The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1894-09-18
News in Brief:
-Startish eat oysters.

Louis XVI was an abominable
gluten.
The smallest known microbe is tnat
CT influenza.
The best brass band in Australia is
composed of natives.
New York City has 81. .S2Sdwellings
and PIP, 766 families.
Paper pneumatic tires are in
process eff experiment.
The name "BrazI' means cred
wood or ''land of the red wood"
: Books were printed in raised char.
acters for the use of the blind in 1927.
--Camphor should not be placed next
to furs, as it will make the color light
e..
Pneumatic tires have been found
very seryiceable on hospital ambulan>
ceS.
North Carolina has but 3702 for
eisners out Of population of 1,617,-
$50
Street bands are not permitted in
Germany unless they accompany pro
cesslOns.
Ancient books were sometimes
written on slabs of wood, ivory or
meta'S.
In an Oregon town there is an octo-
genarian " no IS an enthusiastic rider of
the bicycle.
The central span of the st. Louis,
(Mo.l bridge is $40 feet, the side spans
5l5 feet each
An elephant is fifty or sixty years
attaining, maturity, and will live cen.
Jury and half.
The works of Aristotle comprised
more than four hundr>d treatises on
various subjects.
If snail's mead be cut off and the
animal placed in cool, moist spot a
new head VIII be grown.
The first Bible printed with date
was furnished by Faust, the German
father Of Typography, in 1852.
The moon IS believed to be the only
member of the planetary system which
is without an atmosphere.
In Vienna, Austria, the organ
grinders are allowed to play only be-
tween midday and sunset.
The Book CT Job, written 1920 B.
G., describes very accurately several
processes ofsmeltlng metals.
The priuciple of trial by jury was
inaugurated in 46S, every accusedper-
sons TO be tried by his equals.
Moss grows thickest on the north
side of hills, and q sun-exposed tree
has its largest limbs on the south side.
Greenland whales frequently attain
length of more than seventy FIVE
feet and weight Of more that seventy
tons.
In 1913 William Burton patented
g. locomotive that was provided with
legs and feet behind push the machine
along the track.
Charles Barrow, OF Columbus, Ohio,
tells Of an esq laid by hen in his
employ that measured seven and seven
eighths inches in length.
German civil engineers will erect
monument in Berlin to the memory Of
DR.. Warner von Siemens, the famous
electrician and inventor.
KID and silk gloves camel into use in
Europe about the end Of the fifteenth
century. At first only princesses and
ladies of high rank were allowed to
wear them.
There is an oak tree on the high
way from Warwick to bennington,
England, which is said to mark the
exact center Of England, 1t is between
5000 and 400 years old.
Hawks have been trained and are
in use in the German army to attack
and capture carrier pigeons, and
to secure any dispatches that the
pigeons might be carrying.
A law passed in the time of King
Edward III and still upon the English
statute brooks prohibits the serving OF
q diDner Of more than two courses to
any one, except on holidays.
Humboldt says that the Baobab
trees Of Senegal are the oldest organic
monuments en- our planet One OF
them IS loo feet in diameter, and is
estimated to be 5000 years old.
H. Pennel, of Wilkes, N. c., on
bis serenty-third birthday, recently
celebrated, cut and shocked forty shocks
Of wheat from dinner time to night, and
was still as fresh and active as q
boy.
A Maine man, q resident of Rock
land, SAYS he had suffered two years
from the after effects of the grip till
he was struck by lightning the other
dsy. Since then he has felt himself
entirely we'll.
Sand filtration of water similar to
the English plan has been ts1ed in
Lawrence, Mass, whery typhoid fever
has been very prevalent, with the
result Of general Improvements in the
public health.
The Bnatgur reservoir, great arti-
fetal lake 10 India, said to hold about
4, GIL, COO,U0 CUBIC feet q water, acts
as feeder to the Mira Canal. It is
formed by a masonry dam 103 feet
high and 1920 feet long.
John c. Higgins, OF Nicholas7ille,
Ken, had 1850 bushels Of wheat in
5 :cks awaitiu- shipment, and buyer
offered him S659 for the lot which he
refused. A few minutes latez the
wheat was destroyed ~ fire.
-Artemisia, Queen Of Caria, inucr-
tallzed herself by the honors she paid
to her dead husband, Mausoleum. She