlighten the native tribes. The low
type Of intellect, shiftless, aimless life,
the wandering habits, the traditional
instincts of the aborigincs and the too
often evil example set them by the
rough settlers hive been hard to over
come,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

Lcavcnworth, Kan, is interestedly
discussing one of the latest develop
mcnts of the womcn's rights move
mcnt which it has Sin its midst" Mrs.
George Blackman has managed to get
The position of Secretary Of the
Lcavenworth Bonrd of Police Commits
sioners and virtually rules the whole
police force. She is capable woman,
but her husband is nobody and has
been making living MS gunrd Mt the
pcnitentinry. He has given this up
and takes position as sergeant Of
police under II commission signed by
his wife. She made place for him
by discharging the incumbent of the
office, an old and capable officer on the
ground that he was not n married man
and had no family to provide for.
Leavcnworth doesn't like it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
CURIOUS FACTS.

A British peer cannot resign his
peerage.
Italic type was first made by Aldus
about 1476.
About one-third Of the houses in this
country are lighted by gas
Uhina's national hymn is so long
that people take half day to listen to
it.
Some one has figured that finger
nail grows seven feet nine inches in g
Scriptural term lifetime. z
At q masquerade i'll New York sub
urb recently a man who appeared as
Father Time carried lawn mower in
stead of a scythe.
The Third United States Cavalry
rode $4,000 miles last year on the bor-
der, one company, Troop G, accom-
plished cighty-fve miles in one day.
A gray fox on West Chester, Penn,
farm is on terms of fr5ehdship with
lot of young beagle Gogs and frequent
ly sleeps in the same pen with them.
An exceedingly rare animal, black
faced, black cared caribou, was re-
Gently shot ut Andover, Me. This
caribou was unusually large, with big,
branching horns.
"The Bachelors Ready Marriage
Club, m organization designed for
the purpose of providing the necessary
| funds for any member who desires to
be married, is in process of formation
in New York.
The monument to the memory of
King Henry the First of England
ought to BIO yard stick. His arm
was just thirty-six inches long, and
that is where the English and Ameri-
can yard got its standard of length.
John Thacker, of Waterford, Va, be.
ing accidently at Cincinnati, bought
at sale of unclaimed baggage trunk
in which he found property which
proved to be that of a relative who had
been missing for years, and the Incl
dent has led to the reunion of long
separated family.
''Hear, hear" is perhaps the most
familiar interjection heard during de-
bates in the House of Commons, but
how few members know the origin of
tho phrase. 1t will be surprise to
many to know that the earliest instance
of its use is to be found in Samuel Xxx,
16: "Then cried wise woman out of
the city, ''Hear, Hear"
Tombstone, Arizona, owes it's name
to IN attempted witticism. When
Schiefferlin, the discovercr of the
mines in that locality, wns starting on
his most successful prospecting tour he
told friend he was ''going to discover
mine this time sure" Tho friend re-
piled: "You'll discover tombstone"
In recollection of the rejoiner Schief-
ferin named the mines he found the
Tombstone.
A German newspaper states that
the original sketch of the letter of Ma
poleon I. which he wrote in 1916 to
the Prince Regent, demanding per-
mission to make his home in England,
is to-day in the hands of resident OF
Strasburg 1t is entirely in the EN-
peror's own hand, full of erasures and
alterations, and belongs to descend
ant of the courier of General Gour-
gaud, who made the clean copy of it
for transmission.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
The Yermitorm APPENDIX.

The vermiform appendix is part of
the human anatomy that sometimes is
source of great trouble, and, SO far
ms known, no earthly use. 1t is sim
ply sort of closed sack that branches
IRON the large intestine ut its origin.
A grape seed, or other hard, rough.
lndlSestible substance lodging in this
appendix often causes inflammation
and suppuration for which there is no
remedy but the desperate one of law
ing open the abdomen of the patient
and removing the foreign subs lance
The operation is n dangerous one, and
the patient often dies from the shock.
But real case of appendicitis can be
relieved i'll no other way, and if the
operation is not performed the pa-
tIent, necessarily dies of blood poison
ing. Surgeons are sometimes blamed
Tor performing operations that are
desperate and result in n large oer.
centage of deaths. But there are many
operations like this for appendicitis.
which good sugeon knows to he
dangerous, and yet without which the
sufferer Is certain to die Until n few
years ago a person with appendicitis
was hopeless case, but recent prog.
ress in abdominal surgery makes re.
lief possible. The origin of the yer.
inform appendix has never been sat.
isiactorily accounted for by anato.
mlsts 1t IL supposed to be n rudi.
mentary or atrophied organ, which al
some long past stage of development
IN the human organism performed tn,
innctions OF the colon. St I.onis Re-
public, ''f
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

One OF the surgeons sent abroad by
the United States to inspect intending
emigrants at European ports says that
the knowledge of such inspection by
the United States made the steamship
companies extremely careful MS to the
sort OF steerage passengers they nc
copied. He inspected $4,000 pnsscn-
gers and detained but two, while on
this side not n single one Of those who
came under his inspection was excluded
from this country.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

