Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-04
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p6 A noble part of every true life is
to learn to undo what has been wrong
ly done.
sdT The Japanese carpenter can hold
a plank with his toes, and draw his
plane toward him.
s6 The tomato crop in Oregon this
year is enormous. One factory alone
has canned five tons day.
p@ A duck having four wings, two
tails, and four legs was recently shot by
a hunter off the coast of Maine.
p9 The longest recorded hair grow
ing on the female head was eight feet.
The longest recorded beard was - feet.
aE One of the most curious inven-
tions on exhibition at the Mechanics
Fair, in Boston, is an augur that bores
a square bole.
p9 A novel and simple cure for
headache is announced. 1t is for the
sufferer to walk backward for about
ten minutes.
p6 Hold in grateful remembrance
those who have done you good turn
try to forget those who have done you
wrong.
B1 There are now 25 women in
Chicago who are practicing lawyers,
and Is more will soon be admitted to
the bar.
e@ The population of the world
averages 100 women to every 100 men.
Eight-ninths of the sudden deaths are
those of males.
p9 1t is estimated that over 120, ,OO0,-
900 people speak the English language.
And the trouble is that they all want to
speak it at once.
s@ Twenty-Five per cent. of all the
babies born in Russia die before they
are a year old, and AZ per cent. do not
reach the age of four.
B9 A Frenchman has invented a
bicycle that can be taken apart, packed
in a valise, and carried, it is claimed,
with ease and comfort.
B9 1t is an interesting fact that while
the new Rhode Island State capitol in
Providence is to be built of Georgia
marble, the Georgia State House is
built of Indiana marble.
@ The hottest mines in the world
are the Comstock. On the lower levels
the heat is so great that the men can
not work over 10 or Is miutes at "a time.
Ice melts before it reaches the bottom
of the shafts.
s9.It is said that in the future
fremen's clothes in England will be
made of asbestos or mineral wool.
1t is non-combustible, a non -conduc-
tor of heat, and is in no way injured
by water.
p9- There are now over 200, 900 words
in the English language acknowledged
by the best authorities, or about 10000
more than in the German, French,
Spanish and Italian languages COM
bined.
e@ "If it were not for drunkenness,
there would be no crime in Ireland at
all. As it is, there is no crime which
does not arise out of that evil" says
Archbishop Croke of that country.
S8- Probably very few sons and
daughters know that in using the word
Dad they are speaking the purest
Welsh. The opening words of the
Lords prayer, in Welsh, are "Ein
Dad"
s4 Do not let the freezing weather
catch you without having the horses
we'll shod, for if the heel and toe corks
have worn smooth down to the shoe,
there is great danger in using the
horses on icy ground.
R6r Oklahoma has an estimated
population of 275,0O0 and its tax
able property, now amounting to
$4O,OOO,0O0 has doubled within the
past year. Arizona, on the other
hand, has a white population Of but
677, 900, and its taxable property but
barely holds its own.
s6- In 1918 postage rates in the
United States were: "Single letters,
by land, 40 miles, cents; 80 miles, 10
cents; $50 miles, 124 cents; 800 miles,
II cents; 500 miles, 20 cents; over 500
miles, 25 cents; double letters, twice
the single rates, one ounce at the rate
of four single letters"
s9r During the last 40 years Senator
John Sherman has been private citi-
zen only one day. While this is quite
a good record for oficeholding, Sena-
tor Morrill,, of Vermont, has a better
one. He entered the house in 1855
with Senator Sherman, and since that
date has not lost a single hour of office
holding.
sS" A musician, brought to despair
by the playing of lady in a room
above his own, met her one day in the
hall with her three-year-old child,
and said in most friendly manner:
"Your little one there plays remarka-
bly, we'll for her age. l hear her prac-
tice every day."
bB At an evening entertainment in
one of our country parishes recently,
stranger was conversing with the
minister's wife, not knowing her per-
sonally, and asked, innocently, 'Do
YOU like YOUR minister as we'll as ever ?"