The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-26
BRIEFS.

ais on the Pacific coast since 1848 is
stated at 2,l3S ,0Gl ,1sG.
-Ihe German Empire has 81 uni
versities, with 1850 professors, and
more than 1900 students.
| Moody and Sankey are to pay for
the education of twelve Creek Indian
girls at the Northfield Seminary.
| Edward 8. Stokes and the widow
of James Fisk, Jr., CHANGED to sit at the
same table in an Atlantic City hotel.
The rails used by companies within
radius of six miles from Charing
Cross, London, would form single
line of 700 miles.
| In Lord Liverpool's cabinet. in
| 1919, eight Of the eleven members sat
In the House OF lords, and all but two
had the title Of Lord.
| "A. G. Burgess of East New Yorl:
has produced new Seeding which he
| cal lls Wistarea Gigahtea. 1t bears much
| flowers than the ola Sort
The task Of transforming Rome INTO
| modern clty has proved very costly
affair, and the undertaking is now at a
halt from lack of further funds.
-California's production of gold for
| the month Of July, 1879, was$ G79, 100.
| In Nevada the production was, for the
Same month, gold 1921 100, silver $780,
800.
| Tho Edison Company has obtained
from the French Government permIs7
sion to establish telephone communica-
tton between the various quarters Of
Paris.
The trustees of the Rev. J. II.
| HartleY's church, in Cincinnati, have
asked him to resign, on account of his
habit of borrowing money and never
paying.
| During the last ton years 233 miles
of street car rails have been laid in Eng
land and Wales, at cost Of nearly $l6,-
| oOo,e00, exclusive Of the outlay on
| horseE, engines and rars. .
About ton cents worth of damage
was done to a fence by boy with d
knife, ut Galosourg, Ill. The owner
manned the boy for life by kicking
him, and had to pay $4,000.
| The increase OF specie in the Ma
tional banks from October 1, lS7S-the
return next proceeding specie pay
| nents-to February 81, 1880, the last
full report, was $G7 100000. .n,z
The Governor-G General, Princess
and suite will leave Ottawa for Que
bee. They will spend some time tsI-
| Ing on the Sagueney, but the summer
| programme Is yet to be decided upon.
"A shirt contains about sixty yards
of machine stitching and thirty yards
OF basting, and for this work l3dd. is
paid. A lady worked for a wuuk for
| 6d., working on an average tive hours
day. -
A recent official retNrn of tho na-
tlonal debt Of Great Britain puts tho
exact figures on the 1st Of April last ut
| t778, ,07S, $50 ($3, 800, 1891 ,2OOl. In 1889,
tS03, l28, was paid of and go, ,5S9, 1913
added. -.
Since February the sale of one cent
stamps at the city post-ofllce In Wash
ington has increasee from 10000 u
month to 100000 month-.showing
that much printed matter is being
mai led.
-Othnial eager has been clerk OF
| Norwich, Conn.,, for forty years. He
has filled oighty-elght volumes of 73l
neater set Of books, 1t Is said, has
| been seldom seen. 80.
1t is calculated that 10000 passen
gers Will sail for Europe this season.
Allowing al expenditure Of only $500 to
each person, which is very low, we
havea total Of $15. 100000 that viii be
sent out Of the country.
DIR. Peck Of indianapolis has ampu-
tated the legs of young girl on ac-
count Of decay in the bones, produced
by excessive rope Jumping. He ad-
viscs parents and teachers to prohibit
| this play under all circumstances.
Five generations are living under
one roof IN Rehrcsburg, Bcrks county;
George Staudt, aged 81 years; his sou
| George, over 60 years; Georges daugh-
ter, Mrs. Susanna IIimmelhergcr, and
her daughter, Mrs. Alice BrObst and
child.
Train agents on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad are required
by new set of regulations to keep
| clean, act decently, talk in q low tone,
not work the cars more than once I'm
thirty miles, and never throw books in
a passengers lap.
of all the nations living under the
scepter Of the Gear the Jews arc the
best educated. The "propoWion OF
Jews In Russia is one Jcw to every
| twenty Russians; while in the colleges
| the proportion Of students Is one jew
ish scholar TO every six Russians.
The electric light will be again
used at the French Salon this season,
| although tho jury Of painting protest
| strongly against this mode of lighting
as too unequal and glaring, injuring
almost invariably the effect Of painting
and not improving that Of sculpture.
Three large personalities have re-
cently paid probate duty in England
| the Dean of York's personal property,
$500, 900; Mr.. Julius Beers, $4,000
| 600, and the late Duke OF Portland's,
| 81 500 1000, in addition to his vast land
cd estates In and out Of the metropolis.
| --Naturalists who have been explor-
Ing BorneO assert that in the stems Of
certain plants found there are galleries
| tunnelled by specie Of ant, and that
the presence Of the ant Is essential to
existence o. the plants, for unless Fat.
taxed by the insects when young the
plants soon die. eJ}
--"rhe Temple of Glory Of Russia"
Is the name Of the building which it is
| proposed to erect In st. Petersburg, on
| Yasilievsky Island, just opposite the