The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-03-02
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About $4,000 acres of land be
tween Jafa and Jerusalem has been
secured, on which to form colony
fo- the prosecuted Jews OF Europe.
Gen. Gordon and his brothers,
Walter and Eugene, are said to
have made another round million
by recent railroad deal in the
Southeast.
Miss Ida Ferry, OF Chicopee
Falls, who is of full average height,
boasts the possession of hair that
trails for a half yard along the
floor when she stands erect.
One hundred and twenty thou
sand American grapevires have
been planted on the island OF Monte
| Cristo, rendered so famous by
Dumas's novel, and are growing
finely.
The bill presented to Congress
| for the Yorktown junketing in,
cludes S2,256 for a lunch at Worm
ley's, S1,545 for another in Wash
ton and S2,35O for one at the Fifth
| Avenue Hotel.
One of the latest theories ad
vanced is thatspples are more nutri'
tious- than potatoes, and in Corn
wall, England, workmen say they
can work better on the fruit than
| on the vegetable.
It is estimated that there are
100000 men under arms in Eu
rope at the present time, and that
the annual cost, direct and indirect,
of these enormous forces, is not
less than S2,94O,O0O,O00.
Eating sausages imported from
France has been the cause of the
death Of a popular physician at
San Antonio, Texas. The sausages
contained some irritant poison that
produced fatal peritonitis.
A youth at Portland, Me-, made
$4,000 on land speculation. This
success turned his head, and he
has been sent to an insane asylum,
absorbed in fancied negotiations
for all the towns in the State.
An English statistician calculates
that every man on an average
| speaks ffty-two volumes Of 600
octave pages per annum, and that
every woman yearly brings out $40
| volumes of the same size in talk.
Among the latest devices of the
tickle ruler, Fashion, is that OF
long kid gloves of flaming red
color for ladies. The general effect
Of this style on a lovely female as
she enters reception or ball is
overpowering.
A thoughtful and generous act is
placed to the credit of q New York
police inspector named Byrnes.
Receiving a reward OF $500 for the
capture of a murderer, he gave the
entire amount to the widow of the
murdered man.
Two little brothers broke through
the ice on which they were skating
in Cincinnati. While they were
clnging desperately to the edge Of
the ice and efforts were being made
to reach them, the older one cried
out: BE sure and take Willie out
first But both Willie and his
generous brother were drowned.
Three men are digging for treas.
ure near Eufaula, Ala. They think
they are guided by spirits, and
every midnight they hold a seance,
receiving a communication direct
ing their labor for the rest Of the
night. They have dug hole fifty
feet deep without getting to either
the treasure or the end of their
faith.
The snowfall in Austria has been
so great that IN many places the
drifts reach the telegraph wires.
During some of the storms, passen,
gers and drivers have been COM
PEELED to abandon stage coaches
and seek safety as best they might
by cutting their way to the nearest
houses, leaving baggage to be dug
ont later.
4 SNOWFALL stopped an elopement
in Louisville. It was thrown by a
boy in the street, knocking off the
hat of the driver of the carriage in
which the runaway couple we're
riding to a railroad station, and
thus causing just enough delay to
make them miss the train. Thus hind