Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-02
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ing many factories to close.
gH- Lots of good things 60 elsewhere
by your not asking for them.
sGr The proportion of the illiterate
among criminals is as six to one.
say God sees heroes where the
world sees very common people.
ndy- The British and Foreign society
recently celebrated its Goth birthday.
n@ When a man drinks like fish, it
is not to be wondered at that his head
swims. +.
a6- Kansas has 800 -four mills, with
a capacity of about 100000 barrels
year.
nag "Turning over new leaf" IS
useless unless you begin new account
upon it.
nas There is no such thing as making
a guilty man happy. He must loose
his guilt.
sd- People are scarce who DO not
talk more than they should about
themselves.
aas More deaths are due in England
to alcoholism than to diptheria or ty'
phoid fever.
nay It has been calculated that the
COST of a muddy day in London is
something like $4,000.
n6y The Moors of Arabia and Spain
were the first to display colored globes
in chemists windows.
p6F 1t is said that 400 acres OF TIM
ber are destroyed in the United States
every day in the year.
neT Bubonic plague caused over A.
600 deaths in India during the past
week, a slight decrease.
pT The price of medicine in Prussia
is regulated by the state, new price
list being published every year.
sS Fully 100000 domestic animals
valued at f1,2OO,OO0, are annually de-
voured by the wolves in Russia.
saS Fifty thousand dollars worth
of automobiles have been shipped to
Havana within the past 10 days.
n@ A candidate for the school board
in Kansas City was defeated at the
polls because he smoked cigarettes.
s8 The opinion that Cleveland Dem
ocrats were hack of Admiral Dewey's
candidacy, gains ground at Wash
ington.
aSF General Lew Wallace has just
received a copy of his "Ben Hur,,
translated into Persian and published
in Egypt.
p4 The postofice department has
made arrangements for providing a
irst.class money order system for Cape
Nome, Alaska.
mF Oregon Fusionists and Demo
Gratis elected national delegates and
instructed them to vote for w. j..
Bryan for president.
B While at a reception in Phoenix,
Ariz., w. J. Bryan received message
from dying woman to call upon her,
and he readily responded.
p4- The Illinois supreme court de-
cides that the law prohibiting the use
of the American flag for advertising
purposes is unconstitutional.
nag One hundred and twelve pupils
of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
have been received into the Catholic
church. The school has 162 pupils.
a9- In Finley county, Kan, there is
but one pauper, yet the county has a
poor farm which cost $4,000, and is
now maintained for the single inmate.
ad American tourists in Japan num-
Der three times the total of all other
foreigners, and the United States are
held in highest esteem by the Japan
ese.
p6r A scientific statistical work just
published, fixes the population of Eu-
rope at 3S1 900, 900, an increase of 49,
100000 since 1870, or an annual in
crease of about 100000.
s6- The board of education of Ala
media, has adopted rule forbidding
the employment as teachers in the
public schools, any persons who are
afflicted with tuberculosis.
sar The large German dock yards
are kept so busy building warships
that fears are being expressed that it
will soon be necessary to have mer-
II. l,,;1k ohrool
s6" 1t is estimated that during the
past IA months upward of 10000
wolves have been killed in Wyoming,
in addition to mountain lions, wild
cats, lynx, bear and coyotes.
sas" The records show that since the
New York city cemetery, or potter's
field, was founded, in 1855, 11O,95l
bodies have been buried there. Last
years contribution was 4,37.
s@ Mississippi expects its new capt.
tol, so long desired, to be ready for
occupancy when the state legislature
meets in January, 1902. One million
dollars has been appropriated for its
erection.
pS A dummy clock has been placed
on Independence hall, in Philadelphia,
at the point where the real clock
marked the time in other days. Its
hands point to the hour when the
declaration was signed.
bG Miss Kittie wilkins, of Idaho,
who has gained fame as the only
woman owner of great stock farm, is
to be married. She is the most exten.
sive horse dealer in Idaho, and sells
the animals in lots of 5000 or more.
H@~ The sale of liquor within three
no;loc nf tho Inma State A pricnltnral