The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-14
News in Brief.
India has $4,000 acres in tea.
Goldfish are of Chinese origin.

Egypt prohibits tobacco cultiva-
ton.
The black ostrich stands seven fes&
high.
The seuth polar snow cap of Mari
Is now visible,
Seeds 1900 years old have been
known to sprout.
India in its Bo trees has the oldes,
trees IN the world.
Orange trees were known to have
existed IN England IN 1895.
San francisco, Col, is the thiro
commercial city in the United States.
Only one out of every fifteen per.
sons has both eyes in good condition
Light narrow gauge railroads are
again being tried ID England and
France.
A man IL Somerset, Mass, pays
seven cents tax on pet monkey and
nothing else.
The records of Massachusetts are
written in an official ink specially made
eor the purpose.
The greatest velo 'ity attained by 8
whale when struck by harpoon Is
nine miles an hour.
An eminent Boston electrician de-
clares the common poplar tree to be
natures lightning rod.
The little canals which permeate
the dentine of the teeth are only 1,12,-
coo of an inch IN diameter.
AS early as 1895 paper was red to
the Royal Society OF England on
natural gas well in Lancashire.
The smallest known insect is the
Pleratomus putnamli, which IS only
one nineteenth of an inch in length.
Fort Garland, Col, is believed to
be the driest spot IN the United States.
The rainfall there Is only six inches q
Tcar.
The volcano at Cotopau while in
eruption early in the century sent
mss OF rock 100 cubie yards In volume
aine miles.
The gray partridge of Spain rangeA
from 5000 to 1000 feet above the level
and is rarely found below the former
sltstade.
An alligator with perfectly smooth
boy wss seen On tie banks OF Lake
Okeechobee, Fla, recently by two
eolored farm hands.
"A flower cut in the morning Will
retain its freshness twice as long as
Il flower cut III the middle Of the dsT,
when the sun is upon 1t.
Professor Shiapareli says that Mar
has an atmosphere which is heavily
charged with water vapor. but he thinks
that it rarely rains there.
DIR. Alexander, of Wysndot, Ohio.
fell into an unused well while respond
ing to midnight call, and before be
was rescued the patient died.
AT Leeds, England there is q.
electric clock which has been contin
uously ticking since 1s40. Its motive
power is natural electricity.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has de.
cided to increase the Standard weight
of rails on its main little from eighty
five pounds to hundred pounds.
An error Of thousandth psSt of q
second in an astronomical calculation
would mean an error Of 2c0, 900, 030,-
900 miles in the distauce OF star.
1t is estimated that during the
three months Of greatest heat the
Dead Sea. of Palestine, loses 1000, 900
IONS OF water day by evaporation.
London tlre engines often have to
stop on their way to fire to take up
turncock, ivericd functienary, who
is alone allowed to have the key to q
6replug.
One of the reayiert snowsaI1si sne
history of this conrtry was February
l9 to "a, 17l7, when the snow remained
five to seven feet deep all over New
England.
"A disease caRed antrix is reported
to 10 prevalent among cattle around
Mediterranean ports. Several people
bave died from eating meat from the
Affected cattle.
A little bit of cheese snd an electric
wire form tho latest rat trap. The
cheese is fixed to the wire, and the in.
staEt the mt touches the cheese he is
,hocked to death.
A dog belonging TO Hezekiai
Bucher, of Giibertsvl.lc, Penn, went
hunting on lis OWL account and alone
and unaidcG caught and killed twentJ-
Eve pound wildcat.
-Wooden blocks for street paving
purposes have been shipped from
Hobtrt t, London. They are mainly
of blue gum ard strin2y bark, two Of
me principal Tasmania woods.
Sir John Lubbock is authority fo1
the statement that q single bee, with
all its Industry, energy and ilanumera-
BILE journeys will not collect more than
a teaspoonful of honey during a sea-
son.
Scientists says that the late disas-
trous earthquake in Argentina were
caused by the overflow OF a subtera-
neon river, knoWn tocIist IN that To-
caIity, owing to the heavy ruins of last
season.
The great hearth fire in the hall Of
Roby Castle, England Is said never
TO have been permitted to go ont for
centuries. That 10 Warwick Castle
will Dnrn quarter of cord OF wood
It once.
-E:ts mus have access to water O.
they die. A trapped rat may easily be
tanned by allowing DO water but that
offered in spoon, for the creature
soon learns to- recognize the hand,
which supplies this ell important nee.
cessary.
IN Siam, when a funeral is passing,