Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-08
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they are told, just like the age of a wo-
man.
The Convention of the Bible Societies
of this State will be held in Abbeville, S. C.,
on Wednesday, 18th inst.
IA dispatch from Leavenworth says that
Denver intends to resign the Governorship of
Kansas after the August election.
"A sour fellow says that he always looks
under the marriage head for the news Of the
freak.
Mrs. Partington says she was much
elucidated last Sunday, on hearing a fine
concouse on the parody Of the prodigious
son.
-In Freeport, Illinois, they have a So
ciety called the "Auti- poke-your-uosc-into-
other.peoplo's-business society" That's a
good institution.
"A colt was recently foalediu Kentucky
which had but one eye, and that in the mid
die of the forehead. 1t was considerably
larger than the usual size.
There is a man iu Fife who has so
HIGH an opinion of himself, that he imagines
he is a church steeple. Being TOLD SO by the
BELLIES confirms him in the opinion.
"A little boy whose father was miserly
in his habits, took it upon himself to say
grace as follows: Four slices Of bread for
four of US; We bless the Lord there anti no
more of u.s.
"A man who married a Jewess, shortly
afterward Joined the temperance society, aud
never dared to kiss his wife from that day, be-
cause he considered himself prohibited by
the pledge from meddling with Jew-llp
(julips.)
a fellow walking through churchyard,
stumbled upon this inscriptin: 81 am not
dead, but sleeping" Disguised at what
seemed a manifest attempt to impose upon
travellers, he exclaimed "Well, if was
dead by thunder I'd W it"
- The Western waters we're very high
in '37. Seven years after in Al and in
seven years after in 81 and then again IN
'5S we have a great AoUd. The supelstitlous
can now exercise their talents upon the magi-
cal number seven. We are told that the In
dams of the West held such tradition also
ola seven years charlottesville Journal.
" We learn that Mr.. John Burke, black
smith, whose shop is opposite the residence
of Mr.. Joseph Winship, shod a mule one day
duringthe past week-cuttiug and making
from the bar four shoes, putting them on to
the animals hoofs-in the short space of
tweaty sepen minutes! Whocan beat that?-
Atlanta Amercian.
- Women require more sleep than men,
and farmers less than those engaged in any
othersoccupation. Editors, reporters and
ptinters need no sleep at all. Lawyers can
sleep as much as they choose, and thus keep
out of mischief. Clergymen can sleep TWEEN.
ty.four hours, and put their parish to sleep
once q week.
We learn from the Murfreesboro'
.Necs that a single grain of wheat produced
on the farm of Mr.. John W. Quarles, in
Rutherford county, Tenn, one hundred and
thirty.one stalks, each bearing a head Of
wheat. The largest head contained sixty
seven grains, the smallest six.-Chorteston
Courier.
DIR. R. r. Harrison, of Prince,George
county, Va, has taken pains to make some
careful examinations to ascertain whether corn
grows, as is generally supposed, more at night
than by day. August l, corn grew in twenty
four hours, five inches; at night one and a
half inches. August 2, it grew four and
se~venty-eighth inches; at night one and
seven-eights, and in the day three inches.
The amount of rain that has fallen
over a large portion of the United States in
six weeks, running from the lst of May to
the 18th of June, has scarcely a parallel
The Pittsburg Journal says the average of
observations will give about ten inches in
May, and five inches to the 18th of June, or
fifteen in forty-three days. These rains Go not
appear to have been local-but extend East
and West at least one thousand miles, and
North and South half that distance.
There is a tame rat on board the City
of Memphis, says the Appeal, which stands
up on his hind feet when ordered, licks his
masters's hand, and kisses him, climbs up
over him, holds a stick in his fore paw, and
stands up like soldier; comes when called,
goes away when told to do so, and enters his
box or cage as an obedieut child would do at
the request ofits parent. He seems pussess.
ed of an extraordinary degree of knowledge.
and divines his masters desire by a natural
instinct.
- Yesterday morning a little child in
this city commenced crying without any ap
parent cause, and kept it up until lateiu tn,
evening, when its cries were succeeded by
screams. The parents of the child looked
into it's mouth and discovered near its throat
o needle sticking into its tongue, in such a
p~osition that it was evident that it had come
from the stomach. The mother then re-
membered that a day or two before she had
giyen her work basket, containing a needle.
book, to the child to play with An examin-
alton revealed the fact that the needles were
gone. An emetic was given the child, aud
i has yomited several needles, from its
stomach, which may not be all. AT any rate,
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