Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-20
Mjausiae Gatherings.


the soil of Ireland.
p@- TO every 1000 males in London,
there are 1,123 females.
p@r No man can overcome himself
without the help of Christ.
p@r The United States employs in
its postal service 1874: 900 men.
p@r The people who need your pray
ers most, are those you don't like.
p@r Many preachers try to make
their congregations better than they
are themselves.
pde Lord Roberts is one of the best
swordsmen in the British army. He Is
also an expert with the lance.
~ A prominent New York Demo
crat says Congressman Sulzer will be
the Democratic nominee for vice presi-
dent.
p@ There are four unique noun:
tains in Lower California-two OF
alum, one of alum and sulphur mixed,
and one of pure sulphur.
~ The first lighthouse built in
America was at St. Augustine, Fla.
It is now believed that it was original
ly used as a watchtower.
p4r Last year over 1000 British and
S7s German ships passed through the
Suez canal. The American flag was
seen there on OILY 25 vessels.
p@r The Reformed Presbyterian
synod, at Cedarville, O., passed a
resolution prohibiting the ordination
of any man who uses tobacco.
r@- Prominent Negroes, at meeting
in Philadelphia, decided to organize q
national Negro party and put Negro
presidential ticket in the field.
p0r Ex Queen Liliouklalani has de-
cided to sue the United States govern
ment for the restoration OF the
Hawaiian crown lands and revenues.
"a The British government expects
a drouth in India about twice in every
nine wears, and a great famine like
the present, about twice in century.
q k~ A woman who wears a stuffed
bird on her hat is liable to a fine OF
from $25 to $50 by a law recently
passed by the legislature of Arkansas.
pdr The postmaster general has
amended the postal regulations 80 as
to permit the sender of a registered
letter to recall it alter it has been
dispatched.
p6n The Democrats of the Hawaiian
Islands have organized, and were to
have held convention on June IL to
select delegate to the national con-
vention at Kansas City.
"a Parts of the side of a sheep
seized in q London slaughter house
some time ago, presented the first au-
thenticated case of tuberculosis in that
animal recorded in England.
s%r Among the few congressman
who have been unanimously renomi.
mated, John B. Ketcham, OF New
York, holds the record, having been
chosen by acclamation is times.
r6r 1t is estimated that the losses
by business failures in the last 10
years amounted to $1,000, 600, 900,
which is more than twice the amount
of the country's circulating medium.
p@ The British government is the
owner of over 25 900 camels. Several
thousand are used in India to carry
stores and equipments when the regi.
ments are changing quarters by line OF
march.
sdr The largest advertisement ever
produced was that of the Glasgow
News on the side of the Scottish
mountain. 1t was made of flower
beds, and could be read easily four
miles away.
S~ A Methodist minister was once
asked how it was that he consented to
the marriage of his daughter to a
Presbyterian. "Well," he replied, Gas
far as I have been able to discover,
Cupid never studied theology"
r@ A submarine boat, to be propelled
by cable traction, has been designed
by French inventor for crossing the
English Channel. 1t will accommo-
date about $50 passengers, and will
make the trip in about an hour.
s6r Mr.. Capron, a member of con.
gress from Rhode Island, boasts of a
constituent named Levy Brisson, living
in the town of Foster, Providence
county, who has been the father of Al
children, of whom 80 are now living.
p@ VIM. R. Hearst, president of the
national association of Democratic
clubs, has issued an address urging all
Democratic clubs to solemnly observe
July and 'join in a new pledge of
fidelity to the republic as their fathers
made it,"
pS When screws were made by
hand, five minutes were consumed in
making one, and they were so expen-
sive that wooden pins were used where
ever practical now, by the cold forged
process, a single machine will turn out
five dozen in a minute.
p4 An engineer employed by an
American company, who recently
visited the Cerro del Mercado in
Durango, says that the iron in sight
on this mountain is sufficient to fur
nish all the smelters of England with
ore for period of 230 years.
p@ A hound was purchased in Mis-.
souri, and shipped in closed express
car to a ranch in Kansas. In day or
two it was missing. Investigation
proved that it had gone back to its
Missouri home, over distance of SOC
miles, on a road entirely unknown to
the dog.
| I% Rev. G. M. Sheldon, of Topeka.