Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-12-20
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for sleepers on Japanese railways.
s6 God never made a law without
also making penalty for its violation.
aH- We cannot pick out the Lords
own by looking over the church reg.
ster.
pd. 1t is estimated that 500,000 new
cotton spindles will be started in South
Carolina next year.
Gag The postoffice building at Vir-
ginia, San Diego county, CAL, is made
of an old piano box.
Bd- Near Hastings, England, lives
an excentric old man who daily prays
to the sun and moon.
pds- Buddhist priests are endeavoring
TO have their religion adopted as the
state religion of Japan.
s6r When asked how old he was,
Booker Washington told an interview
er that he did not know.
sds- The United States manufactures
extensively perfumes from winter
green, sassafras and several other
woods and herbs.
ans- Spain has more sunshine than
any other country in Europe. The
yearly average is 5000 hours. In
America it is 2,100.
a6~ The Mormon leaders are said to
have decided to order Roberts TO give
up the fight, fearing the effect on the
church of full investigation.
s6r To accept a kindness and then
grow resentful because of the obliga-
tions which it imposes on you, is to
show yourself a very little soul.
p8 H. o. Armour, of Chicago, paid
81 900 rent for house on the line Of
the Dewey parade in New York, his
leasehold covering only two days.
s@ A Chattanooga, Tenn, plow
company received an order from a
Calcutta, Iudia, sugar planter for a
complete outfit of sugar.making ma
chinery.
p6- The sim, .e Gospel of the Son of
God, preached by 10 fishermen, has
survived the centuries and outlives all
other PHILOSOPHERS of eighteen hun
dred years.
a6- Nearly 800 claims for pensions
made by soldiers who served in the
Spanish. American war, have already
been allowed by the United States
government.
s9- No man but has influence, good
or bad, no man but if he wills it can
make his life a source of inspiration,
comfort and help to the men with
whom he associates daily.
p6- Tree and shrub planting along
the Suez canal to protect it from drift
ing sand is in progress. Reeds have
been placed along about nine miles of
water line Of the canal proper.
H6" Chicago is to have a new sea
wall along 1000 feet of its lake front,
100 feet out in the lake. The inter-
vening space will be filled up for park
purposes, at cost of 100000.
p9~ A wife who sued for divorce in
Cleveland, Ohio, was ordered by the
common pleas court TO pay 81 week
alimony to her husband, pending the
decision of the case, and $50 attorneys
fees.
H9 The orange crop of Southern
California is estimated this season at
16, 900. carloads, and it is thought l.
900 carloads will be shipped east for
the holiday trade. Northern California
citrus district will ship 700 cars.
H6@ New York is preparing for the
Paris exposition, an immense map of
itself, measuring 26x2S feet, on scale
of 600 feet to the inch, showing every
street, park, waterway, public square,
monument and prominent building.
R6- A man who lives right, and is
right, has more power in his silence
than another by his words. Character
is like bells which ring out sweet mu-
sic, and which, when touched accident
ly even, resounds with sweet music.
n8" In deciding copyright infringe
ment case, the supreme court of the
United States ruled that damages could
only be claimed for copies found in the
actual physical possession of the in
fringer, and not for all the copies dis
tributed.
s@ A medical man prophesies that
if, for the next 10 years, the present
relative death rates are maintained, in
1909 there will be more deaths in the
state of New York from cancer than
from consumption, small poX and ty-
phoid fever combined.
H9 In Kansas persons convicted of
murder in the first degree are sem
fenced to be hanged whenever the gov
ernor shall sign their death warrants.
No governor has ever signed death
warrant, and so the penitentiary con-
tains many prisoners under sentence to
be hanged.
nag Among the ministers sons who
have "amounted to something" are
Senator Hawley, Richard Watson
Glider, Henry James, George Bancroft,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Presidents
Cleveland and Arthur, Vice President
Morton, half a dozen senators and 40
representatives.
BB" When farmers stock seems to
be all of one mould, and that good
one, there are dealers ready to take
them as lot, and at the owners
price. A first. class animal is sure to
bring a good figure; but he who has
all first-class animals, usually obtains