Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-08-01
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H9 The world now uses Is, 900 kind
of postage stamps.
s9. Vested interest-money in tn
waistcoat pocket.
! n6. The wall flower is often the onl.
girl in the hall that can make cake.
s6 The average wheat crop of thi
country yields about 500, ,O00,0 900 bush
els.
s% Twenty-Five per cent. of the pop
ulation of England have their life in
sured.
H6 In marriage announcements il
Spain the ages of both parties ar
given.
e@ European goldsmiths make W
1924, 900, 900 into gold plate and jewel
ry annually.
p@ To be perfectly proportioned
man should weigh % pounds for every
foot of his height.
e9 There are men who 60 to gym
nasium for exercise while their wives
are saving the wood.
p@ We attract hearts by the quail
ties we display {; we retain them by
the qualities we possess.
p@ A bridegroom looks, for the frs
week of his marriage, like boy
caught in melon patch.
p6 More than 9 ,OOO,00o,oOO gallon
of water were pumped from the LAKE
for the use of Chicago last month.
p@ General Miles has issued spe'
cial circular calling for the enlistmenl
of recruits for the artillery service.
p@ According to the latest census
there were produced on the farms il
Georgia in 1899, II, 22,7S9 dozen eggs
s9 Europe not only produces more
than one-half of the worlds whea
crop but consumes almost the entir'
worlds surplus.
p@ Mrs. Ann Slate, of Brooklyn, N
Y, whose son "Dan" figured in Marx
Twain's "Innocents Abroad" was 10(
years old July IL.
s@ Mrs. Mary Yeardley, 710 Wes
Monroe Street, Chicago, was told oJ
the doctors she would die young. She
is now 105 years old.
s@- There are only two surviving
American vice presidents, Levi T. Nor
ton, of New York, and Adlai E
Stevenson, of Illinois.
s6- For an army of 10000 men anc
1O, 900 horses for three months, it is es
timated that 1000 tons of food ano
forage are necessary.
p6- The pineapple crop of Florids
will break all previous records. The
value of the crop on the east coast
alone will be in excess of $500, 900.
p4- Nearly half of the lightning
strokes reported occur out in the open
"a per cent. in houses, IL per cent
under trees and per cent in barns.
pd While cotton factories are spring
ing up as if by magic in cotton fields
there is no growth Of the industry ir
any part of the world remote from the
fields.
R6- Recent studies of the ocean bot
tom near the coast line of continents
have shown that rivers of considerable
size sometimes enter the sea beneath
the surface.
s@ At the present moment, in the
whole of the afflicted regions in Brit
ish India, Is per cent of the entire pop
ulation are being supported by the
government.
a9~ Britain and Russia have pushed
their railway systems till between
Herat and Kandahar there remain:
gap of only 5S5 miles to be built te
unite Europe and India.
a| Mr.. Robert Y. Hebden, New
York manager of the Bank of Mon
treal, at No.. SO Wall street, has
received single gold nugget from th'
Klondike region worth $l35,OOO.
Hd General rain has fallen oveI
nearly all India during the past few
days, and the prospects of the crop
have improved immensely. The fam
inc areas have generally been bene
fitted.
n@ A young girl in Missouri wa
taken to an insane asylum, the othe
day, suffering from the remarkable
delusion that she is compelled to 81
on a red hot stove and peel potatoes
She has been working in hotel kitch
en-.
p9 The fear of cholera and th'
plague renders many of the natives o
India heartless. A correspondent
writes that when a member of a fami
ly is attacked by the disease, he or sh'
is shut up in the house with pitche
of water, and left to die.
s9r The apple crop this year will b.
enormous. All through the apple
belt the trees are loaded, and ever!
indication points to an abundant har
vest. The crop may equal the phe
nomenal one of 1896. The outlook
for peaches, too, is excellent.
s@ That which is popularity knowr
as the funny bone, just at the point O.
the elbow, is in reality not a bone al
all, but nerve that lies near the sur
face, and which, on getting knock OF
blow, causes the we'll known tingline
sensation in the arms and fingers.
s@ General Sternberg says that 10(
medical officers are wanted by tht
surgeon general for duty in the Phil
ippines and China. He says that only
graduates of reputable medical col
leges, with some experience and under
forty years of age will be accepted.
a6n There are today but three bands