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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Our Banana Trade.

Tho American people consume moro
bananas than MI tho other Nations of
the earth. Last year they managed
to do AWAY with ncnrly eighteen mill
ion punches, or about ono bunch OF
twenty dozen bananas TO every four
persons. And the trade is still grow
ing. This is only the imported bnnan-
rs. Florida has begun to iso largo
quantities of the luscious fruit and
would add considerably to this totnl.
Tho exact number imported is IT,
S64, ia, of which New Orleans re-
ceivcd about one.third, New York
nearly quarter, Philadelphia sixth,
Boston more that one -ninth, Mobile
tenth aud Baltimore one-eighteenth
part, the small remainder being dis
tributed among other receiving
points. Altogether some thirteen
hundred ship cargoos of bananas arc
recorded i'll tho custom house reports.
The Northern ports obtain most of
their bananas from tho West Indies,
Jamaica and Cubn, while New Orleans
chiefly receives from South and Cen
trail America. The banana plant is
one of the most prolific bearers in tho
world and requires little or no care.
The fruit is sold on tho Chicago mar
kct Mt retail for ten or fifteen cents
dozen, at which rate there is said to
he considerable profit in the trade, us
tho cost OF production is practically
nothing, tho only item of expense be-
ing the freight charges. Farm, Field
and Fireside.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Railroading the Parting Guest.

William Dean Howell's father, who
omigrnted to Ohio half century and
more ago, used this formula to get rid
of an intrusive visitor who Ind worn
out his welcome. He would be called
out on some business, and would saw.
to the guest: ~ suppose you viii
not be hero when I return, SO I wish
you good-bye!" This was not bad.
except in comparison with the superb
stratngem ascribed to Gerrit Smith in.
such emergeucies-as that he used to
say in his family prayer, after break.
fast: "May the Lord also bless Brother
Jones, who leaves on the 10 O'Clock
train this morning. ''--Argonaut.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Figures Inscribed Oh The Human Eve.

The legendary belief that the eve
of a murdered man might retain n
permanent image of his destroyer has
just received something like scientific
confirmation, says the Westminster
Gazette. According to the Revue des
Questions Scientifiqnes, Drs Deneffo
and Clayes, of Client University, re-
Gently had their attention directed by
medical student to the curious ap-
pearance presented by tho eyes OF n
woman under treatment in the hos
pital. The student declared that he
had found certain figures distinctly
inscribed on the surfnce of both ewes.
DIR. Deneffe was incredulous, and sup-
gested that if any such marks existed
they must merely be the chance result
of some injury, and that the re-
'semblance to figures WAS probably
Imaginary. Next day, however, he
examined the patient himself, and was
astonished to find that the left iris
bore the number &c." and the right
'"45," these figures being traced with
cnligraphic perfection.
Imagination and hallucination are
both ont of question, rs DR.. Clayes
and other observers were brought in to
verify the phenomenon. The eyes,
moreover, were photographed, and on
the enlarged proof the numbers 80"
and "45" stand out with unmistakablo
clearness. Nor is this all. Although
the origin of these particular impress
slons cannot be ascertained, it has
been proved that their acquisition
may be hereditary. The woman's
daughter has the same popularity in
her eyes, but with n much less degreo
OF regularity and distinctness. The
girls right eye is found to bear a
feeble reproduction of the number
80" whilo in the left iris the figure
"2O" takes the place of tue mothers
80" Here, then, is pleasing
puzzle for the Psychologists. 1t would
be strange. ut this time of day, to dis.
cover that the eye, under certain con.
ditions, could really perform tho
functions of the camera.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Novel Method OF Trea,iny Marble

The white marble pedestal and base
OF the Washington statue on the Sub.
Treasury steps are being cleaned and
treated with the same waterproofing
and preserving process that wls sue
cesslully applied to the Central Park
obelisk in 1885. After being cleaned.
the surface is heated by charcoal
stoves, and n peculiar melted paralIin,
compound is then applied. This treat
mont. it is declared. will preserve tho
marble permanently aud prevent its
becoming weather-stained. The novel
method of treating the marble, by
means of stoves, attracts good deal
of attention. Tho Baltimore papers
have recently referred to the decay OF
the Battle and Washington monu-
ments in that city, md it is understood
that this same treatment will probably
be applied to those historic monu-
ments to prevent their further decay.
New York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
The Famous Siaked Plain.

