The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
News in Brief.

ouG 1SlaUuS.
In Japan the flute is played onl,
! by men in rank.
Excessive meat eating is declared t.
| eill-hum mored, irritable people.
sulphate of atropine is the only
Known antidote for toadstool poison.
The Louisville (Ky.) water works
has 100000 gallon pumping en-
gine.
Paris connoisseurs affirm that oss
borses for food are more tenler than
Young ones.
| The Hudson River is salty as far
Poushkeepsie, n. Y: se7eaty-age miles
| rom its mouth.
Portland, Oregon, has a military
company, the height OF whose mem hers
| averages six feet.
| Experimental crops of tobacco hav>
! oeen grownln Oregon the past season
; With great success.
| "A woman OF Calais, Me-, has VOL
renow1 by mending broken door.
hinge wiih. q ha1rpin.
The White House corner stone Wa
aid in 1892, and ths building was frs,
occupied by John Adams.
Fried homiuy is held by epicures il
general to be the proper accompan;'
nent for canvas back duck.
"A Cincinnati physician had diph
iberia in his eye, where a particle oi
nucus from patient lo'lged.
A suit of chain mail, such as wa
asnd about the time Of William the
jonqueror, often cost 81 900.
Although boiling water Is fatal t.
>xtrem cold with Indifference.
There we're 230 candidates for tn,
Guardianship at L,ncoln's Inn, Lon
Ion, which pays $1,000 year.
The Chinese invariably serve
.auilAower. with duck, aud the comb.
astion is the epicures's delight.
j. Fl. Tyers, the famous English
swimmer, recently swan 100 yards in
'ne minute and one fifth second.
Durable artificial silk, which is both
aeat and dressy, is made of waste wool
or cotton by the aid OF chemicals.
-A1 instrument at Rome registered a.
Japanese earthquake, nearly a fourth
u the earth's circumference away.
The most wonderful vegetable il
the world is the trufae; it has neither
'oots, stems, leaves, flower nor seeds.
The oldest coin known is in the
mint collection at Philadelphia. It was
coined in Aeglna in the year 700 3.
u.
1t is said that the gold product ot
Montana for 1S94shows an Increase Of
serenty-fve per cent. over that OF
S92.
Canadian Indians have the old Ro-
nan habit of alternately gormandizing
and sleeping when there is moose at
;he fire.
The phonauto graph is a newly in
vented machine which, it is claimed,
combines the phonograph and the type
writer.
Birds, as rule, cannot focus then
eyes on an object save alta considerable
5istance, and then only with grea'
liGGcnIty.
-Kepler firmly believed the moon K
be Inhabited. He always spoke OF the
supposed people of that orb as 'ths
Selenites." ;"
The whole Of the land on the globs
above wafer level, if shovelled into the
Pacific ocean, would fill only one.
seventh of it.
Automatic machines have bee1
devised for use on a moving train which
mechanically record the condition Ct
every foot of the track.
An eIectroIytic process is beina
successfully used in Sweden for the
extraction Of zinc from ores hitherto
considered worthless.
English oculists are intensely inter.
ested in the case of Manchester weaver
whose eyes magnify objects to fifty
lines their natural size.
The Philadelphia Grand Jury sug>
rests that the street railway companies
Of the city be compelled by law to
,dopt ut once tenders on the cars.
There were two total eclipses o.
the sun in the year l712 and two in
1889. This rare phenomenon will not
happen again until the year 2057,
-RedfeId was the first meteorologis.
% prove that in all extensive severe
storms O system of surface winds u
blowing in toward storm center.
odd Tom Tudor, of Mount o!!;Tet,
Ky, celebrated his eightieth birthday
by marrying for the seventh time. His
>lildren do not object to the match.
Japan il corruption Of the Chi.
nese word Shi- pen-kue, which means
'iroot of day." or ''sunriso kingdom
because Japan is directly east OF China.
A New York woman is charged
With training her twenty months old
baby to toddle into the rooms of large
boarding house and steal money and
'ewelry.
according to Gray, Michelet and
DOLBY, three eminent botanists, there
is not single known species of
marine plant containing vegetable
oOIsons. .
A very faint comet has been dis
covered in tho constellation Aeuarius
ty Professor Edward Swift, of the
Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain
California.
AT the altitude of twelve miles the
atmosphere has density of about
one tenth that Of the surface-that is,
the barometer would stand at about
three inches.