Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-06
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factured in Austria.
s6- Ina Daisy Cook is the name of
new postmaster in Oklahoma.
H@ The fly lays four times each
summer, and 80 eggs each time.
p4 London is to have a school of
instruction for wireless telegraphy.
IG A giant reaping machine at Red
lands, CAL, cuts swarth SO feet wide.
s@ Something over 1000 saloons
have been opened in Cuba since the
war.
s8 1t is believed that in China there
is twenty times as much coal as in all
Europe.
p@ English dictionaries are in great
er demand than any other commodity
in Porto Rico.
p@ Up to date $50, 3,376,350 of gold
coin and bullion have been exchanged
for gold certificates.
p~ Owing to the dry, cold atmos-
phere, not a single infectious disease
is known in Greenland.
nay Taking all civilized countries,
the average age at which women mar
ry is said to be 233 years.
p~ Mexico City is to have the
largest bull ring ever built. 1t capac-
ity will be $4,000 persons.
s8- A current report that the end of
the world is approaching has caused a
panic in southern Russia.
D@ Herr Suchlands, a German scient-
ist, has discovered that the aroma of
tobacco is due to microbes.
18r Bella M. Hughes, of Atchison,
Kan, recently celebrated the 5Oth an
diversity of her second marriage.
b@ A Louisville judge has ruled
that if a woman wears mans hat she
must take it off when she comes into
his court.
H6r Senator Jones, chairman of the
national Democratic committee will
return from Europe to be in Chicago
by October 1.
1% Two divinity students are work
ing their way through Yale by doing
job printing. The name of the firm is
Clark & Watkins.
r6c Two streets in Pinar del Rio,
which have heretofore borne the names
of two saints, will hereafter be called
Gomez and Mckinley.
p@ On an eight.mile road now being
built in Missouri to connect with the
Kansas and Texas, "a bridges
are to be constructed.
H~ Consul Johnson reports from
Honduras that the planters have
twarted the efforts of a banana trust
to lower the price of that fruit.
s4 Power will intoxicate the best
hearts as wine the strongest heads.
No man is wise enough nor good
enough to be trusted with unlimited
power.
16 The experiment of enlisting ma
tives of the West Indies into the Am
erican army has proved quite success
full in the case of the Porto Rican bat
TALON.
1% The war department orders that
each regiment of artillery will hereaf-
ter consist of IL batteries of heavy
of 113 men each and two batteries of
162 men each.
H% One of the strangest occupations
in the world is extensively practiced
in Egypt, where women are hired to
weep and lament over q corpse, being
paid a regular fee for so doing.
B9 Oklahoma Territory takes great
pride in the fact that it has not one
poor house within its borders, and,
has need of none. The peo-
pie say there is not a pauper among
them.
s@ Investigations made officially in
Illinois show that pound includes
2,1S5, 900 seeds of blue grass, 1,421,-
900 of timothy, 1858, 900 of white clover,
153, 900 of red clover and 243,000 of
alfalfa.
s6 In spite of the Dreyfus affair
and the strong anti-Semite agitation in
France, the French army has about
800 Jewish officers, among them briga-
dier generals and even generals of
divisions.
s6 In the Massachusetts reforma-
tory for women good behavior is re-
warded by permitting the well-be-
haved ones to wear dresses with small
er checks. The bad ones wear very
big checks.
sd- Vermont has in anticipation the
biggest reception ever held in that
state, when it welcomes Admiral Dew
ey. The celebration will be held in
the admirars native town, Montpelier,
and will last several days.
pdF In Switzerland girls on arriving
at the age of IA are regularly employ
ed as porters, and during the season in
that country may be seen daily carry
ing the baggage of travellers up and
down the steep mountain paths.
IE The British government keeps II
vessels at work sounding and charting
the ocean beds, to find out where dan
gers lurk. Last year 10000 square
miles were carefully charted in differ
ent parts of the world-Asia, Africa
and the South Pacific.
pdT A farmers wife, near Yelling
ton, Mo-, while out feeding chickens
last week, dropped an earring, which
was quickly gobbled up by one of the
fowls. She could not pick out the par
ticular chicken, so killed them, one by
one-27 in all-but failed to find the
earring. Then she began to look
around and found it in the grass,