Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-11
dttauside Gatherings.

p@- A pound of phosphorus heads
l 100000 matches.
p% A man born to command is differ.
ent from one made to order.
s8- The hand that rocked the cradle
is now guiding the bicycle.
s6r There are $4,000 Hebrews in the
city of Amsterdam, and oyer 10000 oi
them are dealers in diamonds.
p6r It was left for New York
youngster to describe the foolish virgins
as the ones that didn't get married.
p@ The first English hymn book
used in public worship was that COM
piled by Isaac Wesley In the year 17l5'
"a Mckinley and Hobart were each
born in 1874. That was the year
when Henry Clay made his last run
for the presidency.
s6 The largest room in the world is
said to be the hall of the imperial pal
ace in St. Petersburg. 1t is 100 feet
long by $50 feet wide.
Hde The greatest potato eaters are
the people of Germany aid Belgium.
Their consumption of this vegetable
averages 100 pounds per annum for
each person.
e@ The art of dentistry was intro
duced into New York by John Green
wood in 1888. He is said to have made
the first artificial teeth ever manufac-
tured in this country.
H% A celebrated naturalist once said
that he found out something new every
time he studied a plant, even though
he had apparently discovered all there
was to learn about it.
s6F The telephone line stretched re-
Gently from New York to Chicago is
twice as long as the longest line known.
Nearly 1000, 900 tons of copper wire
were used in laying it.
M Fifty bicycles were impounded
on one day in Paris recently because
they had no plates bearing the owners
name and residence soidered to them,
as the nsw law requires.
p@ A cambria shirt worn by Louis
XVI on the day before his death rea-
Hzed s57o, and the napkin used at
mass on the morning of his execution
$500 at q recent London sale.
s~ "Oh, yes, my husband has been
a collector of curios and such things for
q number of years." "Was he in that
business when he married you ?"
"Yes, indeed" ~ thought So"
p9r There are forests of leafess trees
in some parts of Australia. They res
pire, so they say, through a little stem,
apparently answering the purpose of a
leaf. The tree is knowa as "the leaf
less acacia"
p6r On the state railway in Germany
the carriages are painted according to
the colors Of the tickets of their re-
spective classes. First-class carriages
are painted yellow, second-class. green,
and third class white.
p6 Captain William Willigerod of
the North German Lloyd line has
crossed the Atlantic 400 times, l, ,400,-
900 miles in all, or 60 times around
the earth. He has safely carried 2O0,-
900 persons, and rescued hundreds OF
persons at sea.
p@ Over s7OO,000,0O0 are invested
in electric railroads in the United
States, 1926, 100000 in electric light
ing. The total electrical investments
are estimated at s1,25O,O0O,ooo, and
the yearly increase is estimated at
s1OO,oOO,Ooo.
B% Queen Victoria, in her long life,
has travelled very little abroad. She
has never been in Russia, Denmark,
Austria, Sweden, Norway, Spain,
Switzerland nor Greece. She has never
yet set eyes on any of her colonies, nor
upon any part of Asia, Africa or Amer
lea.
g6F Burmese humanity to animals
go so far as to provide buffaloes kept
in stables with mosquito netting. The
mosquito are as annoying to cattle as
to human beings, but when left out of
doors the buffalo can protect himself
by rolling in the mud and letting it
cake on him.
g% Some interesting discoveries have
recently been made about animal life
on the Hawaiian Islands. 1t appears
that all the land and freshwater shells
are peculiar to the locality. Fifty
seven out of the 7S species of bird, and
700 out of the 1000 species of insects,
do not exist in any other portion of
the globe.
a~ H. NJ. Stanley, the explorer, says
that certain portions Of Africa will
always be worthless on account of the
ravages of the grasshoppers. In one
instance he saw column of young
10 miles broad by 30
long, marching down valley, and,
when the grass was fred against them,
they were thick enough to smother the
flames.
B6F The most curious use to which
paper is to be put is that suggested by
the recent patenting of blotting pa
per towel. 1t is a new style of bath
towel, consisting of a full suit of heavy
blotting paper. A person, upon step