Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-06
dtausiat Gatherinas.

WneaG crops.
D9 California will raise 125,O00, 900
pounds of prunes this year.
s6 Since 1891 Colorado has produced
over $75, 900, 900 in gold.
s@ Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Mississippi
delta.
t@ New Orleans has an ice war, and
| ice is sold at cents hundred pounds
at the factory.
s6r There are four singers in every
quartette choir who think the other
three can't sing a bit.
s6 Seven hundred and twenty tons
of cardboard are utilized every year
in the shape of postal cards.
s@- 1t costs but 25 cents to transport
ton of coal by water from Buffalo to
Duluth, distance of 1000 miles.
p@~ The value of the gold product
of the United States is nearly four
times the value of the silver product.
p8 Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
and Virginia have made Jefferson
Davis's birthday, June 8, a legal holi-
day.
p@ True sympathy is putting your
self in another's place, and occasional
| ly doing the suffering business your
self.
p@ The name "milliner" really
means "Milaner," the first hat trim
mers in England having come from
Milan, Italy.
s6 The Tennessee state board OF
health has adopted resolutions declar-
ing tuberculosis contagious and in
fictitious disease.
p@ Remember, many little makes
mickle; and further beware of little
expenses. A small leak will sink a
great ship.-Franklin.
p@ Religion is free, but the man
who doesn't help pay the minister's
salary, cannot expect reserved seat
in heaven, observes the Buffalo Times.
rag There is again under considera-
ton a plan for establishing a tele-
graphic circuit of the earth by uniting
Alaska with Siberia across the Behring
strait.
p6" A faster says that the discom-
forts of living without eating for sever.
al weeks are not serious, and after the
first week of fasting, they are hardly
noticeable.
p6- II told you to 60 to the devil
with that bill" exclaimed the angry
editor. Sand I went," said the cool
collector "but the devil said you
owed him, too."
p6- There are not few men who
think they could manage the affairs of
this world much better than God has
ever done. These men never have
any corn to sell.
na- 1t is impossible for a rational
man to believe that God can be inter-
ested in all the trifling things concern
ing which Christian men debate and
dispute with one another.
r6F The Alabama Great Southern
railroad sent freight train over half
mile long into Chattanooga recently.
1t came from New Orleans, and was
drawn by two locomotives.
a6r In the early days of Virginia
law was made Furnishing with death
the man who killed hog, goat or
sheep. This was done to provide for
the increase of these animals.
p6T San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle, Wash, raft of logs
which, when completed, will be 625
feet long, and contain 100000 feet of
lumber, to be towed to Japan.
HV There is young woman in
Washington society who sells her
wardrobe as soon as she has finished
with it, and gives all that is obtained
in this way to her favorite charity.
g6r For the first time in the history
of the national census there will be an
enumeration this year of animals en-
ployed in cities and towns. Hereto
fore the live stock census has been
confined exclusively to farm animals.
p6- 1t is a curious fact that despite
the general knowledge of the deadly
powers of high-tension electric cur
rents and their wellknown use for exc
cutting criminals, there is no record of
a deliberate suicide by electric shock.
p~ A Kansas editor announces sar-
castically that he wants to buy bag
of flour, a pair of shoes and a hat,
and is ready to receive the lowest
bids for same. He says that's the
way the merchants do him when they
want 50 worth of job printing.
p9 Misery, it is said, loves company.
This is demonstrated by the fact that
those who are constantly doing wrong,
are constantly endeavoring to discover
the wrong doings of others. Their
sins make them miserable, and they
would fain make others miserable, too.
S6~ "What is repentance ?" queried
the Sunday school teacher. "To be
sorry for doing wrong" said the good
boy. "Were you ever sorry for any
thing you ever did ?" "Yes'm," said
the bad boy. "What made you sorry ?"
"Great Jehosophat Wasn't you ever
spanked ?"
tag The United States and Russia
are between them producing, in round
numbers, l3O,OOO.OOO barrels of petro-
leum per year, and the production of
outside countries has of late increased
so much that they are able to bring
the worlds annual aggregate produc-
ton to about 15O,OOO,OOO barrels.
R@ Mr.. Simpleton is very irascible
man, and is in the habit of pushing
his boys very severely. Not long ago