Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-17
af'auside 6athrrings.

listening to.
~ A hair'em-scare'em thing-the
tomahawk.
saT God turns from US only when we
turn from him.
aT A quarter of Scotland is owned
by IL persons.
pG How to raise beets-take hold of
the tops and pull.
s9 Wild birds do not sing more than
s or 10 weeks in the year.
R9 Fifteen of the As pensioners of
the war of 1912 are over 100 years
old.
s9- Working will make sweet wine
sour: it is the same with mems dlspo-
sitions.
nag The wheelbarrow dealer has no
trouble keeping his goods before the
people.
s6 There is only one time when you
know exactly what man is: when be
is dead.
p9 Why is a four quart measure like
a lady's side saddle? Because it holds
gallon.
H9- Better wear coarse clothes your
self, than dress your house up in slick
mortgage.
p9" Nothing keeps a man from
knowledge and wisdom like thinking
he has both.
s@ Mail bags can now be taken on
and delivered from trains running 6o
miles an hour.
s9- A real sign of a worthless man is
one who knows of chances to get rich
in some other town.
a1r Having fun is like buying cat
fsh-after you have cut the head OH,
there is not much left.
s@ About all some men do is to
spend their time getting ready to do
something they never do.
a9r 1t is no secret among Mr.. Edi-
sons neighbors that the electric bell
on his front door won't work.
s@ If you get mad, 60 to the looking
glass and watch yourself growl, and
see how quick you will quit it.
p1 1t is every busy mans theory
that he could really do something great
if he had day in which he had moth
ing to do.
@ A pinch of salt dropped in the
reservoir of lamp where kerosene is
burned gives the light a wonderful
brilliancy.
n6- A French writer says: "The sea-
sons in London are equally divided
there are four months of winter, four
of fog, and four of rain"
p6- There is nothing more truly in
sinuating and defferential than the
waggle of little dogs tail in the pres
ence of big dog with bone.
p@- A sugar Is times sweeter than
cane sugar and 20 times sweeter than
beet sugar has been extracted from
cotton-seed meal by German chemist.
nG During the past ~ years nearly
10000 miles of narrow-gauge railroad
have either been converted to standard
gauge, or abandoned entirely in the
United States.
n6- Father-It is the early bird that
catches the worm. Charles-That's
so but it is the little birds that stay
at home sleeping in the nest that get
the worm 10 eat.
Bd- In the reign of Queen Elizabeth
if bad fish were sold to the poor, the
fshmonger was decorated with neck
lace ofhis unsavory commodity, and
then perched on a stand in the market.
p9- Sir Benjamin Richardson, a not
ed English physician, thinks that the
normal period of human life is about
10 years, and that 7 out of 10 average
people ought to live that long, if they
took proper care of themselves.
R9- The Egyptians believed that the
soul lived only as long as the body en-
dured; hence their reason for embalm-
ing the body to make it last as long as
possible. 1t is estimated that altogeth-
er there are 40O,000,000 mummies in
Egypt.
p9- Mr.. Edison, the great electrician,
receives many amusing letters. Not
long ago he was startled by an epistle
from a Western damsel asking him if
he could not invent an electrical con-
trivance that would enable her to see
the face of her future husband.
H9> Augustus Dickens, brother of the
famous novelist, emigrated to this coun-
try and lived and died in Chicago. He
was clerk in the Illinois Central otfi-
ce, and turned out idle, intemperate
and thriftless. His brother never
recognized him after he deserted his
wife.
B@ The best briar root from which
pipes are made comes from the bor-
ders Of Italy and France. In the
mountainous districts of these coun-
tries roots are dug out that have grown
for ages, and are sometimes larger than
anan's body, weighing hundreds OF
pounds.
B@- The impetuous bravery of the
Japanese, their patriotic eagerness to
face the greatest perils, is to a large
o,.,oa. 1,,o to tb.;r 70 o1icfio heliaf IT.