The industrial advancement of the
South since the war is one of the most
remarkable things in history, declares
the Atlanta Journal. It is all the
more wonderful when we remember
how the war drained the South of its
available wealth. This section had
literally to begin ut the bottom in
1865. What it has accomplished since
that time is ample proof of the brains
and courage of its people. The Politi-
cal Economist gives some very inter
esting figures to show the difference
resources of the South now and those
in 1860. The following table gives the
relative value of the manufactured
products OF the South in 1860 and
1892:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

Mr.. Brentano, the publisher and
bookseller, sold in his Paris store a
newspaper printed in New York City,
which contained IN incorrect state
ment touching n French gentleman of
distinction. After long legal bat
tic, states the New York Advertiser,
BrentHno has been compelled TO pny
damages to the amount of $1,000 and a
fine of $40. That's French law. 1t
is also French ''justice.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
New Uses for Aluminium.

When old DR.. Wohler way back in
1S45 succeeded in isolating few
grammes of aluminium at great ex-
pense and at greater labor he probably
had no idea what uses the metal would
be put to in the future when it became
cheaper and easier to get at. When one
reads of things manufactured out OF
the light metal it seems rs though there
was no end to them And now there
is man who is going to sea in an alu-
minimum boat; that is, provided that it
is successfully built. The enterprise
ing individual who has ordered this,
the first sea-going aluminium boat, is
the Comte de Chabannes In Police,
and the craft, ten-ton cutter, is be-
ing built in Loire. He expects it to
he great success, and it looks as
though it would. The hull when com
pleted will only weigh $500 pounds.
Made of steel it would weigh 10000.
Uncle Sam is going to make expert
ments, too, and will try aluminium in
place of the metal ordinarily used on
the accouterments carried by the SOL
diers. set of experimental canteens
has been ordered and little aluminium
department has been put in charge OF
Lieutenant NJ. G. Brown. He will
make thorough experiments. During
the war private could carry only
eighty rounds of ammunition. 1t is
said that the decrease of weight is tho
accouterments caused by the use of
aluminium will allow the carrying of
zoo rounds. Uncle Sans enemies will
wish he hadn't adopted the new notion.
New York Mail and Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
THE BUILDER.

I have laid each stone in It's measured place
Turret and tower and stair,
Pillars and carvings that stand on their face
And know that my work Is fair.
Yet tho doubt OF It's beauty and worth grows
strong,
Now that my work is done;
And fni tho thought have held 50 long
Not worthy to stand in stone.
And the question comes, as its towers CLEAN
high
Or tho lower walls of the town,
lave raised earth's dirt to thy feet, sky,
Or dragged thy crystal down?
-Auna Robeson Brown, in Lippincott.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
Human MIXTURE. "Morked.v

The man who owned the toy store
understood human nature. He knew
that when you forbid person to do n
certain thing that person is at once
possessed with wild desire to do it..
Some things are part of mischicvous
human nature and you can't get rid
OF them. Every man has wicked i'm.
pulses to touch his finger to fresh
paint, to kick an old hat, to take an
extra peanut from the lusksters stand
and to give twirl to any sort of
wheel that hangs loosely.
The toy store man put good-sizel
wheel i'll the street and Immediately in
front of his show window. A sign
said:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
A Huge Turtle.

A big sen turtle was brought into
Portland, Me-, the other day by the
swordhshlng steamer Thomas w
hnIght. The turtle was sleeping on
the water off the Georges Bank, and
was harp1oned in the neck and can.
tured. 1t is monster and when MT
on the scales was found to weigh over
iooo pounds. 1t is five or six feet in
length from nose to the tip of tho tail
ana is covered with hard; black
sneil, fnrionsly ribbed. It's Gippcrs
are long and powerful In spite OF
the harPoon wonnd IN tho neck the
turtle was alive and vigorous. ,.-Sk
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

White horses arc to he barred from
military service in Germany. The En-
peror has ordered that no more be
purchased for the army, and those now
in use are to be sold. Hc thinks that
in war white horses would be cspc-
clally conspicuous because Of the use
of smokeless powder, and would af-
ford an easy mark for the enemy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
Where the Sun Gets Its Heat.

why tho sun continues to give forth
light and heat in undiminished uueu-
titles and mnvnrying intensity after
having been i'll state of combustion
for untold nges has long been n puz-
zlc to the astronomers rs well rs to the
thoughtful observer in the lower ranl,
OF the star gaZers. Those learned in
sun lore tell us that for every second
oil time the sun cmits as much heat MS
would result from the instant combus-
ton of LOGO, 900, OO0,O 900 tons OF
coal Calculating from these figures
1t is easily shown that if the suns en-
tire mass consisted of first quality of
coal III state of combustion, and
that it could burn until the time when
tho very last ton were consumed (main-
tanning until then the rate of heat
emission now kept up) the supply
could not possibly last over 5000 years.
But 1T is believed that the sun
has been i'll existence for hundreds of
thousands and probably millions of
years, and that since tho Cages of
man" dawned the quantity OF heat
emitted has notperceptibly diminished.
'' '"ihS, WIG c"Sc tnerc Is Dut one
conclusion as to how its heat supply
is kept up, Wis: that it has an outside
store fuel to draw upon. The latest
theory is that the immense regions of
space nre occupied by untold myriads
of miniature bodies known rs meteors.
meteorites and aerolites, which are
being constantly drawn to the sun,
and that these constantly blowing its
atmosphere evolve numerous streams
OF both heat and light. Louis Re-
public.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
"DoN'T Touch THIS WHEEL"

