Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-10
Mjausiae Gatherin9s.


sg Nearly $4,000, 900 worth of gold has
come down from the Klondike during
the summer.
sar The mineral output of Canada for
1899, is placed at s47,OOO,OOO, of which
$21, ,049, 900 was gold.
3g Lord Roberts reports that the ma
jority Of the Beers still in the field are
fighting under compulsion.
sA' A nursery near Mexico, Mo-, con-
tains 250,000 young fruit trees pruned
and cultivated to perfection.
ag A division of the wheat crop in
Ellis county, Kan, would give each
resident more than 1888 bushels.
s9' Conditions at Galveston continue
to improve. The health Of the city was
reported better than the normal.
sB- It was said at the war department
that no fear is felt Of an outbreak of
yellow fever among the troops In Cuba.
sar An electrical horsewhip gives the
animal shock instead of a cut. A
small battery is controlled by push
button.
9r Last year 100000 spindles Of cot
ton mills were put in operation In the
South, and 1,41S,0O0 additional spindles
are in course Of erection.
8B' A Chinaman cannot obtain natu-
ralization in the United States; but
American born children Of Chinese resi-
dents are citizens by birth.
ea An increase of about 100000 in
the population Of the United States in
ten years will be shown bv. the census,
and only 1900, 900 Of the number is due
to immigration.
SS Goods valued at $4,331, which Mrs.
Euphemia Hall, a a-Chicago dressmaker,
is charged with attempting to smuggle
at Hoboken, N. j., have been recon-
mended for confiscation.
sT The total rainfall in India to Sep
tember %, is stated to have been 80
inches, and since that date about 7
inches have fallen. The weather Is
brighter and is believed to be settled.
eg Last year Montreal shipped 1885,
900 barrels Of apples to Europe; the
year before, 5000 barrels. From pres
ent appearances this years shipments
will be at least twice as large as last
years.
II The new French duel code provides
that in the future no duel can end
without the shedding of blood, and no
account of the proceedings shall be
published if the insult causing the duel
has not been made public.
fJ Lightning has killed so many cat
tie while standing near wire fences,
that it is proposed to diminish the
danger by means Of ground wires,
which will conduct the electricity into
the earth.
tJ Cripple Creeks September gold ore
output was As 900 tons, worth s1,931 900,
an increase over August, of 100000.
The total output for 1900 to date is s17,-
S30,7sS. For the fiscal year the total
is s24,S36,6S6
"a The newspapers of Richmond, Va,
are agitating in favor Of the passage
Of canine curfew law" to the end
that the stiffness Of the night might
not be broken by the bowling and bark
ing Of vagrant dogs.
5T A young lady Of Sturgeon, Mo-.
who wished to discover a way Of keep
ing her hands soft, sent the cash in
answer to an advertisement and re-
ceived this recipe: Soak them in dish
water three times a day while mother
rests"
5J The largest grape-growing region
in the world is not the champagne dis
trict Of France, nor in the sunny valley
of Southern California, for Western
New York now owns the title by virtue
of $4,000 acres now given over to grape
culture.
s| A crow hatchery, the only one in
the world, has been established in
Brookville, Pa. The crows are Matched
in an incubator, and when eight weeks
old are guillotined. The heads sell at
25 cents each, and are used for adorn-
ing bonnets.
Ar Emily Forest, an old Negro woman
of Macon. Ca, has a queer hallucina-
tion. She thinks that rooster Is fol-
lowing her and growing all the time.
She has killed and devoured the
fowl every day for months; but the
next day he would appear on her door
step and crow at her.
58 About 80 per cent. Of the popula-
ton Of the United States now lives in
cities. Ten years ago the urban popu-
lation was estimated at 20 per cent. Of
the whole. In the extreme East much
live in towns; in the far South and far
West much less than a third.
S1 The exporting of cereal foods man.
ufactured in America, has grown to
enormous proportions during the past
few years, says an exporter. 1t is only
within the present generation that the
manufacture Of these breakfast foods
from wheat and oats became of any
Importance in this country. Now it is
one of the largest of American indus
tries.
ar The story is told that when the
young man who afterward became
General Fremont, eloped with his Jes-
sic, TON" Benton, the great senator
made terrific threats Of what he would
do to the young man. He would give
him roasts and bullets and hades, to
all Of which Mrs. Benton quietly re-
marked: You had better give him Jes-
sic, my dear"
al The census bureau has finished the
enumeration of all the cities in the
United States of over $4,000 inhabitants.
with the exception Of Los Angeles,
Seattle and Tacoma. The work Of an
nouncing the states will come next, be-
ginning with Arkansas. The figures
will inclnde all the incorn0rat ted towns