Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-19
atjausiae Gatherinas.

eg The ordnance department has
contracted for s 100000 smokeless cart
ridges at $3.50 per 1000.
B9 The Arkansas legislature has
passed law fining women who wear
stuffed birds on their hats.
p9 The crop outlook in Mississippi,
northern Louisiana and western Ar
kansas is very unfavorable.
n@ Many of the Spanish submarine
mines in Santiago harbor have been
found to be overgrown with marine
vegetation.
s6r 1t has been decided by the post
Office department to establish postal
route in Alaska, which shall cross the
arctic circle.
s9- Of the 100000 gallons of
brandy produced in the United States
last year, California alone contributed
2, ,3S7 1856, Virginia los, lis, Kentucky
66,l74.
p9. The Jewish Colonial Trust. with
capital of SO, ,0O0,0 900, which may be
increased to $50, ,OOO, 900, is to be formed
to promote the resettlement of Pales-
tine by the Jews.
s8- A prominent diplomat in Wash
ington, discussing the peace conference
at The Hague, says that each days
news makes war between European
powers more probable.
p9- According to the latest statistics,
consumption kills 10000 of the inhab'
itants of Italy every year, and reduces
to an invalid state nearly a million
within the same period.
eSr A Manila dispatch via Hong
Kong quotes an American general as
saying: awe will need 100000 SOL
diers in the Philippines before the
Americans control the islands,"
pS- The turkey was first discovered
in America, and was taken to England
in the early part of the sixteenth GEN.
tury. Since then it has been acclima-
ted in nearly all parts of the world.
s8 At San Francisco the other day
Evangelist Moody delivered an address
urging that more kindness be shown to
criminals. While he was talking a
thief broke into the building and stole
his overcoat.
s9 Admiral schley is mathemati.
clan who can do most of his work
without the aid of pencil or paper. In
Liverpool some years ago he triumph
antly bested professional "lightning
calculator" who was exhibiting there
s8 Baroness de Roques is continu.
ing her efforts for the release of her
daughter, Mrs. Maybrick, serving q
life term in an English prison on the
charge of having administered poison
to her husband and thereby caused bis
death.
s6r Noah Raby celebrated in the
poor house at Piscatawey, N. c., on
April 10, what he claims is his 18th
birthday. The old man says he was
born in the Gates House, North Caro-
lima, in 1772. He is an Indian and
smokes and drinks.
g@ Tests have been made in Finland
to decide the comparative value OF
iron and aluminium as material fol-
horseshoes. After six weeks use by
the cavalry, the aluminium shoes were
in all cases proved to be in better con-
dition than the others.
B~ Acting Secretary of the Navy
Allen has received a letter from the
manager of the Neptune company,
the Swedish wrecking corporation, an
nouncing that it is not possible to raise
and repair the vessels of Cervera's
feet, sunk near Santiago, Cuba.
nag 1t is said that heat holidays have
be established by law in the public
schools of Switzerland. Recognizing
the well-known fact that the brain
cannot work properly when the heat
is excessive, the children are dismiss
ed from their tasks whenever the ther.
mometer goes above a certain point
sT In Hawaii, one of the Sandwich
islands, there is spot called the Rock
of Refuge. If criminal reaches this
rock before capture, he is safe so long
as he remains there. Usually his
family supply him with food until he
is able to make his escape, but be is
never allowed to return to his own
tribe.
pG A girls taste differs according to
her age, says cynic. At l6 she wants
dude with toothpick shoes and mi
croscope mustache; at 20 chief JUS
tice with a pile Of tin at 25 she'll be
satisfied with member of congress; at
80 a country doctor or a preacher will
do; and at 35 anything in the male
line, from an editor down.
s9 Judge John B. Stone, of Kansas
City, is being sued for $4,000 for hav-
ing killed tree which stands in front
of neighbours property. The tree
was especially valued by the neighbor
because of the fact that it was planted
by her son, now DECEASED, but for some
unknown reason Judge Stone bored a
large auger hole in it and filled the
cavity with coal oil.
s4- The New York fire department
is equipped with chaplains, just the
same as a regiment of soldiers. The
officials consider that it is as necessary
to have chaplains at fires as it is to
have them accompany troops at the
firing line in time of battle. Loss OF
life at fires is sometimes very heavy,
and there should always be some one
present to administer spiritual consol-
alton.
R4~ At the recent municipal election
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