Tho famous Llano Estacado, or
Staked Plain, is the same dry and
dreary region it was when tho early
Spanish explorers gave it the name it
bears and marked their trail with
stakes. 1t occupies the worst part of
Texas and New Mexico, and most OF it
is almost uninhabited. Three or four
OF the counties of Texas within tho
plain either do not appear i'll the last
census returns, or else figure rs hav.
Ing from four to forty inha .itaDts.
ihe same is true of adjoining counties
in New Mexico. The whole area OF
New England could be lost within the
confines of this plain. New York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
AtIauta's Immense Search Light.

A feature in the electrical display at
the Cotton States and international
Exposition to be held at Atlanta, Ga.,
from September IS to.-December 81,
1895, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
will be the immense battleship searoh
light. which will be placed by the
Naval Department on the highest dome
of the Government Building. From
this point, which will be the highest
on the exposition grounds, the i'm
mense search light will be operated
every night, throwing its brilliant
shaft of light into all parts of the
grounds. So brilliant will be the light
that O newspaper can be read by it
miles away, and the weird and marvel.
GUS scenic effects that will be produced
as it shifts like a phantom from point
to point, lighting up domes and
cupolas, can be likened only to a
dream from the arabian Nights"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
The Babies oi the unl,xn

The Fifty-fourth Congress of the
United States. whose members began
to draw SALARY on March 4, inclu les
some of the youngest representative,
on record. There ar1 very many
young men in the Senate, which has
before had>mauy youthful anal dis
tinguished members. If the records
give his age correctly, George b. Nc.
Clellan, the Democratic Represent,-
tive from the Twelfth New York Dis
trict, aud who was born Novem Der %.
1865, in Dresden, Saxony. is tho
youngest member. Rarely in The
United States has man taken his seat
in the highest representative body he.
fore reaching the age OF thirty. In
England it is not uncommon for a
youth of twenty o. twenty-five to
take his seat in Parliament, and Will.
lam Pitt, the youngest Chancellor of
the ExcheIuer, was not twenty-six
when he reached that highest honor.
Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
An Arc!duke,s Vast Wealth.

Archduke Albrecht. of Austria, left
Sl20, 600, 900 of property. His landed
estates go to his nephew, Archduke
Frederick. They comprise Sic, 900
acres IN Hungary, Silesia, Bohemia,
Bavaria and Galicia. an extent of ter.
ritory larger than that of more than
half OF the German States. His per-
sonal estate amounts to $50, 600, 600,
ana goes, 10 his daughter, the Arch
duchess Maria Theresa, wife OF Duks
Philip OF Wurtemburg, who is heir
apparent OF the King OF Wurtemburg,
put has renowned his rights in favor
or h's eldest son. Louisville Courier
Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Texas' Broad Acres.

