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The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
GREATEST OF THEIR KIND.

The largest dwelling house in the world
Is the Freihaus, in a suburb of Vienna,
Austria, containing in all between 1000
and 1,5OO rooms, divided into upward of
4oO separate suites. This immense house
wherein a whole city lives, works. eats
ana sleeps, has thirteen court yards-five
open and eight covered-and a garden
within it's walls.
The largest history ever published is
The War of the rebellion" issued bv
the United States, in 12O huge octave
volumes of 1000 pages each, with a gil
gantic atlas in thirty parts. The books
occupy thirty feet of shelf room. and
weigh one quarter of ton. The series
cost $25,0 900, Is limited to II 900 sets. and
has been in course Of publication for
over twenty years.
The largest cathedral in the world is
st. Peters at Rome The total LENGTH
OF the interior is 6121A English feet:
transept, 44612 feet; diameter of cupoIa
1913 feet; height of dome from pavement
TO top OF the cross, 44S feet. It was
begun in 1450 A. D., dedicated in 1926 bnt
not finished till $780, Forty-three nones
lived and died during the process Of
pulldIng. The cost is set down st sSo j.
000,0 w Il at S0o''
Ihe longest tunnel in the world is thai
OF st; Gothard, ON the line of the rail
road between Milan and Lucerne. If is
nlne @ ana a quarter miles in length and
cost over $45.0O0.O0O ''i-N'
The greatest distance that a shot has
peen nred is a few yards over fifteen
miles, which was the range of Krupp's
Wen known monster 130-ton steel g1n
nrlng a shot which weighed over ton
and quarter
The greatest sea depth known to man
IS IN the South Atlantic ocean, midway
between the island of Tristan de Cuba
ana the mouth Of the Rio de la Plata,
tne ., potion being here reached at depth
of 1926 feet, or eight and three-quarter
miles
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
CHORUS.

Hurrahi for the army and navy. boys:
Hurrah for the land we love
Then off with our hats and three times
cheer
For the flag that waves above.
Then over the ocean sail away, nor mind
the darkest night
For the sweetest smiles of the sea-girt
isles await the blue and white;
And wherever on land the call may come,
in the thickest of the fray
With shout of joy fights the soldier boy
for the land Of the blue and gray
Chorus.
Then whether on plain. or mountain
slope, or on the deep blue sea,
You may well depend on a Yankee friend
wherever you may be:
For of all the loyal hearts and true
among soldier lads or tars,
We stand the test the truest and best be-
meath the stripes and stars.-Chorus.
Henry Kalloch Rowe in LesIie's Week
ly
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31

ing because they had not all got some
appointment with a salary attached. Ev-
identity Theden thinks whoever elected
the governor made a bad mistake. If he
had not been elected, Theden would have
walked out of the state treasurer's office
with bigger checks next year and the
year after that, and the good lord only
knows for how many OF other following
1-aorc
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
THE FLAG THAT WAVES AROvn

Come sing a song of the stars and
stripes, and the soldiers brave and
true
Who side by side have fought and died
meath the old red white and blue.
And give a cheer for the sailor lad and
his good ship strong and staunch,
That can whip the fleet he may chance
to meet, though he best that man
could launch.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
THE SUMMER GIRL.

All, yes, a woman's changeable;
Not so, she would be tame.
She only lives to- change her mind,
Her dresses and her name.
philadelphia Bulletin.
In faith, when all is said and done
OF summer girls, men choose that one
Who in the ,,hufiest gown doth walk
And talks the airiest summer talk.
Detroit Free Press
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
A Challenge From the Kaw.

kansas City Star.
The torpid influence of beer appears
to be plainly demonstrated in the case of
Milwaukee, which is rubbing its eyes
and preparing to compete for the Dem
ocratic national convention after it has
been practically decided that it is COM
ing to Kansas City.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
Another Opening for Science

AUtIICT VUVHIhB lot ScIence.
New York Tribune.
If the Pennsylvania professor v no has
discovered that asphalt can be made
out of red herrings would now turn the
process end for end and show how red
herrings can be made out of asphalt the
process would possess an enhanced COM
mercial value.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
Wanted in Minnesota.

