Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
dt'ausiae Gatherings.

11S n raw, uCilo" dppiO 10 N'6SSNS
in an hour and one half.
H@ Congressman Hopkins says llli.
nois will give Mckinley 100000 major
ity.
s6E In Illinois during the last fifteen
years birds have decreased 3S per
cent.
p0- 1t sometimes happens that the
man who knows himself, does not know
much.
s6~ France has more gold and silver
coin than any other nation in the
world.
s9- More than 100000 persons are
being charitably supplied with food IN
India.
aa" The plume of the Prince OF
Wales, worn on state occasions, is
valued at $5O,0OO.
a61 Thirty-six Mormon missionaries
are at work in Georgia, and the con-
verts number over 200.
peg- A new Bible has been published
in London in which the New Testa-
ment precedes the old.
nF 1t is estimated that the cotton
crop of the United States will be
greater than last year by 10 per cent.
pdy Contentment is better than
riches but it takes about the same
amount of money for one as the other.
gT The Bible was the best selling
book of ths past year. The Ameri.
can Bible Society put out l,4O6,SOl
copies.
s9 London contains one-eigbth OF
Great Britain's population. 1t has a
larger daily delivery of letters than
all Scotland.
pG- A murderer at Juneau, Alaska,
named Martin Sirvert, asked to be
hanged without trial, and his request
was complied with.
a6- The official estimate of the min
eral wealth of Siberia would indicate
that this country is, minerally speak
ing, one of the richest in the world.
aGr There is an unfortunate dispo-
sition in man to attend much more
to the faults of his companions which
offend him, than to their perfections
which please him.
nag The weather Office records in
Chicago shows that the 25th of April
has been clear in that city for twenty
five years past, not drop of rain hav-
ing fallen there on that day since 1875.
p6- The United States acreage in
grain is greater than the entire area of
the German Empire. The corn crop
alone covers an area greater than Eng
lond, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and
Denmark.
The mercury at Cape Nome, Alaska,
from January Is to January 25, ranged
from 16 degrees below zero to 3S be-
low. January 25 it rose to 4 degrees
above, and till February II it contin-
ued above, reaching 20 degrees.
p8 The tusks of an elephant weigh
from thirty to seventy pounds each,
and sell for about five dollars per
pound. The natives of Africa eat
every particle of the elephant, and oh
tain from it large quantities Of fat.
s9 Peacemaker-I wouldn't fight,
nv good men. First Combatant-
He called me a liar, sure. Second
Combatant-An' be called me lazy
loafer. "Well, I wouldn't fight over a
difference of opinion. You both may
be right"
sH Little WI, the II year old son
of the Chinese ambassador, WI Ting
Fang, attends fashionable school in
Washington, is always at the head of
his class, wherein he is the youngest
pupil, and last month he had a mark
of 100 in every branch.
pG There are 750 employees in the
postal service of Cuba, of whom only
104 are Americans, and these are
chiefly in the department headquarters
and the Havana postoffice. There
are 273 postoffices on the island, of
which 25l are in charge of Cubans.
p4 A New York dealer recently re-
ceived consignment of lumber which
is said to be the first ever shipped to
the United States from Manila. The
wood was mahogany of the finest
quality, and was sold to a firm of
piano manufacturers, to be made into
piano cases.
B9 An excellent way to cure insom-
MIA is to bandage the eyes with a
handkerchief fbefore retiring. The COM
press seems to drive away the blood
from the eyes, and so cure, or at least,
temporarily relieve that feeling so Of
ten experienced by insomniacs of try
ing to see in the dark.
g6 A woman was arrested in Louis
vile, KY, the other day for smoking
cigarettes on the street. The magis-
trate before whom she was given a
hearing said he was sorry that there
was no law under which he could hold
her, and that some such measure ought
to be enacted,
pa" The town trustees of Benton, KY,
have granted a license to citizen to
open a saloon on an agreement that
be shall keep his doors open all the
time, use no screens whatever, and
that no one shall be allowed to "treat"
or set 'em up in his place of business.
Every man who takes drink must
pay for his own liquor.
a9 At Dewey, thirty miles south of
Coffeyville, Kan, a gigantic walnut
log has been cut for shipment to the
Paris exposition. The tree from
which the ''g was taken was supposed