Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

A man in Wisconsin is the poasessor
Of a curiosity in tho shape OF o horned
hog.
Giraffes have become very scarce
since the Dervishes seized tho basin of
the upper Nile.
In early England the town orier was
employed to give notice of an ap-
preaching wedding.
Butter, which is almost indispensa-
bic to tho meal nowadays, was for
merly used solely us IN ointment.
The sails alone of tho yacht vigilant,
some of which are largely of silk, cost
Sl4, 900, and this for material only.
Medieval doctors considered chips
from the gallows on which somebody
had been hanged a good remedy for
ague.
In Westphalia and Saxony tho un-
fortunate mortals who happen to bo
beaten with n broomstick firmly believe
themselves doomed to die of oonsump-
ton.
During tho Fourteenth Century n
practice prevailed among tho wealthy
Italians of having twelve wedding
rings. ono for each month, each set
with n different symbolic stone.
Tho emblem of m open hand has
been favorito device on coins. 1t
has been found on the coins of India,
of Phoenicia, Mexico, Rome. and was
Frequently employed rs device on the
skin currency of our aborigines.
Triplets were born to woman at
Nyack, N. Y, few days ago. Tho
children-two boys and girls-were
joined by ligaturo precisely like that
which united tho Siameso twins.
They lived only seven hours after
birth.
| A Chinese incurablo residing in tho
interior of China was told by native
doctors that the only hope for him
was bnby's brains, which must DO eaten
Immediately after tho child's birth.
Ono evening ho found parcel con-
tanning live child. Ho shattered its
head and devoured its brain.
Making mountain stream run over
and above railroad truck il uniouo
piece of engineering that the Southern
Pacific Railroad is shortly to COM
mencc near Nights station, in tho
Santa Cruz Mountains, in California
When completed it will probably
make the largest artificial cataract in
the world.
In the land of the Moslem, the coun.
try Of tho followers of Mahomet, the
true prophet, Moslem grave, whom
once filled in, is never to be reopened
on any account With view to re-
move the fnintest chance of my grave
being thus deiiled tho Moslcms plant
cypress tree on every grave immodi-
stcly after the interment, which
makes the Moslem cemeteries resem-
bic forests.
1t is never safe to drop any article
when walking near covey of ostriches
Tine ostrich will cut any .hiny, seeming
| apparently to have no sense of taste
4 story is told of ~ young girl who was
visiting IL 600" where large ostrich
,natched her kid gloves, which were
rolled in IL ball, aud ate them The
next day the girl returned with tho
family contribution of half dozen
pairs of gloves, NIL of which were ns
readily swallowed.
German law of tho Fifteenth Cen
bury prescribed that the letters of IL
marriage notice must DO ut lcnst halt
an inch high and that the notice must
be posted on the outside of the door
and not covered by any other paper or
document. Some lovers desiring to
keep the engagement private had post.
ed the notice on the inside of tho
door, while others had written it in
very small letters or covered it up
n larger piece of paper.