The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-05
News in Brief.

Electricity is Row ased to improve
tho complexion.
The private schosls Of Illinois
contain 100, 600 students.
-Excessive mest eating Is declared
to make Ill humored, irritable people.
-Schnebile, the new explosive, Ia
composed chiefly OF ehlHate Of pot.
ash
TIE Louisville Ky.1 watsr work.
has 5000, eco gallon pumping en-
gins.
Il Is said that they eat only IN mild
weather, and in extreme cold remain
torpid.
in the Pablo schools OF France
24.2 per cent. of the pupils are short
sighted.
The doub!et was close 1ttiog coal
introduced into Fcanca from Italy
shout HOO.
The leathcrn apron worn by the
blacksmith is mentioned by Piiny as
~ use III LIS tlNe.
In Russia, the carrier pigeon i.
beng used to oo1vey negatives OF pho
fograpns taken in balloons.
1t Is ca!cuIsted that the men aad
women of to day are nearly two inches
taller than their ancestors.
Russia n engineers are studying the
route fer the waterway to connect ths
White Sea with the Baltic.
Red hair is OF that color because
it is supposed to have larger pfsaor-
ton OF sulphur than black hair.
The further north an apple oaa be
grown successfully, the better tho
quality and the higher the color.
"A Cincinnati physician had diph
liberia IN his eye, where particle OF
nucus from patient lodged.
In the smallpox epidemic at Leip-
sic in 1871, the death rate from this
cause rose to L, 700 per 100000
--The largest electric locomotive II
the world II, 900 horsepower) was built
vt Zurich, Switzerland, in 1892.
An instrument at Rome registered
Japanese earthquake, nearly fourth
f the earth's circumference away.
The hedgehog, badger squirrel
and some kinds of mice lay up a regu
ar store Of provisions for the winter.
Lunar hslos are sometimes large
and sometimes small because thsy are
formed at different heights in the air.
durable artificial ailk, which is
Both neat and dressy, is made of waste
WOOL cr cotton by the cid Of chemicals.
"A scheme has been devised in
Kansas to irrigate farm lands with wate,
drawn from the underground streams.
--Si1ver furnishes when exposed to
light, because of the actinis or chem.
lcal property possessed by the rays Of
the sun.
during the summers OF 1895 and
1898 Danish expedition will thor
oughly examine the Greenland aaa
Iceland seas.
There were two total ecEpses Of the
sun in the year 1712 and two in 1889.
This rare phenomenon will not happen
saain until the year POST.
--EngI1sh osulists are1ntsnsely inter.
ested in the case of a Manchester
weaver whose eyes magnify objects ta
ffty times their natural size.
There are 10000 factories IL
Illinois, with an annual product Of
$3.50, 100000, employing $50, 600, 600
capital and $50, 900 employees.
Professor Bailey of Missouri Is sale
to have obtained more than loo
types OF pumpkins by crossing the
flowers Of one kind with tho pollen II
snother.
A very faint comet has been die
covered in the constellation Aqnarius
by Professor Edward Swift, Of tie
Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain
California.
Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wire so line thas it could net
be distinguished by the naked eye,
even when stretched across piece Of
White cardboard.
Recent experiments at tho great
Krupp Gun Works. Eseen, Germany
prove that the discharge of large CAL
iber cannons can be beard twice as far
as the loudest thunder.
The land tortoises OF a.ny esu1.
tries bury themselves in the mud at
the bottoms of streanta and marshes
on the approach Of winter, and also at
he coming Of q protracted drought
Professor Ghoost says that If We
reckon tho average depth Of the ocean
at three miles there would be . layer
of salt 200 feet thick in their basins
should the waters OF all suddenly eyaa.
orate.
The seat OF color in the difRsren
races of men is the tie inner skin.
which is network containing the tor
mini of the blood vessels. The thin
rer this inner skin the winter the per-
son.
The horses eye has thick, glutia
GUS secretion becau:e his eye being
large and much exposed to dust the
visc;d secretion cleanse it moro ef-
ect:lally than would L more wsterJ
agent.
Animals that live in cold countries
have 6 warm mating Of wool or fire
d.
that they are almost perfectly protec-
ted from the cold. THIS wool usually
falls of in summer.
During the Middle Ages the beliet
was ccmmon that insanity was form
CT demoniaeal possession. and many
crueities were praeticcd on the de-
mented for the purpose OF e1pellias
the supposed demons.
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