Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-29
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ticular as to which bar they practice
at.
sg Fully one third of the female
population of France are laborers or
farms.
p6 Asiatic cholera is the most rap
idly fatal diease known to medica
science.
a6T A Boston fruit company now con
trolls the banana trade of the United
States.
s@r People eat 20 per cent more
bread when the weather is cold thar
when it is mild.
p9r The regular army of the Uniteo
States will be recruited to full strength
5000, by May L.
p@r In the days of Columbus only
seven metals were known to exist
Now there are 81.
g@ Robert Lewis was hanged in At
lanta, Ga, on the gallows which ht
built two years ago.
p@- Sapphira was the original au'
thor of serial fiction. Ananias told
story, and she continued it.
s8 General Gomez will 90 on distri
buting the $a,OOO,OO0 to his soldiers, al
if the assembly did not exist.
p8 Scores of amulets, evidently
worn to keep off the evil spirits, have
been found in the ruins of Nineveh.
s9 The production of sugar in Mex
leo is about 10000 tons per annum
nearly all of which is consumed a
home.
a9- A bill to incorporate the Saliva
ton Army of the United States ha
been introduced in the New York as
sembly.
s@ In two days last week 1,10'
sparrow nests were destroyed on Bos
ton Common. The work is still pro
crossing.
n6 Ex-senator German is said to b.
against Bryan and in favor of Admir-
al Schley as Democratic nominee TO
president.
s6 In the Philippines the insurgenr
control is now confined to the island o
Luzon, where their forces are split b!
the American lines.
a65. General Gomez says he recog
nizes only one power in Cuba, tn
United States, and that the Cuban as
sembly "can only talk"
R6 1t has been decided that hereaf
ter General Brooke will entirely ignor
the socalled Cuban assembly and dea
directly with the people.
R@ It is believed in Washington tina
Mckinley and Hobart will be almos
unanimously nominated by the mex
Republican National convention.
p8 A pneumatic horse-collar find
favor with many horsemen, and tn
animals themselves seem to appreciate
it, as it adjusts itself to every motion o
the neck.
sS Some people who call them
selves decent will put battered nickl
into the church collection and pay
Pullman car porter Is cents for black
ing their boots.
s@ eff my employer does not retrac
what he said to me this morning,
shall leave his store" "Why, what dit
he say ?" "He told me could lool
for another place."
sV An exchange corrects its repor
of sermon thus: The sentence 81
is is not difficult to be happy il
HE'LL should read "It is not difficult t.
be happy in health"
s9 A western man, who was recent
ly invited to a seat on the floor o
the house at Washington, indignantly
refused saying that be was accustomed
to sit on chairs at home.
nag "What is meant by the 'bone o
contention ?" asked young hopeful
looking up from his book. "The jaw
bone, my son." replied his fathe
solemnly-"the jaWbone!"
p9 Potato crop of the United State!
last year amounted to 164,015,964
bushels, valued at $S9, ,643, 900. Thi
is an average yield of 64.7 bushels tt
the acre, and estimating the popula
tiop of the country at 100000, i
gives US 2 2-7 bushels each.
s9 The winter has been phenome
nal one in England, with abnormally
warm days and then sudden periods o
frost. As a consequence the deatt
rate has gone up noticeably in nearly
all the towns, and the outbreak and
sudden increase of influenza shows ir
all the reports.
H6r Large additional supplies O
smokeless powder are to be forwarded
at once to our troops at Manila. Pre-
parations are being made by the army
ordnance bureau to maintain in the
Philippines large quantities of ammu
milton, so that the stock on hand may
never be reduced below a certain
point.
p6 New Orleans is so unused tC
snow that when the heavy storm struck
it recently it found itself unable tc
compel citizens to shovel off their side
walks, for want of a local ordinance tc
that effect. The desired ordinance is
now expected in short order, although
it may not be necessary to enforce il
for half century.
H6- In the Wisconsin assembly last
week an immense floral corset, tight
ly laced, was presented to Assembly
man Dagget, author of the anti-tigh'
lacing bill. 1t was the gift of the
young women of Watertown, and its
annearanoo uhen hroupht in hy the