Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-10
at'ausiae Gatherings.

p8 Counterfeiters have been work
ing successfully inside the Colorado
penitentiary.
B@ On the farm of John Martin, near
Carlisle, Pa, lightning struck flock
of 35 sheep and 81 of them were
killed.
g6 Rear Admiral Schley will sue
ceed Rear Admiral Howell as president
of the naval retiring board at Wash
ington.
s6 Negroes of Atlanta, Ca, want
colored schools of that city placed un-
der the control of a Negro board of
Rd- An old Negro cook says "Sass
is powerful good in everything but
children. Dey needs some other kind
of dressing"
H~ General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, is making preparations to es-
tablish an industrial farm of $4,000
acres in western Australia.
B~ In China all wines are drunk
hot The thrifty Chinaman believes
that heated wine intoxicates more ex-
expeditiously than cold wine.
g6 To stop the flow of blood: Bind
the cut with cobwebs and brown sugar,
pressed on like lint; or-if you cannot
procure these, with the dust of tea.
s6 In the Old Testament, although
a great number of women are men
mentioned, there is but one-Sarah,
wife-whose age is record
ed.
R6r An influential newspaper at
Vienna, Austria, advocates the combi-
nation, of all Continental European
powers against England and the United
States.
s@ No correspondence has passed
between Germany and the United
States in the Coghlan affair, and so far
as Germany is concerned, the incident
is closed.
H@ Among the acts passed by the
Minnesota assembly at the present ses-
sion is one amending the law so that
Negroes may have the same privileges
at saloons that white persons have.
nag Joseph Lynch, who fought with
Dewey at Manila, and has been wan
derer for years, was recently informed
at Chicago that he had fallen heir to
$50, 900 by his grandfather's death.
p9 Cuba's great need at present is a
public school system, the Spanish hav-
ing neglected the matter of education
to such degree that rs per cent. of
the people can neither read nor write.
s6- The adjutant general of Ohio has
issued an order disbanding the Ohio
National Guard because of lack of
discipline. 1t is proposed now to be-
gin at the bottom and build up new
militia.
p6 Rev. Berkham, of Wheeling, W.
Va, who is also a deputy sheriff, ar
rested two fugitives during divine SER
vice, chained them to the pulpit, finish
ed his sermon and then conveyed his
prisoners to Jail.
s@- The tallest man in the navy has
been selected to take the part of Gun
Gle Sam" in the peace jubilee, to be
held in Washington next month
Chief Yeoman Wills, who stands 6 feet
7 inches in his bare feet.
s6~ The American Vinegar company
has absorbed four more plants in Chi
cago, and about 80 factories through
out the country are to be closed by the
trust to shut off competition and to
control the price of vinegar.
sdn To insure long life, recreation
should be part of our daily life. 1t
makes the busy man thoughtful and
the thoughtful man busy. 1t insures
health, success, and the accomplish
ment of more and better work in less
time.
nag An old woman asked a sailor
where her cow had gone. The sailor
replied, "Gone to the devil, for what
1 know" "Well, as you are going
that way" said the old woman," 81
just wish you would let down the
bars"
r@ The Marble Heart Anti-Matri-
monial association, of Appleton, Wis,
consists of bachelors, who pay an ini-
tiation fee of $25 and annual dues of
$40. The accumulated funds 60 to the
particular Marble Heart who longest
resists the attractions of womankind.
a6- At Brighton, N. j., Miss Carrie
Scull alighted from a train just as it
pulled out of the depot. Her dress
caught in the car step and she was
thrown down. Just as she was about
to be drawn beneath the wheels by
ISLANDERS seized her and saved her life.
She lost her skirts.
s@ In telling very large oak tree
on farm near Boston the other day
large quantities of grape shot were
found imbedded in the W. ID. 1t is
well-known that the section of country
in which this tree grew was swept by
artillery during the British siege of
Boston, 124 years ago.
H@ A French naturalist asserts that
if the world should become birdless
man could not iuhabit it after nine
years. time, in spite of all the sprays
and poisons that could be manufac-
tured for the destruction of insects.
The bugs and slugs would simply eat
up our orchards and crops.
saE Some of the Long Island farm
ers are selling their potato crops before
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