Texas is SO large that all the people
In the United States could live there
ane the State would not then DO as
thickly populated as New Jersey is
now. Within tho limits of Texas may
be found more timber than in Maine,
more granite than in New Hampshire,
more marble than in Vermont, more
IRON than in Nova Scotia, more kaolin
than IN Cuba and more manganese
than In Scotland. The wheat and corn
lands OF the State are as yet practi-
cslly untitled, bnt there are enough of
them to feed tho armies of the world.
Texas is so big that it takes traveller
some time to got accustomed to the
magnificent distances. 1t has an area
oil 274, 1855 square miles. or ITS, 5S7, $40
acres, of which more than one-half arc
prairie lands and about one-fourth
timber lands. The rest are either min
eral lands or are covered by bnys,
rivers and other bodies of water.
Texas is 1926 miles broad, TAO miles
long and is divided into ga counties.
1t has nearly $1,000 square miles OF
territory more than tho Austrian EN-
pire, $4,000 moro than the German
Empire and 10000 moro than the re-
public of France. All the New Eng
land States added to New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio. Virginia. Maryland,
New Jersey and Delaware have less
territory than Texas. Tho combined
areas Of Great Britain, Ireland, Hol-
land, Belgium, Denmark, Switzer-
land, Portugal and Greece are
239,0lG square miles, while
Texas has 274,356 square
milep. Dallas County, in tho
northwest corner of Texas, is
nearer to st. Paul, Mimi, than it is
to Brownsville, Texas Mt the mouth of
the Rio Grande. Chicago and Cincin-
natl are nearer to Texas than DAllam
County is to Galveston. Texas would
make five States as large us New York
and throe-fourths of another, nearly
five States like Georgia an1 six like
Tennessee, more than thirty i've of
the area OF Massachusetts and oil
Rhode Islands. From Texarkaua OH
the eastern border to Ell Paso on tho
western across the State is about tue
same distance, as from New York to
Chicago. From Sabine Pass on the
southeastern corner to Fort McHenry
on the northwestern ia 1000 miles in e
straight line. If bicycle rider should
traverse tho boundary lines of Texas
he would pedal 1000 miles, which is
about the distance from Chicago to
London. Atlanta Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

1t is pretty widespread belief that
tine middleman is meddlesomo and
unnecessary interloper between pro.
Queer and consumer. taking what
r'shtfully belongs to euch; but here
is the account that one retailer gives
OF the matter in the New York Sun .
He had endeavored in the matter OF
eggs to deal directly with the owner
OF the hens. but had given up and
gone to the middleman because there
was too much loss in cracked, small
and dirty eggs sent in by the produc.
CT. The middlelnan was able to pro.
duce at very slight advance over the
producers price eggs of o uniform
slze and quality. The middleman
sorts hiseggs, washes them if need be
IN slightly acidulated water, cells the
small eggs to restaurant keepers and
the cracked ones to bakers, and puts
up IN neat fashion the clean, sound
large eggs for regular retailers. The
1nterposition of the jobber adds q
tr'ile to the cost of eggs TO the cen.
sumer' but gives him exactly what ho
wants and saves trouble all around.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
A Cure for IdIocy.

a cure for idiocy is one of the latest
achievements OF surgical science, which
has taken 80 many giant strides OF lato
years that it may be almost termed
ono of the wonders of the century.
Experiments wero mado on the skulls
of two children, who had boen idiotio
from birth. and the latest accounts
are that they are not only surviving
the shock of the operation but arc
giving promise of a recovery of tho
mental faculties. 1t would be moro
correct to say that they are gaining
those faculties, for the idiot from
birth hos no development until the OBJ
struction on the brain is removed.
This is exactly the process in the pres
ent trials. Holes are drilled in the
skulls of thu child, ut the top of the
head where the "fontanelle" or "soft
spot" is usually located. In tho cases
now under observation these spots had
become hardened at birth, and thus
the expansion and development of tho
brain had been arrested. The operation
was therefore to make new or arti
fetal fontanello. Great care had to DO
exercised, of course, to avoid injurinR
the brain, and there lay the main diff
Guilty of the operation. The scalp is
drawn ancw over the apextures in tho
skull thus made, and the little brain is
left to cure itself. Tho children thus
operated upon are two years old. 1t
Is, OF course. n question Just when tho
patients should be subjected TO the OK
pertinent, and the ngo of two years
has been chosen rs the starting point.
1t has been considered probable that
Mt this nge the child, if it should re-
cover it's health and gain intelligence,
will be scarcely behind other children
of its own age dozen years later.
BY that time assisted nature would
have caught up with itself, rs it were.
There may be somo question in the
minds of ultra-sensitive people as to
whether it is right for surgeons to OK.
pertinent in this way upon help less
children by performing operations
TINT may cause death. Yet there will
probably he no general cutlery against
such an effect. In some senses death
is preferable to lifelong idiocy. Few
parents wonld be likely TO object to
the experiment upon their own un-
fortunate offspring if conducted with
the cnre which should attend all such
dangerous proceedings. Washington
| Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

