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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
QUAINT HAT ADoRN,1ENrs.

The most telling touch of hat adorn-
ment is tho turkey feather stuck up
in such martial manner in the back.
These quilts, rs they are called in mill
linery, wilt>be <more worn than ever
this season. fhe softest- hearted woman
has no objection to the proud turkey
cock and luxurious rooster having his
last feathers pluckcd out for her
adornment. These quilts are no longer
placed like masts in double rugged
ship-in front. They nre sometimes
stuck like oars crossed i'll the knot of
broad-winged bow, fastened directly
in front on turned-up brim, or they
are erected among the trimmings of
the back. 1t will be observed that
qnills are not, as in the early summer,
placed ut tho same angle. The hat on
which these are found is smaller, with
n gently waving brim lying on frill
beneath. New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

For twenty years the Swiss Govern.
ment has been making observations
through its forestry stations on tho
temperature OF the mir, of the trees
and the soil in the forests. These OBJ
servations show that the temperature
IN the forest is always below the tenn
pernturc outside. The temperature
also varies according to the trees COM
posing the forests. A beech forest is
always cooler than forest of larch.
AS to the trunks of the trees, they are
always colder than the surrounding air.
Regarding the temperature of the soil,
1t is found that in the forest the tenn
perature is invariably below that of
the mir. Outside the forest the soil is
always warmer than the air i'll summer
and colder in winter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
What "standard" Time Is.

Standard time is the name given to
system OF time keeping adopted in
1883, by which the United States are
divided into four divisions, the time
IN each place in any one of which is
the same as that of oil other places
therein. Before 1883 there were sew
enty-tive different time standards in
use by American railroads; traveller
from Boston to Washington would
have to set his watch five times to keep
correct time on his trip.
In Hartford, Conn. some trains
were run by New York time. others by
Boston time and the people themselves
used local time. Finally the railroad
managers decided that they would di-
vide the country into sections, each of
which should have its own time, and
so arranged that the standard time of
any section should be one hour ahead
OF that of the next Western section,
md one hour ahead of that of the next
Eastern section.
The four sections are respectively:
The Eastern, taking in the Atlantic
coast down to Charleston, s. c., the
line running from Charleston irregu-
larry to the line running north and
south from Detroit; the central, all
territory between this line and line
running from Bismarck, North Da-
kota, to the mouth of the Rio Grande;
the mountain section takes in from
this line to the western borders of
Idaho, Utah and Arizona; west of this
line lies the Pacific section.
The eastern section takes its time
from Philadelphia, which has seventy
five degrees of west longitude; the
central from st. Louis, finely degrees
west of Greenwich; the mountain sec
ton from Leadville. los degrees west,
and the Pacific section from Virginia
City, New. 100 degrees west. The
sections are about fifteen degrees of
longitude in width. Provision is
made for an intercolonial section, the
time of which will be standard time in
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick. Non-standard time is the
time shown by the sun; it is 'local
time. -Globe-Democrat
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
KEEP YOUR VOICE IN cHEoK.

In the long list of attractions which
n woman tries so hard to secure why il
not musical voice the very first on
the line? The American voice is not
by nature pleasing one. Southern
ers, it is true, come the nearest to rich
and pleasing roundness of speech, but
with them it is moro the accent than
the voice. Take an Englishwoman
and she is recognized everywhere by
the charm of her voice, and though
she may be tall, awkward and ugly,
the delight of listening to the clear
enunciation in well modulated tones
makes you forget that she lacks the
chic of her French neighbor or the
beauty of her American cousin.
Keep the voice in check-do not,
even under the tension of great excite
ment, let it become high-pitched.
Strive to cultivate low, mellow tones
Use only pure English, and, even
though you may not be brilliant
talker, you may rest assured that what
you do say, if uttered in pleasing
voices will rivet complimentary atten-
ton, where great flow of scintillat-
ing thought expressed in harsh tones
will but jar and annoy. New York
Advert
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