Chicago Record.
The Minnesota wheat crop is calling
for more good. husky harvest hands,
and still the Chicago ball team fingers on
the diamond,
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
Not am III wind for Him.

Kansas City Star.
A smart Unionville cyclone insurance
agent took advantage Of q lowering cloud
one evening last week and wrote s., 1000
worth of insurance Refera bedtime
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
OPINION AT PRETORIA.
Inquiry Must Cover All Points
which Are nj TsSue

Inquiry Must Cover All Points
Which Are at Issue.
PRETORIA, July 3O.-State Secretary
F. w. Reitz, in the course of an inter
view today, said that if the inquiry pro-
posed by the British government Is to
embrace all matters of dispute of late
years between Great Britain and the
Transvaal, including the convention OF
1874, 1t might be accepted, but if the fran
chise only was to be considered the volks-
raad had passed on that, and further con-
sideration of the question was tanta-
mount to arbitrating through d conven-
ton, thus depriving the country of its
independence
CAPE TOWN, July 3O-The newspapers
here hail with delight the assurance Of
unanimity in the imperial parliament,
which they consider as presaging an efs
fective settlement of the crisis
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Observation-Disclosures Monday prob
ably showers in western portion Tuesday;
southerly winds.
North DalIota-ShowerS Monday; threat
ening and cooler Tuesday: variable winds.
South Dakota - Threatening Monday;
probably threatening and cooler tuesday;
variable winds.
Notwithstanding Monday and prob
ably Tuesday: variable winds
Montana - Threatening Monday, with
showers and cooler in eastern portion;
threa tening Tuesday: variable winds.
Wisconsin-Fair Monday; warmer in
cloudiness Tuesday; light to fresh south
erly winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterdays observa tions, taken by the
United States weather bureau, St. Paul,
I. +. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at o clock last night.
barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature .................... IS
Lowest temperature MISREPRESENTATION. 81
Average temperature NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 60
I1diIN range Observation-Disclosures 20
Barometer 80 Oh
Humidity OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ......... 58
Z D. m temperature .......-...-:........ 70
p. m, wind southwest; weather clear.
RIVER BULLETIN.
Danger Stage Change in
Station. Line. a. m. "a Hours.
St. Paul .............14 Al -01
La Crosse ............10 3.9 -01
Fall
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
ALLIANCE DENIED.
No Truth in RumOr of Chinese-Jap-
anese Agreement

PEKIN, July S0.-The rumors regarding
the formation of a Chinese-Japanese al
lance are semi-officially denied, and it is
asserted that the envoys recently sent to
Toxic were appointed simply to seek to
prove the friendly relations between the
powers.
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into the officeseeking politician.
A local contemporary has been long
while in obtaining official information
concerning the fact, never denied bv the
G b e, that some sailors were admitted
to the Sailors Snug Harbor," New York
Meanwhile Admiral Dewey has corrob-
GRATED all that was ever claimed by the
G o e, the necessity OF a government
home for the thousands of disabled and
superannuated seamen who cannot.
owing to the labyrinth of red tape wound
around the Snug Harbor, gain entrance
therein.
Mark Hanna and Congressman c. H
GrOsvenor, prominent political luminaries
of Ohio, are to meet in conference in Lon
don, where the fogs come from. If Mr.
Grosvenor cannot figure it all out sat
isfactorily to Mr.. Hanna, his mentality is
paralyzed and his notorious table of
Iogarithms has lost its cunning
Burlington, To-, people are complaining
that the katydid has been heard already,
which, prognosticators say, means a
frost in six weeks. What is this katy
did? A kissing bug or an understudy
for the ground hog2
Gen. Miles, it is reported, will ask the
new secretary of war, Root, a very
serious and significant question. It will
be couched in language embodying the
idea, "Am I, or am I not, and If not,
what am I?'
Senator Thurston says It Is our duty
to hold all we can get Stfil, the sena-
tor will readily admit that there are
times when a generous discard results in
bettering a hand.
The Toledo, O., Sam Jones evinces q
frantic desire to throw off the shackles
of party. What a rare old moss-coyer-
ed mugwump Sam Jones has become
All the returning soldiers and sailors
talk on their arrival home, but Admiral
Dewey appears inclined to shed pregnant
sentences all along thesway
Ho, there without! There's treason in
the camp! The truly loiI' Republicans
are now attempting to censure Admiral
Dewey.
Whatever else may result Editor
Kohlsaat and Fire Alarm Foraker have
laid the foundation for f1rst-class feud
Not having been entirely successful at
lacrosse, the st. Paul team might try a
game of kalamazoo"
Honestly, there can be no relief while
the Republican administration remains
an Enclosed incident.
Verify, this is the picnic season, but
wait for the big show, the Labor day
outing.
But the st. Paul team can't play all Of
its games on Sunday.
If the Filipino war is not a political
issue, what is?
Miss Browns Opportunity.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Columbus, o., paper says: ''Miss
Jones picnics her Sunday school class. %
Now is the time for Miss Brown to hus-
tie out and excursion her kindergarten,
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31

