Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-22
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which controls the entire milk supply
of the city.
a9S The Kansas legislature has pass
Ell bill reducing telegraph tolls in
that state 40 per cent.
nay The world is sadly in need of an
invention that will warn people when
they have talked enough.
Ra The beet sugar of Germany
equals in amount the product of sugar
cane in all the rest CT the world.
sa~ The Pacific is a mile deeper than
any other ocean-so deep in some parts
that it can scarcely be fathomed.
B9~ On rainy days Governor Roose-
velt still dons the old sombrero which
he wore at Santiago and San Juan.
ga Sausages made of decrepit and
diseased horses are said to be sold in
the poor districts of New York city.
pd- Broom corn is to be advanced
S25 per ton and the price of finished
brooms advanced so cents per dozen.
s9 Intoxicating liquors have been
made from the sap of the birch, the
willow, the poplar and the sycamore.
sas~ The tomb of Mohammed is COW
cred with diamonds, sapphires and ru-
bies which are valued at $40, 900, 900.
s9~ No man will wake up in the
morning and find himself famous un-
less he has worked hard the day before.
s9" Speaker Reed has declined to
certify on the rolls of the house of rep.
resentatives the pay of General Wheel
er and other soldier congressman.
g9 Philadelphia is afflicted with an
epidemic of typhoid fever. Since jan
uary l, there have been 1926 cases
and $50 deaths from the disease.
e9- Many discharged volunteers are
applying for enlistment in the regular
army. They want to go to the Phil
ippines and help trounce the rebels.
RaH An individual who answered an
advertisement reading, "Man with
push wanted" was rather disgusted to
find that the business was to furnish
motive power for wheelbarrow.
s9" General Ludlow writes that there
are 10000 persons in the province of
Havana dependent on government ra-
tions to save them from starvation.
The condition of the women is said to
be particularly deplorable.
a4~ United States officials in Havana
predict that under the American sys-
tenn of sanitation now being perfected,
Havana will be healthy place in a
few years and one of the richest cities
in the world.
Ba Southern Pines, one of the small
est townships in North Carolina, ship
ped 100000 pounds of fruit to north
ern markets in 1898. 1t was all raised
by northern invalids living there for
their health.
sa" In western Australia gold mug
get has been found which weighs 229
pounds avoirdupois. 1t was pocket
deposit, and with the massive slug
were nuggets of smaller size weighing
in the aggregate 2000 ounces.
s6 One of the members of the Con-
necticut legislature introduced reso-
luton providing that the general as
sembly adjourn Thursday, April 6, at
|2 D. M, "this act to take effect upon
its passage"
e4 The largest loaves of bread baked
| in the world are those Of France and
Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is
baked in loaves 2 or feet long while
in France the loaves are made in the
shape of very long rolls, or feet
in length, and in many cases feet.
B0" A snow shoveler in Chicopee,
Mass, recently received 7 cents for
five days's work, the city taking occa-
sion to deduct what was due it for poll
taxes with interest. 1t is said that
about $500 was collected by the city in
this way.
BS~ The peace congress, consisting OF
representatives of the principal govern
ments of the civilized world, called by
the car of Russia to discuss the posi-
bility of taking steps toward a general
disarment, will meet at the Hague
on May Is.
s9% What is undoubtedly the most
expensive tomb ever erected for pri-
vate individual, is the splendid mauso-
leum erected in Greenwood cemetery,
Brooklyn, to the memory of John
Makcay, the California millionaire. 1t
cost over 100000.
sa- An enormously fat Englishman,
John Sanderson, has just died. He
weighed nearly 500 pounds and meas
ured nearly feet across his chest and
shoulders. His amusement was to
visit museums where corpulence was
on exhibition, and show that the ad-
vertised "tattest man on earth" was a
feather compared to himself.
saE The latest freeze in Florida was
less destructive than that Of four years
ago, when the temperature was five
degrees higher. Some Of the orange
growers made log fires to protect their
trees and fine grove was saved by
burning sawdust saturated with tur.
pentine. Orange trees that merely
drop their leaves may bear this year.
s9 Canvasback ducks were so nu-
merous in the early days in Maryland
that employers were obliged TO enter
into contracts with their laborers that
the latter should not be fed on canvas
back duck more than three times d
week. One man could easily shoot
100 ducks in single morning in those
days. Now the fowls cost $5 pair.