Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-03-13
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SaT Upwards Of 100000 horses have per-
ished in the South African war up to
date.
TT The United States imported $500,
600 more silver from Mexico in 1900
than in 1899.
ST New York has the most expensive
water system in the country. 1t has
cost up to date $115,526,74S.
ar The number of deaf mutes in the
United States is over III, 900; the nu-
Der of totally blind is sS,S24.
ST Last year the total number of new
books published in the United States
reached 6,356, or 653 more than in any
previous year.
8g' The militant spirit is dominant in
Nebraska In the Fourth district In
that state there were 400 applicants
for the West Point cadetship.
IL In England the breeding Of mice
has reached a high state Of develop
ment A Manchester man recently
paid SIPS for a black and tan mouse of
QlSllIS ulSllSu dASSSliS.
8B' Mrs. Annie Ray, of Oakland, CAL,
who lately filed suit for divorce, ap-
peared as her own attorney, and pre-
pared the necessary papers herself,
without the assistance Of lawyer.
8S' Throughout France suicide seems
to have been increasing for sometime.
In the five years ended January 1, 1901,
the number of suicides was no less than
$1,000.
31 It took a force Of auditors a week
to locate a discrepancy of II cents be-
tween the accounts Of the city comp
troller and the city treasurer of Phila-
delphia, in a total sum of $60,000,000.
99 The Massachusetts Frog company
has just been incorporated in Maine
with a capital of $4,000, it's object being
declared in the application to be "to
buy, sell, breed and import frogs and
animals"
Ss The young king Of Italy celebrat-
ed his birthday recently by releasing
$4,000 prisoners incarcerated in differ
ent parts Of his kingdom for offenses
which he considered had been suffici-
emily punished.
ar The jury in recent trial in Wales
comprised one man named Hughes and
eleven named Jones. Seven Of the lat
ter bore the Christian name Of John
The prisoners name was that Of the
seven jurors-John Jones.
.6y Something of the vast magnitude
Of the canning fruit business in Cali
fornia may be seen when it is known
that 50,00O,000 cans are annually ship
ped out of that state. To this may be
added the great quantity of bulk fruit
which comes from the state.
ST A landslide occurred recently in
Switzerland. An inn and it's garden
and outbuildings slid down hillside
a distance of IS feet without being in
the least injured. Two stately elm
trees in the garden were also moved
without injury.
4S Governor Beckham has been pre-
sented with cane by Virginian, who
claims that it was made from a piece
of Thomas Jefferson's office desk. The
date of Jefferson's birth and death, his
dying words and extracts from the
declaration are cut into the wood in the
most unique and artistic style.
88 Word comes from Painesville, o.,
that girls decided to do away with the
boycott they put on the boys, and de-
cided to give a sleighing party. The
boys were going to send regrets, but
the girls heard Of it, and called the in
vitations in. The boys seem to be get
ting the worst Of it all around.
Sg During a smallpox scare in Cadil-
lac, Mich, recently, two hoboes, claim
ing to be from an infected district
walked into town. They were penni-
less, of course, but the alarmed Cadil-
lacians soon subscribed enough to send
them 100 miles south by rail. The two
tramps footed it out of town we'll con-
tent
3dr Mrs. Henrietta Dunn, of Kent Is
land, Mo-, recently gave a party in
honor of her two sister. Mrs. Eliza
Brown and Mrs. Margaret Weeks.
Mrs Dunn is the mother of 25 children
Mrs. Weeks has 81, and Mrs. Brown
has II, making a total Of 81, all OF
whom are alive. Fifty-one of them
were at the party.
89 The Chinese are not so far behind
us in the practice of medicine as has
been supposed. While the yellow ply
sicians are deficient in their knowledge
of anatomy, and therefore amount to
nothing as surgeons, in their treatment
Of common ailments they are in some
cases practically abreast Of the most
advanced practice in this country.
SI The attention of practical mining
men has been for several years devot-
ed to the deposits Of copper in Alaska,
but questions Of transportation have
in many cases prevented the ore from
being extensively mined. One of the
most recent reports from this region
states that the copper mines in the
Copper river district will excel in out
put any that are known in the world.
ar Congressman Roberts, in connec-
tion with his work as a committee
man, recently discovered a forgotten
room in the Capitol, back Of statuary
hall. 1t was full Of old books. and dur
ing the Civil war was used as a hospit-
al. An old stove and some cleft wood
were found, just as they were left over
80 years ago. A soldiers coat, full of
dust and moth-eaten, hung on the gas
jet. The air was sitting and the lock
on the door had almost rusted off.
10 In the postoffice Of some one Of the
large cities there is an unknown clerk
u,hn For ca1,aro1 ,paaLys haar OF