The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-28
News in Brief
Paper pulp doors are new.


niles.
london consumes eleven tons OF
salt daily.
Girls stammer much less frequently
than boys.
Many popular perfumes ere strong
sntiseptics.
Thyme destroys the bacilli Of ty.
ohoid fever.
Only 9O6 persons in 1.OO0, 900 die
from sensility.
| st. Louis, Mo-, has an ambulance
irolley service.
Some sailors can distinguish color.
at sea but not on land.
The engines of first class man OF.
.ur st about $700, 900.
The normal death rate of Canton,
Ohlna, is 1000 per month.
With the aid OF potassium, cam
die can be lighted with an iclcle.
An edition of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer was issued by 100 women.
Edible snails vary generally Il
| size. The most esteemed are the large
white ones.
Only six persons out Of 1000 live to
be Is years old, and only one reaches
'he century.
"A clay found near Clarence, Mo-.
has been found to contain 40 per cent
| Of aluminium,
A butcher in Belfast, Me-, Is
training hog to harness, driving him
behind sled.
The ruling dynasty Of Japan has
been IN power since long before the
| Christian era.
-"How He Quit Sucking Hh
Thumb" is the head on a news item in
Chicago newspaper.
The skin gives off thirtieth to
sixtieth part of the carbonic acid gse
given out By the lungs.
A nev plan1ng machine is worked
by electricity, and will do fhe work
ot fifty men in one day.
"A friend of the late Christina Ros.
etti tells of hearing her say twenty
years ago that she bad never seen the
lun rise. :==s.t't-s 80. -
The bottom of the deepest part Of
| the Atlantic has very recently been
proved to be about FIVE miles and
half down.
The orbit of Jupiter is 1000, ,00Q..
900 miles in extent and in it takes the
grand planet 4, 1872 days to make one
'ound trip.
Some of the colored paper supplied
for kindergarten, work has been proved
by analysis to contain small quantity
/! Of arsenic.
There are forty-fve survivors OF
the War of 1872 on the roll OF the Pen
sion Cfice, of whom fifteen are 100
years old.
| -Some botanists think that no plant
is absolutely poisonous, but only rela-
lively 80, beiug harmful to to only cer--
.ain animals.
- Our sun with his train of attendant
planets, Is travelling through space at
the unthinkabie speed Of eighteen miles
per second.
A new artesian we'll near Chamber
lain, South Dakota, throws slx.lnch
stream of water thirty-eight inches
ebove its top.
"A method has been devised BY
which aluminium may be substituted
for platinum for leading wires IN incan-
descent lamps.
There we're two total eclirses Of the
sun in the year 1712 and two In 18s9..
T lis rare phenomenon viii not happen
y gain until the year 2057.
In South Americs an electric dry
ing machine in which air is forced
through chamber of heated plates
I; to be used in drying wheat.
An electric railroad is to be built il
the spring from Merced to the Yoser-
its valley in California. The leagth
,f the road is to be slxty-five miles.
"A black down grows under tho.
feathers of many birds at the approach
of winter because down is the best non.
conductor and black the warmes'
;olor.
The ratio of deaf mutes in the
world Is one to 1900 people. There are
upward of 40, 900 such unfortunates In
the United States; 100000 IN the
| Torld
DIR. Sophia Jex-Blake Of London,
says that too much tea, especially tea
that is simmered over the fire for
| hours, is worse than too much alb
si1the.
There IS lodging house in course
of construction at Mecca, Arabia,
which, when completed, willaccommo-
date 5000 people. It is for the use OF
pilgrims
Victor Horsley, the eminent Eng.
lish pathologist, says bullet In the
BRAIN stimulates heart action, but
stops respiration. One dies for want
If breath.
j panese fields are usually divided
not by fences but by dykes and bitches
somewhat recalling those Holland.
The principal food crop, rice, requires
constant irrigation.
No parental care ever falls to ths
lot Of single member of the insect
tribe. In gcEeral, the eggs of an IN
scot are destined te be hatched long
| after the pal ents are dead.
Through the use of anti-toxine il
| Trieste, the death rate in cases OF
diphtherla has fallen from fifty to
eighteen per cent. in Bakowina from
sixty three to sixteen per cent.
AS a result Of the examination o.