Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-30
atausiae Gatherings.

s6r More than 10000 Americans
have gone to Europe since the 1st of
May.
n9H 1t is estimated that 100000
bushels of wheat were destroyed by
hail in North Dakota.
Bg The Bank of England estimates
that the amount of gold in circulation
in the world is 865 tons.
s@- Henry Ehlers died at Milwaukee,
Wis, Wednesday, after his nose had
been bleeding nine days.
s9 A man never knows what he
can do until he tries, and then he is
often sorry that he found out.
a0. A few weeks ago the Krupp fac
tory turned out its twenty-thousandth
large gun for European armies.
s9" Electricity was discovered by a
person observing that piece of rub
bed glass attracted small bits of paper.
a@~ As tall oaks from little acorns
grow, so the biggest kind of scandals
develop from the smallest kind of So
cial material.
a9- There are said to be more di-
vorces annually in the United States
than in all the rest of the Christian
world put together.
ed~ London has more houses than
Paris, New York, Berlin and Vienna
put together, owing to the prevalence
of fats in the latter cities.
R6- The man who is looking for
something to do rarely finds anything,
but if he is willing to do anything he
can always find something.
a9" Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett, OF
Boston, announced her intention OF
going south to carry on in person her
campaign against lynching.
aas" Kentucky authorities have de-
cided to deal severely with the Nor
mon elders who are endeavoring to do
missionary work in their state.
pd" The National Afro o-American
Council of the United States wants a
federal statute passed making the
crime of lynching capital offence.
p9@ By using dynamite to bring two
drowned men to the surface, searchers
wrecked the Milwaukee railroads
steel bridge at Iron Mountain, Mich.
pd- Eight thousand men are engaged
in mining lead and zinc in Missouri.
The total output for 1898 was "a, 0OO
tons of lead and 100000 tons of zinc.
p9" American trade with China is
increasing to such an extent that it is
likely this country and Japan will
have monopoly of it in the near
future.
ad- The speaker of the British house
of commons receives a salary of G5,-
900 year, and when he retires he is
raised to the peerage with an annual
pension of $4,000.
aT The government is paying from
5000 to 5000 a day for each vessel car
rying horses, supplies and army bag
gage to the Philippines, and $1,000 a
day for each vessel that carries troops.
n@- In proportion to population
Switzerland has a larger army than
any other European nation. Every
citizen of the land has at sometime
been under military training and is
ready for service.
p9~ At the beginning of this century
the Bible was accessive to but one-fifth
of the population of the world. Now
it may be read by nine-tenths of the
people of the globe, so rapidly has its
translation been carried on.
p9- "Wimmin," said Mr.. Grogan, "is
mighty similar in wan way" can
fwat's thot?" inquired Mr.. Hogan.
"No mather how minny av them you
git acquainted wild, they're all alike in
bein' different from wan another"
Bd" A crank in Brooklyn went over
the route of century run and sprink-
led it freely with tacks. Of the so
that finished the run more than half
had collapsed tires. The tacks re-
mained in most of the tires until pull
ed out.
R6 Mrs. Blonde (wildly)-George,
where did this black hair come from ?
Mr.. Blonde-I was riding behind a
black horse, and he switched his tail.
"But, George, this is fine hair" flash
ed the lady. eyes, it was a fine
horse," replied George.
Rds- Two hundred and fifty tons OF
copper coins have just been unloaded
at New Haven, Conn.,, from a ship
which made trip to Bombay, India,
to purchase them for manufacturing
purposes in this country, as they were
cheaper than the native copper.
H9e II see they have started another
lodge of the Improved Order of Red
Men in your village" ayes; my hus-
band has joined it. But that's not the
kind of order needed in our midst"
"No ?" "No; what is wanted is an
improved order of white men,"
H0~ A newly married couple in Port
land, Me-, who are both deaf, and are
trying housekeeping without SER
want, have devised an ingenious sub.
stitute for door bell. When a caller
presses the electric button all the lights
in the house flash up, and his presence
is made known.
H9~ A New York man fell overheard
few days ago and was rescued as he
was sinking for the third time. The
first thing he did on recovering con-
sciousness was to soundly berate the
man who saved him, declaring that if
he knew his business he would have