Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-12
Wausiae Gathsrinas.

8I Vast coal deposits have been dis
covered in Upper Alaska.
AZ The population of Texas was Off
cially announced as S,04S,710.
Al In America the Salvation Army
has 765 corps and 1858 officers.
AZ 1t is estimated that Illinois has
500, 900 acres of apple orchards.
AZ An ostrich farm is to be establish
ed in the suburbs of Little Rock, Ark.
a. Canada expects a population of g.
600, 900 in it's census returns next year.
AZ Oklahoma had an increase in the
voting population in two years of over
$1,000 voters.
Al Spain has only 1850 miles of rail-
way, while France, of about the same
area, has 5000.
sS' Eleven blind men lately rode in
company from London to Birmingham,
distance of 100 miles.
AZ Missouri will have the largest
Democratic delegation in this congress
of any state in the Union.
a. The city of Downs, Kan, has more
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there is not single lawyer.
81 Thirty million persons left Europe
during the century just closing, to seek
their fortunes in other lands.
89r The census shows that there are
1, 100000 more farmers in the United
States than there were in 1890.
s9- Arrangements for introducing the
American cotton plant into German
West Africa are practically complete.
85- New York, it is said, has an an
nual murder record Of 500; Boston of
34S; New Orleans of 215. and Chicago,
of 22O.
8a' Under the Sherman act. from Au-
gust 13, 1890, to November 1, 19OO there
were coined 122, ,7S3,O5O standard silver
dollars.
Sz' The apple crop in Baden, Germany,
was so abundant that the assistance of
soldiers had to be asked for it's har-
vesting.
SzT There are 10000 consumptives in
New York city. A physician says that
a majority of the people living in tene-
ments had tuberculosis in some form.
AZ A thousand acre orchard at Tre-
mont, Kan, belonging to Judge Well
the world.
AZ The per centage of ilfiteracy in
Kansas is less than in any state in the
Union, or in any country on the globe
save Belgium.
8S On Egyptian monuments over
5000 years old there are representations
of persons playing at a game resem-
bling checkers.
8U The domestic pets of the world are
believed to carry 80 per cent. of the
common contagious diseases from
house to house.
S8 The longest artificial water course
in the world is the Bengal canal. 900
miles; the next is the Erie, 1868. Each
cost nearly s1O,O0O,OOO
At A wideawake American has erect
ed steam pumps on the Jordan, and is
supplying churches all over Europe
with genuine Jordan water.
AZ Never bluster. Say quietly and
calmly what you will and won't, and
let it stand at that. 1t is only the weak
man who finds it necessary to swear.
Al A Missouri weather prophet who
reads the future in the leaves of trees,
says this will be one Of the mildest
winters ever known on the continent.
AZ The owners of cotton in the South
show little inclination to turn it loose
at present prices. In Columbus, Ca,
there are in the neighborhood of 10000
bales in the warehouses.
The most novel provision in a will
is that of St. Louis woman that her
remains be incinerated and the ashes
mingled with those Of her husband in
the urn where his already repose.
AT For the two years ended June 80,
last. there were 16,627 criminal trials in
North Carolina and 1OS45 convictions.
The total was 1000 less than in the
preceding two years.
at One of the most curious election
bets was one made by two plumbers in
Minnesota. The agreement was that
the loser must for life cast his vote as
the winner shall dictate.
AT The legislature of the state of
Aguas Calientes, in Mexico, has pass
ed a law prohibiting bull-fghtuing. A
move is on foot to secure the pas
sage of similar law in other Mexican
states.
Al Nearly $4,000 tons of potato starch
are turned out annually in this country.
The potatoes used for starch are the
small and injured ones of the crop.
Sixty bushels of them yield a barrel of
starch.
At The town Of Eatonville, Fla, has
200 inhabitants, with not a single
white among them. 1t has it's full quo
ia of public officials, bank and other
business establishments requisite in a
town of its size.
8g It rather disguSted a Vermont
man who went to a neighbor's farm to
steal a cow to find that when he got
the animal home that 1t was his own
COW which his neighbor had stolen ear
lier in the night.
3z;' About 100000 Italians are expos
ed to malarial fever. There are about
2,000 900 cases every year, with an aver
age mortality of $4,000. This proves
that mosquitoes are more deadly in
Italy than snakes and tigers in India.
az A smart piece of work was recent
ly accomplished on the railway at
Streetville, near Toronto. where an old
bridge was replaced by new steel
lattice girder bridge of 130 feet span.
the traffic being interrupted for 40 min
utes only.
8E;' One of the most curious facts
about bacteria is that while a single |