The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
News in Brief

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own name for wheat.
The straw Of rye is often OF TAI
more value than the grain.
The Swiss lake dwellers made mors
nse Of spelt than of wheat.
An expedition to the south pole
will soon be sent out from Belgium.
People never think Of whistllng in
Iceland. It is violation Of the divine
law.
"A white quail was shot by sports
man near Palatka, Fla, few days
ago.
The onchidium, a species Of shei
less snail has innumerable eyes on its
hack.
-Seamen nearing land can tell tina,
fact by the deposits OF dew on the
Vessel.
Ancient needles we're all Of brass.
and in size approximated our darning
needles.
There are citizens of McFal, Mo-,
who object to the cemetery being used
as q pasture.
Louis Cyr, the Canadian Sampson
lifts $500 pounds without harness or
other apparatus.
-Linsey woolsey was first made q:
the town of Linsey, ID Suffolk, Eng
land, about 1880.
-Tusks of mammoth have beel
found of length of nine feet, measured
along the curve.
The St. Croix River, in Maine, WA
named from the cross made by two
rivers at its mouth.
Siberian women are raised as abjec.
slaves. untidy in dress, and are bought
With money or cattle.
Brazil nuts are more properly
seeds, about sixteen of which are en-
closed in large shell.
Nearly one fifth of the human race
die from consumption or some Other
'orm of pulmonary disease.
of over 100000 children in ele
mentary schools in England only sOO,-
000 pay. for their schooling.
james Will, Of Mount Ste1 ling.
Ky., has been struck by lightning four
different times and still lives.
i'm Greece there is 56S miles OF
railroad in operation, 304 under con-
struction, and 214 more chartered
There is duck ranch IN the Blue
Mountain of Pennsylvania which sends
$1,000 birds to the market yearly.
Disease of the eyes is the curse OF
the German people. In Germany
there arc at present $1,000 blind per'
eons.
The glowworm has brush attacked
to its tail because it is necessarysto
show it's light that the, back be Kept
,lean.
From 1880 to 1890 there wer>
3.O64 Lutheran churches built In this
country This is at the rate OF SIX
week.
Charles McVeagh Of Harpswell, Me.
lifts q barrel of -four with his teetl
and holds quintal Of fish at arms
length.
The heart ordinarily beats about
seventy times minute, and throws
about TWO ounces Of blood at each con-
traction.
There were two total ec1ipses Of th.
sun in 1712 and in 1889. This rara
phenomenon will not happen sgair
until 2057.
Illinois normal schools contain
Normal, sixteen instructors, 720 stu.
dents; Carbondale, sixteen instructors,
$50 students.
Roman swords recovered frcn
tombs weigh from six to ten pounds
while battle axes weigh on an average
twenty pounds.
The wife ofC. Beaupre, Of st. Rsya
mon., Province of Quebec, Canada,
eavs birth to twins after she was seven
ty five years old.
The first Illinois railroad connected
Springfield and Meredosis, 1888, and
the first locomotive was run over It
November s, 1888.
Automatic machines have been de
vised for use on moving train which,
mechanically record the condition OF
every foot of the track.
Fifty thousand dollars year is ex
pended by the Pr 'ssian Governmens1n
support of medical libraries connected
with the University of Berlin.
Illinois railroads have an agqregat.
mileage of 14,700, costing $4,000.
0Oc; curry 32,0O0,0O0 passengers and
100000 tons of freight annually.
A municipal laboratory where bsc
terial examination may be conducted
in cases of sus pected cholera and dipth.
eria is about to be established in LON
don.
Raphael lived principally on dried
fruits, such 90 figs and ralsins, eating
them with bread. He had q theory
that a meat diet was not good for q
painter.
An inmate OF the Popliu (Mo.) JAN
dug through an eighteen inch wall 18th
a case knife and drove off $500 herd
of cattle belonging to farmer in the
vicinity.
Goal was discovered by Hennepin,
near Ottawa, ILL.,, between 1873. and
1857, aud belle 7ed to be the first dis
covered on the continent Of North
America.
Systematic exercise is an amazing
cure for nervousness, languidness, in.
somnia, and indigestion, and inciden-
tally for awkward figures, dull eyes,
and muddy skins.
Dante, like. many other men o.
hioh poetic Temperament, was subject