Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
CURIOUS FACTS.

Oo - AVIS
The Atlantic takes its name from
Mount Atlas.
OF 1888 Popes, only eleven ruled
longer than seventeen years.
Sixteen Chinese Emperors are re.
ported to have died by poison.
The first Bible printed in America
WAS published at Germantown, Penn.
The old custom of ringing tho cur,
few still maintains at Sacramento, Cal.
Saki, the Japanese tippIe, is mado
from distilled rice; puique. that of
Mexico, from the American agave.
Some of the little bronze images of
Chinese deities are supposed to have
an antiquity of 1000 years before Christ.
A collection of old theatre pro-
grammes is valuable not only to Il dra-
matte editor but hos q certain money
value.
Tho Berlin Street Car Company paid
$3.50. 600 into the treasury OF the city
for the privilege of crossing the prin-
cipal avenue, Inter den Linden, n5
one point.
The Imperial Canal of China was
begun in the year $50 A. d. and not
completed until 1850 1t is 21OO
miles in length, and is by long odd,
tho most important artificial waterway
on earth.
Some rather queer drinks arc frus-
tung, made of aloes; raki, distilled
from grape skins after tho wine is
pressed, and slakavia trava, made from
a sort of sweet grass that grows i'll
Kamschatkn.
The cloth of tho old Egyptians was
80 good that, though it has been used
for thousands of years rs wrappings OF
the mummies, tho Arabs of to-day can
wear it. 1t is all of linen, the nrcient
Egyptians considering wool unclean.
The German Emperor's imperial
train cost $3.50, 900, and took three
years to construct. There are alto
gether twelve cars, including two nur-
sery carriages. The reception SALOON
contains several pieces of statury, and
each of tho sleeping cars is fitted with
bath.
Golden Rirdles, bracelets, earrings
and anklets-all of great weight-were
very common in France in the fourth
century. The belt of Judith, wife OF
Louis 10 Debonniare, weighed four
pounds, and it is said that on gala
occasion she woro thirty pounds of
gold and jewels.
A collection of the proverbs of
Europe in the original languages,
ancient and modern, showsFthat the
same rhyming system which prevails
IN English proverbs is universal in
them. 1t is only recently, however,
that tho scientific bearing of this fact
has become understood.
Foreigners travelling in India cannot
fail to be impressed with the crowds
OF natives to be found at every railway
station. AS rule the people have no
idea of time, but they have learned
that trains do not wait for turiy pass
engers, go they begin to gather hours
before the time for tho train to leave.
1t is not commonly known that tho
capital of China is ice bound for five
months out of tho twelve, or that tho
stolid looking Chinese could use IL
very inferior style of skate, of their
own manufacture-a mere chunk of
wood arranged to tic on the shoe and
shod with a rather broad strip of iron.
The birds are weather prophets.
Fishermen and shepherds often arc
guided by the augury of birds, some
OF their actions so surely foretelling
change of weather. When the rocks
como home by day and indulge in ono
of those mad and may dances, cawing
loudly, this is sure presage OF com
ing rain.