of these Mrs. Noyes, in the most uri-
,Sobtxusiye manner, brings to bear daily,
upon applications for patents cover
ing new claims, remarkably extended
general end technical knowledge OF
all the inventions of the world which
touoh electricity.
Miss Tyler is the Second Assistant
Examiner Of farming implements.
Her speciality for some time was plows,
but she has become an expert in gates.
She received her appintment to the
Examining Corps in 1881. In the ex-
animation which promoted her to be
Second Assistant, not man among
the competitors came up to the re-
quirements. Miss Tyler was also q
Connecticut school teacher. She first
entered the Government service as
clerk in the Dead Letter section OF the
Fostoffice Department.
"It's fascinating work to me, " said
Frances Lybrand, the expert Second
Assistant Examiner of the Civil En-
gineering Division. "Not day passes
but ones knowledge is broadened."
Mrs. Lybrand is majestic looking
woman, with q force of mind and char
acter that might not only devise but
construct railroad. Railways" is
her division. Eight thousand railroad
joints pass through her hands every
year. OF this number probably six
are practicable. Since wood has be-
come scarcer in this country ingenious
Americans trot to the Patent Office an
nually with some 600 "metal tie" APP
plications.
Mrs. Lybrand has the railroad con-
struction of the world at her fingers
ends. 1t will be strange if this woman
does not evolve some revolutionizing
force in railroad transit. She is an
Ohio woman, daughter of the late
Judge Ranney. When she was left
young widow with three children Sen
ator Sherman secured her clerkship
in the Patent Office. That was ten
years ngo. In less than year bril-
liant examination promoted her to the
Examiners Corps.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

Great Britain has been STRETCHING
her wings over India. In 1912 she
laid claim TO COG, 600 square miles OF
that country. She made additions t.
tins every year except 1913, 1S45 ana
1852, down to 1856, when her nos.
sessions aggregated $50, 900 square
miles. Advances were male in 1866,
1882 and 1856, and now the area of
India under British rule is 927. Ss7
square miles British India is larger
than all that part of the United States
lying east OF the Mississippi River and
Its population five times MS great MS
the present population of this whole
country. Great Britain NAV not be
able to acquire much more of India.
Indeed there is likely to be difficulty
III retaining what she has, with native
dissatisfaction and the watchfulness
OF her aggravating enemy on the north,
who in the last forty years has moved
his boundaries over many degrees Of
latitude.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
Persuasive,

DR.. Morell Mackenzie, the famous
specialist in diseases of the throat, is
said to have had extraordinary power
over his patients, power which some.
times appears almost magnetic.
Once a death occurred in his con-
sulting room-one of those cases
Sir James Paget used to call "calami-
ties OF surgery" The brother of the
dead patient was furious, and fastened
to DR.. Mackenzie's office, determined
to give him piece of his mind.
Such was the fascination of Macken-
zles manner, however, that the in
furlated man cooled down by degrees,
and IN short time found himself con-
yersing quite calmly about the fatal
case. The triumph was reached when,
before departing, he sat down in the
operating chair, and after allowing
Mackenzie to examine his throat, paid
him his fee without murmur,- :,
Youths Companion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

Exclaims the ST. Louis Republic:
Compare the luxurious habits of tho
present Legislators with those known
to have been in vogue over century
ago among one of the most aristocratic
bodies in America. 1t has not vet
been 100 years since the Pennsylvania
Legislative Assembly passed this law ::
''That i'll the future no member of tho
House shall come barefoot OF eat his
bread and cheese on the steps,"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
The True mRnttle ROYAL -.

Sporting writer's and telegraph
editors used "battle.royal" in half tho
newspapers of the country when tell
ing OF the last Vigilant- valkyrie race.
There is no such thing as a battle
royal between two contestants. The
term is exact and technical. A battle
royal is fight of many, in which
every one is against every other one
and tho best wins. - Chicago Herald
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

1t is reported by the Chicago Herald
that movement is on foot, with its
headquarters at Pittsburg, to girdle
the earth with series of religious
conventions OH the 1900th anniversary
of the Christian era. A great expcdi-
ton will start out, numbering, it is
thought, some 1000 persons, who will
go entirely around the world holding
rousing religious services at every i'm.
portant stopping place. The first
service will be held i'll San Francisco
and the last i'll New York. Bombay.
Jerusalem, Rome and London will be
taken in on the way. The services are
to be entirely nonsectarian. Several
weeks will elapso between each SER
vice, and it is calculated that the ex-
petition will take year in making its
rounds, and that it will cost each OF
the crusaders about $1,000.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
A High Bel.

