Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-07
at5ausiae Gatherings.

TJuSIduu anu 1kSiohe.
pY- 1t is predicted that the apple
crop in Kansas this year will be the
largest in the history Of the state.
s6- The Minneapolis mills make A.
100000 barrels of flour a year, and
consume 6O,OOO,OOO bushels of wheat.
p9 The product of the 81 milk con-
densing factories in the United States
last year was worth about $10O,OOO,-
900.
sT Following terrible epidemic of
typhoid fever, Philadelphia is now
threatened with a scourage of small
poX.
sI According to recent French sta
tistics, France lost 100000 men in the
Franco German war. Germany's losses
were only S2,27S.
B@ Michigan expects to have the
largest park in the United States.
The tract covers 73S, 800 acres and is
located in six counties.
saT The strawberry crop in the vi
cinity of Chattanooga, Tenn, has till-
ed over 100000 crates this spring, and
was valued at S500,000.
s6 Nine tenths of the inhabitants of
Guam, the island in the Pacific which
the United States recently acquired
from Spain, can read and write, and
they are rapidly learning English.
B4 The French statistician, DR..
Livrier, says that half of all human
beings die before II; that only one
person in 10000 lives to be 100 years
old, and that only one person out OF
every 1000 lives to be 60.
a6 Snow fighters are at work with
dynamite and shovels on the mountain
system of the Colorado and Southern
road. Without the aid of dynamite, it
is claimed the banks would not disap.
pear before the Fourth of July.
g6- Metals get tired as we'll as liv-
ing beings. Telegraph wires are bet
ter conductors on Monday than on
Saturday, on account of their Sunday
rest, and rest of three weeks added
10 per cent to the conducity of wire.
a9 The local columns of the Spring
field, (Me.) Advocate recently contain
ed the following peculiar notice: Mrs.
Mary A. Goodwin, widow of the late
Stephen Goodwin, wishes that every
one would oblige her by attending to
their own affairs, and she will attend
to hers"
s9~ A person one year old may ex-
pect to live thirty-nine years longer /;
of ten years, fifty-one; ; of twenty, forty
one; of thirty years, thirty-four; of
forty years, twenty-eight; of fifty,
twenty-one of sixty years, fourteen
more of seventy years, nine ;of eighty
years, four.
a4" The Times, of Cuba, asserts that
no visitor can obtain access to the
Havana Jail, even upon written Or
der from the authorities, unless he first
grease the palm of the jailer with a
quarter. cit costs money to get in"
says the journal referred to, "and it
costs more to get out"
sH" Some teachers seem incapable Of
thinking back on their own early
youth, and give their pupils the i'm
pressions that they have always been
grown up. Feeling in this way, not
understood or misunderstood, child
has not courage to state his difficulties.
She who is not student of human ma
ture must fail as a teacher.
s4" Thirty-five men of Peoria, ILL.,,
have formed club, and each member
is pledged to marry widow. Fines,
penalties and expulsions are provided
for violation of the rules. There is
no age limit on the widow, and where
member marries widow with children
he receives portion of the fund ac-
cumulated through fines.
pg A we'll preserved nervous system
can stand all occasional attack of
righteous indignation in which con-
siderable strong temper or passion may
be manifested, if time is taken to fully
"cool off between the heats" 1t is the
continual fretting, grumbling and
growing, without intervals of rest,
that is wearing and injurious.
B9~ Three thieves in New York stole
a valuable dog last week, and later
the owner found the dog in possession
of the thieves. He claimed his prop
erty and attempted to recover it; but
was brutally assaulted, when the dog
came to his rescue with such good ef-
feet that when a policemen came the
three thieves were glad to be arrested
and thus escape the dogs fury.
s9" Sam T. Jack, a theatrical man.
ager, died in New York on the 9th of
April, and his will was probated on
last Thursday. 1t contains this re-
markable provision "It is my wish,
first and foremost, that my brother
James and my wife Emma shall be-
come husband and wife," The broth
er was asked if he would accept the
bequest, but he declined to reply.
s9" The postoffice department has
been overwhelmed with applications
from communities throughout the
country to name their postoffices
"Dewey." Already % postoffices in1
as many different states have been CIV
en- the name of the hero of Manila bay.
This is only four less than those named
after Washington. Over 800 other ap-
plicants are on the postal files.
B9~ Emperor William, of Germany,
while riding in the Thiergarten, Ber-
lin, last week, had an opportunity to
show his humanitarian side. A cab
horse frightened by bicycle, sud