The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-14
News in Brief.
are never idle.

The worlds tunnels stretch 5l4
miles.
-Dwarfng trees is fine art IN
Japan.
Every male elephant is liable to in
sanity some time or other.
Among flowers chrysanthemums
live the longest after being cut.
/ In Finland and East Turkestan
thunder storms are wholly unknown.
The New American street letter
boxes are about to ba adopted in Lon.
don.
| The photograph was recently put
to use as witness in London damage
suit.
Electric lights were placed on the
Thames embankment: London In
1879.
-Horseshoes have been found in
tombs that date back to the sixth cen-
| tury.
Next to the lion and tiger the
jaguar is the largest member of the Cat
| family.
The first known sculpture and
paintings were made in Egypt 1lOo
years B. e.
The French have introduced coffee
culture in Tonquin with good prospects
of success.
-Brick-dust mortar is said by author
tiles to be an excellent substitute tor
| hydraulic cement.
-Twenty-eight big ocean passenger
steamships belong to the British
auxiliary navy.
The largest apes have only sixteen
ounces OF brain; the lowest OF men
have thirty-nine.
An elephant is fifty to sixty years
in attaining maturity, end will live
century and half.
! Several of the South Sea Islands
have species of mulberry tree from
| which cloth is made.
| 1t is estimated that one of the lar.
! gest stones in the Pyramids weighs
! fully eighty-eighttons.
There are venomous fishes whose
spiues infict dangerous wounds, much.
like the stings of snakes.
The people of England and Americ'I
| average taller than any other repre-.
sentatlves of the human family.
Neither chemists nor naturalists
|! have vet been able to solve the question
| why lobster turns red when boiled.
in France, the Paris-Lyohs and
| the Paris-Havre railway locomotives
| now use electricity as a motive power.
1t has been shown that the color
yellow, both vegetable and animal, Is
more permanent than any other hue.
| The tambourine is acombinatienof
the drum and rattle. It is found rep
| resented on Egyptian monuments 20oo
B. G.
| "A copy Of the first Chinese dietion'
sry, made by Chinese scholars In the
vear 1lO9 B. G., is still preserved at
Pekin.
Man is composed, according to the
scientists, OF five bucketfuls Of water
and forty fYe>pounds Of carbon and
nitrogen.
| British coach and carriage builders
| import from America their choicest
spokes, hubs and ribs for wheel manu-
facture.
"A fish caught and thrown on the
bank will rarely fail, when endesvor-
ing to escape, to jump In the direction
of the water.
A small boy at McCool, Neb.,
caught two catfish in the Blue River.
Their combined weight IS reported as
thirty.twop pounds.
There was o time, according to
Professor Bull, the celebrated Irish
astronomer, when the moon was 80
near us that Tie oceans tide was 64o
feet high.
The honey bee is supplied with a
pair of compound eyes with hundreds
of facets, each capable of sight by 1t
self, as well as several simple eyes.
1T is possible. by arecentinvention,
10 take five different Photographic
views OF person at one sitting. The
apparently different attitudes are pro-
| duced by the aid of mirrors.
| The Ang,o-Saxon word Doc signifies
beech tree. Before paper came into
general use the wood of this tree, be-
! ing close-grained, was used to write
upon, and from this fact comes the
word book.
| The body of a lizard exuGes an
acrid fluid that serves as a protection
to the snimal 4 dog will not hold q
! lizard in his mouth more than an ln-
| stant and can rarely be induced to re.
! peat the experiment.
1T has been ascertained that besides
! the amber current in commerce, COM
ing from North Germany, Rourlania
| aud New Zealand, there is border
| kind. found in Bunah, and mined by
| the Chinese.
! Nearly all rbe Belgian blocks used
! for paving IN cities II tie United States
come from Stone Mountain, Georgia,
n sold mass Of granite which still
| contains billions Of cubic feet of stone
! AMI is practically inexhaustlbie.
| in a somewhat speculative conclu-
sion OF a recent paper, Mr.. Preecs mem
| tioued the eS, cts Of an aurora on tele-
| phone circuits, md stated that 1t was
not wild dream to say that we may
| hear on this earth thunderstorm in
| the sun.
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