Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-24
atausiae Gatherings.
p9 There are nearly 900 cigar fac.
tnries in Lancaster county, Pa.

R6 COrundum, OF Wnlcn SanupapeI
and like polishing materials are made,
is being largely worked at 'Waynes'
boro, N. G..
] HET- Australia is the largest producer
of wool in the world, with Russia Sec
ond, the Argentine Republic third and
the United States fourth.
p@- With the prospective retirement
of Mr.. Vest from political life at the
end of his term, the last of the Confed'
crate senators will have gone.
p6r At recent local option election
in Cloverport, KY, women and preach
ers crowded the entrance to the polls
and sang hymns, while church bells
were ringing. The temperance adyo'
Gates won.
p8- Canada could muster 10000
trained troops within short period.
She has 100000 men who have done
service in the militia, and her citizens
available for military duty are more
than 100000.
b@ A regular business, carried on in
France by ladies of the highest stand
ing, is to secure rich American brides
for pennies men of title. These mat.
rimonial agents receive heavy fees
when they are successful.
p@- California produced in 1899 gold
to the amount $4,000, 900, and silver
to 1886, 1000. The Alaskan mines pro-
duced $4,917,S21 gold and $S2,6S0 sill
yer. The Klondike output was Sl6,-
10, 129 gold and $114,617 silver.
s@r The Spanish peasant works every
day and dances half the night, and yet
eats only his black bread, onion and
watermelon. The Smyrna porter eats
only little fruit and some olives, and
yet he walks off with his 200 pounds.
a9- Germany's army is to- have,
shortly, number of automobiles that
are 10 be used not only for the trans.
portation of the baggage, provisions
and ammunition but also for the rap
id transportation of detachments OF
soldiers.
H6 A curious superstition prevails
in Norway. When the people are in
quest of drowned body they row to
and fro with a rooster in the boat,
fully expecting that the bird will crow
when the boat reaches the spot where
the corpse lies.
p6~ Graduation day at school or
college is called "commencement day"
because the diplomas are then confer
red and the successful students then
commence as bachelors or graduates.
The term is borrowed from the Eng
lish universities.
s8- A very curious theory lately re-
vived is that the sap of living tree
ebbs and flows in some way in sympa-
thy with the tides of the ocean,. This
idea comes from Italy, where grow
er of vines says that no tree should be
tapped or pruned except during the
hours of ebb tide.
p6- The Boer women are accustom-
ed TO assist in tilling the soil and join.
ing with the men in domestic labor OF
all kinds. When the men are called
away to fight with the army, the
women 90 right along with the, work
on the farms, and thus insure an
abundance of supplies.
S6- An old woman, arrested for
street begging in Marquette, Mich, bad
in her dirty, ragged clothing $3,4 in
bills, and II 500 United States 4 per
cent. bonds. She was sent to 40 asy-
lum, the authorities urging that q
woman who thus made savings bank
of her clothes must be insane.
s6F Drinking glasses, called tum-
blers, owe their names to the fact that
they are the successors of little round
silver bowls, so perfectly balanced
that, whichever way they were tipped
about on the table, they tumbled into
position again and there remained
with the rim upward, as if asking to
be refilled.
p6- He came home from his daily
grind at the Office, and falling into a
chair, said: "Wbat have you got to
read? I'm just in the mood to read
something sensational and startling
something that will make my hair
stand on end" To which his other
half responded sweetly, "Here's the
bill for my spring dress, darling"
H6- Six new cruisers under construc-
ton for the United States navy are
designed especially for long distance
voyaging, and with one coaling, will
be able to steam up $500 miles, or
1000 miles more than across the Pa
ci6c. In order to make room for the
coal, the engine power is reduced but
the speed will not be less than sixteen
and half knots.
p6~ An excentric Michigan man who
died few days ago was buried in a
coffin painted bright red, WHICH for
two years he had kept in his dooryard,
marking the spot where he wished to
be buried. He also had a headstone
prepared, on which was inscribed the
following "Here lies the body of
William Decker, who always paid 100
cents on the dollar"
p6e Here is true case Of heroism
and devotion. A boat in which were
Long Island man and his wife was
overturned in the sound. The man
directed his wife to cling fast to the
boat, and be would swim ashore for
assistance. The distance he had to
swim took him nearly an hour. He
succeeded, however, in getting anoth-
er boat and returned to his wife, who
was still clinging to the overturned
craft.
p@- DR.. R. J. Gatling has just invent
ed an automobile plow. 1t is built on