The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-28
News in Brief.

The earliest form of the glove wa
a mere bag for the hand.
The Russians are the most religious
persons on the face of the globe.
1t takes snail exactly fourteen
days and five hours to travel q mile.
Single stones in thewails surround,
ing Baalbec weigh 100000 pounds
each.
Charles II was the mutton eating
King from his fondness for spring
lamb.
Leon LilierfeId, a young chemis,
in BeIlin, has produced artificial white
OF egg.
-Ihe African ostrich has but two
toes on each foot, and one of them has
no CLAW.
The s!ashes or openings IN an outer
garment to show the one beneath were
formerly cslle panes.
The FIST buildingand loan assocla-
ton in the country was organized near
Phil adelphia in 1881.
Soldiers in the United States Arm,
lose on an average twenty -one days
every year from illness.
An injured nail on the right hano
Hill be renewed ten days or two weeks
sooncr than If On the left
Cast iron blocks are being substiut
ted for granite blocks along the tram
way ra Is in Paris streets.
The two fields of Waterloo ano
Linden are each c.'vered with crop OF
crimson poppies every year.
-Paci>ians are introducing porous
glass ior windows On account of 7ts
alleged ventilation facilities.
according to Muller the total mum,
ber Of words, OF rather ideas, expressed
by Chinese characters is 1886.
A fatal fill from. great height IL
said t. be painless. Us Inconsistencies
precedes the crash Of conclusion.
"A new application of electro plat
ing is the Sealing Of cans of fruits and
meat, and of bottles of chemicals.
Tobacco seeds are so minute tha,
1t is said a thimbleful Will furnish
enough plants for an acre Of ground.
Birds as rule, cannot focus thel1
,yes on an object save at considerable
distance, and then only with great
difficulty.
Vienna, Austria, is to have an ele-
Gated railroad with the wheels on top oi
the cars, which will hang suspended
from the rails.
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are for window gardeners who live high
above the ground.
Automatic machines have been
devised for use on moving train which
mechanically record the condition Of
every foot of the track.
-Robbing graves Is the only crime
ander Chimes law for which the thiei
may be justly killed on the spot by
anyone finding bin out.
Emperor William has just sen,
Widow Johanna Simple s25 in in recog.
aition Of her 10Cth birthday. She
:he Oldest woman in Berlin.
The extreme cold OF the poles ia
mainly due to the TACT that the Arctic
Ocean is certainly. end the Aotartie
probably, land locked sea.
Lord Kelvin estimates that ths
running slow of the earth in ita
daily rotation round its axis amounts
to twenty seconds per century.
-Phthisis and pneumo onia are more
frequent and fatal among men than
among women, while cancer and apo
plexy kill more women than men.
-Redfeld was the first meteorlosist
to prove that in all extensive severe
storms system OF surface winds is
blowing in toward storm center.
To prevent lamp chimneys from
cracking put them Into a kettle OF
cold water, gradually heat it till it
boils, and then let it as gradually
cool
In 954 draught began IN Europe
lasting four years. The summers were
intensely hot and the famine prevailed
everywhere; 3,00o, 1000 people died OF
hunger.
Careful computation shows that the
tota! capacity of generature and mo-
tors in use in railway work in the
United Statos aggregate half million
horse power.
Scientific research shows that meats
hsb, milk, and other animal foods cost
three times Rere than flour, meal, and
other staple vegetable foods to get the
same nutritious result.
At TIE altitude Of twelve miles the
atmosphere has density Of about one
tenth that of the surface that is,
the barometer would stand ct about
three inches.
southampton, England has fur.
nance for burning garbage which cost
$4,000. It consumes from twenty
five to fifty tons of garbage daily ataD
annual expense of Sil00.
in Napoleon's early wars one ont
Of each twenty eight was killed, and ID
the early British conflicts as bigh an
aver ge as one death to each nineteen
engaged is reported.
"A colony Of stngless bees frora
Honduras is now under observation o,
the Department OF agriculture at
Washington, but the climate is .ot
cold for them and they will die.
The ears of most defensive animals
like the rabbit are turned backward,
because these creatures are iu con.
slant apl rehenslon of pursuit; hunt.
ing animals have tnciz ears turned fer.
ward.