Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-24
a4jausiae Gatherings.

n%A marble firm at Dowagiac, Mich,
is shipping monuments to Australia.
p6 No British sovereign has vetoed
a parliamentary bill during the last
1876 years.
nag Every civilized nation of the
world, even China and Japan, now has
weather bureau.
n@ A French railway company has
ordered clocks to be placed on the out
side of every locomotive.
r6 The sea is not of uniform salt
ness at all depths, for the saltness
occasionally increases with its depth.
p8. The word "bosh" is simply Turk
ish for '.nething," and came into Eng
land about the time of the Crimean
war.
n@ Bath, Me-, boasts of man who
can add up column of figures with
one hand while he is writing with the
other.
r~ Asponge having circumference
of five feet six inches has been taken
from the waters of Biscayne bay,
Florida.
p@ The population of the world
averages 100 women to every 100 men.
Eight-ninths of the sudden deaths are
those of males.
p@- An English clergyman declares
that some of the great cities of antiq-
uity shave perished so utterly that it
is doubtful if they ever existed.
p6- An orange sixteen inches in cir
cumference was taken from a tree at
Pomona, Cal. It is to be sent to Eu-
rope as specimen of California fruit.
w A New York florist has paid $10,-
900 for the sole rights to the Michigan
carnation known as "Murella." 1t is
a very large flower of a deep red color:
p6- The reason there's so little hay
in the country is because we have to
make it while the sun shines, and
some people can't stand hot weather.
p6 Quill tootbpicks, as rule, are
imported from France. The largest
factory in the world is near Paris,
where 2O,000,000 are annually pro-
duced.
p6 The winter has been 80 mild in
Central Wyoming that towns along the
Platte have been unable to cut suffi.
cient ice, and will be compelled to ship
it from abroad.
p6 If the armies of Europe should
march at an eight mile gait, FIVE abreast,
fifteen inches apart, it would require
nine and one.half days for them to
pass a given point.
"a Fogg says it is all nonsense to
say that lightning never strikes twice
in the same place. His grocer's
scales, he asserts, show the effects of
at least half a dozen tightening.
pdr Armenia is not a thoroughly
Christian country, as is generally be-
lieved. Out of a population of $780,
2O5, nearly five-sixths are Mohamme-
dams, the exact number being 1900, Ala
to only COS, ,7sl Christians.
Potatoes are so cheap in Central
New York that farmers are throwing
them away. At some auctions of
farm property held recently, potatoes
sold at % cents bushel, and in many
instances no bids could be secured.
p6- The fintstone was probably one
of the first missiles that one enemy
lanced at another; the ingenious saw
age then turned it into an arrowhead,
and the more ingenious warrior after
ward planted it in the lock of mus
ket.
p@N That shoemaker who proclaims
that he will "half sole your shoes
while you wait for rs cents" must be
second cousin to his rival and fellow
artisan whose sign reads that "Louis
will tap your shoes while you wait for
so cents"
p6- That Presbyterian minister out
in Oklahoma who owned bank which
failed for $4,000, and had only $5 in
its vaults, may not have been much OF
pulpit orator; but he was no slouch
as fnancier. Yet the unappreciative
community tried to lynch him.
s9 The skeleton which the Egypt
ians paraded at their feasts was an
awful reminder of what was in store
for the banqueters; but, says the Bos-
ton Transcript, it was as nothing
alongside the obsequious waiter at the
hotel who lies in ambush for tip.
Bdr A man in Bourges is still wear
| ing the blouse he had or when the
Prussians entered France. He swore
that he would never wear another, and
by means of patches has kept bis oath.
The town council has offered him lou
francs for it for the town museum.
B@ George Washington once when
enraged at the charge that he had
kingly ambitions, is said to have
remarked: ~ would rather be on my
farm at Mt. Vernon than be emperor
of the world" Washington was a
regular exhibitor at agricultural fairs.
Ba The diamonds in one symbol OF
the Shah's rank are said to weigh al
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