Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-28
dtJausiae Gatherings.

creases by 10000 a year.
R1- The government allows only As
stars in the United States flag.
sH- Four new cases of bubonic plague
have developed at Honolulu since
March 2.
s9- Don't rein up plow horse. Make
him as comfortable in every way as
possible.
s6S Aggregate receipts of live stock
at Chicago for the past week was about
100000 head.
e@ Generally the more aimless boy
is the better he likes to run around
with shotgun.
s4. The total number of sheep in the
state of West Virginia is 1856, ,792, val
ued at SIS, ,326,550.
s6F If you would increase your hap
piness and prolong your life, forget
your neighbor's faults.
s6 A johannesburg dispatch sent to
Berlin says the Transvaal gold mines
have not suffered greatly.
p6r Begging letters asking for an ag-
gregate of $3,O0O,0O0 were received by
Miss Helen Gould, in New York, last
week.
nag Senator Sullivan introduced a
resolution saying that no declaration
of policy in the Philippines should be
made while the war continued.
p~ In some parts of Colorado bears
are so destructive of cattle that the
farmers have offered rewards of $50 to
5000 for particularly dangerous beasts.
p% An order was received by Gin
cinnati concern by cable from an Eng
lish firm for nearly 100000 British flags,
to be shipped as soon as they can be
made.
n6r The San Francisco board of
health has decided that the Chinese
who died recently under suspicious cir
cumstances had genuine bubonic
plague.
s9r The government of New South
Wales has proclaimed St. Patrick's day
as a public holiday, as a tribute to the
bravery of the Irish soldiers in South
Africa.
p9 Colorado produced last year $751;
122, ,166 in gold, S12, 2,6SO,529 in silver,
81, GAL, ,529 in lead, 81 1854, ,226 in copper
and s577, 500 in zinc and manganifer-
Gus iron.
R9 The superintendent of the water
system in Albany, N. Y, says that
since the starting of the filter plant ty-
phod fever in the city has been reduced
rs per cent.
p@ The timber supply of Georgia
has been estimated by lumbermen of
that state as sufficient to last only nine
years at the present rate of saving p
100000 feet daily.
p@ An Euglish book publisher has
offered prize of $500 for the first cor
rect guess of the date on which the
treaty of peace between the British
and Beers will be signed.
p8 Red denotes courage; blue,
truth; ; white, purity; green, jealousy !;
yellow, INCONSISTENCY; black, mourning !;
brown, melancholy; gray, remem-
brance; violet, sympathy.
B6- II wish a fellow could borrow
money as easily as he can borrow trou-
ble." eff you could make money as
easily as you can make trouble, you
wouldn't need to borrow any"
p6r A Florida farmer, after ridding
his own farm of snakes by turning loose
among them drove of razor-back
hogs, now rents out the animals to his
neighbors for similar purpose.
Bdr Th ere is wild flower in Turkey
that is an exact floral image of hum
ming bird, the breast is green, the wings
are deep rose color, the throat yellow,
the head and beak almost black.
p6 Obliterate everything disagreea'
BILE from yesterday, start out with a
clean sheet for today, and write upon it
for sweet memory's sake only those
things which are lovely and lovable.
s@- Doesn't Mrs. Maxwell believe in
co.education of the sexes?" "Co-edu-
cation? I should say not. Why, she
believes girl ought to be raised so
carefully that when she sees man she
will say, what is that mamma?"
pd~ She was lawyers daughter, but
be kissed her. "Sir," she exclaimed,
chow dale you! Don't you know l can
have you indicted for larceny?" "All
right" he replied, "if you do, I'll have
you charged with receiving stolen prop
erty."
s@r At Bridgeport, Conn.,, March l6,
Mrs. Patrick Lavery, wife of mer-
chant, gave birth to boy weighing 24l
pounds. This is said to eclipse all re-
cords, including that made by New
ark woman, who gave birth to "a.
pound child recently.
sGn A single match requires from a
11OOth to 1200th of grain of phos-
phorus for its production, yet the con-
of matches is so large that it
is estimated that the totaiof 1000 tons
is less than the amount consumed in
Europe in their manufacture.
a@ Indignant Customer-Say, when
YOU sold me that horse you told me
that he had as much sense as man
had. I find that the women around
the house can't manage him at all.
Dealer-Well, that not only proves
that he has as much sense as a man,
but that he has even more.
n~ Twenty-four carat gold is all
GOLD. % carat gold has 90 parts of gold,