The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-04
or GENERAL. INTEREST.

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The vessel in which he sailed was
wrecked. and he swan seventeen miles
in seven and one-half hours through a
strong gale.
I'm the Kansas building at the e5-
position is a banner made in 1888 by the
pupils Of the Lombard school for tbs
Lincoln Douglas campaign; spinning
wheel made in 1920; a chair that came
over in the h1ayaower, and o flag made
in l776 and carried at Plattsburg in 1919.
"A New England firm is introducing
an automatic gas lighter for street
lamps, which works on the principal OF
an eight-day clock. It's explained that
the only attention the lighter requires
is a weekly winding of the clock move.
ment, and that it lights the lamp at the
required time and extingu;shes it Of
daybreak.
Frost torches" composed of long
stakes saturated with kerosene, wera
set up. fifty to the acre, in buckwheai
fields On Hickory Hill, Saratoga county
N. Y, during a recent cold snap
Every farmer who tried the frost
torches" saved hiscrops; on other furmu
where they were not used, much dam
age was done by the cold.
The other day some Luzerne, New
York, lads who had visited q country
fair and seen balloon ascension at
tempted to duplicate the novelty
While their parents were absent from
home ore climbed to the roof and pui
big paper bag over the chimney. To
initiate this bag the other hoy placed S
lot of kercsene-soal1cd powder in the
stove and touched it Off" The hous.
was insured for $500 aad the criminal
clause had been omitted.
Large beds of oysters have beer
discovered in tho Pacific waters Of
Alaska. 1t had been thought that The
water was too cool, but there are places
where it is warmed by the Japan cur
rent which modifics the temperature o.
the Pacific coast more than the gull
stream docs that Of the Atlantic const
The Alaskan oysters are pronounced o
very superior variety, much better than
the small oysters grown near the coast
Of California. American Cultivntor.
-Excellency is now applied to am
bassadors 1t was formerly royal title
and during the middle ages prince:
were some times put to death 70: trca.
son because they assumed this title.
1t was first bestowed only OH the am
bassadors of monarchs and denied to
those of republic, but in the seven
tecnth century, Venice, after an i'm
mense amount of correspondence. sue
ceeded in obtaining it for her mbassc'
DORIS aud since then it is applied to ali
ENJOYS.
The supreme judicial court Of Mas.
sachusetts is to decide whether cred
itor who invades a debtors bedroom
and wakes himup early in the morning
in order to present his bill is guilty Of
an assault. The aggravating party IL
the dispute is lnilkman and the ag-
grievc,l person is his customer, who
says that he. forbade the milkinan to
invade his privacy, and was awakened
by being shaken by the shoulder WHOM
suffering from severe headache. The
lower court entered judgment Tor the
milkman and tho plaintiff appealed to
the full bench of the supreme court.
Several wild turkeys that had a
love for swallowing shining PARTICLES
that had been shot by 4 hunter on ono
of the branches near San Diego, TEX.
netted him quite handsome sum in
gold, which he found IL their cruws,
that they had picked up. In South
Africa ostriches have been successfully
employed in finding gold deposits. y
drove of the birds are turned loose to
feed in the territory where the precious
metal is supposed to exist. They are
then given al emetic and the ejecta
carefully examined for nuggets, and If
any are found the trail OF the bird is
followed until the diggings are discoy-
cred.
How time is passing in all parts of
the world is the interesting story which
every day was told b. twenty-five
clocks in the terminal bui, ling of the
worlds fair. These clocks have been
set up by an entcrprising New York
clock company and are every day in
spected by hundred OF curious visitors.
The records made show that when it is
l. 80 in New York, Chicago timekeepers
say L.. 80; Paris, 6.S3; London, 6. so; San
Francisco, 10. 80; Buenos Ayres, go;
Santiago, 1:45; Honolulu, d. 10; Sydney,
40; Yokohama, 3.4S; Hong Kong, 3 os;
Bombay, 11.30; Mecca, 90: Jerusalem,
0.O3; st. Petersburg, $50; Cairo, S.35;
Rome, 30; Madrid, SIS, and SO Oh.
Coin collectors have long nppreci-
ated the difficulty of making COM.
plete collection of American specimens
The United States coinage of 1903 is
very rare and dollar of the year 1904
has often sold for as much as 500. A
1896 half-cent is SO rare as to sell read
lily for SIS, and half dollar of the
same year is worth sixty times it's orig
inal value. While the half:cent Of 1901
is common enough, all the other coins
of that year are rare, the dollar of that
particular date being the rarest of I'LL
American coins. Only eight are known
to exist ont of the 1880 that were
coined. The lowest price that one Of
these now changes hands for is $500.
"A great international concert at
Festival hall was an attraction ar.
ranged by the worlds fair managers.
Irish vocalists and harp-players came
from Blarncy castle; trio OF Swiss
yodelers and player on the eight-foot
Alpine horn; company of javanese
musicians with their curious instru-
ments and Col Sliney's troupe OF Chi
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