The result is that every man who
stops to look i'll the window defies the
instruction and gives the wheel turn.
The axle is connected by belt with
the motor which runs all the mechani.
cnl toys i'll the window. When the
wheel Is turned the manikin begins to
saw wood, IL clown beats drum and
the preacher makes gestures. The
man gives the wheel another turn to
Keep them NIL going and then crowd
gathers. When he gets tired some
one else is there TO keep the wheel
bnzzing. The shop-keepcr gets his
motive power free of charge.
Suppose he had put out placard
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

The tax Of 50 year on cycles which
was imposed in France last April,
yielded in the first hnlf year over
$l56, 900. The tax on stock exchange
transactions, which the brokers de-
clared would surely ruin NIL business
on the bourse, yielded a round $780,
900 between Juno l and November 30.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
In France the granting of suffrage
to women is regarded as matter of
business rather than sentiment.

"Did any statistical iinancier ever
pause to reflect" asks the Atlanta
Constitution, "that the worlds wheat
crop of 1892 was less than that of 1887
by 100, 900, 900 bushels?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

Total. !. ...sl9s, 422,52a s72o. 78s, 0o4
The industrial prospects OF the South
are growing brighter, the journal
asserts, and the next few years
will probably witness n material de-
ve!opment in this section, even more
remarkable than that which has t4i,en
place ip tho last Two decades,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10

There is talk of reconstructins the
old Statcbouse on Beacon Hill, Bos-
ton. The scheme meets with much ap.
pr0Sel in thai city.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
"PLEAsI STEP UP AND TURN
This WHEEL.

Why, then the great public would
have been darkly suspicious, and
Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-10
THE FATAL MARK.

5 this MIR. Rush
ton's?"
II was n hand
some young man
who asked this
question: sly
lish fellow, with
plenty of light
sal ~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-03
Vocal Instruction.

Miss Jean Kaufman will give VOCAL IN
sTRUCTIoN in all its branches at the
Sickner Conservatory of Music. For terms
call or address Miss JEAN KAUFMAN,
Sickner Conservatory Of Music. Wichita,
Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-03
III :. Lawrence.
Wichita Steam Dyeing Co.

We have the only Carpet Buster in the
West, and have just added machinery for
dry cleaning of dresses OF every kind with
out ripping. Portiers, Cheneils and Cur
tains OF all styles cleaned aud guaranteed
TO give satisfaction Our reference the
best in the city. Office-132 n. Market ST
Factory-33l West Douglas ave.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-09-25

L ns conversation was at the airing
ton house. Saw Lemon in town ec.
terday.
Sept. Oath
On the converting of Court this
morning Judge Hawley ruled that
the testimony, given by Howard on
Saturday relative to Lemon offering
him s5N to give evidence about the
disabling of the turn table that
wouldimplicate March. was irrelevant
incompetent and immaterial and or
dered that it be stricken from the
record and charged the jury that they
should pay no attention to it.
The cross-examination of Howard
was resumed and harrington question
ed him closely as to his whereabouts
during the time the tram was in the
yard pinning him down to the number
OF minutes he stayed in each place.
Howard stuck to his story. we'll and
harrington finally let him go.
Mrs. S. P. Howard was the next
witness che swore that the night the
bridges were burned her husband,
S. P. Howard, came to her father g
house about 1890. About 1:3O her
father called her to help with her
mother who was very sick and Mr..
Howard was then in bed. She re-
manned up till about 230 and her
husband was still in bed. She swore
that there was no coal oil in her
house that night as she had taken
it to her fathers house some time be-
fore.
James Cummings, ono of the de-
PENDANTS, was the next witness. He
corroborated the other witnesses for
the defense ar to what took place at
the meeting of the A. r. u. on the
morning of June 10Th. He denied
having had anything to do with de-
tanning the train that day or dis,
abling the engines or turn table as
testified to by witnesses for the prose.
cution. He also swore that on the
night the bridges we're burned he was
playing cards with Howard, Kapplal
and M"Creary in Tom Harris saloor
until about IL o'clock when he wen
home. His evidence in the main wa.
the same as on the preliminary exam
ination.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-09-25
Silver Party Convention.

Saver ! dee mt ,s rep Q e lting he
Silver party of Elto COMFY, met at
the courthouse at 1880 this morning
and Organized county convention by
cho o'ing Hon. J. s. Maybugh as
chairman, and j. H. Weiland Us Secre-
tary.
on motion, the usual committees on
Fiettorm. Credentials and Order Of
BUSINESS were appointed and the con.
Vention then took recess till 3 o.
COCK this afternoon when the CONT
tees reported.
IL being too late to get the reports
VI the committees in to.days issue
the tull report OF the conventions pro-
ceedlngs will appear tomorrow.