Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-24
atjausiae Gatherings.
8N Out Of 1000 children, go boys die
under years old. but only so girls.
TT Nine thousand tons of wire are
made into screws yearly in Great Brit

9y A gallon of water weighs ten
pounds, a gallon Of mercury 1,37s
pounds.
8T One hundred and fifty cubic feet
of cork to the ton, and only two cubic
feet of gold.
SSr In 1900 the United States exported
12O, 900 bales of cotton. In 1900 she
sold 9.436.OOO bales.
Sg Applied to burn, where the skin
is not yet open. turpentine quickly
alleviates the pain.
ST Because his pension was not made
larger a Wisconsin man has refused
to vote for q years.
IN In 1916, Francis I gave to his
queen the equivalent Of $4,000 in our
money, for a new hat.
8T At the age Of 80, the average Eng
lishman weighs 156 pounds. the aver
age American $50 pounds.
3zT The coolest place in the world is
Yakutch, Russia. The thermometer
falls to 73 degrees below zero.
3G The American Bible society is pre-
pairing to issue editions Of the Script
lures in 20 different Filipino dialects.
3S' The world gets sufficient heat
from the sun in a year to melt a coat
of ice 46 feet thick all over the globe.
az A man is always more truthful in
his opinion Of his second baby than of
his first. Women call it more brutal.
3a On a level pavement a pull of SO
pounds will draw ton, on macadam 1t
takes 46 pounds, and on rough gravel
LAT pounds.
Ar The massed navies of the world
would include $50 battleships, AL cruis-
sers, 1,255 gunboats and over 1,500 tor
pedo boats.
8S Beer has on an average four per
cent. of alcohol, cider eight per cent,
claret III per cent. Port has 23 parts
in the 100, and whisky So to 81.
ST Powdered charcoal. if laid thick on
a burn, causes the immediate abate-
ment Of the pain. A superficial burn
can thus be healed in about an hour.
5S Secretary Root has raised the
standard of admission to West Point
by adding algebra, English literature
and trigonometry to the requirements.
Ar The greatest daily change Of tenn
perature to be found on the earth's
surface is in Arizona. There is fire.
1uently a change Of 80 degrees in II
hours.
ST AS a result of brain fever, VIM. H.
McGinnis, Of Watertown, N. Y, i'm
agined he was a circus tumbler and
turned somersaults until sent to an
asylum.
sT A clergyman at Saranac Lake
has been challenged to fight duel to
the death by young gentleman who
differed with him on a mathemat.c
question.
sgr Among the odd scenes Of the re-
cent flood in Bradley, Me-, was a
padding about her yard in a
-owboat taking the weeks washing
rom the line.
ST Secretary Root says there is no
necessity now for the reduction Of the
force in Cuba, as the military
will remain there until the
Cubans form a government Of their
own.
1D' The census returns giving the
area of various states shows that the
one which has the largest amount OF
land under water Is Florida, and the
least, in proportion to it's size, Wyo-
ming.
"a The battleship Illinois made an
average of 1871 knots per hour on her
speed trial, off Cape Ann, breaking all
for American battleships, and
the worlds record fol. battleships Of
her size.
AT Thirty degrees of warmth above
the average will make a pendulum
clock gain. with a 39-inch pendulum.
eight seconds in "a hours. This Is be-
cause the heat lengthens the pendulum
by 1-12Sth of an inch.
ar France probably has the smallest
on record. Emile Mayot, Of
Cunel, in the canton Of Montfaucon,
measures three feet nine and one-half
inches in his stocking feet and weighs
~ pounds. He was accepted.
ar A battleship Of $4,000 tons dis
placement. the largest ever designed,
Is to be added to the United States
navy. If the proposed speed of 21
knots is secured. this ship will be the
in naval construction.
At 1t was William Pitt who origina-
ted the income tax in Great Britain in
1898 as a war tax. The Napoleonic
wars were fought with it. From that
time to this 1t has been the resort Of
all ministries to meet war expendi-
lures.
ar The population Of Idaho has in
creased 50 per cent. since 1890. that of
Montana 70 per cent. North Dakota
81. Wyoming 4S and Washington IS.
is the only state which shows
an actual decrease in population since
1890.
97T A conductor who runs into Fulton,
KY, recently collected on his train a
ticket from Cincinnati to Fulton which
had been sold on December 81. 1892.
The old man who presented it for pas
sage said that just after he bought 1t,
he had heard of a wreck on the road,
and was afraid to get on the train.
He never summoned up courage
enough to use the ticket until last
week.
AT An active crusade against the
wearing of ladies' corsets is being car
ried ON at Ruda -PeSth The Hungarian