The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-25
News in Brief.

| Constantinople's ancient walls are to
be restored.
The reading of the romance Is for
bidden by the Koran.
| a scientist claims to have discov'
cred the microbe of old age.
The raspberry was introduced into
England from Virginia in 1896.
1t took 10000 men twenty-five
years to build the Tai Mahal in India
The latest thing in Tin and on)
wheels in England is so called hansom-
:ycie.
With preparation of sodium fung-
state cloth can be made practically
dreproof.
"A woman who is in good health at
the age of forty. five Is likely to outilVe
D., man of the same age.
- The line of perpetual snow varies
both in latitude and in altitude above
he sea sill over the globe.
Babies do not hear well. because
the bones of the ear are too soft to con.
! 7ey the sensation of sound.
-Four hundred and thirteen differ.
ent species of trees grow In the var,
! :ous States and Territories.
In 1898 for the first time in Sou'
years, there Was a slight excess o.
births over deaths in France.
No scientific sharp can tell pre-
cisely why butter is yellow Instead O
White like the milk it comes from.
The period. during which the
people have the most trouble with their
eyes is between twenty and thirty.
The peasants of Lower Austri,
consume arsenic to give plumpness to
The figure and softness to the skin.
"A Swiss military man namedHebIa
has invented a new bullet, which u
said to be the deadllest thing known.
The largest copper smelling propert,
in The world is at Anaconda, at which
akout 400 tons of ore are treated daily
1T the smelters.
During all the wire cutting In
dulGei in by sympathlzers with the
Brooklyn trolley strikers not single
nan was shocked.
! A Columbia County (Pennsylvsnisl
farmer has succeeded in grating chest
nuts On scrub oak, and expects to fee6
the nuts to his pigs.
"A pasture field in Texas, owned by
Mr.. Warsham, contains fifty thousand
acres, and has one line of fence twen-
ty-three miles long.
Seventy five horses are used In the
anti diph;heritle laboratory in Berlin,
and the supply of the remedy will be
about 100 quarts month.
[ Nlr. and Mrs. Hurst, OF Cleveland,
Oklahoma, have named q baby cot
It," short for ''Uklahoma Territory
and 'Indian Territory"
A combined candIesiick and match
box with projecting spur permitting
its ready attachment to the well whef
desired has been invented.
Between the year 1s49, the date OF
the discovery of gold in California.
and the year 1894, this country pro-
1uced 81, 939, ,3o0,oo0 of gold.
! A woman with several children re.
Gently passed through Southwest City,
Me-, the mother pushing the bah.
in wagon through the snow.
A .tcheser" that is shot from a
rocket, and shoots around the heavens
for fully ten minutes, has been invented
BY man IN Victoria, Australia.
| "A rural South Carolina paper tell
of an icicle thirty teetlong and . yard
wide that formed ON a windmill iE
., York County during the cold spell.
| No less than dozen T,nanessee
men are at work on flying machines.
One of them hopes to be able to give
trial trip at the Atlanta Exposition.
The theory that the stature Of tia
present day man is smaller than that
of his ancestors has no foundation IN
fact according to French scientist.
A stranger who was shown round
Peterborough Cathedral, England, the
other day gave the Dean check CT
e2n. 900 toward the fund for new or
gan.
The only knowledge we have Of the
air currents from leo miles above the
earth's surface is what has been gained
from watching luminous trains left b!
motors.
New Zealand has set apart two ISL
ands for the preser! alton OF its re-
! narkabIe wild birds and other animals.
Thereon all hunting end trapping are
: for bidden.
OF the $4,000 Canadian Indians on
the Pacific coast, 5000 have been bap-
tized or atterd Christian worship. The
Gospels rave been printed for them ir
four languages.
Gases of infection have been fre>
quentiy traced to cats that have been
allowed to spend hours IN sick room
and then 90 to another Sc where
they have been petted.
"A gigantic camelia is growing near
the royal castle, at Pillnitz, near
Dresden, Germany. The tree istwenty-
foar feet high and produces annually at
least 50, ,0Co blossoms.
An electric furnace for heating
iron strips used in making horseshoe
nails has been recently installed IN
Montreal, Canada. Five feet Of strip
, Ore heated every minute.
\ A German has invented small
house capable of holding four or five
persons to be used in diving and work.
ing in surken ships or vasdable
vreckage of other character.
Any human being who will have
the presence of mind te clasp the hsnds
hetipd the back. and turn the face