There was team, base ball team:
Its men went on a bender,
AND when the seasons play was up
1t found itself tail-ender.
Ihere was team, a base ball team;
Headquarters in St. Paul,
And when the seasons play was I'D.
They turned 1t to the wall. - -
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31

Mark Hanna and Congressman c. H.
Grosvenor, prominent political luminaries
of Ohio, are to meet in conference in Lon
don, where the fogs come from. If Mr..
Grosvenor cannot figure it all out sat
isfactorily to Mr.. Hanna, his mentality is
paralyzed and his notorious table of
Eogarithms has lost its cunning.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31

Burlington, To-, people are complaining
that the katydid has been heard already,
which, prognosticators say, means a
frost in six weeks. What is this katy
did? A kissing bug or an understudy
for the ground hog9
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
Miss Browns Opportunity.

Chicago Times-Herald.
A Columbus, o., paper says: ''Miss
Jones picnics her Sunday school class"
NOW Is the time for Miss Brown to hus-
tie out and excursion her kindergarten.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31

New York ............10 10 Spruce S
Chicago. Room 609 No 81 Washington s
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
To An Teachers.
Lebanon News.l.

Honaker, Va, July 31.-Super-
intendents are instructed after this
year to allow no teacher in the
public hool to hold a third grade
itica,c longer than one year.
n person who on first examination
obtains third grade certificate
and after teaching one session can
not ge. higher grade certificate,
should he dropped from the list of
teachers.
The State Board of Education
recognizes the necessity of more
thoroughness III the profession and
to that end they are using every
effort. truly hope that our teach
ers will avail themselves of every
opportunity to improve and better
equip themselves for the work.
Examinations on Civil Govern
ment will be sent out this year.
DO not fail to attend the Normal.
Very truly,
w. j. KENDRICK, Supt
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Gov. Tyler and the Senate.

1t is stated by the Richmond
papers that Governor Tylcr's can
diddcy for the United States Sen
ate, in opposition to Mr.. Martin
as assured, and that his announce
ment will be mad at an early date
We think the Governor has too
much political sense to do any such
thing. After Mr.. Jones and Mr..
Good, both of whom are popular
men, failed TO see any chance to
beat Mr.. Martin, and don't believe
the Governor will allow himself TO
be drawn into contest which
would mean certain and crushing
defeat.
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Choosing a Vocation.

The young men talk of choosing
vocation in life as If they had to
decide between "a chance to become
a famous writer, lawyer, preacher
or railroad president. AS matter
of fact they have TO hustle to get
the humblest job, must take what
they can get and work hard to
keep it. No man "chOoses" any.
thlng-nOt even his wife, and after
he is married he cant choose what
he wants to eat.
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Sidney Smith S Warming.

The New York World i'm it's an.
t-eXpansion zeal, has produced for
the benefit of its readers, Syndey
Smith'swarning to America, against
the pursuit of glory, printed in the
Edinburgh Review in 1920. AL.
ready the Americans begin to real
ize the correctness of the reverend
gentlemen's predictions. We are
paying war taxes today to the tune
of millions, and the prospect is that
our children will have to 90 on
paying them long after we have
passed over the river. Here is the
prediction:
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County Roads.

