Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-05
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GS 1'he Boston DOarQ Ol Hedilu las
prohibited splitting in public places.
s4r Senator Teller, of Colorado, says
he is still for Bryan for president in
1900.
a4- Two hundred and thirty million
copies of the Bible have been circula-
since 1904.
ca Three hundred and sixty noun
tains in the United States are over ten
thousand feet high.
p9- The longest single piece of tele-
graph wire in the world is in India,
and is 5000 feet long.
R9- A block of white marble weigh
ing 100000 pounds was quarried at
Marble Hill, Ga, recently.
Bd- A man never says as bitter
things about a woman as a woman
says about another woman.
B@- The growth of girls is greatest
in their fifteenth year, and that OF
boys in their seventeenth.
B9~ On the early railroads candle
stick in stationhouse window meant
stop its absence was signal to 90 on.
B9 A movement is being started to
ask the United States to appropri-
ate s1OO,OOO,OO0 to assist Negroes to
emigrate to Africa.
p9 Over 100000 French women
were made widows and over 3,OOO,OOO
children were made fatherless by Ma
poleon's campaigns.
@Experiments in piping milk to
the city are being made on big dairy
farm outside of London, in the hope OF
saving the cost of carriage.
p9- Small farms are the rule in Japan,
and every foot of land is put to use.
The farmer who has more than 10
acres is considered a monopolist.
..s9- Bicycle riders in Southland, Aus
tralia, are required to dismount %
yards from an approaching horse, and
draw their machines past.
p@- The paupers in Japan number
less than 10000 out of population of
IS, 100000. 1t is considered disgrace
to be an idler in that country.
p9- The Plains of Abraham, Cana
da's historic battlefield, have been sur-
veyed for building lots, and will be
converted into surburb of Quebec.
sg Happy is that man that eats
only for hunger, and drinks only for
thirst; that stands upon his own, and
lives by reason, not by example.
a0r A ball of fire which came from
the clouds created havoc in Montclair,
n. j., last Wednesday night, destroy
ing two houses and injuring several
persons.
pH~ More than a century ago meet
ing house was erected at the head OF
Tuckahoe, river, New Jersey, and it
was painted for the first time few
weeks ago.
p@- Captain c. Rath, who had charge
of the execution of the four persons
who copspired to assassinate President
Lincoln in 1865, is at present railway
postal clerk aud lives at Jackson, Miss.
e6- Posters took their name from the
fact that in former times the footWays
of London streets were separated from
the drives by line of posts, on which
advertisements were displayed.
R@- In Sweden a man seen drunk
four times is deprived of his electoral
vote. The existence here of such a
law as that would have played the very
mischief in some of our political fights,
a@ Drawing master-Now, boys, l
want you to draw something out OF
your own heads. Small boy (hand-
ing master hair)-Please sir, will one
hair do, 'cos it hurts to pull out many ?
p8 "Is that baby strong?" "Well,
l should say so. He raised the whole
family out of bed at o'clock this
morning, and scientists say that's the
hour when everybody's strength is at
its lowest point"
nay On the Transcaspian railroad, !,
Russia has some fertile country, where
cotton was planted last year as an ex-
pertinent. The yield was more than
23O pounds to the acre, which is above
the average yield in this country.
a6 The embarkation of United States
volunteer regiments in Cuba, which
are to be returned to the United States
for muster out of service, is progress
ing rapidly. Adjutant General Corbin
is arranging to have all the volunteers
out of Cuba by April 25.
Ra- The Arkansas house of represen-
tatives has passed bill prohibiting
the manufacture, importation, sale or
giving away of cigarettes or cigarette
paper, to any person whomsoever,
adult or miner, under penalty of not
less than $500, nor more than $1,000.
p@ A report of the bureau of statis-
tics on our near relations with Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines, demonstrates that the people OF
the United States have been sending
abroad more than S250,000,O0O a year
in the purchase of the class of articles
produced in those islands.
g9 The deathrate in Philadelphia
from typhoid fever, produced by water
from the city reservoirs, made filthy by
years of accumulation of mud and
putrid organic matter, is causing great
alarm. Last Wednesday the official