Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-08-08
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is 129, 100000.
p@ Since 1912 the population of
England, Scotland and Wales has in
creased rs per cent.
p@ More than 100000 persons in
India are still receiving government
aid, but the condition is slightly i'm
proved by the rains in some sections.
p@ A young man in Auburn, Me-, to
play a Joke on his barber, paid him
thirty-ive old fashioned cents. Later
the barber sold one of the coins for $S5.
sH John G. Woolly, Prohibitionist
candidate for president, is to make a
tour of the country in special train
to be known as the ."Prohibition
train"
s@ 1t is now being discovered that
the Russian thistle pest may be made
something of by actual use as fodder,
if the thistles be cut when young,
either fed green or as hay.
sd- The japanese papers express
sympathy with the unfortunate Em.
peror of China, but are unanimous and
emphatic in declaring that an alliance
between China and Japan is impossi-
BILE.
s6T Jenny Lind was one of the first
persons to travel in a private car in
this country. She hired car and had
the seats removed and fitted it up
with her own luxurious household
furniture.
sH The bank of England was once
compelled to suspend specie pay
ments. Itwas on February 27, 1892.
1t resumed in 1928, after the financial
disaster following the French war had
passed away.
e~ One hundred dollars worth OF
nuggets of virgin gold in a box have
for many years been awaiting claim
ant at the dead letter Office in Wash
ington, Does anybody know who the
rightful owner isP
seg The Due d'Acos, Spanish min
lister to Washington, D. c., who sharp
ly refused an invitation to the Dewey
celebration at Chicago, ILL.,, has &C
cepted an invitation to the G. A. r
encampment at that place.
sdT At Fort Dodge, Ia., four men
who drank from keg of beer are dead,
and when the keg was opened it was
found to contain the skeleton of a rat
tlesnake. How the reptile got into
the beer is mystery.
H6T The first English school in
America was opened in Massachusetts,
in 1922, with six pupils. Now the
public schools of this country have
369, 900 teachers, 100000 scholars,
and cost last year $14S, ,724,647
sdr After d six months labor war
the Chicago cut-stone contractors have
sent a communication to the stone
cutters union announcing a willing
ness to comply with all the demands
of the union. Arrangements have
been made for a conference.
s6 In Northampton (Mass.) paint
shop the other day bolt of lightning
struck the roof of the building and
flying to the room where Mr.. Bouch-
ier was painting a window, set it afire
without at all injuring the painter,
who put the fire out with his brush.
H% The superintendent of one of the
largest hospitals for the insane de-.
clares that nineteen out of twenty of
the business and professional men who
have come under his care have been
in the habit of carrying business on
their minds for seven days in each
and every week.
p@ Something new in the spite-fence
folly is reported from Elizabeth, N. j.,
where an outbreak of virulent diph-
liberia in family is attributed by the
attending physician to the dampness
caused in the house by fence nearly
60 feet long and at one point SO feet
high built by next-door neighbor.
W Texas is large enough to give
all the population in the world stand
ing room, and it is said that if all the
people of the United States were
crowded into Kansas, California and
Nebraska, those states would not be
more thickly settled than England is
now.
H6r A letter has been received by
the director of the mint from the
United States assay Office, at Seattle,
WASH, reporting that during the first
eleven days of the present month gold
arrivals there from Alaska amounted
to $4,400,000. Several millions are re-
ported to be in transit.
a9- The worst famines of modern
times were the famine in Ireland in
1857 in which 100000 people per-
ished; the Indian famine of 1866,
which claimed 1,450,OOO victims the
Indian famine of 1877, in which 500,-
900 people perished, and the great
famine in China in 1878, in which g.
100000 died.
nag At Dodge City, Kan, G. M.
Hoover and G.. T.. Clayton have lost
eighteen head of cattle. Their herd
of 300 broke into the Kafir corn field,
and were there not more than fifteen
minutes. While being driven out
several head dropped dead, an eigh-
teen head died in all. 1t is supposed
the cattle died of indigestion.
R6 For two hours the fashionable
lady kept the draper exhibiting his
goods, and at the end of that period
she sweetly asked, care you quite
sure you have shown me everything
you have?" "No madam" said the
draper, with an insinuating smile, 81
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