Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-14

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R6T The Virginia legislature has
made June 8, Jefferson's birthday, a
legal holiday in Virginia.
s6y Instead of some one else's name
or recommendation, let your daily life
be your own endorsement.
D6E Since the close of the Civil war
$10O,O0O,0OO has been spent in the
south for Negro education.
sdr The best way to manage q
church quarrel, or any other kind of a
quarrel, is to stop quarreling.
sd Senator Turley, of Tennessee,
will be a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for vice president.
p6r The Chinese, Japanese, Malays,
Siamese, New Zealanders and North
American Indians are beardless.
s@ The Russian press was virulent
over Cropje's surrender and suggested
diversion against Great Britain.
s1- A bill introduced in the New
York legislature makes women's hat
pins over three inches long dangerous
weapons.
s@ In Great Britain last year there
were I'll strikes, and it is estimated
that 100000 days were lost to
workmen.
s@ A writer calculates that it takes
eight times the strength to 60 upstairs
that is required for the same distance
on the level.
sd Taking the earth all over into
consideration, the amount of rain that
falls on its surface comes to about 5
feet annually.
sdr 1t is often evidence of guilt when
people become angry at reproof. The
innocent can bear reproof much better
than the guilty.
R6r There are men who resemble a
rockingchair in the fact that although
they are constantly on the move they
never get ahead.
sdS The servant who neglects his
employers interest or wastes his time,
is a rogue as surely as if he picked his
masters pockets.
a@r Engineer L. E. Cooley declared
in an interview at Chicago that Mica
ragua was anxious for annexation to
the United States.
R6 1t was said in Madrid that spe-
cial envoy from Aguinaldo would ar
rive in Paris in March and 60 to Berlin
| to raise funds to continue the war.
ad- 1t has been discovered that lot
of expensive furniture in the Capitol
at Washington, supposed to be mahog
any, is only thinly veneered over with
that wood.
p& The amount of national bank
stock held by women in America is
estimated at 100000, and the
amount of private and state bank
stock at $137 100000.
p8 How much harder it is to Ell.
dure trials that we have brought upon
ourselves, than to bear up under those
for the coming of which which we are
in no sense responsible.
s6- The 5000 American troops in
Cuba will soon be reduced to 5000.
Good behavior on the part of the in
habitauts warrants this step toward
stable civil government.
s@ The "bloodiest battle of the cen
tury" was that of Borodino, Russian
village where Napoleon fought the
Russians on September 7, 1872. Near
ly $4,000 men were placed hors de
combat.
p9- The Pension Bureau estimates
that there are 1,O32,418 surviving SOL
diers of the Civil war, excluding de.
serters. About $4,000 of these are
unpensioned. The average age of the
survivor is 60 years.
p6 From 10000 to $4,000 young
men from the rural districts annually
90 to New York alone. Ten thousand
invade Philadelphia. Twenty thous-
and enter Chicago. They flock into
every large city in the United States.
p9- A fox hard pressed by hounds,
during a hunt on Long Island last
week, ran across pond covered by a
sheet of ice so thin that when the
hounds came onto it it broke, precipi-
tating them into the water and break.
ing up the chase.
p1 The coolest winter on record
was that of 1890, in which rivers and
lakes were frozen, and even the ocean
several miles from shore. In Europe
frost penetrated three yards into the
ground, and people perished by the
hundred in their homes.
p~ Adelbert Hay, United States
consul at Pretoria, cables that he is
having no trouble in the full exercise
of his functions and is on an excellent
footing with Boer officials, who give
him any information desired as to the
condition of the British soldiers prison
ers at Pretoria.
S6- At Atlantic City, N. j., Philip
Toppin, a cigar dealer, 40 years old,
has been suffering severe pains for
sometime from what was diagnosed by
the attending physician as neuralgia.
Tuesday the interesting discovery was
made that he was cutting three teeth,
his third set. Two of them are in the
upper jaw, and the other is molar in
the back of the mouth.
s8 Aluminium is used by the people
of Hartford, Conn.,, to the extent of
10000 pounds to bring electricity from
waterfall some II miles distant. In
the west also aluminium wire is used
largely in place of copper, being almost
as good a conductor and cheaper. Ten
years ago aluminium sold at IS a