The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-23
BRIEFS.

| lcCOr hugo mas $3.50, 900 inter-
est In Brussels bank,
--Locusts have devoured the rico
anu corn crops of Bolivia.
Fishes have been taught to coma
whom called by their names.
"A female spider will suffer death
oefore she will forsake her eggs.
Illinois reports an increased acra-
age and damage Of % per cent.
1t costs the United States $40 0oo
per annum to print its postage stamna
! Tho Pope Monument FUND no,,
| amounts to about five thousand doi.
| lars. '"no oo1-
| -Fhe Inhabitants Of the ylobe nro-
TESS more than 1000 different relic.
ions. iol'g
Sixty tons Of steel are annual,y
consumed In the manufacture of steaI
pens. ''ool
The King OF Portugal has mada
fIo,ouo out OF his tran. lation of Shake.
spcare. Va ''n"Ae-
The governor Of. Now York hoo
teries. 1 "'uoihR lot-
n-Ihe total number Of LANGUAGES ana
ulaieoes spoken In the world amonnts
,oo-Io,, ne lower house Of the Micbiean
ieglsiature defeated a woman suffraua
gan elephant docs not attain ,+o
tull growth until he Is sixteen or e,oh'
teen years old. - 'ish-
"A row Florida farmers who bavo
pianted arrowroot make as muoh os
$l,00O OH al aero. o" as
~Judge Lambert Tree, who ia worth
$4,ooo,oOo, Is said to be Chicago;s
WeaJhtst man.
The largest orange ever ra,sod n
florida Is said to have measured f,vn
inches In diameter, Q" nVe
-Allssouri and Kansas report Jaro.
increase IN acreage and much less dan.
age than was expected.
Over 1000 printing presses bovo
poem poem shipped from Phlladelphia to
france since Tho Centennial.
a $4,000 acre traot of land on tbo
Northcrn Pacific has been bought for
a colony from Belfast, Ireland. ..
1t Is estimated that this year,s 11T
ternal Revenue receipts will excad r.
those OF last year by $40 100000.
according to the bureau of srXtis-
Cics, tnis country consumes, annI3allv
about 324 100000 pounds OF cofiSs.
-English farming lands Nave de-
prec1ated within a few yearsiin rontnI
value at least IS per acre pei annnm.
The richest man In the navy IA
Commodore Baldwin, who has spsou-
lated In real estate in San Francisco.
Lord Bcaconsfeld died with ono
hand In that OF two peers whom he had
created. No relative was in tho room
The number of deaths from ataruo
ton and Of deaths accelerated bv nri.
vation, In London, during 1886. was
l0l.
Indiana reports the same aoreaoa
in winter wheat this season as last
and damage to the crop Of az per
cent.
England raises about 100, 900. .OO9
pounds OF wool per year, and imnorts
upwards OF 460,000,000 pounds per
annum.
Mlohigan's last apportlonment of
funds for the primary schools amounts
to 1888 234 40, which gives 81, ,O8 to
each child.
1.-Two Boston Hotels, whioh last
summer paid So a ton tor their Ice. have
this year contracted for their st,Dnlv
At $2.25 per ton.
Tho Indian Commissioners con-.
tracted In New York the other dav for
20, 600, 900 pounds Of beef for Indians
at $3.44 per cwt.
General Sherman's only son.
Thomas. was recently admitted to the
Catholic priesthood by Archbishop
Gibbons, Of Bal tmore.
Montpelier, the home of President
James Madison, in Orange county.
Virginia, Is advertised to be sold at
auction in July next.
Tho twenty-fourth birthday OF
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore. the
Youngest daughter Of Queen Viotoria.
has just been celebrated.
Out Of 1000 railroads In the coun-
try to which blank reports have been
sent from the census Bureau. over
400 failed to make any return.
The new capital at Albany, N. Y,
requires at least 81, 100000 TO put the
finishing touches upon it, and it Will
then have cost at least SIS .000, 900.
1T is said that Queen Victoria will
visit italy In June, accompanied by
her son Leopold, with view Of re-
crultlng the health Of the Prince.
Ono of the four known copies of
the first complete edition OF Moliere's
works-7 volumes IL mo-, 1873-was
sold at Paris few days ago for 81 ,920.
queen Victoria is 80 convinced that
Prince Albert caught tho cold which
caused his death at Edinburg, that she
has stopped only one night at Holyrood
since that event.
Prince Bismarck Is said to have re-
Gently purchased several estates i'm.
mediately adjoining the old homestead,
Schoenhausen. thereby increasing its
prasont AREA TO 600 acres.
The United States government has
presented two gold medals to- the
Chiefs of tho Indian tribes. on Van
oouver island who succored the crew
| Of a wrecked American vessel last sum-
| NOR.
The United State, has more miles
Of telegraph lines than any other coun-
try In the world--170, ,103, comprising
about 1000 miles of wre--not in
clud,ng lines used exclusively Tor rail-
| road business.