Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-06-18
SNAP SHOTS.

The Sultan may soon be sorry he
licked Greece, unless present indica-
tons are at fault.
Jerry Simpson hasn't been win.
ner in nis contests with Speaker Reed.
but he has proved that he isn't quit
ter.
Locked at from this distance the
Russian bear appears to be by far
the largest animal in the European
menagerie.
The less talk there is i'm that Sen
ate tariff debate the better it will
please the people, and the sooner a
vote will be reached.
1t is now considered a fortunate
week In New York when some human
lives are not lost in the firetrap
houses of the town.
An Austrian physician is talking
up the virtues of birch sap as a RENE
dial agent The virtues of the birch
rod is an old story In many families.
We Judge from Mr.. Wanamaker's
talk that he has abandoned all hope
of ever holding an elective Office, but
has greater bargains" than ever at
his stores
The citizens OF Delaware at least
have the consolation of knowing that
when their legislature Is monkeying
with a divorce case it caunot be pass
ing unwise laws.
The latest Nicaraguan story has it
that our English syndicate is nego-
tiating with Nicaragua officials for
railroad concession from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. 1t is about as proba
BILE as the others.
1t is a great pity that heavy tariff
could not be impos, d upon the snob.
Dish Americans who are going to En
gland to make monkeys of themselves
at the Queens Jubilee.
The seasons drOwnings indicate
that the men who think they know
just how to manage a woman have
the same idea about sailboat, and
have beer trying it on quite mum
erously, much to the profit of under
takers.
The Senate should curb its easy
going habits and give the country six
days work week until that tariff bill
has been disposed OF. No matter
what sort of bill is finally passed,
the sooner the suspense is over the
better it will be for business.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has turned up in
Washington, and he is credited with
having acquired voracious appetite
for official pie, and said to be willing
to consider almost any old thing with
salary attachment. Thus falleth
another idol. Twas only few short
months ago that we were chuckling
over the Iidicule heaped upon the ex
statesman who had taken up pie hunt
ing for regular occupation by Mr..
Ingalls,.
Books, sixty years ago, were few
IN comparison with now, writes vii
lain George JOrdon in an article
"What Victoria Has Seem" in the
June Ladies Home journal. "The
public Libraries of the United States,
all put together, bad only half mil
lion volumes in 1887.
This is less than tie Boston Public
Library contains today. Three of our
American Libraries have together more
books than were in all the public libra.
ries Of England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales when Victoria assembled the
throne. Ignorance was general.
Forty per cent. of the men and six
ty'five per cent.of the women CT Great
Britain could not write their own
names when Victoria assembled the
Throne. The National education
system was but thee years old: its
money grants amounted to only
100000. Uncle Sam now spends l4O,
600, 600. year for teachers and sup
rintendents of our public schools.
'Going into a decline How of
ten do we hear this expression.
What does it mean 1t means that
DeOple are losing flesh. orOwino, th;n