The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| The standard gallon measures 23l
cubic inches, say 81 pounds ayordu-
pois.
| "A standard bushels contains 2l5O
cubic Inches. or 77A pounds avoirdu-
pois.
| The quantity Of cotton consumed
IN 1873 was flfty-tour times greater than
l778.
| The convicts Mt the Texas State
fenitentiary turn out 10000 bricks
daily.
| The Egyptians made glass and COL
orcd 1t beautifully 1900 years before
Prince Bismarck recently cele.
orated his sixty-seventh birthday in
Berlin.
The chorus of the grand opera in
Paris numbers l00-sixty men and forty
women.
There are said to be at this moment
moro editors In than out Of prison in
Russia.
The old mausoleum of Augustus
Gao iar at Rome is being converted by
| theatre.
Stretching in the Black Forest was
one Of Queen Vlctorta's recent recrea-
tions at Baden.
Ninety years ago Madeira shipped
over 10000 pipes Of wine and now
ships but 1000.
Moro than twenty celluloid COM
pantes IN this country are doing n sue
ccssful business.
Gen. Hancock has been elected one
of the Commanders Of the Loyal Legion
of the United States.
Lime and sand, and cement and
sand, loosen about one-third in volume
when mixed together.
1t it estimated the st. Gotbard tun-
ncl Will augment trade between Ger
many and Italy tenfold.
During April tho United States
mint turned out 0, Bl 900 pieces of coin
of various denominations.
The Duchess of Galliera has con-
verified her tlnc palace at Genoa into a
hospital for ailing infants.
The number Of foreigners In Rome
during Holy Week was larger this year
than 1t has been since 1870.
The fund for Senator Morton's
monumont now reaches 81 900, and it
IS to be placed In Indian apolis. .a
1t ls estimated that seventy years
pletc the excavations at Pvmpeii.
|
her dcbutin London as an opera singer,
Is Emma WiXom Of Alpha, Nevada.
The bank Of England, it is reported,
cifectual safeguard against forgery.
-Moncure ID. Conway says that
Rcnan makes the same physical impress
sion on the people that. Webster made.
The number Of exiles to be trans
ported to Siberia in Juno and July this
year, IS said to be about twenty thou
sand.
Sunday schools were first estab-
llshcd IN England In 1880, and grand
centenary festival is being organized
there.
The richest woman in America Is
said to be Mrs. e. IL. Grcen of Bellows
Falls, W. Her estate is valued at $685.
100000.
--King Louis Of Bavaria, they say. Is
about to marry the Princess Isabella,
his cousin. She Is seventeen and he
thlrty-nvc.
AIR. w. w. Story Is to receive an
order for statue Of the late Professor
Henry, Of the Smithsonian Institution,
to cost $4,000,
The Empress Of Russia Is said to be
kept alive by morphine, diluted goats
milk and small pieces Of raw meat put
into strong douilton.
Gold Is found In tifty-slx counties
IN Georgia, silver in three, copper in
thirteen, iron IN forty-three and dla.
monds in twcnty-six.
1t has been ascertained in France
that toughencd glass oilers a greater
resistance than ordinary glass to the
passage Of electricity.
-ViCe-President Wheeler Is de-
scribed as being very fond Of animals,
ana often stopping during his walks to
stroke stray cat or dog.
At least one-third of the solid part
of the Garth, one-flfth OF the air and
ctght-ninths Of all tho water OH the
globe are composed of oxygen.
james Walsh, a wealthy distiller of
Covington, Ky, recently paid tho debt
Of $40 900 on The Church OF the Immac-
ulatc Conception in that place.
The ex- Khedive is suspected of fo-
mcnting the great agitation IN Egypt
against tho introduction of foreigners
into the administrative departments.
Queen Victoria intends to decorate
Frances Anne, Duchess of Marlbor-
ough, upon her return TO England, with
the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert.
There arc in the United States $50
theatres and 120 concert halls, 100 reg
ular travelling companies, 80 variety
companies, GS companies formed to sup
, port stars, and resident stock COM
panics.
AT the head Of all the city institu-
tions for the benefit Of the poor In Paris
is the Assistance PublIque, which gives
aid to some thirty or forty Thousand
people every year.
There Is q rumor of the possible
marriage of tho Princess Beatrice, OF
Britain, to Prince Thomas Albert VIC
tor, Duke Of Genoa, and younger BROTH
or Of Queen Margaret, Of Italy.
Tho production Of cotton seed oil III
this country has risen from 1890, 900
gallons in 1873 to 100000 in 1870;
about one-third Of the present product
going to France to be sold as olive oil.
| Tho fastest run on record was made
| racoptlxy I'm n lnpnmnftya On tha Pam.