The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-21
News in Brief.
China exports lizards.

aluminium paper ia announced.
| Atlanta &c., trolleys will have air
brakes.
Emerson, Nebraska, hes one brick
building.
Elephants skins are tanned to
make carpets.
! Zurich has 1000 horse power cleo
trio locomotive.
Oatmeal is zone of the healthiest
articles one can eat"
California has had the best season
ever k-own for drying raisins.
The income OF the family Of the
Prince Of Wales ls about $50h, GOO
year.
Frog legs, preserved in glass from
France, are something new in deli
cacies.
The gabardlne, so often mentioned
by Shakespeare, was CLOAK for rainy
weather.
| English mullins are now declared
to be made better here than in the old
couttry.
-Cyclones II miniature have been
pro duced by passing electric discharges
through gases
.-STee' breads aud tripe when prop.
erlJ cooked, are the most easily diges-
ted of animal TODD.
The inventor of Saratoga Chips
has just died at Saratoga, n. Y, aged
eighty-two years.
The little canals which permeate the
dentine of the teeth are only liz, 900 OF
an inch in diameter.
| The average weight OF an American
| man is 1872 pounds; of an American
| woman, l244 pounds.
An eminent Boston electrician de-
ciares the common poplar tree to be
natures lightning rod. ~
"A cute madLess and suicide most
frequently follow in cases where people
| ar deprived Of all fluid.
- Brittany was 50 called from the fact
that for many centuries 1t was claimed
by the kings OF Great Britain.
Local scientists of Findlay, Ohio,
have project to produce natural gas
by pumping air into the earth.
Men who imagine that they are
thoroughbreds, discover finally that
they are only plain work animals.
"A Parsee sacred fire has burned,
unextinguished, ID the temple st. Lei.
guia, Persia, for Twelve ceniuriea
Fort Garland, Col. IS believed to
be the driest spot II the United Stat as.
The rainfall there 10 only six inches "a
year.
A corn stalk seventeen and a haH
feet IN height IS the boast of the Ma
haska County Iowa. Agricultural So
clcty.
TO prevent wrinkles the ladies OF
the Court Of Catherine de Medici wore
& forehead cloth tightly bound on their
!, heads.
-A farmer of Newton, Me-, hss sued
the School Board for the water used
from his we'll during the last eighteen
yesrs.
Jasper Parish, OF Blois, Ga, has a
monster potato. It is twenty seven
inches III circumference and weighs =
pounds.
j. F. Irwin, Of Oswego. N. T.. has :.
an lnterleaved Bible which cost him
SO, 900. it Is in sixty imperial folio
volumes.
Some American mayors received q
New Year card of greeting from SA'
vanus Treva1l, the 765th Mayorof Tru-
ero, England.
"A stone weighing TAG grains wss
removed from the right kidney OF Fred
Fett, of Chicago, through an opening
made in the liver.
Stockings were first worn In Italy
iu the year 100. Before that period
it was customary to swathe the feet
and legs in bandages.
AT Leeds, England, there isan ~elec.
trio clock which has been continuously
ticking since 1910. Its motive power
is natural electricity.
Mound City, No., has thirteen.
year-oId boy who weighs 242 pounds,
and Casco, Me-, a twelye-year- old g7ri
who weighs 225 pounds. ~:,
"A bullet wssrecently removed from
the head of an Indiana man, where it
had been deposited in an Ecuadorlan
rebellion many years before.
On the London, Dover and Chat
ham Railroad, in England, they use
handcar which is propelled by means
of asail when the wind blows.
-Ebenczer Long, of Maniona, Fla,
was horn perfectly black some sixty
four Years ago. He is now as white
as any white man in the country.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has de.
cided to increase the standard weight
of rails on its main line from eighty
five pounds to hundred pounds.
An error of thonssndth part Of a
second in an astronomical calculation
would mean an error of 100000, ,0o0,.
coo miles III the distance OF a star.
Eighteenth century chairs are nov
made with great success bo>h in Con.
necticut and Michigan, and find q
ready sale in England and Holland.
Feathers killed a man at Lan1oiIe,
Ill 1t was big undle of them which
were being hoisted to loft, when
the rope broke and they fell on his
head.
An alloy ofaluminum with copper
having G. rich yell " hue, and said to
be proof against acids, is being used
for tableware under the name of .'sold.
aluminium.