The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-13
News in Brief.

"A match ismade now from leather
pulp.
The crocodile's egg is about the
size OF the goose.
Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes
last for 200 years.
The river Rhine flows at three
times the rate Of the Thames.
The polar currents contain less
salt than those from the equator.
The latest Vienna cane contains
an electric light and storage battery.
Safes rendered burglar proof by
electricity is one of the latest sugges
tions.
Sea water is said to contain all the
soluble substances that exist in the
I earth.
Until hundred years ago trees
we're as scarce IN Scotland as horses IL
Venice.
| a Spanish paper in the Pyrenees
regularly suspends publication IN hot
weather.
| There are springs of fresh water
| i'll the Persian Gulf that furnish sup
plies to vessels.
The greatest forest of the world IS
IN .;lberia. 1t Is 1000 miles long and
l7CO miles wide.
1t is said that in some parts of
Japan robbers are conyictedon ma
iority vote Ct the community.
The climatic limit to the cultivation
of wheat Is not so much the cold Of
| winter as the heat of summer.
In Glasgow, Scotland, all windows
! above the ground floor must be hinged
so they can be cleaned from the In
side.
-Krupp CLAIMS to have invented a
| machine that will roll iron so thin
that it takes 1890 sheets to make an
inch.
" enezuela means 'tlittle Venice"
The early explorers found the natives
living IN houses placed On piles in
the marshes.
During the last three years the
average number of deaths from malaris
in Italy has been forty five per 1000
of tie inhabitants.
"A curious old Ergli sh law forbade
street hawkers to sell plums and apples,
lest servants and apprentices shoule
steal money to buy them.
The first of the sscanals of Mars"
was discovered in 1877 by Professor
Schiaparelli, astronomer ofthe Roya'
Observatory at Milan, Italy.
The largest woodenwsre wo1zs i2
tie world are located IN Bay City.
Mich. The present output every ten
hours is 1900 tubs and $500 pals.
Among the Armen1ans it is esti-
mated that from sixty to seventy per
cent. of the children die from the two
diseases, typhoid fever and smallpox.
One of the natural curiosities of
Stanwood, Wash, is ''blowing" or
"breathiDg" well, which exhales
immense quantities OF noxious gases.
M. Bay, Persian, is the in vento,
of new sort of orna mental glass,
which closely resem bles hoar frost or
glass IN the feathery forms upon 1t.
The new English torpedo boat re-
Gently made nine-hour trip during
which she averaged the remarkable
speed of twenty-eight knots an hour.
When portion of the brain is re-
moved it seems to be renewed, but
whether the substance is true brain
tissue or not appears to be undeter-
mined.
The difficulty OF registering the
temperature at the bottom of the ocean
is due to the fact that at great depths
the THERMOMETERS are crushed by the
pressure.
The smallest sum ever received in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by a
Sheritf's sale was thirty one cents,
when a merchant was sold out the
other week.
There IS talk of disinfectIng all the
wills in Somerset House, London, be-
cause many of them we're drawn up
and executed IN chambers of conta.
gious diseases.
-Frenchmen take the neatest boots;
Scotchmen take the largest, but they
canEot compete with Lobengula,
whose size was twelve inches long and
eight inches wide.
A London firm which has manu-
factured eight OF the eleven cables link
ing the United States to England
makes fifty five miles of cable each
twenty-four houls.
Bee Rock, California curiosity,
is big granite bowlder full of cracks
and holes, which drip honey. Many
swarms of bees have lived there, nc
one knows how long.
Sergeant O'Keefe, who spent five
years in the observatory on Pixies
Peak, says that the lowest temperature
observed was fifty degrees below zero;
the highest, slxty-two degrees above.
The roar of a waterfall is explained
in the constant explosion of hundreds
of thousands of bubbles. The impact
of water against water is believed to
be comparatively subordinate cause
The particles of sand, stones, shells
and the like, brought up in the tallow
with which the sounding lead is GOV.
cred, frequently furnish indications. of
great value as to the position of the
ship.
Professor Gilbert, the geologist,
has come to the conclusion that the
huge hole in the ground known. as the
Diablo Canon, in Arizona, marks the
place where large meteor once strucS
the ground.
Cont, meaning mock humility,