The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-14
News in Brief.

! Bookkeeping is hrst mentioned II
Italy about 1869.
aluminium heel tips are coming ir
vogue in England.
The busy bee, scientists say, wori
hut three hours a day.
Gold hands are oftentimes an ind'
cation of nervousness.
An electric tree felIer is one of the
most recent inventions.
The stride of an ostrich is some
| times as much as twelve feet.
Stamps for marking goods were ir
'lse at Rome before the Christian era.
Reliable orithologists declare that
swans, ravens and parrots will live Zee
-ears.
observing BARRIERS declare thai
men with heavy boards are most aptte
he bald.
-Mackerel pass the winter in the
sand or mud in deep water, and I'M.
merge in spring.
"A scientific expedition from the
University OF Pennsylvania has left fo
Central America.
Boston is to have steriIized schoo,
cooks. The books are simply baked t.
kill disease germs.
-Argon, the new gas which has been
discovered in the atmosphere, cost
$40, 900 a pound to produce.
Some students delving in old
libraries now wear muzzles to preven'
Inhalation of the book lnicrope.
AT a sale of relics In England in the
year 1916 tooth of Sir Isaac Newton
vas sold for sum equal to s., 600.
The wings OF the owl are lined Will
soft down that enables the brid to
ey without making the slightest sound.
The French Government discovers,
through recent investigation, that
microbes are to be found in common
zee.
During the Brooklyn trolley strike
militiamen quartered in one of the car
barns did part of their cooking by
Electricity.
At Heazig, Hungary, on October
II, 1894, fonr perfect ralnbows were
seen three smaller ones inside the mair
or primary bow.
In all particulars, save size, the We.
aetian gondola, the Slamese barge and
the old Scandinavian Viking shiE are
very much alike.
DIR. Lombard, Of Geneva, Switzef
erland, who has just died, was for many
years regarded as the leading medical
climatologist of the world.
Penn has had 500 2 IN cas6 apd
securities nysteriously returned to her.
They were stolen some days ago. -
John Fox, of iceland, Mich, is to-
tally blind, but makes a business of re-
pairing sewing machines, and car
thread needle quicker than quick.
Peat enjoys certain antiseptie
qualities a dead body which was
buried in peat for over 100s years wat
eound in a state of good preservation.
The largest refracting telescope
ever constructed is that which is to be
presented to the University Of Chicago
by Mr.. Yerkes. 1t has forty.incd
sbiect glass.
Lettuce and dandelions mixed,
cooked as 'tgreens" are not only
nutritious but good purifier of the.
system. They should form q ibefst
diet every spring.
Ito prevent the possibility OF eonta9
gious diseases spreading through the.
use of the telephone Paris Physicians
recommend the use of a specially pre-. :.
pared antiseptic paper.
kate Field says she thinks chat
Worth made her the only dress that
he ever made of American material. i
was American SATIN, and 1t took coax
Ipg to get him to touch 1t.
1t Is proposed to generste eIeotrl-
city in the coal regions, uslng the chlnn
as fuel, and transmit it to large cities
by wire, there to be used for Light
power or heating purposes.
in Holland the fields are ofteA
separated from each other by water and
as the canals are higher than the land
the use of water for irrigation becomef
N easy and simple matter.
-ssThe London ttzoo" has secured
8 couple of specimens of that rare bird,
the apteryx, and proposed to solve the
mooted question whether it is the male
" female bird that matches the eggs.
California fruit growers are pro-
DOSING to ship fruit in tight cars with
carbonic acid gas. 1t is claimed that
this gas will preserve the fruit in It's
aavor and is an economy over cold
storage.
Mrs. Frances Klock, -of the Colora
10 Legislature, has introduced bill in
the House providing for an industrial
school for girls and appropriatlng
$3.50 for its establishment and
The Queen OF the Belgians :
usually attended when on horseback by
one of her favorite dogs, of which
she has a dozen, with a preference
just as Queen Victoria has-foI
Spitz terriers.
"A Belgian inventor has devised an
immense lamp such as PROBABLY never
been seen before. It is six feet high
and measures 40 feet in diameter. Il
IS fed with lard oil, and the consump-
ion to be very small
The crown of England was lost ina
hawthorne bush, after the battle OF.
Bosworth Field where Richard Ill,
King OF England, was defeated, Au-.
gust Il, 1855, by henry, Earl Of Rich.
nond, who then ascended the throne.
According to Mr.. Cross 10 his me.
h. oh