Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14
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H@ There is a good deal of religion
in this world which has its origin in
liver complaint.
p@ Gossip has been we'll defined as
putting two and two together, and
making it five.
b@ There are not many men 80 good
that they can do right without first
having struggle.
t@ A Russian can plead infancy for
a long time, as he does not come of
age till he is 26 years old.
p9 Railways are like laundresses-
they have ironed the whole country,
and occasionally do little mangling.
r~ A horse will eat in year nine
times his own weight, COW nine times,
an OK six times and sheep six times.
p% We have noticed that the man
who has scheme for getting rich is
always looking for some one to sell it
to.
H9 Some men always prefer hard
work to a light job. They would
rather hold $50 pound girl than ID
pound baby.
p6 The longest bridge in America
is q trestle-work over portion of
Lake Ponchartrain. It is nearly 25
miles long.
r@ The first oil we'll was discovered
in Wayne county, Kentucky, in 1929,
20 wears before the discovery of oil in
Pennsylvania.
t@ When a married man buttons
his suspenders on eightpenny nails it is
sure evidence that he has been dis
appointed in love.
~ In the famous cellars of the
Hotel de Vile, at Bremen, there are
dozen cases of holy wine, which has
been preserved for $50 years.
p@ The great cantalever bridge at
Niagara Falls is entirely composed of
steel. 1t is $40 feet in length, weighs
5000 tons, and cost 100000.
p4 The white man lives longer in
the North than he does in the South,
and the Negro lives lorger in the
South than he does in the North.
p@ The Romans used the first shaw
ing brush and razor, B. c., 300, and
Pliny tells US that Scipio Africanus
was the first individual Roman to shave
daily.
R@ Horticulturists tell US that the
orange was originally pear-shaped
fruit about the size Of the common
wild cherry. Its evolution is due to
1900 years of cultivation.
s@ A Georgia justice has sign in
front of his office with the following
inscription upon it ave will marry
you in this shop for q load of wood, a
string of fish, mess of pork or bale
of cotton"
t4r A new religious sect has broken
out in Missouri, it's central magnet for
the allurement of worshipers being an
"angel" who makes periodical flights to
heaven and returns with messages for
the faithful believers.
t@ Anent the chance of death in
war, a carefully deducted calculation
at the battle of Solferino, bloody en-
gagement, shows that 700 bullets were
expended for every man wounded and
4,2OO for each man killed.
B9- There is Eureka, Kan, man
who runs large dry goods store, and
according to The Messenger, he pays
his saleswomen according to their ages.
Each woman gets as many dollars as
she has celebrated birthday annversa-
ries.
s~ In Dresden, an electric fire en-
CINE, using a power of 5000 volts, has
been constructed, whose pump is cap
able of throwing $50 cubic feet of
water per second. With a three
quarter inch nozzle it gives a height
of 100 feet.
s9 A dollar put on interest at 5 per
cent. will pay itself back in dividends
in 20 years. A young man who at 20
years of age puts by 81, will have it
back again at 40 and the original 81
besides. A dollar saved at 20 is worth
50 saved at 40.
sas- The custom ofwriting "Present,"
"Addressed," "Kindness Of" and
"Favored by" on letters sent BY pri-
vate messengers is said to be going
out of fashion. The name of the per-
son, the street and number are now
all that is usually written.
p4 A queer freak of nature at Read
ing, Mich, is a calf that is part sheep.
The animal is fully developed, the
body and legs being all that a we'll
regulated calf could ask for, but the
head is that of a sheep, and the entire
body is covered with heavy coat of
coal. black wool.
sa- European ladies are often invited
to the harems of the rich Moors of
Morocco. Some time ago, one of the
inmates, beautiful young girl, tainted
at the sight Of one of the lady visitors
removing her gloves. The young lady
thought she was removing thick skin
from her hand.
s@ Kangaroos are often hunted with
dogs-huge, powerful creatures, OBJ
tanned by a cross between a mastiff
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