Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-05
Mtausiae Gatherings.
aay There are 10 distinct languages

ed the LII. D. degree from seven COL
leges.
nar Thousands of cattle and sheep
are dying on the Colorado ranges in
consequence of drouth.
bH- The forest area of all the British
possession in America is estimated at
about 100000 acres.
pB Congressman Ketcham, of New
York, has served in Is congresses, and
has never made speech.
pdE There are people who seems to
lose all their religion the minute they
can't have their own way.
s0 The first mail in two months re-
ceived from the Yukon at Seattle,
Wash, consisted of 10000 letters.
B4- In Cuba women are now able
to dine alone in rest stiurants-a thing
that was never possible under the old
regime.
p6- Baltimore has the largest Negro
population of any city in Christendom.
The census is expected to show at
least l25,OO0.
a8- The population of the South At
rican republic consists of 60, 900 Beers,
81, 900 other whites, called Outlanders,
and 100000 Kaffirs and Zulus.
H9" The attorney general of Iowa
has asked all county attorneys to pros
ecute all trusts within their jurisdic-
ton to the best of their ability.
p8- Grasshoppers have become a
great plague in Spain, invading even
the cities. In Austria 5000 soldiers
were ordered to assist in destroying
them.
sas A beggars' syndicate, organized
and operated in accordance with the
latest trust methods, has been discov-
cred in New York by the arrest of two
crippled beggars.
s9~ Probably the richest person in
Cuba is woman, Sonora Rose Abien.
She owns millions and vast estates,
but is democratic in taste, and favors
the United States.
nag An immense whisky trust, which
will control 95 per cent. of the output
in the United States, with working
capital of 1925, 100000, has been or
ganized in New York.
g@> A dispatch from Mannheim,
Baden, makes the important announce
ment that a workman named Montag
has succeeded in making artificial coal
from earth and mineral substances.
R9- Chinese dentists are said to have
powder which is rubbed on the gums
over an affected tooth. After an in
terval of five minutes the patient is
told TO sneeze, and the tooth falls out.
sG- The tallest trees in the world are
the gum trees of Victoria, Australia.
In some districts they average 300 feet
high. The longest Frustrated one
measured 473 feet, and 81 feet in girth
near the roots.
B@ A little girl who had been very
observant of her parents mode of ex-
hibiting their charity, when asked
what generosity was, answered ut
is giving to the poor all the old stuff
that you don't want yourself"
s@> Arrangements are being made
by Admiral Sampson for the notable
observance, on July 8, of the anniver-
sary of the destruction of Cervera's
fleet at Santiago, his intentions being
to have the event take place at New
port.
s8- Lady (engsging cook)-Why did
you leave your last place? Cook
couldn't stand the dreadful way the
master and missus used to quarrel,
mum. "What did they quarrel about ?"
"The way the dinner was cooked,
num-"
B9 Fresh Applicants there an
opening here for bright young man ?
Proprietor What can you do? "Any-
thing" Every we'll; take my chair
here and tell me how to run this busi-
ness on profitable basis. We've been
waiting 40 years for you to be born"
Bd At church meeting in one of
the suburbs of Chicago, the inquiry
was made whether a certain lawyer of
the congregation, whose financial af-
fairs were somewhat involved, had
"got religion" To which another
lawyer present responded: "No, |
think not, unless it's in his wife's
name"
seS. The honorary degree of LII. D.,
was conferred by the Georgetown Uni
versity on Rear Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley and George w. Melville,
Major General Joseph Wheeler, Hon.
w. Bourke Cochran, of New York ;
DR.. Samuel Bussey, District of Colum-
hia; DR.. Samuel Brewer, Illinois, and
Hon. Thomas Herran, United States OF
Colombia.
Bas" Arthur w. Bonnell, of Brooklyn,
whose son had been struck with an
umbrella by 7-year-old boy, took it
upon himself to spank the offending
youngster, the latter's parents having
refused to administer the chastisement
themselves. Bonuell was thereupon
sued for damages by the father of the
spanked boy, and the jury decided
that he must pay $1,075.
~ "Aha! You begged dime from
me to get meal, and here find you
buying a drink with it," exclaimed
the experimental philanthropist. "Not
much you DON'T" answered the OBJ
ject, throwing a dollar on the bar.
THAT there dime o. yours mebbe won't
be spent for a week. I'm not one o.
them as spends their money as soon as
they earns it,"