Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-07-17
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the best way is to say so.
S twenty-five newspapers in Kan
sas are edited by women.
T About two-thirds of the men Of
this country use tobacco.
e9- The total number of families in
the United States is 12,690,152.
b@ Over head and ears in debt-The
man who hasn't paid his halter.
s6 The troubles you are ashamed to
tell about are the hardest to bear.
R4 1t is said that four-fifths of all
the hail-storms occur in the daytime
Bag To remove paint from door.
plates, back up against it when it is
fresh.
pa' The first training school fol
teachers was organized in Prussia in
1875.
bH A man who falls off roof may
be accurately described as an caves
dropper.
B@ Some men are tried and trusted
while others are tried after being
trusted.
s9 When the tailor was asked
"How's trade ?" he answered, ooh
just sew-sew."
a6 Never laugh at a mans misfor.
tunes, but looking solemn isn't all you
can do to help him.
s6- If a woman says she has secret,
don't coax her to tell it, and she will
tell it to prove that she has one.
HE The queen of Siam has the small.
est feet yet seen on titled woman.
She wears one and a half in boots.
p9- One teaspoonful of ammonia to a
teacupful of water, applied with rag,
will clean silver or gold jewelry.
p@- The people of Joahpore are pro-
hibited by the Maharajah from wear
ing clothes made in foreign country.
n~ Annoy, in China, bears the un-
enviable reputation of being the dirtiest
and most unhealthful city on the
globe.
b9 Castor oil has not failed in any
case to remove warts to which it was
applied once a day for two to six
weeks.
R6~ 1t is stated that there are So
O0O,0OO volumes in the public libraries
in America, while there is but 81, ,O00,-
900 in Europe.
nag Trouble, and kin, and cats, are
about the only thing man can have
that other people don't try to get away
from him.
s9 Blobbs-A good deal depends on
your luck in whist. Waggins-Yes ;
but your good luck also depends on a
good deal.
B9r "Toby, what did the Israelites
do when they crossed the Red sea ?"
II dunno, but suppose they dried
themselves"
B| On clear night a red light can
be seen at a greater distance than a
white light; but on dark night the
reverse is the case.
B6" The colored Masons of Massa-
chusetts dedicated with great cere-
mony, a monument to the memory of
the founder of the first African lodge
of Masons in America, in Boston, re-
Gently.
B9~ The New York Sun fears that
churches will become extinct in that
city on account of the tendency to
consolidate congregations and build
expensive edifices encountered with
mortgages.
Hd- 1t is related as curious fact that
Paris, with population of nearly q
100000 souls, has less than 100 Ne
groes within its limits. Statisticians
say that the whole of France cannot
muster Negro population exceeding
SO.
BTr A freak of nature, large tree,
which possesses the characteristics of
pine and an oak, may be seen near
Ashburnham, Mass. In the fall Of the
year pine burs fall on one side, and
acorns on the other.
R9H The armies of the civilized ma
tions of the world number 100000
men. Besides the loss of their time
and labor, they cost at least $1,000
apiece, and that amounts to S3,6OO,-
100000.
p9- The fastest railway train in the
world is the Royal Blue Limited
Express from New York to Washing
ton: Its average speed is 52.S miles in
an hour, and it sometimes covers "A
miles in the same time.
s9 A tourist visiting an asylum
came upon one of the inmates wheel
ing a barrow upside down. "Why
are you wheeling the barrow upside
down 2" he asked. "Man," replied
the inmate, "d'ye think Am daft ?"
"But why do you do so ?" "If l wis
hurlin't tn RIGHT way they micht pit
something int
s6T The human skin is perforated by
at least 1000 holes in the space of each
square inch. For the sake of argu-
ment say there is exactly 1000 OF
these little drain bitches to each square
inch of skin surface. Now estimate
the skin surface Of the average sized
man at 16 feet square, and we find that
he has 100000 pores.
B9 A kitten became lodged in the fly
wheel or an enpine in Port land Or