Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
ae'ausiae Gatherings.

tlnent OF the W0rlu.
s6- A girl isn't necessarily an angel
because she's Eighty.
pa- Prior to 1867, tea was sold in
England for $50 pound.
saF Ninety-one per cent. of the farm
ers in Utah own their farms.
sas" Many small animals eat their
own weight in food in day.
p9 The pope is said to have origin
ated the universal peace idea.
pdF In giving the devil his due you
are liable to give yourself away.
s6 The only way to curb young
man nowadays is to bridal him.
saT 1t is the reply rather than the
statement that makes the quarrel.
s9 Spain last year exported 3,O00,-
600 pounds of raisins to the United
States.
a9 When a speaker is all at sea, no.
body can catch the drift of his re-
marks.
a@ Some men spend half their time
in making promises and the other half
in making excuses.
a9 Some women take a man for
better or worse, and some take him
for what he's worth.
a9 Between June and July 2, l, ia
men were recruited at Chicago for SER
service in the Philippines.
s9 Dick Williams, colored, charged
with the murder of two white men,
was lynched at Alma, Kan, last week.
p9r Mrs. Lowndes, wife of the Mary
land governor, claims that buttered
bread is a sovereign cure for whooping
cough.
pE@ 1t is reported that the relations
between the United States and Russia
were never more friendly than at
present.
p9~ 1t is estimated that about $4,000
Cuban troops have been paid. 1t is
believe that 5000 more will accept
payment.
sH A 6.inch projectile fired against
the armor plate intended for the bat
ship Alabama, at Indian Head, went
clean through it.
H9 In five months so new cotton
mills have been built or projected in
the south, and 80 mills in that section
are to be enlarged.
ms" 1t is now said that the court.
martial at Madrid did not acquit
Cervera and his officers, but postponed
Judgment and released them.
a9~ eff fish bone becomes lodged
in the throat beyond the reach of re-
moval by the fingers, swallow raw
egg," says The Trained Nurse.
a9r Five years ago a Chester, Pa,
woman gave tramp his breakfast and
last week he called on her and offered
to pay for it. He is not tramp now.
s0 The oldest medical recipe is said
by French medical journal to be that
of a hair tonic for an Egyptian Queen.
1t is dated 400 B. c., and directs that
dogs paws and asses hoofs be boiled
with dates in oil.
R9 Ex-senator George F. Hamlin,
of Kansas, is the son of Europe Ham,
lin, and had three uncles, whose names
were Asia, Africa and America. Vice
President Hannibal Hamlin was the
son of Africa.
a9- The total number of cases of yel-
low fever at Vera Cruz in June was
466, and the deaths 100, showing the
virulence of the disease during the
present epidemic, which bids fair to
last into the autumn.
aG" In every city or town in the
Netherlands you will find Rosemary
street. In olden days only undertak-
ers lived in them, the rosemary being,
in the language of flowers, specially
dedicated to the dead.
HU A Belgian genius, noting the
fondness of mice for music, has invent
ed mouse trap in which music box
takes the place of cheese but COM
bination of the two would cost no
more, and should prove irresistible.
a9~ London bankers express consid-
cradle anxiety as to the adequacy of
the gold reserve of the Bank of Eng
land. 1t is expected that the United
States will soon begin to import gold,
which will further injure the reserve.
aH- Fish are not only caught; but
pulled into the boat by Kentuckian's
device, comprising the usual line,
which is wound on the shaft of clock
mechanism, pull on the line releas-
ing the spring and winding up the line.
R9~ To care for person who has
tainted, lay the person down, keep the
head low, loose the clothing, give plen-
ty of fresh air and dash cold water in
the face. Smelling salts and stimu-
lants should only be used when con-
sciousness has returned.
a9~ Farmer Meadows, who has tried
every reasonable offer, has about con-
cluded that the only way to keep one
of the boys on the farm is to hang the
hammock in cool place, let the whole
family devote themselves to his amuse-
ment, and have the hired men do all
the work.-Orange Judd Farmer.
s6" 1t is generally believed in Mis-
souri, that a great part of the booty
taken by Quantrell and his famous
raiders from Lawrence, Kan, in 1863,
now lies buried in great mound $50
feet high in Bates county, Mo. From
time to time searching parties have
dug holes in the mound in search of
the plundered treasure, but none have
succeeded in finding anything.