80 many criticisms are freely in
dulged in toward road commission
ers, boards OF supervisors and road
contractors, varying too, i'll the sug-
gestions offered, as widely as the
poles, that we offer, with some hest
tatlon, lew suggestions OH this
subject to those in authority.
There is common grourd how
ever, on which all practical men can
meet III rules which should govern
III road construction and repair, and
it is the design of this article to call
attention very briefly to this subject.
Where there is fund for tie con.
struction of macadamiZed road,
80 per cent OF the amount might
we'll be expended in the cost of
original construction, and at loas t
10 per cent, of the amount should
always be reserved for the necessary
repairs some months after it's com.
pletion. No matter how honest a
contractor may be in the effort to
fulfill his contract to the letter, and
no matter how complete and perfect
road bed may be when turned over
to the county. there will be necessa.
ry repairs needed within even n few
months after its construction, and
this repair will continue in small
way, possibly for period of one or
two years, at the end of which time
there will be d perfectly cemented
rroad, good for over half cen
tury, if the drainage is reasonably
attended to. We have III mind now
macadam road, built by Mr.. A. j.
Steele, a few miles east of Tazewell,
and which was well constructed at
the time, but which, by reason of
heavy traffic, needs at this time an
expenditure of S250.00 by way of
new metal aud drainage, as matter
OF economy to the county, and this
expenditure, if provided for at once,
will make 1t a first class road for
many years to COM TIE same
may be said Of the inaI i.un Taze.
we to tho resi,lcLc, of John
ST. Clair, and al so 10 the river.
The old adage that "a stitch in
time saves nine" applies howherc
more strongly than it does TO Ii O
repair of II macadam road; -. ;le
economy manifest in this Lac of
action should commend il to those
in authority.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
RichlanIs, Va, July 10, 1899.

Richl,nts, Va, July 10, 1899.
EDITOR NEWS:
Dear Sir:-The School Board of
Maiden Spring District, decided at
their last meeting, to pay strictly
LIST Grade Teachers this year $50
per month; End grade will be paid
$40 to 1915. The Board will he
governed by the per cent. End
Grade Teachers secure on exami.
nation. The Board will allow COM
petition from all points as we-
desire to procure the very best tai.
ent we can. Will you kindly pub.
fish this in Your rcxt paper.
Truly yours,
W. G. WILLIAMS,
Clerk Of Board.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14

1--WE can inform Jonathan what
are the inevitable consequences of
being too fond of glory-taxes up
on evory article which enters into
the tuouth or covers the back or is
placed under the foot taxes upon
everything which is pleasant to see,
hear, feel, smell or taste: taxes up
on warmth, light and locomotion;
taxes on everything on earth and
the waters under the earth, on ev.
erything that comes from abroad
or is grown at home; taxes on the
raw material; taxes on every fresh
value that is added to it by the
industry of man; taxes on the sauce
that pampers mans appetite and
the drug tina: restores him to
health; on the ermine which deco
rates the judge and the rope winch
hangs the criminal, OH the poor
mans salt and the rich mans spice,
on the brass nails OF thecoflin and
the ribbons Of the bride, at bed or
board, cOuchant or levant, we must
pay.
"rhe schoolboY whips his taxed
top; the beardless youth manages
his taxed horse with a taxed bride
on Il taxed road, and the dying
Englishman, pouring his medicine,
which has paid z per cent, into a
spoon that has paid 10 per cent,
filings himself back upon his chintz
bed which has paid 90 per cent,
and expires in the arms ofan apoth-
ecary who has paid license of a
hundred pounds for the privilege
of putting him to death.
"His whole prop crty is then i'm.
mediately taxed from 3 to 10 per
Cent Besides the probate large
fees are demanded for burying him
in the chancel; his virtues are
handed down to posterity on taxed
marble, and he is then gathered to
his fathers-to be taxed no more.
ain addition to all this the habit
Of dealing with large sums will
make the government avaricious
and proiuse, and the system itself
will intallibly generate the base
vermin of spies and informers and
and still more pestilent race of
political tools and retainers of the
meanc@t and most odious descrip-
ton, while the prodigous patron.
age which the collection of this
splendid revenue will throw into
the hands Of government will in
vest it with so vast an influence
and hold out such means and tenn
ptatlons to corruption as all the
virtue and public spirit even OF Re-
publicans will be unable to resist
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
remarkable Rescue

