The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-02
News in Brief.

The next total eclipse Of the SUI
Will occur in the year 2O57.
The Chinese kill 100000 dogs
annually for food purposes
The average annual amount Of dew
in England is equal to five inches OF
rain.
In England ii difficult to enum.
crate the number of clergymea who are
tutors.
-"Orts" are the stub ends Of straw
left by cattle IN feeding from the
manager.
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad pas.
senger trains are lighted solely with
electricity.
A Chicago man is the proud owner
of parrot that speaks both English
md German.
A number of Western water pow wers
transmit electric power from fifteen to
thirty miles.
"A snail ranch has been started by 8
farmer Of Anet, France, to supply the
Partisan market.
1t is probable that Tampa and Port:
Tampa, Fla, Will be connected by an
electric railway.
Grand Duke Nicholas, Of Russia, Is
supposed to be able to eat as much as
SIX ordinary men.
The United States fish hatchery il
Green Lake station, Ellsworth, Me-, Is
valued at 50, 500, 900,
In India the native will shave you
while asleep without awakening you,
so light is his touch.
Greenland was so called because IN
summer its hills were covered with q
beautiful green moss.
A German match manufacturer has
invented machine capable of making
l5,O00,0O0 spints day.
There is said to be florist in
Portland, Me-, who makes weekly
shipments Of flowers to Florida.
1t is estimated that two years are
required for the Gulf water to travel
rom Florida to the coast of Norway.
Since the organlzauon Of our mint
in 1898. it has coined, of gold, 81, I,6l2,.
eO5, 375, SO, and Of silver, S669, 299, 1913.
The Turkish Government is the
least enterprising of any old world
Government in the matter of electricity.
Queen Victoria's will is engrossed
on vellum, quarto size, and is bound
as volume and secured by private
lock.
The electric cars in Frankfort-on-
the-Main, Germany, have been snp'
piled with stoves, after the American
pattern.
Mr.. Gladstone has become sub,
subscriber to the fund for providing
memorial to 'llcwelyn, the last Prince
of Wales"
In France the population averages
about 1877 to the square mile. In this
country the average is twenty-one to
the square mile.
Vinegar and yeast should never be
kept in stone jars, for there is an acid
in them which attacks the glazing, and
mixing with 1t has poisonous prop
srty.
A recent survey has established
the number of glaciers in the Alps at
1l55, of which 249 have a length of
more than four and three quarter
niles.
-Steelyards dug up in Herculaneum
are like those of to-day, with pan,:
and bar with graduated scale and q
weight nodded into the head OF Mer-
curry.
1T is said that one company operat-
ing several London cafes consumed last
year $1,000 pounds of tea, $50, 600
pounds Of beef and 328,0 pounds Of
sugar.
A new barometer showing minute
variations of pressure has been in
vented in England. The maker claims
accuracyto to one-two-hundredths OF an
inch.
Cicero, it is said, had q theory:
that any disease could be overcome BY
fasting, and often abstained from food
for days at a time, drinking only
water.
Stanley found tobacco perfectly
acclimated among the African tribes
that had never seen white man. The
use of the weed is universal In the dark
continent.
1t has been discovered that the
unsanitary condition of the Capitol at
Washington is due to the vast accumu-
lation of unused documents that Il
rotting IN the basement.
AT the cold of 42O degrees below
zero produced by Prof. Dewsr. the
tensile strength of iron is doubled, and
it will stand strain of sixty instead
of thirty tons to the square inch.
j. W. Jones, of Robertson, KY;
has found pearl on which is the per.
feet outline of mans hand. Seen
through microscope even the veins
appear. It IS valued byexperts at S150.
The cold of Canada seems to
diminish With all increase Of population.
Between 1928 and 1887 Hudson's Bav
was closed an average of 1S4 days
every year; now the ice last l7e
days.
A runaway horse in Canton N. T.,
recently after two miles of good sleigh.
L. Il
crossed high and long bridge, care
fully picking its way over the ties
without accident. "a
The deepest ice ever found lies at
depth Of l16 metres un.er q great for
est between the Ural Mountains AID
the Sea of Ochotsk. a well was driven
and the ground was found:to be frozen
stiff at that depth.
About the year l4Oo, the Queen OF