The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF

| G>S W s@~"o e>AS SteShS5Sh Va tAuf01 Wy Nun
is increasing.
Atlanta claims to have q young lady
with the finest and prettiest hair in tho
United States.
-"Lcss choir music aud moro con-
RrogatioDal singing - cries Western
religious newspaper.
Several high -rooming Harvard stu
dents have provided themselves with
ropes for case of fire.
The population Of Syria and Pa,es-
tine is estimated Mt 2,O76,32l. OF these
only 5000 are Protestants.
Miss Mary Dickens, eldest grand.
cLiil Of Charles Dickens. ago nineteen,
Is about to become al actress.
Tho new regulation snare drum
adopted for the use of the United States
Army is to be 16 inches in diameter and
inches long.
-The total exports of breadstutf
from the United Suites during the wear
1882 amounted in value to S1S2, $50. 1884.
against 1921, 1874 1882 during 1881.
| From observations made in the
Geological Gardens, London, it seems
probable that the extreme lease of life
OF the hlppopotamus is thirty years.
Silk production is said to bo in ths
following proportions Italy, 81 per
cent. China, 36 Franco, 8 East in
dia (BengaD, 7; Japan, 9; Persia and
| the Levant, 1.
Factory operatives in New England
arc unltedly psking for weekly payments
of their wages, while their employers
are as unanimously in favor of the
monthly system.
Tho rag business in New York
amounts eto $50, ,OO0,0O0 per annum.
There are 5000 rag-pickers in the CITY.
Last year there was over 81 G, 900 worth
OF rags imported.
Or tho 1000 grain mills in Hol-
land, 10000 are driven by wind. The
bulk of wheat meal is consumed by the
public without passing through any
tiourdresing machine.
Beef COWS arc DOW selling ut $2S
and three-year-old steers ut $35 to $40
Mt Austin, Texas. Stock raisers arc
happy and consumers Of bocf corres-
pondingly miserable.
Tho sugnr crop Of Louisiana proves
to be much larger than had been antici-
patcd. 1t is alleged that of the portion
OF the crop received at Morgan City
two-thirds of it go to Texas.
The English Postmaster General is
totally blind, and Mr.. George Richard
son, who has just been appointed Rc-
celver and Accountant General to tho
Post Office, is totally denf.
Tho old mansion built by Gen.
Philip Schuyler in 1850, upon Clinton
street, Albany, is offered for sale in the
expectation that it will be replaced by Il
building for business purposes,
The American Peace Society ilns
now invested funds to the amount of
about $50, 600, having lately como into
possession of legacy of $40, 900 from
the late Rev. DR.. George @. Bockwith.
Recent tests of yarn mado from
different hcmps gave tho following re-
latlve average strengths Manila, 245
Italian, 22l New Zealand. 143 Rus
sian, 1873. Manila IL evidently tho yam
to bo hanged with.
Near Picton, Ontario. rs nremnrkn-
bio freak of nature. Two elm trees
stand about twenty feet apart, aud one,
Mt tho hclght Of twenty FIVE feet, bends
over and joins the other, forming per-
feet and magnificent tree. 1t is then
perfectly round, and extends upward
about twenty-five feet.
during the past yoar 1471 new
companies were registered in London
under the limited liability acts, with an
aggregate capital Of G2lG, ,561,0lG III
1881 the number was 1885, with q capt.
tai OF G167 1892, ,941.
England pays Lord Lyons, her Am.
bassador to France. $50, 600 n year, and
makes no fuss about it. If tho salary
OF the President of the United States
were fixed according to English notions,
1T would be million year, at least.
An Australian Tom Thumb has
been on exhibition in England. His
real name is David John Armstrong.
inches in height, and weighs 70 pounds.
His limbs are in perfect proportion.
He is very Intelligent.
The annual report of tho Supervis.
ing Inspector General OF U. s. shows
that tho number of accidents to steam
vessels during tho year past was forty
one, involving loss Of 205 ]iYes, being
an average of enc life lost to each l.
TIT, l72 passengers carried.
Hamburg Lake, near Lake City,
Fla,, sheet OF water of about forty
acscs, is being drained by an under
ground outlet Tho water rises again
in q stream six miles from the lake.
Another lake near by ran dry in 1852,
but has since filed up again.
Tho ice bridge at Niagara Falls il
commonly supposed, by those who have
not seen it, to add much to the beauty
of tho winter scenes there. BUTT does
not. Instead of great arch of glitter
ing crystal spanning tho stream above
the falls, 1t is IN expanse of rough ice
across the river at their foot.
ALL tho Prussian Barons. on or be-
fore the lst day Of April next, will be
required, says German newspaper, to
vindicate their right to their titles, for
the reason that within the past two CEN
lures many abuses havo grown up. 1t
Is said to have been proved that, in
number of cases. second, and even
younger sons and daughters Of baronial
titles, have assumed the titles when 1t
belonged only to father ora brother,
Herman +. Staus, the brave Mil
waukee fireman who rescued several
lives at the burning Of the Newhall
House. was presented with a gold watch