The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-10
NEWS IN BRIEF,

is the very worst season for selling flow
crs.
| Oscar Wilde is studying for the
| stage. One of his first efforts will be
Romeo"
In the United Statcaone person in
285 is said to be pauper; in England
| one in 35.
| There are 2,1S7 miles, Of telephone
wire in Paris, and what As better, they
are all under ground. 81
! -Undett the new laY., the State Treas
urer Of Colorado has to give bonds in the
| sum of half q million.
-Ex-Senator David Davis is to be
presented by admiring friends in Texas
with chair made of OK horns.
DR.. Yates, of Shanghai, saws the
Chinese pay Sl54, ,752,O 900 annually tex
q'uet the spirits or their ancestors.
On each 1000 of silver dollarsjtbe
Government clears SlS3.75. The silver
costs SS03.75 and the labor S12.5
The Crow Indians Of Montan3 num-
Der about 3,400 and arc cl :cfly knpag-
Ell in agriculture and stock raisilk kg.
"A thousand dollar bill was &,laced
upon the contribution plate in st. Gaul's
Gim''rc''' inn. p"wt"cket' r. l., EasterA Anorn-
"A lady tourstat Jacksonville!A Mia.
took TO jeweller a live lizard, aSAsing
that it be mounted in gold for u S@arf
pin. %
Franklin Piercc's old home in then
outskirts Of Concord, N. H., is to be
transformed into a Protestant Episcopal
school for girls.
"A man up town made a wager with
lady that he could thread a needle
quicker than she could sharpen Il lead
pencil. The man won.
-Tarring and fcatl,crng is a Euro
ptan invention. 1t Was one of Richard
C@ur dc Lions ordinances for Seamen
in punishment for theft.
Edward The COnfessor was the first
monarch Of England who used a seal in
his charters. This is the origin of the
broad seal Of England.
--5ctwecn the years of 1888 and 1857
six great earthquakes took place at Ma
pies, which lost thereby l 500 inhaIjit-
ants per year for that period.
Orange trees are cultivated from
seed. a tree requires fifteen years to
reach maturity, but produces both flow
ers and fruit III the fourth or fifth year.
Canal locks were Known III Upper
| Egypt from the most ancient times
daSN deSNH INTO & EsfgfH EHgaHu ASH 5MH FaSad9t MHHH ntrH Il
| 1862.
OF the Sl5O,OOO, 900 worth of wheat
imported by Great Britain last year
l00,0O0,0 600 worth was from the United
States.
There Is talk in Georgia Of purchas-
ing Liberty Hall, Alexander II. Steph-
ems late residence, by voluntary contri-
buttons, and to retain in it his famous
rolling-chair and other relics.
Mrs. Carter, of Bcllair, O., says in
her application for divorce that her hus-
band compelled her to swallow spools.
buttons, long strings Of wrapping yarn
and marbles as punishment for smiling
at other railroad men as they passed the
house.
OF the 100000 acres of land oc-
cupicd by the Sioux Indians in Dakota
Uncle Sam will take 100000 for white
settlement, placing the Indians on sem-
rate reservations. The Indian territory
west Of Arkansas will DO the next Gus
toner.
For long time official circles in
London have been agitated over the
question whether or not n woman should
be appointed to be superintendent of the
female employees in the post-oilice. 1t
has at last been decided by the appoint
mcnt OF a woman physician.
French mails have increased in in
closures, ETC., sent from 865, ,OOO, 900 in
1877 to 1,340, 100000 in 1881; french
tclcgraphs from 8, ia 900 dispatches in
1876 to IS, ACC, 900 i'm 1881; French money
orders from $l,341 900 in 1870, when
they were established to $0,775,O00 in
1881.
Since the Cotton Exhibition at At
lanta last year, 81, SOC, 600 Of capital has
been invested there a grain elevator and
cotton compress built; spinning COM
pany completed, and nearly filled its
capacious building with machinery, and
u concern organized for the manufac-
tllrc of olcomargarine.
There is an earnest attempt being
made to root out the terrible disease Of
leprosy from the Hawaiian Islands.
Fifty lepcrs have recently been removed
from Honolulu to tho leper settlement
at the island Of Molokai, to be separated
from their friends and families forever
Sir William Thompson finds that
sunlight has about 10000 times tho in
tcnsity of the light of the full moon at
any place OH tho earth, and about 53, 600
that of candle flame. Tho latter result
differs widely from that obtained by
Arago, who found the light of the sun
to have about $4,000 times the intensity
Of candle flame.
Antwerp, city of 100000 has no
water supply but wells and canals, and
in 1870 works were built to filter the
waters of the Nethe by passing them
through filters Of sand and spongy iron
and gravel The plan has proved suc-
cessful, but the supply is very small, ac- B.
cording to American ideas, being receiv-
ed in tank of only $40, 900 gallons.
The number Of newspapers now
published in Great Britain and Ireland
is 1862, of which 1870 are published in
England alone, London claiming 1856 of
them. In Wales there are Is papers, in
Scotland 1874, in ireland 152, /, In The Isles
81. The daily papers are thus distrib-
uted: 127 in England, 4 iii Wales, % in i
Scotland, 16 iii Ireland and 3 in the
Isles. In 1916 the number Of newspal-
pers in Great Britain and Ireland was
only 55l or about one-fourth the nuns
Der now, and only Ia of them were dai-js