Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-13
d*jausiae 6atherings.
p9 Kansas wants 10000 farm hands
to help gather in the sheaves.

pde The Presbyterian general assem-
bly, decided to meet in Philadelphia
next year.
B9 Muster, Germany, has a high
school which has been in existence
l 100 years.
s@- The Methodist general confer
ence at Chicago declared in favor of
Negro bishop.
"a. Fairmount park, in Philadelphia,
is twice as large as any other park in
the United States.
S6. The United States produces
more grain in proportion to population
than any other nation.
p@ According to the School Review,
only 41.5l per cent. of the pupils in
American schools are boys.
D4r Terrible distress was reported in
the famine districts of India, despite
the lavish distribution of funds.
S@ A Pittsburg and Lake Erie train,
in run between Pittsburg and New
Castle, made one mile in AZ seconds.
Sdr From the beginning of the war
to the end of April, $4,000 horses had
been sent to South Africa for the Eng
lish army.
pd The Nordeutscher Lloyd com.
pany has recently ordered steamer,
which, it is claimed, will be the longest
vessel af1oat. 1t will be 706 feet in
length.
p~ A S-year.old child fell from the
window of Staten Island train while
the latter was at full speed. When
recovered the babe was unhurt, save
for a few scratches on its forehead.
b6 The orange expert estimates
Florida's orange crop for the season
19OO-19O1 at 100000 boxes. The
average price for the coming season
is approximated at So per box on the
trees.
p8- The most splendid pair of shoes
on record were those worn by Sir
Walter Raleigh on great court occa-
sions. They were of buff leather, COW
cred with precious stones, and valued
at $25, 900.
p@ The Rev. Edgar M. Levy, of
Philadelphia, who acted as chaplain at
the Republican convention in 1856,
which nominated Fremont for presi-
dent, will probably act as chaplain at
the coming Republican convention.
p~ Out of 100000 pieces of reg
istered mail handled annually in the
United States, the loss has been one
thousandth part of per cent, and in
the transmission of ordinary letters
the loss is but en-thousandth of l
per cent.
s9 A Japanese doctor never dreams
of asking a poor patient for a fee.
There is proverb among the medical
fraternity of Japan, "When the twin
enemies, poverty and disease, invade a
home, even though it be given him, is
a robber."
D@ The largest stationary engine in
the world is used to pump out the
zinc mines at Friedenville, Pa. Its
driving wheels are 35 feet in diameter
and each weighs little over 40 tons.
The cylinder is ITO inches in diameter,
and the engine raises 1880 gallons of
water every minute.
n@ "How much is this thermome-
ter ?" "Seventy-fve cents" "Why,
got one just like it here a couple of
days ago for 40 cents" "What time
in the day did you buy it?" About
8 o'clock in the morning." "Ah, we'll,
it is IL o'clock now thermometers are
always higher at noon."
p@ Fenderson-Brown and his wife,
over there on the sofa, appear to be a
loving pair but if you should see them
alone once perhaps you wouldn't think
them so happy. Fogg-Oh, but I
have seen them alone, each of them,
and if anything they seemed happier
than when they are together.
s@ DR.. H. V. M. Miller says here is
never-failing remedy for the grip:
Take two large lemons and put them
in boiling water. When they become
soft squeeze them into cup and add
a little sugar. Then swallow the mix
ture, and cure will follow in short
while.-People's Journal.
p@ 1t is said in London that John
Morley, the author and politician,
upon being told that the Rev. Charles
M. Sheldon had engaged luxurious
saloon berth for his passage from New
York to England, remarked: zone
would have expected the author of I'm
His Steps to have walked across"
p6T An old topper, who once attended
the exhibition where learned profess
sor caused several explosions to take
place among gases produced from
water, said: "You don't catch me
putting water in my liquor after this.
had no idea that water was so dan
gerous, though I never take much
of it,"
s8- The "wiggle" in standing
water, which afterwards develops into
mosquitoes, can always be killed by
pouring few drops of any kind of oil
coal oil will answer-on the surface
of the water. The insects breathe
through their tails, and when the
water is covered with oil, their air
tubes become clogged and they die of
suffocation.
I6- Francois de Marinau, 1866,
wrote the name of Mississippi on his
map as Messip; Hennepin, 1880, wrote
it Meschonipi; De Coke, 1898, called
it Mechasebe. Father Marquette,
1878, is the first to set it down
as Mississippi. The original word,
meaning "father of waters" is from