Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-24
d4tausiae Gatherimas.

e4- Hawaii has 1886 Mormons, Of
whom 1886 are natives of the islands.
p8- The Chicago platform Democrats
will form an anti-Tammany organiza'
ton in New York.
B9- The navies of Europe will honor
Admiral Dewey on his way home
through the Mediterranean.
p@- New gold discoveries are report.
ed in Aluska, said to exceed in rich.
ness those of the Klondike.
p6r President Mckinley is opposed
to assembling congressin in extra session
unless some unlocked for contingency
arises.
n6- A window glass trust has been
formed which will control SO per cent.
of the productive facilities of the
United States.
p6- The chief secret of comfort lies
in not suffering trifes to vex us, and
in cultivating our underground OF
small pleasures.
p6- We find plenty of people who
don't average we'll; they know too
much for one man, and not quite
enough for two.
p6- Josh Billings says, "When you
strike lie, stop boring; menny man
has bored clean thru and let all the lie
run out at the bottom"
p6- In 1O0-mile bicycle race around
San Francisco bay the winning wheel
man came in only fifth of second
ahead of the second man.
s@- Cardinal Gibbons asserts that
law of divorce is liberation of Nor
monism in modified form, and advo-
Gates abolition of such legislation.
pd- Rev. D. J. Mcmillan claims that
Mormonism gained more members last
year in 10 southern states than the
Presbyterian church did in the entire
country.
H6r The boy who told his father that
he had a horrid cold in his head, was
cruelty rebuffed when the old man
thanked Heaven that he had at last
something in it.
p@ Some one sent to Martin Luther
to know whether it was lawful to use
warm water in baptism. Luther re-
piled: "Tell the blockhead that water,
warm or cold, is water"
B6- An Illinois man has been anus
ing himself lately by advertising an
infallible cure for drunkenness for 81,
and sends in reply this prescription :
"Drink nothing but water"
p6- Michigan is said to produce
more than one-half of all the oil of
peppermint, spearmint and tansey used
in the entire world. St. Joseph coun-
ty is the centre of this industry.
sdy A doctor in Penrith announces
as the latest remedy for toothache,
that the mouth must be filled with
cream then the head is to be bumped
against the wall till the cream turns
to butter.
B0- The consumption of quinine by
American soldiers suffering from one
southern fever or another during the
past year is said to exceed 125, 10000
grains. There was hardly man who
did not take the drug at one time or
another.
s6S- A great proportion of the Gu:
cumber pickles used in the east are
grown in one Maine county. Over 100
acres are given up to pickle growing
in the vicinity of the town of Camden.
The crop is a profitable one, usually
yielding an income Of 500 to $3.50 an
acre.
p8 At the meeting of the Manu-
facturers's association, at Chicago, last
week, it was decided to advance the
price of farm implements from Is to
20 per cent. This affects all classes of
implements, and is made because Of
the advance in raw material and labor.
a@ Leeches, when applied to persis-
tent cigarette smokers, drop off dead,
distinct traces of the dangerous oil
given off by tobacco being found in
them. Strangely enough, the same
experiment tried upon excessive pipe
smokers resulted in no apparent injury
to the leeches.
Bg What others think of us is less
important matter than what others
ought to think of US. 1t is better to
be in disfavor with others because we
are misunderstood than to be in favor
because we are supposed to deserve
better than we do. And in the long
run the surest way of winning the ia
vor of those whose opinion is worth
most is by deserving it.
p6r A Paris begger has been living
very comfortably by hanging himself.
He would choose tree near where
young children were playing, string
himself up and groau to attract atten-
ton, so that they would run for help.
He would be cut down and restored,
and a letter in his pocket would ex-
plain his attempted suicide by state
ment of his destitution. He knew
how to attach the moose so as to avoid
strangulation.
s9 Experiments have been carried
on at the United States mint in Phila-
delphia for nearly year with a view
to ascertaining the fitness of aluminium
for minor coins. Some 10000 blanks
of the size of the nickel Scent piece
have been delivered at the mint for
this purpose. Congress recently ap.
pointed commission of experts to in
vestigate and report upon this subject,
and accordingly experiments are being