Mrs. Michael Curtin, Piainfeld, ILL.,,
which settled on her lungs; she was trt -
ed for month by her family physician,
but grew worse He told her that e
was Il hopeless victim of consumption,
an that no medicine could cure her. IeI.
druggist suggested DR.. Kings New Dis
coyery for ConsumptiOn; she bought a
bottle and to her delight found hersel T
benefited from the first dose She contin-
urd its use, and after taking six bottles,
found herself sound and we'll; now does
her own homework, and is as we'll as she
evei WAS. Free trial bottles of this Great
Discovery ut JnO. Il. Jack sons drug store.
Large bottles SOC. and 81 90.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
DEAD SHOT.
TO whom it may concern:

IL WnoHl III MAY concern.
hereby Recommend w. F..
Nichols as Il good painter. He
painted my house, and after seven
teen years | had another painter to
paint it over, and in very short
time it looked as bad us if i. had
not been repainted at all. | had
several doors grained at the same
time, and they don't look any better
than the doors which Mr.. Nichols
grained when he painted the house
seventeen years before. This last
work has been done thirteen years.
and Nichols work had been done
thirty years. He painted it with
Louis link and oil, what else he put
in it | do not know, but | think it
will stay on my house ten years
lon ger. Mr.. Nichols can put paint
OH an iron rook or bridge which he
will guarantees to stay thirty years
| do not sign this for Mr.. Nichols
benefit alone, but for the People at
large.
G. +. Thompson.
Us Thompson.
Benbow Va. June 9Th 1890.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
NOTICE.

To jacob Engler and Ella Engler, his
wife:
Please take notice, that will make n
motion before the County Court of
Tazewell County, Virginia, on first day
of July term--lSth day of July, 1899
to have an order entered in accordance
with section 2i9S Code of Virginia
rs amended by Acts 1918, directing
the Clerk of said Court to release and
discharge lien of Two Thousand dol
lars (S2, .00) with interest from 10Th
November. 1890, retained by you Tor
unpaid purchase money, as vendors in
certain deed dated 10Th November,
1890, of record in said clerks office of
said Court in deed Book No. 80, pages
25-6, conveying 10 Mike StupaIsky a
certain piece or parcel of real proper
ty situate on Church and st. Clair
Streets, town of Pocahontas, Tazewell
County, Virginia. The said sum of
money together with the interest was
heretofore due you, but has long since
been paid in full by said Mike Stupalsky.
The property herein described was on
23rd September, 1896, conveyed to me,
which deed is of record in said office,
Deed Book No. 50, page 1865. I am now
in possession If and the owner of said
property, which as mentioned above
appears of record to be cucumber ed.
Respectfully,
MARY STUPALSKY.
GRO w. ST. CLAIR, Atty.
TaZewcll, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14

Southern West Virginian: Prob
ably not many people are aware
that the coal mined in the United
States annually is worth more
than three times as much us the
gold mined here. The product OF
the anthracite fields alone exceed
i'll value the output of the gold
mines of this country, Canada and
Alaska, which last year amounted
to over s5O,0OO,OOO.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14

In this same connection: The
recent tragedies referred to above
emphasize the evil of carrying con-
cealed weapons. If :here had
been no pistol at hand Senator
Flanagan would have been alive
now, in the home of his wife and
ten children, instead OF in his
grave, and the Walker tragedy and
trial would never have occurred,
and murder and mourning would
be diminished in the land. The
old custom of settling difficulties
with "fist and skull did no harm.
Legislation ON this subject is
needed and will come, as we reach
q higher civilization.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
WANTED!

a bright young lnan who desires to
travel, to take half interest in n porta-
pie photograph gallery. One hundred
dollars required-will teach right party
the business and guarantee hi income
to be not less than $4,000 per month
from the beginning. Call on, or address,
G. II. Hunt,
Pounding Mill, Va
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-14
Repairs for Machinery.

Repairs for Globe, johnson and
Champion machines, sold by II. /.
Hoke, agent for Wildasin and
Fletcher, can bs found at all times
at Peery and StClair's hvidware
store.