Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-02
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in maintenance for every man in her
navy.
eS- Dough is the latest adulterant of
coffee, nodded in the shape of coffee
beans.
a6- The man who would have done
so and so if he had been there never
gets there.
sa The material of which meers-
chaum pipes are made is used in Spain
as building stone.
sas- Recruits for the Chinese army
are not accepted unless they can jump
ditch six feet wide.
s9 1t is estimated that on an aver
age each penny in circulation changes
hands II times week.
a6 The average age at which wo-
men marry in civilized countries, is
twenty-five and half years.
aar 1t is stated at the war depart
ment that no attention will be paid to
the Philippine correspondents ground
robin"
gH The steamer Roanoke arrived at
Seattle with about 600 passengers and
gold dust estimated to be worth S3,-
100000.
s9~ Four men were recently kidnap-
ped in Nogales, Ariz., without due
process of law and taken to Mexico,
where they were shot.
sar Josie Mansfield, for whose sake
Edward S. Stokes shot and killed
James Fisk, Jr., in 1872, is lying at the
home of relatives, in Philadelphia, par
alyzed and speechless.
s9r Sleeping Bear, a full-blooded
Gros Ventre Indian, successfully con-
ducts a general store at Great Falls,
Mont. He will not give his own peo-
pie credit, but extends it to a limited
number of whites.
pH- A movement is said to be on foot
for the election of Ex-Governor Hogg,
of Texas, to the chairmansbip of the
Democratic national committee. Chair
man Jones' resignation, it is asserted,
is now in the hands of western mem
Der.
R9~ In Russia children eat cucumbers
as children here eat apples and bana-
mas. The vegetable is sold at every cor
ner by market women, and the little
chaps buy their moneys worth and eat
it, peel and all, without pepper, salt,
oil or vinegar.
s4- Comte Walsin Esterhazy in
statement to Paris paper said that he
forged the bordereau in order to con-
vict Dreyfus at Colonel Sandherr's
command. The war ministers and
leading generals knew of and ap-
proved the forgery.
pa- China still has the old.fashioned
system of private letter carrying.
Letter shops are to be found in every
town. If he has letter to send the
Chinaman goes to letter shop and
bargains with the keeper thereof. He
pays two-thirds of the cost, leaving
the receiver to pay the rest on de-
livery.
H6@ A crusade has been started in
London against the "Sunday baked
loaf" 1t appears that there is an act
of George w making it illegal to bake
bread on Sunday in the city of Lon
don, though the fact has long been ig-
nored. The question of Sunday baking
is now to be taken up in parliament.
s9. Judge Clayton, of the Oklaho-
ma supreme court, has rendered a de-
cision to the effect that hop ale is sufti-
ciently Intoxicating to make its sale a
violation of the prohibition law of the
territory. Heretofore saloon men have
been selling the drink and lodging the
act which prohibits the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors, but all of the joints are
now to be closed.
s9@ Brookville, Pa, has a crow
hatchery, said to be the only one in
the world. This birds jet black head
makes handsome trimming for ladies
hats, and milliners are credited with
paying 25 cents each for the heads.
The eggs of crows hatch in an ordina-
ry chicken incubator in Is days, and
in eight weeks the birds are big enough
to be guillotined.
sa" The much talked of fight be-
tween Spanish bull and an Abyssin-
ian lion at Roubaix, France, proved a
fiasco. The lion refused to fight until
the bull gored him in several places.
Then he sprang fercely upon his foe
and tore off one of the BULLS ears.
For few seconds there was terrific
fight, and then the lion retired to a
corner, refusing to carry the contest
further.
Eg- The number of Indians in this
country, instead Of decreasing, is said
| TO be slowly but surely growing larger.
! The records now show that there are
25O,OO Indians in the western states
alone; and several thousand more
dwell in other parts of the country. A
prominent census bureau official esti-
mates that the next census will include
upward to 300,O0 aborigiues.
s6. The Mennonites, religious COL
ony in Pennsylvania, whose religious
conference recently iuterdicted the use
of tobacco in any form, do not propose
to let this prohibition interfere with
their worldly affairs. The farmers of
the colony keep right on planting to-
bacco, getting around it by saying that
if their industry is so displeasing to
the Lord the tobacco will not grow.
The outlook at present is for boun-
tiful crop.
s1 The state department has made