The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ASTEROIDS are supposed to oe Ene
remains ofa once single planet.
The fattening OF the poles OF Jupi'
Ter can be seen through the telescope.
The apple has larger proportion
of PHOSPHORUS than any other fruit
Giants usually have weak constitu-
tions, and are shorter-llVed than
dwarfs.
1t would take about 1900 globes as
large as our earth to make one equal IN
size to Jupiter.
! There are no known means by
which the scars made by smallpox may
be removed.
A denial inirmary, to care for the
teeth of ihe poor, has been proposed ID
Toronto, Canada.
A French barber has invented q
curling iron, the heat for which is sup
pied by electricity.
"A red skined fraud is being exhib
tied at the Antwerp (Belgium) exhibl
ton as Setting Bull. .
james McCloud of South Dakota,
has raised horse which has eight per.
feet hoofs, two on each leg.
A Hungarian inventor claims to be
able to make from wood pulp fabric
suitable for durable clothing.
The temperature of the earth in.
creases one degree for each fftys6ve
feet Of descent into its interior.
The wettest place in this country
Neah Bay, in Washington. Over 1923
inches of rain falls there every year.
-Srn spots were first observed in
1911, ao,l were then noted by several
astronomers at about the same time.
William Boyer, of Roneybrook,
Penn, is the owner of pair Of m1ttens
knitted by his grandmother in 1777.
"A Frenchman has invented an cleo.
trio m"squio bar which eIectrocutes
insect pests which come in contact with
it.
The lamp used by Epictotus, the
philosopher, sold for 5000 draohms
soon after his death, ID the year l6l,
4. u.
"A microscopic examination of q
hair will determine with almost infall1-
hle certainty to what kind Of animal it
belonged.
Letters are whirled between Paris
and Berlin through a pneumatic tube
700 miles in length 1T the rate of 20
miles minute.
On the longest day snow forty feet
thick has been known below the sum-
mis of Mount Kosciusco, Australia's
highest peak.
Scientific men have demonstrated
that e speed of 200 miles an hour can
never be attained by anything that
moves on wheels.
Electric pianos, which play them.
selves. the keys, being depressed as
though by some unseen hand, are now
being manufactured.
Plants are affected by various SUBJ
stances, just as animals are electricity
will stimulate them, narcotics will
stupefy and kill them.
The price of platinum has increaaed
tivefoId at the Ural mines within three
Years. This is due to the heavy demand
for this metal for electrical purposes.
-Itis said Of the fur seal of Alaska
thst there IS no known animal on land
or water which can take higher physi.
cal rank, or which exhibits a higher
order .. Instinct.
A caterpillar in the course of g
month will devour &, 900 times it's own
weight in food. It will take a man
three months before he eats an amount
of food equal to his own weight.
No receptacle las ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power of freezing water. Twenty
pound shells have been burst as under
as though made ofpottery.
Hundreds of experiments have
been made to determine whether toads
could live when inclosed in blocks OF
stone, and in every case the toad
died befor the end of the second year.
An astronomer calculates that if the
diameter OF the sun is daily diminished
by two feet, over 5000 years must
elapse ere the astronomical instruments
now in use could detect the diminu.
tim.
An inventor has brought out rock
ing chair actuated by electricity. The
sitter cao at the same time receive
gentle currents by grasping metal han
dies or by resting the bare feet on
metal pedals.
The underground telephone cir
cnits in the United States have increa.
sei from 1926 miles IN 1882 to 12l, $50
miles in 1891, and the number of tele.
phones in use from 51S7 in 1887 to
5CJ, 4J1 in 1898.
Elummies Of people who are be-
leved to antedate the cliff dwellers are
said to have been unearthed in south
eastern Utah underneath the ruins OF
the cliff dwellers. They are weu-pre-
served specimens.
The light from the sun reaches the
earth il seven and one-ha!f minutes.
Though The distance is such that can
EcH~hall fired rom tbs sun and contin-
uiHg its velocity nabated would require
more than seventeen years to reach the
earth.
4 bcrsc can draw on metal rails
ore and two thirds times as much as On
aSpbait p"vemeut, three and one-third
timc$ as much as on good Belgian
blocks, f:e times as much as on good
c9hhlc-stone. twenty times rs much as
Ga GOOD earth road, and forty times as
much as on sand
in Damascus, drunken men are
called victims OF ''the English dis
ease.
OF every 100 cases of cataract. fifty