The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-04
News in Brief.

he latest Kansas product. :.
Originally the custom of raising the
hat was sign of submission.
Manchester, England, gets Its water
supply ninety five miles away.
In Portugal the tobacco tax brings
$500, 900, the land tax 50, 5O0,0 600.
The new catalogue of the British
Museum will contain 1,400, 600 distinct
titles.
Until about forty years ago the
Persian Government levied tax on
cats.
WERNER, the young French mathe-
matical prodigy, Is only eighteen years
Of age.
-Paradoxcal as it may sound, there
are several varieties of tsh that Can
not swim
"A clay found near Clarence, Mo-.
has beer found to contain forty per
cent of aluminium.
Montenegro, having $500 squar.
miles, is almost exactly three times the
size of Rhode Island.
Pilot balloons provided with self
registering apparatus have been sent to
height OF 30,U00feet.
-Ot the 2is,373 foreigners living III
Great Britain, nearly one half, or 9o,-
153. reside IN London.
Uruguay and Nebraska. are OF
nearly the same size, The former having
72,Oao, the latter 10000.
The name of steamship hailine
from Honolulu, Hawaii, IS Likelike-
pronounced ''le ky leaky."
"A Thibetan tribe keeps regular
watch over Cemeteries, who prays
aloud when he sees meteor.
-Analssis proves tbeS white corr
has about one per cent. more muscle
forming elements than yellow.
Safety matches that can be used
without box are to be placed on the
market by a German inventor.
in suit for the possession of hoa
at Powhatan, Kan, five lawyers were
employed and the case cost $500.
In Greenland the sscand1e-fsh'' il
used as lamp. It is about six inches
long and burns for fifteen minutes.
-Glossometers are complicated in
struments which the French are using
COR measuring the tongues of bees.
AT the Bombay, India, geological
gardens the skin Of a sea serpent sixty
sour feet in length Is on exhibition.
-Loftus Jones Parker of Washing
tor, who is thought to have two brs1ns,
is twenty two inches around the head.
-Beloochistan was thus called be-
cause the Belooches were the domi-
nant tribe in It's rivers, valleys and
plains.
The sound of a bell which can be
heard 49, 200 feet through the water
can be heard through the ar only 450
seet.
The proportion of salt in sea water
is largest where the water is deepest
but does not increase with the
depth.
TO prevent wrinkles the ladies o,
the court OF Catherine de Med1ci wore
a forehead cloth tightly bound on
their heads.
Verdi was a very handsome youth,
and in spite of his four score years,
retains large share of his former
good looks.
Counterfeit tickets, which were ac>
cepted in large numbers, have reduced
the dividends OF a Camden, N. j..
street railway.
1t is estimated by engineers that
the leakage FROM the gas pipes of Lon
don equals nine per cent. of the total
manufacture.
Corn taken south from northern
locality will not do it at best until &C.
climated, and southern corn takar
north fails to ripen.
A Baltimore syndicate contemplates
building a system of electric railways
to connect dozer of the largest towns
in central West Virginia.
During the reign of Richard Ii,
wood for burning cost IN Londo1
thirty cents load; load was what
could be carried by horse.
The Duchess of Tork for some
years has devoted a portion of her
leisure in the winter to the manufac.
.ure of clothes for the poor.
-Louisiana has the largest farm Il
the United States. It IS 100 miles
one way and twenty Eve the other.
The fencing alone cost $50, ZOO.
When student at the Universit,
of Bower the Emperor William stud.
led the violin as surprise to his par.
ents, and became quite proficient.
In London nearly 264 streets or.
named after the Queen while there are
241 Gross streets, 240 Albert streets,
2l2 Church streets, l9l Queen streets.
Henry Van, Elten, 10 1860, antici.
pated several inventions, believed to
be moder1. He described the air
gun the, steam gun and the hydraulic
press.
1t is said that in London alons
thee are no fewer than 10000. pro-
tessional musicians of various grades,
and that more than half of them are
women.
Passengers from the United StateA
for London can now take the train
right on the dock at Liverpool i'm.
mediateiy upon the arrival Of the
steamers.
japanese shops are never very
large, SC rcely more than little alcoves
open from the street. There is moth
lag corresponding to our general store