Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-16
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the beauty of women by their weight.
R9n General Mercier asserts that he
will yet prove Dreyfus guilty of trea-
son.
nag General Wood, at Santiago, has
reported the yellow fever epidemic
over.
H@ The cultivation of the camphor
tree has proved great success in
Florida.
s@- Pennsylvania will yield about As
per cent. of full crop of apples this
season.
s6r Smallpox is spreading in the in
fected towns on the Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Virginia border.
ad The war department has at its
disposition army transports with ca
pacity of over 1900 men.
tag Sixteen powers have signed the
protocols of the arbitration aud media
ton treaties at The Hague.
p@ The number of Spaniards now
in the Philippines is less than at any
time during the last so years.
s8 During the year ending June 80
last, the government expended 81, ,075,-
900 on Mississippi river improvements.
p@ The poor houses in As Kansas
counties are empty, and in 81 counties
there is not case on the criminal
docket.
p9 Former Governor Stone, of Mis-
souri,, will, it is believed, be the real
power in the next Democratic nation
al campaign.
R9 Farm labor is so scarce in the
northwest that farmers have appealed
to the railroads to aid them in securing
harvest hands.
n@~ The right hand, which is more
sensitive to the touch than the left, is
less sensitive than the latter to the ef-
feet of heat or cold.
S6- The first and only national bank
outside of the continental boundaries
of the United States is about to be es.
tablished in Honolulu.
sa- There are millions Of the inhab-
itants of the Philippine Islands who
never knew the dominion of Spain,
and never saw Spaniard.
aS In the arctic region man who
wants divorce leaves home in anger
and does not return for several days.
The wife takes the hint and departs.
a1 1t was said in London that Fill
ipinos were negotiating for the lease Of
an island near Borneo as a possible
refuge for Aguinaldo and his friends.
H@ Look out for man who shakes
your hand with two 6ugers. 1t would
take as many of him to make Chris
tlan as snowballs to heat bakers
oven.
! s4 Delsarte, with all his study in
art of gesticulation, never succeeded in
the expression of dogs
tail when his master puts on his coat
for walk.
B6S The latest thing in company
promoting comes from Paris, where a
dogs cemetery has been foated with
a capital of 914,000. The promoters
are ladies.
HS Edward Bennett, aged 16, and
Ethel Allen, aged Is, were married at
Rock ford, Texas. They are stepbroth
er and sister, but married with their
parents consent.
p9 Four murders, two assaults on
women, a duel, a riot on train and
more attempts at lynching have fol-
lowed Governor Gamblers proclama-
ton against crime in Georgia.
rag Edward Marshall, the war cor.
who was wounded at Las
Guasimas, Cuba, has undergone ampu
tation of leg at New York. The ope-
ration was made necessary because of
paralysis and in order to retard its pro-
gress.
a% A Negro community in Alabama,
400 Negroes and but two
white persons, is about to be incorpo-
rated. The Negroes propose to have
a strict Negro town and Negro govern
ment. All the officials will be Ne
groes.
p4- A San Francisco millionaire has
the credit of paying the largest surge
on's fee on record for successful ope-
ration for appendicitis. Thirty thou
sand dollars was the tidy sr n, repre-
renting one mans gratitude to his
physician.
tag Bob Keyworth was paying at
tention to a rich widow in Harlem.
Madam" he said, as he offered her a
bouquet, "you are getting more and
more beautiful every day." You ex-
aggerate, my dear sir" exclaimed the
lady very much fattered. swell,
then, let us say every other day." said
Bob.
H4 Since Cuba has become free We
have shipped to it eight times as many
bicycles as formerly. Porto Rico and
the Hawaiian Islands are good Gus.
TONERS, though no direct expectation
to the Philippines is thus far reported.
America leads the world in the manu-
facture and sale Of the best of every
thing.
E6r Unless her father interferes,
Cora Laugdon Van Norden, daughter
of Warner Van Norden, president of
the Bank of North America, of New
York, will join the Salvation Army
and become editor of The Young Sol
dier, the official gazette. Iu 1892 her
sister Emma joined the Salvation
Army, and has since been hard
working officer.
M One of EunStnnls men writes