The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-28
News in Brief.
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The longest desert in the world Ia
Sahara.
An instrument has been invented
to measure thought.
Women smugglers are the pest OF
the Mexican borders.
The wedding of Princess Beatrice
cost more than $3.50, 1000.
-Ina all tropical countries the vultura
Is the natural scayenger.
The coming seasons sunshades are
bewildering in floral effects.
Barley is mentioned on some Of the
earliest Egyptian monuments.
-Dahomey is the smallest State in
Africa. 1t has 1000 square miles.
The late king of the New England
gypsles leftan estate valued at $780,
0C0.
The saline matter held in solution
IN sea water comprises one-thirtleth of
its weight.
Frances new cruiser, LIE Friaut,
has been declared to be almost an ideal
war vessel.
Platinum wires made white>hot by
electric Currents are now used as saws
for telling trees.
Miss Anna Gould now the Countess
Castellane, hal her wedding trousseau
made in this country.
Red phosphorus combines with
chlorate of potash to make an explo'
sive of great violence.
Mail bags can now be taken on
and delivered from trains running
sixty miles an hour.
The sea otter produces the most
VARIABLE of all furs. A single skin has
brought as high as S100.
When the Gulf Stream passes out
of the Gulf of Mexico its temperature
is about seventy degrees.
Five feet four inches is now the
minimum standard of height for re-
cruits for the British army.
Elephants annoyed by flies have
often teen known to break off branch
from tree and use 1t as fan.
The phosphate mines Of Florida
number LOG, and they yield more than
500, 900 tons of phosphate annually.
Thomas A. Edison intends to in.
vestigate the properties OF argon the
element recently discovered IN the
air.
a ton of cottonssed meal, when teo
to cattle, just about replaces the fer
tility which Is sold in 5000 quarts OF.
milk.
"A photographic desk on which
speaker can record his own Grafton ls
soon to be tended in the German
Reichstag.
Mrs. Clara Brett Martin, the lead.
ing women lawyer in Canada, has
been nominated for School Trustee O
Toronto.
Miss Alberta Scott, ofCsmbriLge,
Mass, is the first colored girl to enter
the Harvard '.Annex." of rather Rad
clide College.
The father OF gas lighting was
William Murdock, who, in 1892, used
coal gas lightingh his works in Cornwall.
England.
The longest mile is the German.
which is four and one half English
miles, or, more accurately, 4,6SO5
English miles.
Heavy deposits of black sand. OF
about the frmness of ordinary beach
sand, are found at various points along
the Pacific coast
The bed OF the North Atlantic con.
sists of two valleys, separated by a
mountain range that runs from the
Azores to Iceland.
"A cup of tea and q cracker taken
before hearty meal, if you are tired,
will fortify the stomach for the heavy
courses in prospect.
Tremendous prices are being paid
in London for prime poultry. A
goose or a pair of ducklings cost 9
guinea (about $5.25j.
The fashionable new Lady Camp.
bell violet is said to be a shoot of the
old Neapolitan violet. It is hardy and
of delicious perfume.
The high Spanish comb of silvci
or torto1se-shell, such as our great.
great-grandmothers wore inJosephlne's
time, are much worn.
"A new marking Ink pencil has the
solid color at one end in the usual
manner and at the other end 8 recep-
tacle for liquid mordant.
The kremlin of Moscow contains
the crowns of Poland and all the
other kingdoms and pr1ncipalities
which Russia has oyerthrown.
Arizona has produced more than
$50, 100000 of precious metals. The
exports of silver have exceeded 49,
100000 year, and copper S4,000,'
800.
High grade microscopes are said
to make the human skin appear like a
section from tish-showing thousands
of minute scales, each overlapping the
others.
The nursery tricycle. has appeared
in London. 1t contains two seats, one
for the mistress and one for the maid
and her charge, and has two pairs of
pedals.
w. Il. Grsy, of the Andove1
Mass.) Pressi can stick type in
German, Greek, Syriac, Turkish,
Arabic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Hebrew
Coptlc and English.
Male corpses float on their faces.
and female corpses on their backs on
account of the different dispositions
of fatty tissues. In the case of lean
woman aud fat man the positions