The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-11
News in Brief.


$50, 1000. 600.
Berlin 1s said to be the heaIthiess
city In the world.
The velocity of light may be taker
st about 1876, 300 miles second.
"A new telegraph invention will
convey 1000 words minute over the
wires.
The skin is rough because by that
means 1t is better adapted to receive
sensations.
The wren often makes dozen
nests, leaving all but one unfinished
and unused.
Germany reports 2s9 instances o.
suicide among school children during
the last six years.
Many pairs of sandals have been
recovered at Pompeli. The soles are
{, stened with nails.
! DIR. Joule's studies in mechanical
i equivalents of heat brought forth the
compound engine.
There are said to have been five
suicides in five years in Divinity Hall
Cambridge, England.
Brooklyn IN. ~ elevated and sur.
face roads carried nearly 100000, OW
passengers the past year.
When the Japanese wish to send
grapes to distant friends they pacB
them in boxes of arrowroot.
/! Mrs. Mozette, Of jackson County,
Michigan, an inmate of the county
slmshouse, is 106years old.
In nearly all arid land regiona
| artesian wells can be obtained at
depth Of from 800 to 900 feet.
1t is proposed to build an electric
railroad fifteen miles from Portland
Me-, slong the Elizabeth shore.
Substances liable to explosion are,
SIS it were, says Professor G. A. Mitch
ell, in a state of unstable equilibrium
The smallest church in the world is
at st Lawrence, Isle Of Wight. : A
! congregation Of forty would crowd it.
-Half teaspoonful OF sugar scat.
| tored over dying fire is better that
| kerosene and has no element of dan
ger.
The French claim that gasmaking
was invented by Lebon IN 1902, who
made gas by the dry distillaton o
wood.
The ground has only been lightly
covered with snow at Mobile, Ala,
FIVE times during the last seventy>dyf
! years. .>--.-ss..>.,
monument Of Dr. Charcot, the
great hypnotist, is now an assured FACT
for Paris. The money for it has
beer raised.
Chicago clergynen have formed
club to instruct prospective mission
a,ies in foreign languages by means OF
the phonograph.
There are forty five survivors of
the war of 1912 on the roll Of the pen.
sion offce, of whom fifteen are 100 OF
more years old
-DrawiDgs executed IN London were
recently successfully transmitted by
telegraph to Paris by means OF the
Gray telausograph.
-Motormen in Baltimore are arres-
ted if they do not stop their cars be-
fore passing the engine house OF the
cty fire department..
Experts have made exhaustiye
tests, and have found it took no more
power to haul the double truck ca
than the single truck car.
Australian ranchmep make use Of
the telephone to warn each other OF
storm signals, and in Montana they
sre beginning to follow suit.
An error of thousandth part OF a
second IN an astronomical calculation
would mean an error of200, 900 900, 600
miles IN the distance of star.
In building nests birds invariably
avoid the use Of bright colored mate
rials, which would add to the chance,
Of the enemy in locating them.
in China, which has long been
known as ''the land of opposites," the
dials of clocks are made to surr
around, while the hands stand still.
Edgar F. Whitman OF Nantucket,
Mass, who is building steam car
rage for his personal use, thinks thai
steam carriages will ultimately sup
plant horse carriages.
In the sugar corn the conversion Of
sugar into starch is arrested at par
ticular point in the growth; the grain
does no fill out, and is consequently
str1velled.
Bees readily distinguish color, blue
being their favorite; and ants are sensi-
tive to the ultra violet rays OF the
spectrum, which are invisible to hu'
man beings.
Rev. @. N. Jones, of Oneonts. N.
Y, owns one of the first horseshoea
ever made by machinery. 1t weighs
two and half pounds and was made
1t Troy in 1858.
NO receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power of freezing water; 20-pound
,hough made of pottery.
The new glass wall Innings intro
duced in Berlin are not brittle, Int
they suggest irreseistibly the necessity
for residents of vitreous dwellings moi
70 precipitate proiectlles.
Miss Ellen Tickle, OF Heno, Butler
County Ohio, is said to be the smallest
full developed woman now living She
is thirty one years old, and weigh
but twenty eight pounds.
Careful measurements of cloud
velocit1es at the Blue Hill Observatory,
Mass. show that at the height of i've
miles the movement is three times