Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-11
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B6 About at the age OF 80 the lean
men generally become fatter and the
fat men leaner.
s4- A marked increase in the num-
ber of lefthanded persons is noted by
Washington physician.
p9~ Mineral production in the United
States this year will reach value of
nearly 81 900, 100000.
p6- The report tina. Osman Pasha,
the hero of Plevna, had died at Con-
stantinople was untrue.
e@ Denmark's islands in the West
Indies cost the government $75,OOO a
year more than their revenue.
p9- The Bank of England destroys
about $50, 900 of its notes every week,
to replace them with freshly printed
ones.
pd- Apprehension of a great war in
Europe is said to be one causes of the
great increase of immigration to this
country.
p@- Minnesota's schools cost about
S., 900, 900 annually, and that is one
third of the money raised by taxes in
the state.
pa- The house tabled Mr.. Sulzer's
resolution asking information as to the
British Notifications along the Cana
dian border.
s@ A hotel exclusively for women
is to be built in New York by the Wo.
mems Hotel company, chartered with
S4OO, 900 capital.
sd~ The removal of tumor from
the brain of Mrs. F: G. Parker, of Chi
cago, ILL.,, has restored her sight, after
seven years of total blindness.
p6- The bubonic plague is rapidly
spreading in India. In Bengal 4,725
deaths occoured last week, including
744 in Calcutta and 2044 in Patna.
pds" In shelling Ladysmith the Beers
knocked off regularly for meals-the
luncheon interval being 11.30 to IL for
riflemen and 12 to 1890 for gunners.
pa- There are 5000 silver mines and
over 1000 gold mines being operated
in Mexico, and last year the value of
these metals exported was nearly $40,-
100000.
p6s- Last year the American people
ate 100000 tons of sugar. Of this
the American Sugar Refining company,
otherwise known as the trust, made l.
3S5 900 tons.
Hd- The American exhibit at Paris,
representing over 1000 firms, will he a
fair in itself. Not less than 16, 900 Amer
leans have been engaged for permanent
service on the grounds.
H6@ The house committee on militia
directed favorable report on the bill
increasing the appropriation for the
national guard of the country from
s4OO, 900 to S2,OOO,O0O annually.
pdr The New England Sunday Pro-
tective League has sent letter to Pres
ident Mckinley asking that he ask con-
gress to close the American buildings
at the Paris Exposition on Sundays.
g6H A German physician explains
why red. haired persons seldom seem
to get so bald as others. Red hairs are
so thick that 10000 cover head as
we'll as 16O, 900 blonde or los, 900 black
hairs.
B6r La Tosca, the great Indian cobra
at the Philadelphia Zoo, has been un'
der close scientific observation for %
months past, and during all of which
time the reptile has not tasted morsel
of food.
s@- Advice from Sydney, Australia,
say that rats have spread the bubo mic
plague there, and that a war on rodents
is in progress. The plague is now in
the New Hebrides, four deaths having
occurred.
sa- There has not been an execution
in the navy since 1S49, and it is strik'
ing fact that Of the numerous soldiers
sentenced to death for military otfenses
during the war with Spain, not one was
executed.
p4r The most magnificent opal in
existence, it is stated, is worn in the
cap of the Chinese Minister at Wash
ington. 1t is as large as pigeons egg,
and surrounded by diamonds. 1t is
valued at $4,000.
e@ In Java small state exists which
is entirely controlled by women, with
the single exception of the sovereign,
who is man. He is, however, entire.
ly dependent on the three women who
form his state council.
p@ The great increase in commerce
and in naval armaments has placed the
services of experienced seamen at a
premium. The scarcity of sailors is
felt in all naves, and even the great
steamship lines are Inconvenience.
p6T Several motorcycles are being
used in South Africa for patrol and
scouting work. Each is capable of 60
ing 80 miles an hour, and as the Trans.
vaal veldt is specially suitable for mo-
tor travelling, good work is being ac-
complished with the aid of these ma
chimes.
paE Colonel Hodge, of Perry county,
Ga, says the peach crop is all right.
The Elbertas and one or two other va
rieties were damaged slightly by the
recent freeze, but the damage done to
the peaches is hardly enough to relieve
the trees of the immense amount of
peaches they would have.
p4 The yellow and red Spanish flag
is the oldest of any used by the Eu-
ropean powers, as it was the first flown
in 1885. The French tricolor was first