Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-16
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R9- Two rivers up Yukon way have
the names of Mckinley and Bryan
respectively.
eds- The floods in Mississippi and
Louisiana have caused damage estimat-
ed at $3,O00,000.
R@~ Rural free delivery is established
on 1000 routes and accommodates 10O,.
900 in the country.
s4. According to Salt Lake City fig
nres, the number of Mormons now in
existence is 100000.
H6y. The road to heaven is up hill all
the way to the man who is trying to
get there without giving.
s6 Senor Silvela, Spanish premier,
will ask his country to make great
sacrifice to build new navy.
ed" India rubber trees grow wild in
Florida. At Fort Myers they are the
chief shade and ornamental trees.
Ha- The early influx of American
travellers in London has forced several
leading hotels to turn away guests.
pG@ Treaties with Nicaragua and
Costa Rica for the construction OF the
interoceanic canal are being negotia-
ted.
s9- 1t is proposed to build sS,O00,-
900 international dam above Ell Paso,
Tex, to redeem the Rio Grande val
ley.
B65- A strong solution of alum, to
which has been added little glycerine
and vinegar, is cure for mosquito
bites.
s6- France will supply her artillery
and navy with smoke-shells that will
explode so as to blind and befog the
enemy.
aB- A census of the Klonkide dis
trict gives total population of 1906,
of whom 5539 are citizens ofthe United
States.
B6- A Republican convention was
held at Honolulu, on May 15, to Sc
lect delegates to the Philadelphia con-
vention.
p@- Germany has found last year the
most prosperous in her history, and her
surplus over the estimates will be
about 100000.
a6~ The house at Tappan, n. Y, In
which Maj. Andre, the British spy, was
confined during the revolution is to be
turned into soap factory.
s@ A man with mind for statistics
has computed that over sixty five
quadrilions of people have lived on
the earth since the beginning of time.
a@- An automobile recently covered
the distance from Coventry to London,
ninety-two miles, in four hours, this
being an average of twenty-three miles
an hour.
a@- OF the 100000 women working
at 100 different trades in New York
city, $4,000 support their husbands.
No doubt the same ratio exists in other
large cities.
pa Mrs. Nancy Washington, col.
ored woman, celebrated her 1O5th
birthday in Boston on Sunday last.
She has been married six times, and is
now a widow.
s6 In Germany ], ,057 ,939 acres were
seeded to sugar beets last year. The
yield was about eleven and quarter
tons to the acre, and the sugar results
1877 per cent.
n@ "Tommy," said an axious mother
to her boy, "your uncle will be here
to dinner today, and you must have
your face washed" ayes, ma, but
s'posed be don't come. What then ?'
s4 Bankers estimate that American
visitors to the Paris exposition will
spend abroad this year S40,000,0O0
more than is usually spent by Ameri
cans in Europe during the vacation
season.
a@ Imitation maple is made by re-
ducing ordinary sugar to a syrup and
boiling hickory chips in it. The hick-
ory, it is alleged, imparts flavor that
easily deceives people who are not
maple experts.
p@ Two representatives ofthe Ojibe-
way chief, who is said to have related
to Longfellow the legend upon which
his "Song of Hiawatha" is founded,
recently visited the poets daughter at
the old Longfellow house in Cam.
brige, Mass.
tag A nugget taken from the Con-
necticut Zinc Company's property at
Joplin, Mo-, a day or two ago, which
ranks as one of the handsomest speci-
mems ever mined there, weighs an even
ton. 1t is principally of zinc ore, pref
tily trimmed in calcite, pink spar and
cubes of galena.
s65" Increasing demand for electrical
power from Niagara Falls and the ap-
preaching Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo, have induced the construction
of second wheel pit and station at
the falls. Eleven new turbines will add
5000 horsepower to the $4,000 al
ready supplied by ten turbines.
p9" An interesting fact in connection
with a new overland train that is
about to be put into service between
St. Louis and Puget Sound, by way of
Billings, Mont, is that for nearly the
entire distance of $500 miles it will run
through country acquired by the
United States at the time of the Louis
lana purchase in 1904.
s6- Governor Mount, of Indiana, as
the president of the Nancy Hanks
Memorial Association, has purchased
the old Lincoln farm, near Evansville,