The road TO success is not IN oas7
one Tut tho merchant may find hi,
way mado comparatively light if he
follows tho advice Of businoss mpr
who tells his experience in vorso il
Printers Ink:
We'll. friend, I've learned the lesson
You tried 30 long to teach,
Ana now, Mt last, I've grasped tho prizo
For years within my ronch.
I've struck tho keynote OF success.
So near to all tho wise,
I've thrown aside my foolish whins
And learned to advertise.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
4 Plan for Pumping Coal

We are not yet pumping coal, but
we may do SO. w. II. Andrews oi
New York, has scheme for pumnino
crushed coal borne in water from the
Connellsville region to such places as
Newcastle, Penn. /; Youngstown and
Sharon. Wherever it is worth while
he will build coke ovens and convert
TINS quasl-huil coal into coke. All
TINS seems rather odd, but Mr. An.
drews was one of the original promot.
ers OF tho Standard Oil Company, and
he knows what the mechanical Gle.
ments in such an achievement would
be. He says the coal thus carried
would DO good steam coal, and that
the valves OF the pumps would be no
more worn than if the pumps were
moving oil. Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Are Your Rubies Real,

The art Of making rubieJ, according
to Professor Judd, is now extensively
practised. The ruby is simply crys-
tallized or oxide of aluminium.
The artificial rubies known as Gem
eva rubles are as hard as the natural
ones from Burmah, are identical with
them in chemical composition anl
molecular structure, and ara only
slightly inferior in color and lustre.
They are largely used rs watch jew
els, and. doubtless, many of them pass
as natural stones for other purposca
New York Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Tho NIayor-cloot of Superior, Wis.
is Tho Roy. q. s. starhwoathor, M
Episcopal Clergyman. Ho Ia u man OF
wealth ind culture, until recently
rector OF tho Church of tho Rodoomor,
IN Superior, A few years ugo he came
near being elected Bishop Of Wisoon.
hn. lilo has entered politics because
he thinks ho can do some good in pub.
lie lifo. Two years ngo ho was oloct.
ed "n Alderman. 1o Is doubtful
whether ho will ever again talso {
Parrish.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

At recent service ut tho New York
Academy of Nfusic. where DR.. Tai.
mHgo prenohea every Bundny, the
divine gave nh invitation to ali who
desired the prayers of Gods people 10
rise, and 1000 persons stood up, This,
says tho Christian Herald, confirms
tho belief that the majority of thoss
who listen to br. Talmago ut the Aoad.
omy aro noh- churoh. goers,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Tho recruiting business, as might bo
expected, has been looking up in
Great Britain during tho rooe mt hard
times. Major donoral dronfsll, tho
inspector-Goucral, reports that the
number of onllstmonts Inst year was
30, doS in tho rogular army which Is up
to tho full establishment. lie says
that tho social position of recruits Ia
Dtendily Improving.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Tho New York journal says: "Tom.
pcranco orators claim that fully fifty
per cent. Of orlmo is oaused by liquor,
hut statistics show that of tho 0G0O
murders in tho United Statos in 1894,
only no woro attributed to liquor {;
about eight per cont
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Manufacturer ninee.Me

About fifteen million pounds of
mince-meat are made annually in the
United States and it is consumed
largely in the big cities, the country
housewife still preferring to follow in
the footsteps of her grandmother and
make her own mince-meat. Chicago
Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Lonesomest Man in All EnrIon,

The homo of Timothy Tarn, in the
parish OF Button, near Appleby, West
moreland County. England, is the
most isolated dwelling place in the
three kingdoms. No human beino
lives nearer than eleven miles.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