The late Sir Richard Owen at one
time had bed almost as high as the
ceiling of his room, and had to mount
n pair of steps in order to reach it
an example which those who shrink
from keeping the upper sash of their
bedroom window down at night would
do we'll to follow. On being asked his
reason for this, he replied: "Oh, it is
very simple. Ihave had it built SO
that can look out on to Richmond
Park and see the deer in the early
dawn. They behave SO differently at
4 o'clock in the morning, when there
is nobody there to disturb them. -
New York Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The Arctic Ocean has peculiarly
green color.
Alcohol has never been reduced TO
the solid state, but becomes visoid st
very low temperature.
An Atlanta (Ga.) inventor claims 70
have revolutionized the Manufacture
of wheels by means of an expansion
hub, which will do away with there
setting of tires. 49,
Harvard College is to have the
largest Photographic telescope IN the
world. Many new discoveries are
probable from this instrument, wfth g
twenty-four-inch lens.
The parasitic plant raniesiancee
grows out of the root of large trees,
but the only visible part of it Is the
flower, which sometimes reaches tne
size of seven square feet.
The order has been given that all
the portraits taken in Her Malesty's
prisons, rs records of crimes and Grim
inals, shall for the future be. printed
only on platinum paper, the OBJECT
being to secure their permanency.a
In the Granville electric speed indi-
Gator the log itself is made one plate
of the battery for working the instru-
ment, the iron hull of the ship the
other plate, and the sea itself the ex-
citing liquid, SO that insulation isSnot
required.
"Wells's Science of Common
Things" says that if our atmosphere
could be condensed until it would oc-
-cupy no more space than. the same
weight of water, it would only OK
tend to an elevation of thirty four (8a)
feet above the surface of the earth.<
The new resistance metal in wire,
sheet or casing, now being introduced,
is stated to be avery important con-
tribution TO this class of materials
Tho wire resembles ordinary copper
wire on the outside, has pinl1ish
white tinge ut the surface of fracture,
and is very strong without losing much
ductility.
Four hundred and sixty one degrees
below the freezing point of the Fab
renheit thermometer lies q mysterious,
specially indicated degree of cold which
science has long been gazing toward
and striving to attain, wondering mean
while what may be the condition of
matter at this unexplored point. Its
existence has long been indicated and
its position established.
In the ice age the thickness of tho
leo which covered northeastern Penn
sylvania has been supposed to be great
enough to rise twenty-five hundred
feet above the sen level. - Until short
time ago no signs~of glacial action had
been discovered Mt loftier elevation
than this but John G. Bravner has
explored Elk Mountain, which is be-
lieved to be the highest point in north
ern Pennsylvania, and there he found
scratches made by the ice at an alti-
tude of about twenty-seven hundred
feet. 1t is evident, therefore, thnt
the ice-sheet which oversprcad this
region during the glacial epoch must
have been thicker than biologists
lave hitherto thought.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
A woslAN's SLEEP.

