The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-10-30
BRIO H. -BR1C.

Good hiding places =. School
houses,
A boarding-house--a carpenters
shop.
Zach Chandler says you can't mako
juleps without straw.
Horace Greely's youngest daugter
is said to be growing moro and moro
beautiful every year
Sitting Bull is credited with being
prominent member of tho Inde-
pendent Order >f Red Men.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, is
81 have an article on Civil Service
Reform in the North Americae
Reuie,o.
Miss Van Lew, late postmistress at
Richmond, Va, has gone into busi-
ness as a manufacturer of agricultu~
raj implements.
The Tree Press tells of Dotroit-
or who says: "There is one good
thing about Satan. He nevor .eighs
the drivers as ho sends out bis coal"
What is the difference between
poor gun and q borrowed masquer
ade costume? Ono is fred and
doesn't hit, and tho other is hired
and doesn't fit
Amarriage is probable between tho
e1-prince imperial of France and the
Princess del Pillar, sister of the king
of Spain. She is sixteen years of
age.
cam I not little pale ?" inquired
a lady, who was short and corpulent,
of crusty old bachelor. "You
look moro like big tub" was the
blunt reply.
Paris has the largest library in the
world It contains about 100000
volumes, 10000 manuscripts, 3OO,-
900 ALIASES and maps, and $780,
600 engravings.
Pithole had, when the oil fever was
at it's height, a postal delivery rank
ing third in Pennsylvania. At the
last election the town polled six
votes, and it is about to give up its
charter.
The aggregated exports of potro-
teum oil this year are 121,00O,A00
against S4,000,000 gallons last yea:.
Over O million gallons are daily OK
ported from New York.
Of forty-throe varieties Of apples
tested by M. A. Truelle, of the
Chemical Society of Paris, the red
American rennet was found to con-
tam the largest amount of sugar.
The inest crop of raisins ever pro.
duced in California is promised
shis fall. The grapes ore not grow
1ng so large as in previous years,
owing to dryness, but their quality
is better.
One firm in New York engaged in
the manufacture of matches con-
sumes per annum 100000 feet Of
white pine lumber, 100000 pounds
OF sulphur and 150 tons of straw
board for boxos.
Jennie June affirms that during
the past season Anna Dickinson had
nm opportunity to form two matri..
monial engagements, one with no
less parsonage than General B. r.
Butler.
Professor Tyndal thinks that tho
man of action requires much oxygen
in his atmosphere, while the man of
science, who leads duller, life re-
quires less vitalizing air.
Among Liszt's pupils there is jeal-
ousy and intrigue. When one can
not exactly express q meaning he se-
lects another to do it. He kisses
some of the girls when they leave.
Old Aunt Betsy, colored woman
OF Kansas City Missouri, who claimed
to be hundred and eight years old,
starved to death on Saturday night.
She knew General Washington, of
course.
Jones, of Nevada, takes two hun
dred and odd pages of pub. doc. to
prove that the national dobt should
be paid in silver. Mr.. Jones might
have saved himself much labor by
the simple statement that he had a
large lot of silver on hand which ho
could let the government have on