Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-08
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p8- The fever situation at Jackson,
Miss, is improving.
p6- America has 1,O33,S 800 Hebrews
New York 100000.
p9~ There are 1O,SOOlawyers in Man
haitian Borough, New York.
nay There is cafe in Venice which
has never been closed night or day for
$50 years.
tag The Methodists of Chicago will
next week begin the experiment OF
seven.day church.
n@ Typhoid fever has broken out at
Cape Nome, Alaska, and the hospital
is crowded with patients.
a9 A New York reporter rode lO7
miles on one ticket and 81 transfers,
the total cost being 5 cents.
p@ The torpedo boat Dahlgren
showed speed of 80 knots, one-half a
knot less than contracted for.
p6 New York has fifteen members
of congress, Chicago has seven, Phila-
delphia five and Boston four.
s9 A cat in Strand tavern in Lon
don has become Incorporate through
drinking wine spilled by walters.
n9 The tendency in British cities is
to lower prices instead of making mu'
nicipal industries source of profit.
s0- Silk is the only fabric used in the
manufacture of garments in Madagas'
car, as it is cheaper than linen in Ire
land.
s@ In Harrodsburg, KY, there is a
man who has private coal mine that
he uses as his fuel supply and will sell
none.
s8 No married man in Vienna is
allowed to 60 up in balloon without
the formal consent of his wife and
children.
s8 A cave has lately been discover.
ed in New Zealand which is believed
to be larger even than the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky.
s@ In Siam the very choicest of TO-
bacco is not to be purchased, it being
reserved for the use of the king and
the chief officers of the state.
H6r The tunnels of the steamer
Oceanic are of such gigantic proper.
tions that two London tram cars could
pass through them side by side.
p9- The British association for the
advancement of science has granted q
thousand pounds sterling toward the
expenses of an Antarctic expedition.
p@ Among the recent finds by the
German scholars, who are excavatlne
on the island of Paros, is an important
document containing history of that
island.
sd- The Chicago board of education
will probably insist on an inspection o.
every child for diphtheria and scarlet
fever before it is admitted to the pub
lie schools.
s4- The skeleton of a giant over
feet in length was discovered by ex
cavators at King Hill, Mo. The site
many years ago was used by Kickapoo:
as burying ground.
pa5- Mice have long been in demand
as pets. They can be trained to per-
form many tricks, are very fond o.
music, and have been taught to dance
gracefully to waltz time.
s6e Melbourne, Australia, recently
experienced the first fall of snow in its
history. 1t came late in the Australian
winter and was heavy enough for the
children to make snowballs.
sd Germany is the third greatest
iron country in the world, and yet
twentieth of its entire output Of iron
ore comes from the Krupp mines and
is manufactured in the Krupp works.
a3 First Boy (contemptuously)-
Huh Your ma takes in washing
Second Boy-Of course; you didn''
s'pose she'd leave it hanging out over
night unless your pa was in Jail did yei
e@ Five battleships, one cruiser, one
cadet training ship and 25 torpedo
boats and torpedo-boats destroyers
will comprise the new construction:
completed and added to the navy
within the next year.
a@- A medical man prophesies tha
if for the next ten years the present
relative death rates are maintained, ii
1909 there will be more deaths in the
state of New York from cancer thar
from consumption, smallpox and ty
phoid fever combined.
R6- The extent of the territory ir
which the African elephant still occur:
is only one.tenth of what it was at the
beginning of the century, and it is es
timated that at the present rate of ex
termination it will be in 80 years as ex
tinct as the American buffalo.
s8~ A terrible epidemic of dysentery
is sweeping over Japan with fatal re
suits. Oficicls statistics show that ou
of $4,000 persons attacked up to Sep
tember IA, nearly 10000 have died
The authorities estimate that 100, ,0O(
cases will be recorded by the end o
October.
s9 At Geneva, N. Y, the death o
John Burns, 9 years old, is attributed
to vaccination in compliance with th'
state board of health regulations two
weeks ago. Within few day his arm
was enormously swollen and blooc
poison set in. Swelling followed in hi
whole body, and he died in great agony
r@- Canada's final proposition in th