The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| February and January were added
TO the calendar by Numa about 713
B. G. -
-Conchology was first reduced to
system in 1875 by John Daniel, Mayor
of Kiel. ' ....a q. ~ -
The practice of using baldachin i'm
in 1870.
The French Government intends to
hold a grand international exhibition at
Paris in 1885. ..... ~,}.lo
The hyssop of Scripture is the caper
tree which abomds in southern Europe,
lower Egypt and Syria. ,g., a,..
Chicago is said to waste 100000, ,Ooot
100000.
,-Paris -, has $4,000 houses, London
4oo,Ooo more than Paris, New Y ork and
Berlin combined. :.
The shipments of petroleum and
petroleum products from this country
1or January were valued at So, ,05G, 1853.
by the new census there are in Ire
land 3,95l ,SS7 Roman Catholics and t. I
loS,S42 Protcstants of all kinds. II
-.Ihe debt of the United States pyfor
10 the war was about 500, 900 900. fhe
debt of the Australian colonies rs al
ready livefold that.
1T is estimated that the 700 Guests
aI lhc Vanderbilt ball represent& So,
ooo ,00O, 600, or 10 times the total Aall,a-
ton Of Boston. q
james [. of Scotland was muly|lered
:tt the Black Friars' monastery at INerth,
III l43I, by Robert Graham and thdAEarl
of Ath0l.
Tho revenue Of the Dominion Aov-
crnncnt FOR the first nine months of Che
present fiscal year was 500, ,3S1 ,6S5, aiidA
the expenditures SlS,902, ,140.
In Western China the mountain
om, which hasa "halo," and which is
IN height II 900 feet, is almost exclusive
" inhabited by buddhist monks.
| On the Colorado desert species of
| tortoise grows to a weight of twenty
| live pounds, and the meat of this is coli
sldcred great dclicacy among the In
dians.
"A man recently sold the timber
right on tract Of land III Cambria coun-
ty, pennsylvania, for $4,000. lie
bought the land and trees q few years
ago for 81 600
--'isistratuS founded Il public library
III Athens $40 b. c., and this is the first
institution of it's kind of which history
gives any account. Ptolemy Philadci-
phus founded the second 2s4 B. @.
The cost Of the Vanderbilt ball is
est llmatcd as follows: Costumes, S155,
73o; flowers, $ll 900; carriages, $4 900;
hair-dressing, 81 600; supper and extra
servants, $25, 900; making a total of near
ly $1,000
| Ice men Of the Penobscot river say
that the present season has been q sue
cessful one to them. They have har-
vested some 1S0, 800 tons, and they had
about $4,000 tons left over from last
| season.
1T is said that Stonehenge, the
ancient monument on Salisbury Plain,
was built in accordance with Merlin's
advice by Aurelius Of Ambrosus, in
memory of AGO Britons who were MUIR
dercd by lIongist.
! The virtues Of Peruvian bark were
discovered by Jesuit in 1886, and was
used by members Of the Society of Jesus
from that time. In 1G40 it was intro
duced into France, and Sir Hans Sloane
carried it to England in 100.
"A contract was entered into at San
francisco few days ago by the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company for the
transportation of seven hundred car
loads, being about 100000 bushels, of
| California wheat to go to Europe by way
Of New Orleans.
The five copper mines in Michigan,
which have declared dividends during
the past year, have paid-up capital Of
S2,5O0,0O0 and the dividends paid
amount to $4,000, 900. The Calumet
and llccla, which hasa capital of 81 300
oOo, paid Observation-Disclosures in the pass year
$1,000, 900.
The Western Union telegraph lines
III Texas have Increased from 1900 miles
of pnles and 1000 miles of wire on Jan
|, 1850, to- 300 miles of poles and near,
" 5000 miles of wire on Jan. /, 1888,
thus nearly doubling it's facilities within
three years and still building.
One of the industries of Australia is
the cooking and canning of rabbits,
which arc SO plentiful i'll some districts
that whole crops are sometimes destroy
Ell by them. One firm during the last
season, which lasted twenty-five weeks,
canned G76,OO0 Of the animals.
In the Second revenue collection
district Of Georgia, from December 1st,
1882, to March 3lst, 1883, there we're
seized l05 illicit distillerics; DESTROYED,
go; removed for forfeiture, rs. There
were l3, $50 gallons of beer destroyed,
and 177G gallons OF low wines and 3G7
gallons of whisky seized.
The mining receipts at San Fran
cisco for the first six months Of the year
amounted to G,260,000, of which 81
900, 421, was for the month Of June. OF
this sum the California sent 81 1856, ,202;
Eureka Consolidated, 81, ,5G2, 800, Con-
solidated Virginia, 81 ,404, ,571; Rich
mond, 81 100000, and Ophir, $723,00O.
The first annual report of the New
Jersey railroad commissioners says there
are 1900 miles Of road in the state; capi-
tai invested, $214 ,0GS, ,340; cost of road
and equipments, $lG8, 1866; gross
earnings in 1881, $3l ,845, ,802; net earn
ings, $l1 800, OH interest paid on bonds,
etc., So, SOC, ,339; gross earnings for 1881,
$26, 900, 900; net income, after deducting
all expenses, Sl5,O00,O00. r;>'$ ID.
1t is well known that the wine har-
vest last year. was scanty in Italy, but
compared to that Of France there is no
reason to complain. In Trance scarcely
3O,9S6,352 hectolitres were obtained,
while In Italy there were 30. 500. 448 hec.