Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-10
M|ausiae Gatherings.

lation of 10000. In 1892 it had 1900.
H@ A cable line railroad has been
planned to the crater of Popocatepetl.
s@ Eighty-fve per cent. of the peo'
ple who are lame are affected on the
left side.
p@ More than $4,000 girls are en-
gagged in the telephone services in the
United States.
p~ Cedar wood is being exported
from Argentine to the United States by
way of trial.
p6r The boy who is too tender
hearted to kick a football, will himself
be football through life.
r~ Nine thousand maple trees are
to be cut up in Maine this summer to
fill an order for ], 100000 shoe lasts.
pd The most costly bicycle in the
world has been presented to the queen
of Italy. The wheels are ofpure gold
p% A good deed is never lost; he
who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers
love.
R@ One of the features of Austria.
lian newspapers is the long line of En-.
glish advertisements inquiring for miss
ing friends.
p@- According to the beliefs of the
Arizona Indians, the cliff dwellers built
along the bluffs because they feared
another deluge..
R@ Roman Catholics are scarcer in
Sweden than any other country. Out
of total population of 4,744, 400, only
$40 are of that faith. -
p@ The next London show sensation
is to be the entombment. of man for
six days under six feet of earth. They
expect to dig him up alive.
H% One hundred years ago this
month vaccination was first perform
ed what was formerly a most dead.
ly scourge has almost disappeared.
p@ II heah dem white folks say dey
amt no heaven fer Niger" "Don't
you min 'em! Amt I done rent
house in de middle er a watermillion
patch"
p@ Gladstone is under pledge to
his physicians never to make another
public speech. He has more than once
asked to have it set aside, but without
success.
B@ Chicago is to have needle fac
tory, the first in the United States. In
it will be used machines made by De-
troit man, each of which can turn out
Q 800 needles an hour.
S~ Unlike his predecessor, the young
car of Russia walks almost daily in
the streets of St. Petersburg. Some
times he is attended by no one but his
wife. On other occasions he goes alone.
S@ A poet says: "There is always
sunrise somewhere" This is comfort
ing. To the man who is just going to
bed there comes the happy consolation
that somebody has to get up and 60 to
work.
p6 At Yoka, Japan, the waters OF
two thermal springs rise within eight
feet of each other. When cooled, that
from either is good drinking water.
Mixed together they form an acid
that is rank poison.
1~ The greatest tea-drinkers are said
to be the Australians, and after them
the English, who consume four times
as much tea as coffee, while the peo-
pie of the United States drink eight
times more coffee than tea.
s9- "Now, if understand correctly,
the first principle of Socialism is to di-
vide with your brother man." "Then
you don't understand it correctly. The
first principle of Socialism is to make
your brother man divide with YOU"
p~ x rays are to be applied to prac-
tical agriculture. DR.. Graetz, of Mu-
mich, has taken picture of a one-day-
old pig, showing its bony structure.
By continuing to make pictures of the
pig, the action of food on its growth
will be shown.
I6 Hong Wo Sing is at 96 probably
the oldest professor actively engaged
in educational work in the world. He
occupies the chair of physiology in the
school for the Sons of the Empire at
Peking, China, which is the most an
cient university in existence.
HdS "Oh, doctor, I have sent for you,
certainly. Still I must confess that I
have not the slightest faith in modern
medical science" "Oh, that doesn't
matter in the least. You see, mule
has no faith in the veterinary surgeon,
and yet he cures him all the same"
t6r In Germany water pipes are be-
ing made of glass, with asphalt cover:
ing, to prevent fracture. 1t is claimed
that they give thorough protection
against moisture in the ground, against
the action ofacids and alkalis, and that
they cannot be penetrated by gases.
s@ Extraordinary qualities are pos
sessed by the river Tinto, in Spain. 1t
hardens and petrifies the sand of its
bed, and if stone falls in the stream
and alights upon another, in few
months they unite and become one
stone. Fish cannot live in its waters.
H6- "What is the origin of motion ?''
asked a celebrated preacher. Well,
there are many origins. A call to
come up and have drink will bring
SO men to their feet in a second, and a
spider down a girls back is the origin
ofsome of the liyeliest motion the world
ever saw.
p~ The vitality of the snail is re-
markable. One that was glued to q
card in the British museum for four
years came to life after being immersed