Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-07
at'ausiae Gatherings.


city of labor.
na- Unusually cold weather in Flor
ida is believed to have injured the
orange trees.
R9- The consumption of cotton per
head has more than doubled in Ger
many since 1875.
ad~ French statistics are said to
prove that 211 French officers threw
up their commissions to join the Beers.
p6 Kentucky furnished more SOL
diers, Confederate and Union, than
any other state, according to its popu-
lation.
aa~ 1t costs 81, 100000 a year to
maintain the "a royal palaces of EN-
peror William throughout the German
empire.
saS Experiments in Ireland have
Welded tobacco twice as strong as any
other sold, with net profit of $500
an acre.
e@ The receipts of the patent office
for the calendar year 1899 were ST.
1926, ,457, a sum but twice exceeded in
Ga years
e9 The legislature of Mississippi has
passed a bill forbidding the sale of
cocaine except on the prescription OF
physician.
pdT Congressman Lentz, Of Ohio, pro-
poses the public distribution of Unit
ed States map to all schools in the
United States.
s6 Four thousand continental emf
grants per month are rushing to Eng
land to take vacant situations at
higher wages.
p0r Major General w. R. Shafter
thiuks the Philippine insurrection is
broken; but that its garrison must be
maintained for several years.
ear The receipts of public funds OF
the Philippine Islands, beginning Au-
gust l3, 1898, and ending December
81, 1899, amount to S6,696,OSO.
s9 A Kirksville (Mo.) preacher has
married on an average one couple a
day for 20 years, and in not a single
instance has there been divorce.
g6- Standard oil stocks advanced the
other day to $50 ex-dividend. This
means $50 including dividend, and
this is the highest price ever reached.
aT President Anderson, of the South
ern Mormon mission field, says that
there are 1900 Mormons in South Car
olina and 10000 in II southern states.
s@ The exact physical center of the
United States is the stone at Fort Ri,
ley, Kansas, which marks the grave
of Major Ogden, who died of cholera
in 1856.
p~ "Will you love me when I'm
old?" simpered gay Miss Oidgirl TO
her youthful intended. "Why, my
darling, do?" responded he in mild
surprise.
BH A sale was made at Columbus,
Ca, one day last week of $1,000 bales
of cotton at 74c per pound. The pur-
chaser gave in payment his check for
$133,OOO
p9 From New York, Pennsylvania
and Vermont comes most of the comb
honey, and from Arizona and Califor-
MIA the largest amount of extracted or
liquid honey.
BT A dealer in cheap shoes recently
counseled in one of his advertise
ments: "Ladies wishing these cheap
shoes will do well to call soou, as they
will not last long"
p@ The oldest note in the posses
sion of the Bank of England is dated
December 10, 1899, for E555. In the
bank library is note for EOS, which
was not presented for Ill years.
e9 Recent Investigations have shown
that there are in the state of Maryland
at least $4,000 voters who could not
meet an educational test, should one
be required, as has been proposed.
s6 "Matrimony," said modern
benedict the other day, "produces re-
markable revolutions. Here am |, for
instance, in ten short months changed
from signing lover to loving SIRE"
sg Treatment of soil with lime has
been suggested to the Paris Academy
of Science at a possible remedy for
malaria, as it has been noticed that
countries having surface rich in lime
are free from this malady.
p6 Spain lost 125,00O soldiers in
Cuba. The revolution cost 100000
Cuban lives. Jose Marti raised the
flag of independence in February,
1895. American Intervention occurred
in April, 1898. American occupation
began January l, 1899.
B9 A Lehigh Valley railroad engine
recently accomplished the feat of haul
ing a train consisting of 33 steel cars
of 100000 pounds capacity, and 81
wooden cars of SO,000 pounds capacity,
each fully loaded with anthracite coal.
The total weight of the 20 cars was
1867 tons.
s6~ A New York magistrate found a
man guilty of disorderly conduct for
tickling his wife's feet. The husband
declared he wanted his home filled
with laughter. He got it, but blended
with tears, for the woman went into
Mysteries. When she recovered she
called policeman.
p1" Since Mr.. Rockefeller's share of
the Standard Oil company dividends
gives him an income of $32, 100000 a
year from that source alone, Mr.. Car
negie's statement that the oil king is
the richest man in the world still holds