Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-03-27
Wauside Gatherings.

abroad. It was not the way formerly.
89r The population Of London has in
creased to the extent of 100000 since
1881.
Ss Rhode Island still remains the
most densely populated state in the
Union.
8g There is tea grown and gathered
in Japan that sells for as much as $40
a pound.
Szy A heat wave passed over Austria
liza January 25th, destroying homes,
stock and crops.
Al 1t is estimated that the $4,000
Americans who visited Europe last
year spent there $60,0OO,0OO.
SD' The province Of Asturias, Spain.
has no fewer than % centenarians in a
total population of 100000.
IA King Edward has visited Ireland
seven times. On the occasion of his
first visit he was years old.
ar Minnesota farm lands have ad-
yanced more than 100 per cent. in val
ue during the last seven years.
IA An agricultural settlement near
New York, supplies the Chinese of the
Eastern states with their diet.
"a Bishop Boyd Vincent has admitted
Mrs. Sarah Cook Bradwell as a dea-
coness in st. Paurs church, Chillicothe,
Ohio.
3J There are over 100000 square feet
of glass surface in Great Britain ex-
clusively devoted to the cultivation
and production Of tomatoes for market
purposes.
1zT 1t is the opinion Of experts that
the opening of China and Siberia will
disclose large deposits Of gold, and
that Asia, after awhile will furnish a
large part of the worlds supply.
89' The actual increase in popula-
ton in this country in the last ten
years is about 13,325,0OO This rate Of
increase in the period from 1880 to 1890
averaged about 81 per cent. each year.
"a The only American Indian in the
United States navy is Chapman Shen-
andoah, an Oneida, 29 years old, who is
on the cruiser Atlanta. He served
through the war with Spain on the
San Francisco and the New York.
aD The remnant of the once great Pc
nobscot tribe of Indians, now living on
an island near Oldtown, Me-, have
their own form Of government. At
their recent election they chose a pro-
hibitionist chief named Mitchell At
team, by a vote of rs to %.
88' Records of the Irish Emigrant So
ciety show that 25,132 persons entered
at the port Of New York as emigrants
in 1900. This is an increase of 2,O37
over the preceding year. There were
11,677 males and 13,455 females, who
brought 1878, ,754.
1D Two brothers-in-law mortally
hacked each other to pieces in the pub
lie road near Owensboro, KY: The Pc
culiarity Of the trouble was that only
one knife was used, but in the deadly
struggle the knife repeatedly changed
from one to the other.
SB' "Ah!" exclaimed the merchant,
coming into the Office and discovering
one of his clerks smoking, you are dis
obeying one of my rules, sir. l suppose
you are familiar with the old adage,
Where there's smoke there's fire.. "
And the clerk was promptly fired.
~ The Burmese women are great
personages and play a great part IN
their households. They choose their
own husbands and divorce them when
they like, retaining their own property
and all that they have earned; they
are at liberty to marry again whether
they are widows or divorces.
IA Outside of the farms and ranches
there are 2,777,497 horses in the United
States. The largest number is found
in New York state, 3O2,27l, Illinois be-
ing second, with 23S,SO7; Pennsylvania,
215,977; Ohio, 1858; Iowa, 147,275;
Massachusetts,, 1905; Missouri, 1884,
952; Indiana, 124,O72; Texas, 106.S19.
and Michigan, 100,410.
Ar A Russian doctor traces the grip
back to the Ninth century. He says 1t
meanders around for three or four
years and then retires from business
for 20 or more years. 1t may be some
comfort to those who have wrestled
with it that it will give him rest for
20 years or more. Just grin and bear
it and keep out Of the bad weather.
8% A Russian baptism under the ritu-
al Of the Greek church is a curious
ceremony. A large wooden bowl is fill
ed with water, and the priest takes
the child in his arms, stuffs wadding
into it's ears and nostrils, and then
plunges the little head under the wa
ter three times, during which time he
repeats prayers for the imperial family.
8T A train was rushing through
some swamps in northern Indiana.
The track was fringed on either side
with "cat-tails," literally thousands Of
their brown heads bobbing around in
the breeze. A small boy eagerly drank
in the scenery. He was evidently a
city-bred boy, for he presently ex-
claimed, Mamma, I didn't know that
sausages grew in that way"
8J A government report, just issued,
shows that during the year 1899 in In
dia, the number of deaths among hu-
man beings attributed to carniverous
animals was 1856. Tigers caused the
death of S99, wolves of 33S, leopards,
hyenas, jackals and crocodiles were
accountable for a large proportion of
the remainder. The loss Of human life
from snakes reached the high total of
"a 4,621-a greater mortality than in any
of the four preceding years.
81 Rufus Heron, an Alabama Negro,