Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-02-06

a pound Of sorrow.
aa' The United States contains nearly
5000, 900 separate farms.
sg Indian Territory has doubled In
population in ten years.
Sg The first use Of a locomotive III
this country was in 1919.
sg Brokers and BARRIERS are given to
shavings, and carpenters to making
them.
sy There are about 3O,0O0,O00 acres OF
unoccupied public land yet remaining
in Montana.
sJ During the year ending June 80
last, Jasper county, Mo-, produced zinc
and lead worth $5,3S9,62s.
sG Seventy-two degrees below zero is
the record Of low temperature register
ed by Schwatka, on the Grand FISH
river, in Canada.
sg A shipment of 100000 young peach
trees from Georgia nurseries, bound
for Cape Colony and Natal, South Afr1-
ca, will be made soon.
slT Every wind that blows is caused
by the heated and expanding air OF
some locality rising. while the cooler
air rushes in to fill its place.
say There are a great many stories
that have no foundation. But when
it comes to building houses, the more
stories the better the foundation must
be.
aa When a real New York boy wishes
to say that a man is extremely extraV-
agant, he expresses himself this way:
He has money to burn and carries
matches"
sJ Manila has about 165,0O0 popula-
ton. There Is smaller number OF sa-
looms in proportion to the population
than in any city Of it's size in the Unit
ed States.
6g Louisiana papers explain that I'M
proved processes in making sugar are
so thorough that the world Is deprived
of the old New Orleans sugar house
molasses.
sg The proposition for the construc-
ton of a floating machine shop for
the use Of the squadrons in the vari-
GUS parts of the world, is receiving ear
nest attention.
sg- Alleghenia is the name bestowed on
one Of the planets recently discovered
in the solar system by Berlin astron-
omer. The great Photographic lens
used was made in Allegheny, Pa.
sB' Bride (on shipboard at sea In
storm)-I feel so sick my dear, and If !
should die and they bury me here,
you'll sometimes come and plant flow
ers on my grave, won't you darling?"
sg White frost Is the ordinary frozen
dew or hoar frost. Black frost occurs
when the cold is so intense as to freeze
vegetation and cause it to turn black
without the formation Of hoar frost.
IA Bigamists in Hungary are COM
PEELED to submit to an odd punishment
The man who has been silly enough to
marry two wives is legally forced to
live in the same house with both OF
them.
sar You are over 40 why don't you
marry?" Because I do not care to
marry an elderly woman, while
young girl would be foolish to marry
me, and do not care to marry a fool
ish girl"
SaT Women have better perception OF
color than men. An eminent authority
on color blindness asserts that under
a very severe test the color vision Of
1 man in is defective, while in women
the average is in 30.
Sg A Stockton, Kan, man purchased
a vacant building that had been used
for the storage of corn. When he came
to repair it, he found SO bushels Of corn
under the floor, which had been carried
there by the rats for rainy day.
S9y A petrified forest, covering an area
Of 100 square miles, has existed for GEN.
turies in Arizona. Thousands and
thousands and thousands Of petrified
logs strew the ground, and represent
beautiful shades Of yellow. pink, pur-
pie, red, gray and blue. One Of the
stone trees spans a gulf Of 40 feet.
sD' A man who went home the other
night and found his house locked up
After much trouble he managed to gain
an entrance through q back window,
and then discovered on the table a
note from his very thoughtful wife,
reading, "I have gone out. You may
find the key on the side of the STEP"
sg A Kansas girl, the daughter Of a
Greenwood county rancher, was sent
East to school this fall. What do you
know, my child?" asked the head
teacher. "Oh, farming" the new pupil
replied. well, tell me what is a
farm?" "a body Of land surrounded
by a. barb-wire fence" the little maid
en- said.
sy A judges little daughter, who had
attended her fathers court for the first
time, was very much interested in the
proceedings. After her return home
she told her mother: Papa made a
speech, and several other men made
speeches to II men who sat all togeth-
err and these IL men were put in a
dark chamber to be developed"
saT A French engineer named Verlier
proposes to bore a tunnel under the
Mediterranean. According to his sur
veys, the length Of the tunnel from
Vacqueros Bay, in Spain, to Tangier
in Morocco, would be only twenty
five miles, as the depth of the sea in
that vicinity is only 1900 feet His es.
innate of it's cost is S23, 1890
sg OF the 5OOOOO,OOO passengers car
ried upon the railways Of this country
last year, 221 were killed and 2,945 were
injured. or the employees, 2,237 were
killed and 3S,749 were injured, and OF