Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-08
Mausiae Gatherimgs.

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1900" recently ate one of his hind
legs and had to be shot.
SdS Reports of damage to the Florida
orange and vegetable crops by the re-
cent cold weather have been greatly
exaggerated.
p@ A Massachusetts farmer is being
sued for sneezing so loud on the pub
lie highway as to cause the plaintiff's g
horse to run away.
e6r 1t is rumored that General Joe
Wheeler will be made brigadier gen.
eral in the regular army and will be
sent to Manila.
b6y In Japan a man can live q gen.
tleman for about $3.50 a year. This
sum will pay the rent of house, the
salaries of two servants, and supply
plenty of food.
DdF If any foreign substance is swal.
lowed, such as sharp needle, for in.
stance, do not give an emetic, but con-
fine the died to mashed potatoes for
two days.
p@r clustering men are worse than
dogs; for the latter wag their tails
only, while the former wag their
tongues; and the hinges of the latter
creak horribly.
b@ The battleship Oregon is expec.
ted by the navy department to arrive
at Manila about March 10, and Gener'
al Otis within a week will have about
$500 men as reinforcements.
p@ The customs receipts of the gov.
ernment are reported to be $56O,OOC
day, or more than one-half the aver
age daily expenditures during the five
years prior to the war with Spain.
s6 Rear Admiral Dewey has inform
ed the navy department that he has
deposited $4,000 tons of coal at Cavite,
Manila, making that point 6rst-class
coaling station for United States ships.
p@ Traces of the bicycle are found
as far back as the Fifteenth century.
In fact, Egyptian figures found on obe'
lisks mounted on two-wheeled vehicles
show that they had some idea of the
velocipede.
b8 The Cubans who insulted the
memory of the late General Garcia by
refusing to parade at his funeral have
petitioned the president to remove
General Brooke from command at
Havana.
p8 Russia has taken up the idea oi
using the army as means of educa-
ton. All conscripts are to be taught
reading and writing during their six
years. service, and where it is necessa'
ry will be trained for trades as we'll.
p@ In Germany, when the vote Of
the jury stands six against six, the
prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven
against FIVE leaves the decision to the
court, and in a vote of eight against
four the prisoner is convicted.
p9 "This, ladies and gentlemen, is
the celebrated trick mule, Dot" said
the clown, as the beast was being led
into the ring. "After many years Of
effort, I am able to say can make
him do anything he wants to-"
p6r An English reviewer says there
is more poetry written now in one year
than was written during the whole Of
the Eighteenth century. Much of il
is fairly good-quite as good as would
have suficed to establish great repu'
lotion among our grandfathers..
s6- Accidents to sleep walkers car
be easily prevented by laying on the
carpet by the side of the sleep walkers
beds, strips of sheet metal-iron, zinc
or copper-so wide and long that when
they put their feet upon them the
coldness felt will wake them thor
oughly.
p@ Thirty Spaniards, unable to read
or write, arrived in New York direct
from Spain last Sunday. All are 60
ing to mining towns in the West
Since the war the immigration from
Spain to the United States has increas
ed 100 per cent.
p6- President J. w. Springer, of the
National Live Stock association, after
a personal investigation of the condi
ton of the cattle in Texas, places the
loss from the blizzard at 10 per cent
This is the most serious loss, he says
since 1886, when over 80 per cent. O.
the range cattle perished.
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guarantee for Cuban bonds for many
millions, and under conditions which
will mean but little less than an actua
protectorate over the island of Cuba
General Gomez will visit Washington
and confer with President Mckinley
before the last of April.
Bd- In Georgia the cold wave o.
February 12 and 13 was by far the
most severe of any on record. The
temperature fell to zero almost to the
southern limit of the state, while in
the northern counties it reached 10 OF
IL below. The loss on crops in the
state will amount to several million
of dollars.
p6 Charles Kraus, Of Cincinnati
having been sued for divorce, has FLED
a curious cross-suit. He alleges tina,
during the courtship the lady who sub
sequently became his wife carefully
concealed from him the fact that she
had a glass eye. He claims this was
fraud, and consequently sues for free
dom.
E9- All the army horses, mules anC
wagons left at Camp Force, Huntsville
Ala, are being taken to Chickamauga
where they will be located until need
ed for active service. The animals
numbering about 1,2OO, are beins