The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
News in Brief.

tines the rate OF the Thames.
"A ton OF good coal is said to yield
about 5000 feet of purified gas.
The worlds populatlonIucreases at
the rate of one per cent per annum.
Lack Of physical exercise has ten
dency to rake school children short
| sighted.
| The engine of an express train con
| sumes twelve gallons of water for eacf
| mile travelled.
Authorities declare that the growth
of children takes place entirely wher
they are asleep.
The Flindoos have no word for
| friend, because they use the word
brother instead.
Germany reports $50 instances OF
suicide among school children during
the last six years.
Genuine antique hourglnsses are
heirlooms that may now be fashionably
brought to the fore.
Pigs have real affection for people
they know, and in several recent cases
have acted as watchdogs.
At q recent auction sale of stampt
IN London, rare specimens fetched
sums as high as 5000 and SD.
The climatic limit to the cultivatio,
| of wheat is not so much the cold Of
winter as the heat of summer.
The oldest National flag in th.
world IS that OF Denmark which has
been IN use since the year 1919.
Among the eighty six plans sent IL
for the Lew Egyptian Museum, at
Cairo, are several from America.
Norway is more properly Norea.
meaning "North Isle" It is called by
the natives ''the North Kingdom.
Friendly societies in England have
agreed to pay indemnity. to all. mem.
bers who may be injured at football.
The bones of an average male skele
ton weigh twenty pounds. Those of a
female are probably six pounds
lighter.
The Siamese have great horror Of
old numbers, and were never known to
put 5, Z: 9 or II windows in house
or temple.
"A number OF London streets ar.
more popular on one side than on the
other, and the rates of rent differ
proportionatsly.
The City Architect of Boston ad>
vises that his Office should be abolished
and Its work done by public compe-
tition OF architects.
Mo und City, No., has thirteen
year old boy who weighs 242 pounds,
and Casco, Me !, twelve year old girl
Tno weighs 225 pounds.
= Ali ancient music was In the minol
key, without harmony or counter
point, and entirely vocal and rhyth-
mical, Like our recitative.
In parts of Maine the inhabitants
secure the crop of march grass by
waiting until the marshes freeze over
and cutting it on the ice.
The grand international wooden
leg race at Nogent-sur. Marne, In
France, was won By Monsieur Roulln,
a veteran of the Crimean War.
A copy of the Altken Bible, the
first Bible in the English language
printed in America was sold In Boston
by auction few days ago for $500.
The time required by the stomach
to digest turkey is two hours and
thirty minutes. Chickens require four
hours and ducks four hours and half.
-Forty.eight pounds of pickered
canght while fishing through the ice
in three hours is the record made by
a Norway (Me.) fisherman few days
ago.
in Cuba, 2Oc to 500 colonies OF
bees can be kept IN one location; one
man can manage 700 to 500 colonies by
having an assistant during extracting
time.
When portion Of the brain is re.
moved 1t seems to be renewed; but
whether the substance is true brain
tissue or not appears to be undeter'
mined. -:
II. R. Haines, Abbott, Neb..
claims to be the raiser Of the largest
tomato three pounds three and one
half ounces and eight and one half
inches in diameter.
Lansing, Mich, has matrimonial
club whose members at intervals
choose . one of their number whose
duty 1t is to get married within a
year. And he always does it.
1t is calculated that some 10,000,00L
colored photographs of the Queen of
England, the Prince and Princess of
Wales are produced annually, and find
ready sale oil over the world.
The roar of waterfall is explained.
III the. constant explosion of hundreds
OF thousands of bubbles. The impact
OF water against water 1t believed to
he comparatively subordinate, cause.
"A Zurich paper comments on the
regularity of the migratlons OF storks
They always arrive between February
26 and March 3, no matter what the
temperature, and leave between 6 and
81.
The ashes Of coal from the mines OF
Transyaal Coal Trust and cthcr COM
panies in South Africa have been ana
lived recently and found to contain
over nine pennywelght OF gold to the
ton.
Electric heat has been applied with
success to the thawing out of frozen
water pipes in England. A wire is
run into the pipe until It meets the
obstruction and then the current is
turned on.
Tho taxes on o piece of property