Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-15
atjausiae Gatherings.

pS- The Mexican cotton crop will
yield fully sS,500,0OO.
p4~ The army appropriation bill this
year calls for $9O,000,O00.
s9- Lightning is believed to be visi-
BILE q distance of $50 miles.
e4- Texas is being visited by the
coldest weather of the season.
e@ A. horse eats nine times its weight
in one year a cow nine times, and an
OK six times.
sS- There are 1860 graves of Confed-
crate soldiers on the Rock Island, Hi
nois, arsenal grounds.
s8- During January gold double ca
giles valued at $14, ,022, 900 were coined
at the Philadelphia mint.
g@- The winter wheat acreage is
greater by 20 per cent. than at any
time within the past five years.
e6- France has more persons over
60 years of age than any other coun-
try Ireland comes next.
pS- The greatest fight is first for
bread, next for butter on the bread,
and then for sugar on the butter.
p1- The Atchison Globes idea of
real nice man is one who is as polite
to girl of 81 as to girl of II.
pS- Between 1000 and 5000 pounds
of plug tobacco are yearly furnished to
the penitentiary inmates in Mississippi.
p9r The length of the worlds rail-
ways is more than II times the cir
cumference of the earrh at the equa-
tor.
pR@ DR.. Hit, of Battle Creek, Mich,
says there are 532 cases of leprosy in
the United States, 10 of which are in
Chicago.
p@- Death has nothing terrible which
life has not made so. A faithful
Christian life is the best preparation
for eternity.
s9r Anthony Burg, murderer, con-
fined in Jail in San Francisco, satura.
ted his clothing with coal oil and
burned himself to death.
sG- In London a paving stone, which
weighed 500 pounds, and which was
wedged in on all sides by other stones,
was lifted by a mushroom which grew
underneath it.
p9- Uncle Sam makes more paper
than any other country in the world.
The biggest paper mill is at West
brook, Me.
s8- Have purpose in life, and hav-
ing it, throw into your work such
strength of mind and muscle as God
has given you.
p8- The Island of St. Helena, where
Napoleon was held as prisoner, has
population of 1000. 1t has an area
of AZ square miles.
s4- A young lady in Philadelphia
broke an engagement because her
young man refused to shave OFT his
mustache. She knew what hurt her.
s9- Sunday labor is prohibited in
Europe, except in France and the
Netherlands, where the workmen are
given time for devotional exercises.
s9r "Do you believe Schiller when
he says that the best woman is the
one whom nobody talks about ?" ~
rather think it is the one who talks
about nobody"
ea- A bill has been introduced into
the New York legislature providing
for a censor of theatrical plays to
whom shall be submitted all manu-
scripts before production on the stage.
Gag In the reign of Queen Mary,
squaretoed shoes were the fashion.
Men took to wearing them 80 broad
that a proclamation was issued re-
stricting their breadth to six inches
square at the toes.
s@T Traces of the bicycle are found
as far back as the Fifteenth century.
In fact, Egyptian figures found on
obelisks mounted on two-wheeled We
hicles, show they had some idea of the
velocipede.
ear When an Armenian maiden at
tains her 18th year, and is not engaged
to be married, she must undergo a
strange punishment. She is forced to
fast three days; then, for "a hours,
her food is salt fish and she is not per-
mitted to quench her thirst.
s6- Wheat is now grown further
than ever before. At Fort Providence,
on the Mackenzie river, 200 miles
furthar north than Sitka, SPLENDID
wheat crop was grown last season in
fields belonging to Roman Catholic
mission.
a6S The Alabama house of represen-
atives passed, without dissenting
vote, a resolution directing that the
national flag be hoisted over every
school house in the state and be "kept
floating there forever" A few years
ago such resolution would have been
almost unanimously defeated.
sdr Friends of Isaac Loveless, OF
Pike county, Ind, asserts that MIR.
Loveless is 10S years old, his birth
occurring in North Carolina in 1871.
He was among the first settlers in Pike
county, and is the father of II children,
with IS grandchildren, 81 great-grand-
children and 19 great-great-grand-
children, total of 156 descendants.
p9r Among the many prominent men
who have approved the project to
erect in Richmond Confederate me.
mortal hall are President Mckinley
and ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleve-
land, Secretaries Gage, Alger, Long,
Bliss and Hay, Postmaster General
Smith ex.Secretaries Sherman. Whit