Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
CURIOUS FACTS.

mall Spanish America tho Indinus
form the great mass of the population.
All the American Indisn languages
arc singularly lacking in abstract
terms.
Only in Mexico, Central America
and Peru were there laws or courts
among the Indians.
The most ancient Mexican monu.
ments display elegant taste in art and
remarkable skill in execution.
Tho railroad across Siberia will BIO
four thousand miles long when finished.
The. two sectionsnow operated are tel
miles long.
A carp taken out of the water may
be kept alivo for twelve hours by a
piece OF broad soaked in brandy
placedin its mouth.
The natives of Sumatra have q visit
ing card consisting of piece of wood
about foot long, decorated with
bunch OF straw and knife.
Tho production of aluminium has in
creased from $50 pounds in 1854 to
339, G2o pounds last year. During this
time the price has dropped from 50
pound to aboLt seventy conts.
Seven-ycar-old Sadie Campbell, of
Port Jervis, N. Y, took her pole and
went fishing tho other day. Sho got
lost and walked some fifteen miles, but
she brought homo nino big trout.
1t is reported that of somo of tho
markets i'll Minnesota wheat five and
slx year, old hns been brought in by
tho farmers, the owners saying they
would hold oil intermediate crops
1t is said that in Lima, Peru, it is
the custom to keep animals on tho
roofs of the houses. A calf makes its
first appearance on tho roof, and never
dcscends until it comes down ms beef.
There are only four days each year
IN which tho sun aud clock time OK
actly correspond. April 10 was ono
of those days. The other throc are
juno II, September 1 and Dccem.
Der 81.
An important recent invention is
what is known rs tho magazine loom.
Hitherto ono man has been required
to operate six looms, but it is claimed
TINT sixteen looms can bo managed by
one man by use Of this invention.
A portion OF swordiish's sword,
measuring about twelve inches in
length, has recently been cut out of
tho copper bottom of IL vessel lying ut
Shanghai, China. Tho sword had
gone clear through three to four inches
of pitch pine plnnking.
On the mountains Laplanders 1.-Two
III tents mado of reindeer skins. Some
of them build small huts of earth and
brushwood. For their meat and other
supplies they build small stores stand
ing on high poles, SO rs not to DO
reached by tho wild BEASTS.
Tho Eskimos use seincs for catching
salmon. They are made thirty to
forty fathoms long by ono or two
wide. They nro mndo of sealskin, and
the fine lines aro cut many fathoms
long, rs uniform in width rs if the
product of tho lcst machinery.
Tho two postollices in the United
Suites most widely separated from
each other are those ut Key West.
Fla, and Ounnlask,., Alaska They
are CYL miles apart, and yet two
cent stamp will carry letter from
tho ono to the other us readily MS from
New York to Brooklyn
The number of unfortuuntcs ban
ishcd to Siberia lust year in Russia,
including those who followed the
prisoners voluntarily, was IL, $50
1925 men, 1715 women and 1880 chill
dren. According to their religious
creods there were 1881 Orthodox, 1924
Mahometans, $40 Hebrews, SOC Cntho-
lies, 274 Luthcrans, 10 Rosiolnllkis,
thirty-five Gregorians, thirty Skopzes
and iifty-three "heathcn."