1t seems that many people in Sun
francisco save up thoir doad oil tho
week in order to hnvo tho funeral on
Sunday, and, according TO tho New
York Tribune, 4 ministers meeting
waa held tho other day in ordor pro.
test against tho PRACTICE.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

The Japanese trace descent only
from the father. Thus when On aris-
tocrat marries plebian wife, their
children arc his equals and quito her
superior, and aro apt to look down
upon her.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

1t III said that most Of tho 5000
horses shipped from America to En-.
ropc recently were intended for
rlnughter rs food. Electricians think
this sign of tho coming triumph Of
electricity MS motor. 81
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

lsipo pinoapplcs havo boon put upon
tho list OF food especially hoalthful for
persons troubled with indigestion, tho
juice being especially valuable in sudh
oasoa, states tho Now York Post. In
countries whcro the fruit is indigon.
GUS its value us n remedy for dyspor.
hia Is vol known.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Tho Atlanta Constitution feels sit
is safe to predict that somo OF tho
widows OF tho soldiers of our Civil
War will TO drawing pensions MS far in
the future us the year 1886 OF posi-
bly, 20OO."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Sousa, the American "March King"
says that in "Dio Meistersinger"
Wagner used exactly the Same melody
rs "Where Did You Get That Hat?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

There are thousands OF nores of for
est land in Kentucky. less than fifty
miles from Cincinnati, which have
never known all axe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

Tho Sultan of Turkey is sending out
Mahommedan missionaries to Africa,
Mt his own expense, to check tho Chris
tian advance in that continent.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21

The first mention of any sort CT tax
alton in Greek history lie q tax levied
by Scion b. G. $40.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
Professor Petrio says evidences
have been found near Thebes of race
older than the Egyptians.

Moro than one hundred oallinge,
professions and occupations are open
to women OF the present day.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-21
THE UNCANNY BAT.
FACTS OFINrEREsTA BoUrrHIs
CURIOUS ANIMAL.
Its Power OF Sustained FlIght-Ip
Spite OF Its Iiideous Appear
anco 1t is Entirely
irxrniess.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact

that bats. or at least all that
lnhabit North America, are
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-01-23
Proceedings Of the Police Jury Of
Rapides Parish.
ALEXANDRIA,, LA.

ALEXANDRIA, La, |
Jan. 9TH, 1895. !
The Police Jury met pursuant to ad-
jourpment. Present-W. P. Flower,
President; and Messrs. Compton, Hardt-
ner, Randolph, sorelle, Texada and
White.
The minutes OF the last day OF the last
meeting were read and approved.
On motion OF Mr.. Compton:
Resolved, That the report OF the Com
missioners for building Billy Bayou
bridge be received, and the bond of the
contractor, E. s. Brashear, be accepted
and his bill approved for s140.
On motion of DR.. Sorelle:
Resolved, That the report of the COM
missioners for building bridge over
Flat Slough, in Calcasieu swamp, near
Hineston, be received and the bond of
the contractor, J. D. Monroe, be accepted
and his bill approved for $40.
Mr.. Hardtner offered an amendment to
the effect that the contractor be paid @4s
for building said bridge which was car
ried, and the sum of S4S allowed for
building same instead OF $40.
On motion of DR.. Sorelle:
Resolved, That the sum of S25 be and is
hereby appropriated out Of the General
Fund of 1895, to defray the expenses Of
two delegates to the meeting Of the State
Agricultural Society to be held in Natchi-
toches on January 23rd, Oath and 25th,
1895, and the President of the Police Jury
is hereby authorized to appoint the said
delegates.
On motion of Mr.. Hardtner:
Resolved, That the report of commits
sioners appointed to have bridge built
over Bayou Marie be received, and the
bond OF the contractor, George r. Waters,
be accepted and his bill approved for
$40 SO.
On motion the Jury then adjourned I'M
til O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Attest:
L, G. SANFORD,
Clerk Police Jury.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-01-23

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