The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-30
BKINFS,

States is in nine States.
The winter nork-paoking at Mil
waukee was 1926 595.
-Alexsnder III is 35 years old, and
has four children.
lost wear the government sold
293 o'0,o0 postal cards.
Green Victoria made 81 600 on
stock farming last year.
during tho pork hacking season
81. Louis put up 474 .159 hogs.
There are $3.50 procers in Phlla-
aelrhla who employ 6 900 hands.
The weight Of the circulating blood
Is 'aoout t"onty-sight pounds.
| "A man annually contributes to
vegetation III pounds Of carbon.
Tho public schools Of tho United
States cost $50, 800 900 year.
The value Of the Naw York hav
crop Is estimated at $6o,0 900 year.
The exact population Of New York
State by the census Of 1880 is s, ,O89 9s2.
| The centenary OF George Stcph-
enson, June 8, 1881, IS to be celebrated.
There were 160 fires in Now York
day.
| Queen Mary II, daughter of Jamea
1894. pun AZ
The famous destructive earthouako
whloh occurred at Lisbon wa, IN tia
| year l472. '"'
| -Ihere are In this country 729 Irn,-
bors. "'n IL
| Twelve torpedo cutters are To h.
addcd to the Russian fleet in Chinese
| waters. e"'
| The revenue Of the Sultan OF Tur.
Key Is 500 O,0O0, of which $55, 900. 900
goes TO the army.
OF 267 women In Burlington. VT
| entitled to vote at the recent election
| only 1G did so. ~'''"
"A site has been selected on Georoe.
town heights for a naval Observatory.
TO cost 500 600.
Milo. Bernhardt's receints in Roo
ron were $49, 157, as ageiIst $51 ee7 In
New York. :"
The crown prince Of Sweden Ia M
narr1 the eldest daughter Of the grand
duke OF Baden. "A"
The cost of cremation at tho oa,e-
orated Warrington, Penn, furnace IA
now placed at $45.
Mount Ararat, on which thu R,b,o
say Nn@h's ark found resting place
Is IL, liz feet high.
In few cities arc there more tbon
nalf dozen railway stations. In Lon.
don there are ut least l5J.
1t Is Calculated that sixtv ton. ~
steel are annually consumed In the
manufacture Of steel pens.
The coinage at the mints for Feb
n t,1H IN
$l,7o3, 600 were silver dollars.
IEx.Judge Strong will devote hi,
leisure to literary and scientific stu,lie.
ana may practics law.
The poor department In r ,oh ester
'urh.shes lood anu fuel to 7U families
1t a cost OF aoout 81 + 10 a month.
Sir. Francis Lvcett. Of ENGLAND
'as left more than 81 $50 O,O for the
erection Of Wesleyan onapsls.
"A new oil we'll was sunk reoentlv
IN Beaver county, Pa, which produces
h'ty barrels of heavy oil per day.
Tho land that has been granted bv
the United States tor rlil and wayon
roads amounts to 198 165, ,7G4 acres.
French Canadian farmers have
been selling frozen milk in Montreal
during the winter at 3 oents a pound.
IL is said that postal oard writing
has dtmtn'she the sale OF wrItin1
paper $l2,oo0,o0o annually in tho
United States.
Cen. Robert Toombs, Of Georgia.
has given thousand acres OF T,Sas
land to aid IN founding a university in
that state.
1t is stated that the new Cigar
factory just started ut TIoga, Pa., viii
employ about ono hundred cigar max
ers.
The average yle'd OF India.l corn
per aore throughout the United States
Is 1912 bushels, Of an average value per
bushel Of 2SI cents.
The Oxford University calendar
shows slight increase In the NUN ber
Of undergraduates. There arc now q.
ss2, against 2.8l4 year ago.
"A stone pitcher used by John
Brown during his imprisonment in
Charleston, Va, was sold recently at
auction In Baltimore for 50.
The average OF the pulse in In FANCY
g 12O per minute; In manhood, 80; at
g. years, 60. The pulse or females Ia
more frequent than that Of males.
The late earl Of Soafield was the
CHIEF OF the Clan Grant, one Of the old
est families In Scotland. having an un.
broken line Of descent for 600 years.
The exports Of Swiss products to
the United States for 1889 were greater
than any other year on record, exceed
ing 1879, by 100000, 900 francs.
There are $500 children in Massa-
| chusetts under the care Of the State,
and Of tho.e over 1000 are the off,
spring Of criminals.
| One Of the vaults In Treasury
Building, which 10 about ten feet
square and fourteen feot high now con-
talhs 1916 000,O00 In registered govern
| mont bonds.
Tho total number nf hogs cut up In
Cincinnati during the winter seasOn,
from November 1st to March It. 10
3d., ,425, sho~in; Il decrease, oompaled
With last year, OF ID .445 head.
There ere in Scotland 208 priests,
2SG churches anu ohtpels, 2lO Catholic
scnoois, aud forty roxlglous oommuni-
ties, with an estimated Cituollc popu-
| n o.