Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-08-15
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company.
s9- Work for the new navy now
under way will cost $92, 100000.
s@ Yellow fever is epidemic all
along the Mexican ports and at Pana-
ma.
nag A British cruiser burned 22,-
900 tons of coal going from England
to Australia.
s@- The distance from the fathest
point of polar discovery to the pole
itself is 460 miles.
s6r According to the ancient Chinese
writer, the chronology Of that coun-
try goes back 2,2e7, 900 years.
s@ Sir William Vernon Harcourt
estimates the cost of the South African
war as approximately sSO,OOo,ooo.
s6 Lord Roberts is actually feeding
at Pretoria the families of burghers
who are still in the field against him.
p6 The suggestion that the name
of Pretoria should be changed to Vic
toria is said to be receiving wide sup
port.
p9 Hospitals in London are over
flowing with heat victims. Two hum
dred cab horses have died within few
days.
p@2 In the United States last year
one passenger was killed for ever 2
1S9, ,023 carried, and one injured for
every Isl, 1898 carried.
p9- "Robert fell off fifty-foot lad
der and wasn't hurt a Bit" Not
hurt? Idon't believe it," "It's quite
true. He fell off the bottom rung."
p6E A rule in effect in Leipzig, Sax
ony, assesses the expense of calling out
the fire department to the owner OF
the house where the fire originated.
say The water system of Atlanta, Ga,
has failed twice within two weeks, be-
ing out of use for nearly twenty-four
hours and causing much inconvenl-
ence.
B@ "Hello, Biugley, how did the
doctor succeed in breaking up your
fever?" "Oh easy enough he pre-
sented his bill, and had chill in l5
minutes"
nag It is said that when an Indian
dies his surviving relatives pay all his
debts. We are acquainted with a man
who we heartily wish would turn In
dian and die.
p@r Visitor-So your brother is TAX
ing lessons on the violin. Is he max
ing progress? Little Girl-Yes'm he's
got so now we can tell whether he IS
tuning or playing.
s6- The rebellion has taken hold OF
Southern China. Sixteen foreigners
have arrived at Nankin from Ming 70
and report that their houses were
burned and missionaries horribly NAL
treated.
s6~ The adjutant general of the
United states army reports that the
total organized militiamen is l06,359,
while the number of men available for
military service, but unorganlzed, is
1O,343,152.
nag Tall Beaver, chief of the Conan
che Indians in Oklahoma, will take the
stump for Bryan and Stevenson short
lily. He says he has a contract with
the national committee to make these
speeches.
s6r Unofficial figures of the census
of New York city give the old city,
Manhattan and the Bronx, a popula-
ton of 2, 100000 an increase of nearly
600, 900 in ten years. The entire city
is counting on 100000.
e6- The war department has ordered
a general election in Cuba in Septem-
ber, at which delegates will be chosen
to convention to be held in Havana
in November, to frame a constitution
for the government of the island.
s@- The telegraph poles along the
Savannah and Statesboro railway in
Georgia are growing. They are made
of cypress and must have been planted
with the roots. They are sprouting at
the top and serve a double purpose.
They are shade trees as we'll as sup
port for the wires.
H9 The Mexican census recently
taken, whose results are just coming
out, show a population of 12,491 ,573,
over two-thirds Of whom cannot read
or write. Over 80 per cent. of the
population is of mixed and Indian
races. Sixty-three languages are
spoken by the people.
p9 The Mississippi jetties are among
the most gigantic engineering feats of
the world, costing in the neighborhood
of $5,OOO,00O, and making 26 foot
channel out of stream where there
was formerly but 8 feet of water.
This has made New Orleans port for
the largest among ocean going vessels.
p9 Captain Dreyfus is described by
correspondent who has just seen him
as having undergone a wonderful
change in his appearance since he
landed in France, about twelvemonth
ago. He is no longer wan and thin,
and veritable wreck and the picture
of melancholy. On the contrary, he
has grown much stouter has healthy
color and seems really gay and light
hearted.
p6 The entire number of pupils in
all schools, public and private, last
year in this country was 1857 ,643,
out of an estimated population of 72,-
737, 100. There are 101, ,O5S young men
and women who are in the universi-
ties and colleges 54,231 in schools of
law, medicine and theology 67,53S in
normal schools 7O,95O in business
schools ; %, sol in reform schools and
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