The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-10
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A bat that flies without wings-A
brick bat.
Cats arc known to reach tho ago
OF twenty >ono years.
Slave of tho still--Servant in
deaf and dumb asylum.
Among tho latest curiostios is q
whct-stone to sharpen tho water's
edge.
If q good faco is q lottcr Of re-
commondation, n good hoart is q
letter of credit.
Spiders scom gifted with q nearor
approach to reason than any other
insects.
Boggs says tho times nre so dull
that it is difficult for him to collect
ovon his ideas.
A railroad IT," II moving twenty
miles an hour day and night would
reach tho planet Neptune in 10000
years.
Palm loavcs, straw, yucca fbrcs,
whalobono shavinGs, and feathers,
arc used in making artificial flowers.
A fashion item says "mnrigold" is
now a popular shade Of yellow.
The ladies' always wcro partial to
marry~gold.
The Princess of Wales, tho Grown
Prince Of Denmark, her brother,
and tho heir to tho Belgian throne,
arc all partially doaf.
A court on the French sido of
tho Exposition has just boon open
od, which illustrates tho perfection
to which Paris artists in hair haze
arrived.
Turkeys arc natives of America,
and wore consequently unknown to
tho ancicnts. They wcro first
brought to England about 1928, and
to Franco about 1910.
An Americana merchant in Japan
says an evening stroll through somo
of tho towns in that country reveals
a petroleum lamp in nearly every
store, burning American oil.
a doctor went out for days
hunting, and on coming homo COM
planned that ho hadn't killed any.
thing. "That's because you didn't
attend to your legitimate business,
said his wife.
The salqe backacho which makes u
boy howl when he's digging potatoes
wreaths his face in smiles whom he
slips off tho back way to tho picnic.
Boys arc curious insects.
If you take one Of the new silver
half dollars, pour q little muriatic
acid on tho figure of thu caglo and
set it in the sun for twenty minutes,
when you como TO look at it will
DO gone. And the man who took it
will DO gono also.
So disgustod was farmer who
had taken two horse load of corn
to Dallas, Tex, on learning that the
buyers would pay no moro than
thlrty-fivo conts, that he paid forty
conts to drive his wagon to the
middle Of tho toll-bridgc, and there
solcmnly cmptied the grain into
tho river.
Charles Reado is mistaken. There
are men who could never learn to
use both hands with equal facility.
We saw ono last evening grinding q
hand-organ in market, and to save
himsclf ho couldn't budgo tho
crank with his left hand. Ito had
neglected to bring it homo with him
when ho came out of the army. And
now let the old mudslingor call us a
bald-headed horse thief if ho dares.
|-Ot'aciae'eoti -Breokfast Table:
Tho records of tho ancient
borough Of Wallingford, Borks..
England, contain tho following
ineuphonious surnames. which have
been brought to light by tho His
torical MSS. Commission Three
halfpence, Brokenfoot, Timoofday,
Harlbat, Wapr, Kyhaw, Henteeako,
Scaldwater, Putt, Pelekoc-proba-
bly, Shakspcare's Wing Lear) Pill
cock-:pessowips, Peekepeni, Silk.
crit. Some Of the feminine Chris
tian names found on tho other hand
pre- worry euphonious: Estrilda,. Claria,
Alarcilla, Claricia, Basillo-rolics of
tho Roman days in Britain. =
'Thore is class of disoases. often