Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-12
HUMAN ODDITIES IN 1905.
Some Record Making Freaks Of tn.
Past Year.

$3.50 on condition that she would al
ways allow their father to have "all
the cigars he wants and also all the
vests he likes to wear"
Pittsburg furnished several episodes
that livened things up a bit. A brave
woman in that city wore hoopskirts
through the streets, causing a crowd
to assemble which impeded traffic and
had to be dispersed by the police.
Another Pittsburg woman, finding a
telephone company was preparing to
string wires about her house and had
already dug six holes for poles, be-
came exceedinly wroth. Having six
children, she deposited a ichild in
each hole and then defied the work
men to proceed.
Pancakes broke up an Iowa home
in the snappy days Of February when
fapjacks are supposed to hit the right
spot. At Sanborn, Mrs. Carrie Fields
got a divorce from DR.. L. S. Fields
because the husband did not like her
make Of pancakes and ridiculed them.
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the doctors face while eating the
cakes was such that 1t might work
permanent injury to the health.
| The high water mark in family
quarrels was reached in Kansas City.
One raw January morning found Mrs.
Theresa Schujul and her husband John
In the police court, where judicial aid
was invoked to shake John loose
from his domestic moorings. Theresa
had given him $100 to leave her and
never return, but he kept his prom
ise only till the money was spent.
Then the wife confided to the court
that she and John were married in
Germany fourteen years ago and had
quarrelled every day since. which
means a total of more than 5000
| quarrels.
| The champion ice cream eater Of
1905 was not, as many might suppose,
husky street car conductor of West
Philadelphia. A wager Of 81 and a
Gargantuan appetite inspired Ray
Vincent to the gastrenomic feat Of
hiding away fifteen plates Of ice
cream, a pork sandwich and a glass
Of milk to top Off with, all within two
hours and without a subsequent fu-
neral notice.
With a record Of having served
more than 100000 drinks at the
Bellevue -Stratford Hotel, Philadel-
phia, Tomasso Ruggo, in March cele-
brated the twenty-third anniversary
of his employment there, his drink
checks figured up $611,915.
1t Is we'll known that a good deal Of
beer is drunk in Munich at all times,
but during an unusual hot wave in
September the thirsty inhabitants Of
that city made a record. The heat
lasted a week. during which time S50-
900 gallons of beer was consumed, or
two and one-half gallons to every
man, woman and child in the city.
"The average length of married life
seems to be two months" remarked
Judge Dunno, in March, when a job
lot Of divorce cases was being dis
posed Of in his court. This was be-
fore he was elected mayor of Chicago.
On this same day eleven divorces
were granted by three Cook county
judges, including Judge Dunno, who
had the largest grist in the legal hop
per. The average time consumed by
the hearings which preceded the issu-
ance Of the DEGREES was eight minutes.
One hearing took only three minutes.
Three took only four minutes each.
No more than fifteen minutes was
This is divorce clearing house record
that 1t would be hard to beat.
| Divorce being so often the sequence
Of marriage, this seems an opportune
point at which to insert the st. Jo-
seph, Mich, record in wedlock. Fig
ures indicate that the wholesale mar
riage record Of st. Joseph for 1905
would eclipse that Of any previous
year. More than $4,000 licenses had
then been issued and the rush will
still be as great as during the sum-
mer.
| On November IL the Rev. ]. q. Tor
gensen; widely known as the marry
ing preacher died at his home in Chic
ago. He had performed 1900 mar
riage ceremonies during the thirty-six
years he was minister. 1t Is believed
he held the worlds record for tying
| nuptial knots.
The years best record for materni-
ty was furnished by Indiana. On Oc-
tober %, Mrs. Clara Krauss Of Coal
City, gave birth to her twentieth child.
Her record includes no twins. The
noble mother, who is doing what she
can to prevent race suicide, has been
married only twenty-five years and
in now only Al.
| Among the centenarian tobacco
users who came proudly to the front
in the past year. Grandma Eliza Foun-
tain, of Wayne county, Ia, seems to
have won the blue ribbon. When she
celebrated her 1920 birthday, in Oc-
tober, admiring friends presented to
her 1O2 large packages Of tobacco and
an equal number of pipes. She has
been an inveterate smoker since the
age Of s, and she attributes her long
evity to the use of the weed.
| Akron, Ohio, placed itself on record
as having the oldest police officer
in the United States. In July, Thomas
Dillon, aged 1O2, was sworn in as a
special officer at the free swimming
pool.
On divers occasions during the last
summer, at Herkimer, N. Y, Miss
Mary Putnam fell in a faint whenever
the village band began to play. The
physicians who were called in to re-
store her were unable to decide
whether the young womans swooning
was the result of some peculiar
physiological condition or merely
traceable to the village bands quality
of music.
For disinterested patriotism the