A physician, who is specialist in
nervous diseases, says, that women
should sleep at least nine hours at
night and one hour in the daytime.
A woman will plead that she hasn't
time to lie down for few minutes in
tho daytime; and she will infringe
upon the hours of night, which should
be given to, sound, healthy, needed
Sleep, in order to finish some piece of
work which could be as we'll completed
onnthe morrow. She will rush and
hurry all day long and then, when the
household is>Ihushed ip~slumber at
night, she will sit up TO read the daily
paper, thinking she will not have to
pay forthe time she is stealing from
thehealth-giving sleep that comes be-
fore emfdnight. st. Louis Star.Say-
ipgs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

The crusade which is now in progress
IN England against the use of the
plumage of birds for purposes of
feminine decoration has not, in the
opinion of the New York Sun, come
too soon, as this country has been a
grievous sufferer from the activity OF
English taxidermists, who have drawn
from here their principal supply of
bird skins and feathers From time
to time the exact figures of tho
enormous contracts placed in all OF
the States of the Union by these
British purveyors have been printed
in the Sun. Certain species of our
birds of song and of fine plumage
have been almost exterminated to
comply with this demand. Amongthe
most interesting and beautiful is the
little tern which once gave such an
air of animation TO our coastwise bays.
This species has been wiped out of ex-
istence in most of our waters. The
agents of these English taxidermists
have been SO active that hardly any
sort OF bird in this country has
escaped their attention. The most
serious aspect of the case has been
that the demand for bird skins has
always been more active in the spring,
when the plumage attains its greatest
brilliancy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
FASHION NOTES.

Cut glass table bells have an excep-
tionslly musical tinkle.
The new cut glass celery and salad
dishes are certainly perfection
Very suggestive are the new nut
spoons with cluster of nuts as handle
decoration.
Sleeve are enormous, but continue
to droop from the shoulders in huge
bell puff at the elbow.
Feather boas continue popular, and
are generally becoming, except to wo-
men who have very short neclSs.
The latest thing out in butter dishes
is one low, without cover, satin fin
ished and has an inner tray of cut
glass. ~
Accordion pleating is seen MS trim
ming on great many of the new
gowns. 1t seems impossible that one
could tire of it.
The new French swallowtail basque
has two very long box pleats in the
back, while in front 1T has round
zouave jacket-shape.
Among the novelties in footwear is
the Queen Anne slipper, in pale blue
kid. 1t is in exact imitation of slip
pers worn at that time.
Opera-glass bags are made of silk
and spangles and etched medallions.
A green silk bag covered with gold
spangles is remarkably pretty.
Leather shades, gold, yellow, rus
sets, light olives and sapphire, swal.
low, peacock and drake's blue are
among the fashionable colors of the
season.
The shorter winter capes are being
made with long, narrow underfronts,
which make the garment altogether
warmer and more suitable for frosty
and cold weather.
Ostrich-feather trimming is used
with rich and elegant effect on black
velvet capes lined with mauve, Russian
red, or rose-colored MORE or petunia
satin striped with gold.
The pelisse is the most fashionable
shape for new cloak. Made of vel
vet, satin, MORE silk, or any costly
stuff, it is very pretty and becoming
to slight figures, though rather trying
to stouter ones.
Winter dresses are made with q
balayeuse of n shot waterproof ma
terial that exactly resembles silk. 1t
keeps the dress out and the mud can
be sponged off it. 1t is seen in many
mixtures of colors.
The victorine in fur, lace or silk, is
one of the new old fashions. It is to
be seen in various styles among the
new importations It is also simulated
on the dress itself, the long ends or
tabs falling to the feet.
New stockings for everyday wear are
in all the suede shades, and the plaid
stockings rivals the dress goods. Only
the lower half is plaided, the upper
part being of black silk. All kinds of
Scotch plaids are used.
Empire fans of faded colors or white
and black silk, with spangles and
medallions of silk let in with on etched
drawing are very fashionable. So also
are old painted fans with sticks worked
In ivory. gold OF mother of pearl.
New mink capes of extra length have
dat shoulders, and are finished with
yokes of sealskin. Theatre coats of
black or dark-green velvet have yokes,
borders aud shoulder-points of ermine.
some are in semi-loose sack shape from
The yoke down, front and back.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

The whirl OF q bitter tempect,
The wind that brlngeth the snow.
And tho last of the brown leaves nying
Like the beaten before tho foo.
But sweet is the peace Of the flresidei
Aud we care NOT what may Imp,
While mother Is sitting and singing.
Tho baby safe in her lnp
The lads arc dfoning their lessons.
From tho room beyond floats In,
Soft as an angels whisper,
The note Of u violib.
One small bright head is bending
Over our country's map,
And mother is gently grooming
obaby, safe in her lap.
-Harper's Basnr.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

