The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-24
Worth Reading.

Professor Ramsay thinks that color
blindness is defect Of the brain IN
stead of the eye.
According to, the naturalists wasps
remember the locality Of their nests
just ninety-six hours.
The latest idea in New York is but
terri show, at which 100, 900 specimens
will be exhibited.
The Metropolitan Cattle Market,
London, is the largest Of its kind,
covering 8! acres and costing one mil
lion dollars.
The Bank Of England is the most
extensive banking institution III the
world. 1t employs over 1000 clerks,
and its buildings cover eight acres.
A Swiss watch manufacturer has just
invented watch for the blind, on the
dial of which the hours are indicated
by twelve projecting pegs, one of which
sinks every hour.
It is said there are farmers wives on
Long Island who make boys 'ousers
for three cents. There are women in
New York who toll sixteen hours day
for sixty cents.
How the times change! Our Puri-
tan forefathers at Salem prosecuted
people because they believed they were
witches and had familiar spirits. To
day we prosecute bogus mediums for
pretending to have familiar spirits
when we don't believe their preten-
sions are true.
The largest trees in the world are the
Sequoia Gigantea Of California, found
on the western slope of the Sierra Ne
vada. Some are over thirty feet in di-
ameter, and $50 feet high. Dancing
parties have been held on sawn trunk
and man on horseback has ridden
erect seventy-fve feet through hol-
low trunk.
Vienna bread has made many for
tunes, and one of ss,000,000 came to
Count Zang, who died two weeks ago
in Vienna. In 1912 he established the
first shop for Vienna bread in Paris,
and from that gained his wealth. The
shop exists still as the Maison Zang, on
the Rue Richelieu.
Of 600 tornadoes, of which record has
been made in the United States, not
more than IS were east of the ALE
ghany mountains. the warm air tenn
pestuously driven from the Gulf of
Mexico up the Mississippi valley is
caught up by the polarwind and driven
in gyratory tornadoes across the prai-
ries. The Appalachian range serves on
the Atlantic slope as a barrier against
storms Of that sort.
The present German empress is the
fifth English princess who has held that
rank. The others were Edyth, daugh-
ter of Edward the Elder, wife of Otto
l.. Gunhild, dauhgter of knut, wife of
Henry III, of Germany Matilda, the
/ link between the Norman and Planta-
genet dynasties, wife Of Henry '. OF
Germany, and Isabella, daughter OF
King John, wife of Frederick IL, the
wonder of the world This last named
princess was Il direct ancestor Of the
late Prince Consort Of England, and
therefore of the present German EN-
press.
Probably the most remarkable rail-
road in the world is that running
from Gloggintz to Lounering, near
Vienna. 1t is only twenty-five miles
in length, and cost over S7,000.000. II
begins at the little station of Gloggintz,
at an elevation of 1,400 feet, and from
there the train, hauled by two power
full locomotives, winds round and round
over some fifteen double viaducts and
through as many tunnels. 1t creeps
along precipices afording glimpses Of
some of the widest scenery in Europe
Its terminus, Lounering, is at an ele'
vation of $500 feet.
All the garrisons within the limit o.
the Seventh German Army corps have
now been provided with larger samples
of the new article Of food which IS II
future to form the so-called ''iror
ration" of the men in the field. 1t is
peculiar kind of bread, in the shape O.
small cubes the size of a chocolate drop
made of fine wheat bread, strongly
spiced, and calculated to keep for a Ions
time. When taken into the mouth il
quickly softens. and is both palatablf
and nutritious 1t is chiefly INTENDED
for forced marches, when there is ne
time for camping and cooking.