The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-15
NEWS IN BRIEF,

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foreign ports, during 1885, numbered
6476, including 1916 steamers.
The total product OF tho Leadville
mines for 1882 is reported at SI8, ,22O..
eO3, which Is $5, ,050, 1927 more than in
--The cane crop of Mississippi is this
year largely in excess of any heretofore
produced, and is yielding handsome
profit.
Thirty thousand dollars is the money
value OF the cocoanuts shipped from
the island Of Jamaica to the United
States.
The United States Government
owns $4,000, 900 acres Of land in Cali -.
tornia, and half Oft is suitable for good
farms.
There are 415 street railway COM
panies in the United States and Canada.
which run M aggregate of $4,000 cars
pcr day.
1.-Two years ago there were but seven
cotton mills in the Dominion low
there nre twenty-one, with MI aggregate
capital of $4,000, 1000.
| The Great Dismal Swamp in Vir-
glnla 1s passing away. Much of the
urea has been reclaimed pnd conyerted
into good tillage land.
| Tomatoes to the amount of I .bOO
| 900 cases are annually canned in the
United States, or $4,000, 900 pounds,
valued ut 50 $780,
-Pennsylvania ranks first among the
United States III the number of post
Offices, having 9,696, more than anv
cther State III tho Union.
The population of Great Britain en-.
Joys an income of $4,000, ZOO, 900, of
which eighty-three per cent. is expen-
ded for tho necessaries of life.
The receipts Of the Patent Office
during the year were 81 600, 18B, against
$853, ,G65 during 1881. Thenet revenue
of the Otlic" during the year was 1926
600.
Competent judges estimate that the
Franco German war cost Franco two
prov8cesRa million of lives, aud 49,.
oOo3, ZOO. 600. 1t added 1000, 900, 600
to the debt.
-Ihe worship Of Janus was intro
duced into Rome by Romulus. Numa
Pomplllus named the first month Of the
year for him, and dedicated n covered
passage near the forum to him.
-The thrce-ccnt silver piece has
been abolished from the United States
coinage, and they are now being re-
deemed at the treasures. New
three-ccnt pieces Will be made Of nickle.
Treasurer Gillillan, who hasapur-
chased 5000 acres of land IN Florido.
will have other persons associate with
HIM, and during the coming wear viii
L '--'A - -f".--~- >.>.s = nna .------.i
orange trees.
The late David Greenshields. of
Montreal, bequeathed over 51OO, 900 to
various charitable and public institu-
tlons. The Montreal General Hospital
aud Queens University, Kingston, re-
ceived $1,000 each.
Lyons was the centre of the intel
lectual life of Europe during tho first
half of tho sixteenth century. Cry
phe, the great printer, had Ills Office
there, and Ill 1860 sent out q Latin Bi-
BILE, remarkable for its freedom from
errors.
In the reign OF Louis XVI. tho
landholders OF France were few and
their estates immense, single person
often being lord of hundred parishes.
Tie Duke OF Nemouille and his daugh-
ter, the Princess of Tarente, owned 800
parishes.
Two hundred and forty-four earth
quakes. it is stated, arc known to have
occurred during 1881, Of which eighty
six were in Winter, sixty-one Ill Au-
tumn, tifty-six i'll Spring and forty-one
in Summer.
"A Nevada mine has just produced
bar of gold seventeen inches long,
seven inches wide snd eight inches thick,
weighing $50 pounds, with n cash value
OF $ll5,O00. 1t is said to bo the largest
bar over cast IN the United States.
Madagascar is rather larger than
france. A belt of almost virgin forest
runs around the island. The popula-
tion is about four millions. and tho soil
will easily support thirty millions. In
dla rubber ls principal export. Tho
mineral wealth is enormous.
Tho detailed project for the sul
marine tunnel between Italy and Slcil
has been finished, and will soon DO sub
mitted for Government approbatio,
The length OF the tunnel will be abou
81 miles. The expense is calculated
$l4, $780, 900.
--The infant boy OF the ruler OF Bur.
nah has cradle which cost 81, 900, 900;
~ Ao LhuuC Va ROll ullO COYcISu WIFI
precious stones. But he has the snuff
les, colo and collywobbles just tho same
as the baby TINT fills crib that didn't
cost So. 50.
There are 118 public scientific Oh
servatories in tho world. The most
ancient is that Of Leydeh, founded in
1882 then come Copenhagen, founded
in 1887 Paris, in 1867. and Greenwich,
in 1876. Prussia. now the richest
country in tho world. in astronomical
observatories, had none before 1906.
Tho 21. 900 English Puritans, who
came oyer to New England before the
meeting of the Long Parliament haye
now increased to nearly 100000.
According to the most careful estimates,
ut least one-fourth of the whole popu.
lation of the United States at the pres.
ent moment is descended from these
Daen.
In the eastern part of Massachu-
sets, and with headquarters in Boston,
are seven nail mills, operating 800 ma
ohines, and turning out an average OF
10000 kegs per week, mostly for the
home trade, but furnishing shipments
for Cuba and South America.
1t is announced that contract has
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