Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05
dt)ausiae Gatherin9s.

az Promises make debts. and debts
make promises.
ssr The Klondike's output Of gold for
1900 was estimated at $2O,00O,OOO.
] ar The total arms-bearing population
of Europe is about 35,OOO,000 men.
sg Mrs. Nancy Hollifield, who died in
Charlotte, N. c., was said to have been
121 years old.
8s" No young man ever climbed the
ladder of success with whisky flask
in his pocket
88 Tomorrow is the time when the
fool Is going to be wise and the lazy
man Industrious.
s@ Help from without Is often enfeeb-
ling in it's effects, but help from WITHIN
invariably invigorates.
a. Postmaster General Smith denied
report that he would retire from the
cabinet before March 4.
szJ Snow is from 4 to feet deep at
Vancouver, B. c., an unprecedented
condition at so early date.
"a The population of the state of New
York, as officially announced, is f'zoe'-
O12, as against 5,997,S53 in 1890.
89 The population of Nevada was OF
fcially announced at 4z335. against 10 :
761 in 1890, decrease of 3,426, or IA per
cent.
szy The census bureau announced that
the population of the state OF llllnois
was 4,S21, $50, as against S'SZ0'0ol III
1890.
sg Governor Tyler has called the Vir-
sinia assembly in extra session tor
January %. to arrange for constl-
tutional convention.
31r Sir Alfred Miner proclaimed that
all the east coast ports of South Africa,
between the tenth and fourteenth par
alels were infested with the ouoonlc
plague.
3G Replying to an inquiry from the
adjutant general, General Chaffee re-
ported the American artillery was su-
perior to any taking part in the at
tack on Pekin.
sT So poor is the spelling Of some Of
the Chicago schools that return to
the spelling methods of the country
schools of two decades ago is earnest
ly advocated in that city.
sB George F. Washburn, Of Boston,
issued an appeal to the "reformers OF
the country to form new party, to
be composed of all the elements that
supported Bryan in the last campaign
81' Stevedores put 22.7S2 bales Of cot
ton on board ship at New Orleans the
other day, thereby surprising any SIN
gle days record in the history of that
port. On the same day two vessels
cleared with $4,000 and 1I,000 bales, re-
spectively.
al Two hundred miles an hour, aQ-
palling as it seems, does not touch ell
bows with the impossible. The best
steam railway locomotives of today
have come within measuring distance
of this pace. A speed of 135 miles an
hour has been recorded.
a. The actual labor involved in the
making Of a $240 dress in Paris, after
it leaves the cutters hands, averages
s1O-a Paris authority says. Of the re-
mainder $36 is profit, the rest inter-
est, royalty on name, bad debts, style
of the establishment, ETC., consumes.
| AT Mamma, Johnny is such a mug
wump that I don't want to sleep with
him any more" "a mugwump"
Yes, mamma. Didn't you tell me that
mugwump was some one who would
not take either side. And that's the
way win Johnny. He wants to sleep
in the middle Of the bed"
s8' Flogging is still practiced in the
English schools. Inc boys feel no sense
of wounded personal honor in a sound
thrashing and prefer it to other forms
of punishment. In the early part OF
the century master at Elton enjoyed
the distinction Of having iogged half
the ministers, secretaries and even the
bishops in the kingdom.
| AZ When Lieutenant Governor Timo-
thyWoodruff, of NewYork, visited Dan
nemora state prison recently, he ask
ed to be locked up in dark cell, the
extreme form of punishment at the
prison. Before he had been there a
full minute he asked to be freed, say
ing that he had experienced enough
for lifetime.
| S5; Sometime ago when the roughs In
Chicago annoyed John Alexander Dow
| lie, the faith-healer, a superior British
journal sneeringly remarked that the
incident revealed the essential lawless-
ness Of the Americans. 1t would be
interesting to know what it has to say
now that the same Dowie Is being
mobbed in London.
| AT Turkey has Oeen taking a census
of Islam, and finds that the number OF
Mohammedans in the world Is 1876, $780,
900. Of these 100000 are in Turkey
in Europe; 99,OOO,OOO in Western Asia
and Hindoostan; 10000 900 in China; &c.
500, 900 in Northern and Northeastern
Africa, and 23.0Oo,OOO are scattered in
other parts of the world.
8g' John and Rachel Scott, Of Ran
dolph county, West Virginia, and their
children, have been weighed recently.
The father and mother are still living
| in the house where their eight sons.
whose combined weight is more than
ton, were born and raised. The COM
bined weight of the family Is 2,796
pounds, an average weight of 276 S-5
pounds.
8J' Ships can now go to sea with fro
zen ammunition. A method Of utiliz-
ing liquifed air on war-ships has been
discovered which will render the explo-
sion of a magazine even when the ship
is in action, almost impossible. The
method is to so place the liquid air
that it will freeze the ammunition to
several hundred degrees below zer'
In that condition it could not explode,
even If a shell should burst in the mag