Lloyd's report is OF special interest
TO Americans this year, states the Chi
cago Herald, rs it shows that there is
no Nation which has made SO rapid an
increase in the tonnage Of steamers
registered during the past twelve
months rs the United States.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

The Hindoos are apparently law.
abiding race, concludes the New York
World, for the number of prisoners in
India, in proportion to population, is
less than half of that in Great Britain.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
Fishing by Electric Light.

Electric light is being used as bait
by fishermen who ply their calling
along the Pacific Coast. This adapta-
ton of electricity brings big hauls.
The fish are attracted by the bright
light in the water and their investiga-
tions generally ond in their hcing
hooked while trying to swallow tho
glass globules.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

The Supreme Court of Massachus-
sets has declared that creditor has
no right to invade his debtors room,
wake him up and dun him, A Spring
field milkman, for doing this, has as
certained that damages can be assessed
against him for assault.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
Emigration from European Russia
to Siberia iscn the increase and reached
100000 in 1892.

Texas again makes tho claim, which
it made some years ago, that it could
give every family in the world n FIVE
acre lot and still have room to spare.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
boN'T BUY rniNoBD vApEnY.

Very pretty napery is sold which
has d fringe for d finish. However
much this commends itself to the young
housewife, she is recommended by
older heads not to be deluded into
purchasing it. A plain hem is prefer
able, for the reason That no fringeever
stands constant washing and ironing,
and ragged, tangled edge to table
linen is far from desirable Louis
Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
The whirl Of a bitter tempect,

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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23
Romance Of a Butterfly.

LIE waltz music was
throbbing out up
on the broad hotel
piazza, where the
soft swish of silk
and muslin hoated
past, rising and
falling to the sub.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23

Patsy did not grow stronger, It
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-08-23
Wilkinson Female Institute

Fall term Of the 9Th Annual Srs-
sion opens Sept. 4th, 1894, aud close,
Jan 10th, 1898.
English, Classical, Mathematical,
Scientific, Commercial. Music and
Art School for young ladies anG girls.
FACULTY-F. S. Wilkinson, High
cr Math. Science Mrs. \. w. Hugh
es. Literature, Elocution and Physi-
cal Culture. Miss Mary A. Leonard,
Higher Eng French and Latin Mss
Mary Lee Dickson, Eng. Arlth.,
Book keeping, Stcnography and
Type writing Mr.. W. w. Grler, A.
Is German and Greek.
MUSIC AND ART DEPARTMENT.
Miss Mary l.. Stump, grad. of
"New England Conservatory Bos-
ton) Piano, Pipe Organs and Guitar;
Miss Mabel W. Cha mherlain, ("Voice
pupil of Root of Chicago and art
student under Carl Hrcker of n.
Y.,D Music and Art; Mr.. James
Michigan, Violin.
Board from rs to $ll per month.
Tnltion reduced 10 s1lt the times.
Write for Catalogue
+. 5. WILKINSON.
Aug. % In. Principal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-08-23

Democrats will have their hands
full in trying to defend their party
in this campaign, but when they put
up candidate like W. t. Crawford
in the ninth district, who has to be
gin by defending himself against
sworn charges of a very grave nature,
the job is a trifle too heavy.
We are utterly amazed at the eff.
frontry of Mr.. Crawford in renew
ing and repeating in the Rutherford
Herald of the 10th inst, his unbound.
ed attack upon the character and
veracity of W. S. Barnes, Secretary
of the State Alliance.
Mr.. Crawford says that he s'tried
to see the card but has not succeed.
ed yet" Don't be impatient, Mr..
Crawford, between now and frost
without an effort, you will succeed
in seeing that card and so will the
honest voters of your district. You
will perhaps wish that you had nev-
err seen it. 1t and other cards like il
have been filed away and preserved
to catch and expose demagogues and
impostors.