Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-25
Condensed KnowIedae.

Elevators with platform eighteen
feet square are in use in some New
York garages.
The Sirius, the first steamer to cross
the Atlantic, was 17S feet long, and
her tonnage $50.
Food valued at Salts is brought
into Great Britain every minute OF
the day and night.
Greece is said to be the poorest
country Of Europe. Her total wealth
amounts to $1,000, ,000,0 900, or about
half that Of Switzerland.
A modern incandescent lighthouse
lantern with 3b-inch mantle gives
2,400 candle power, and uses no
more oil than the old six-inch wick
burner which gave only 700 candle
power.
The ostrich yields about pounds
Of feathers yearly.
China and Japan together produce
125,00O tons Of silk annually.
England has $4,000 persons with
a single leg or arm.
The Japanese have a coin called
the "mousang," which is worth one
two-hundredth part of an English
penny.
Europe and America have about g.
000,0 hives Of honey bees.
The birth rate of both England and
Germany Is decreasing. That Of Ger
many is at present "a per 1000. while
England's is 28 per 1000.
The condor can fast for forty days
and the eagle twenty-eight days.
France has 100000 dogs.
Europe has fifty languages, with
5S7 variations.
The messiah" bird Of India excels
all others in its initiative powers.
A young plant is 75 per cent water
and the remainder carbon, which 1t
has taken from the air.
The average amount Of honey taken
from an English hive is 80 pounds.
double the American average. The
record take" from any hive was
| 1000 pounds, from a stock Of Cyp-
rians.
The Australian tallgalla is the only
bird which leaves the egg fully feath-
cred.
The London and Northwestern rail-
road has in its regular employ an
artificial limb manufacturer.
The best microscopes magnify
about $1,000 times and make a tiny
pile Of -four look like pile Of stones.
The average size Of the heart is
about that Of the closed fist Of the
person to whom 1t belongs.
A normal man breathes 10000
times in the course of one day.
In the census Of the world the per-
centage of blind persons is Ga to
every 100000.
The fortress at Malta is regarded as
second to Gibraltar.
Every inch Of the human skin
contains $500 perspiration pores.
The female brain begins to lose
weight at the age Of 80, but thei or
the male not until ten years later.
On the average the coolest part
of the day is at o'clock in the MORN
ing.
The wettest hour Of the day Is at
8 o'clock in the morning.
The life Of a north Atlantic Ice
berg is often 200 years.
The light of one candle power Is
plainly visible at one mile, and one
of three candle power at two miles.
The wreck record of the Baltic sea
is greater than that Of any part OF
the world Abe average Is one day
throughout the year.
The efficiency of the human heart
is greater than that Of any other piece
of machinery taking into confederation
the size. 1t pumps nearly eight tons
of blood daily.
| Nearly half Of the railroad mileage
of the world IS in the United States.
Eighty-seven per cent of the Can
madam farmers own their farms.
The Automobile club Of England
founded ten years ago, has $500
members.
Out of the $4,000 women in Aus
tralia qualified to vote, ia exercise
the right of franchise.