Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-18
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B Ihe hrSt use OF b lOComoViNo III
this country was in 1919.
pdS Brokers and BARRIERS are given
to shavings, and carpenters to making
them.
nag Massachusetts has declared for
annual elections by nearly $4,000 ma
jority.
paF Know thyself and keep the in.
formation to thyself. This is good
advice.
p9 How few women can tell story
we'll. This does not apply to conven-
tional white fbs:
r@ Where the woolen mills employ
about $50 people, the cotton mills
usually employ some 800.
p4 In Paris it has been decided that
rambling on the part of wife consti'
tutes sufficient grounds for divorce.
p@ If you count the sunny and
cloudy days of the whole year, you
will find that the sunny ones pre-
dominate.
p@ Willie (reading)-Pa, what is q
prevaricating minion of beelzebub
"a man who disagrees with you polit-
ically, my son."
n@ Every wind that blows is caused
by the heated and expanding air Of
some locality rising, while. the cooler
air rushes in to fill its place.
s@ There are a great many stories
that have no foundation. But when
it comes to building houses, the more
stories the better the foundation must
be.
n4 When real New York boy
wishes to say that man is extremely
extravagant, he expresses himself this
way: "He has money to burn and
carries matches"
p@ The recent report of the com
missioner of education gives statistics
showing that there are 100000 women
schoolteachers in this country, to 122,-
900 men teachers.
s@ Bride (on shipboard at sea in 9
storm I feel so sick my dear, and if ]
should die and they bury me here,
you'll sometimes come and plant flow
ers on my grave, won't you darling?
n@ Irate Customer want my
money back. Cycle Dealer-What
for? "You said this was high grade
wheel; but find that in climbing hills
the higher the grade the harder it is to
ride"
p8 A doctor declares that four or
anges eaten every day are effective in
removing the craving for intoxicants.
One should be eaten before breakfast,
and one each at II a. M, 8 p. M, and
6 p.m m. 49,.
g1 "Is it true that when a wild
goose's mate dies it never takes an
other?" asks a young widow. ayes,
but don't worry about that. The rea-
son it acts that way is because it is a
goose"
B@ You are over 40 why don't. you
marry because do not care to
marry an elderly woman, while a
young girl would be foolish to marry
me, and do not care to marry fool,
ish girl"
B@ White frost is the ordinary fro
zen dew or hoar frost. Black frost
occurs when the cold is so intense as
to freeze vegetation and cause it to
turn black without the formation oi
hoar frost.
B9- Bigamists in Hungary are com
PEELED to submit to an odd punish,
ment. The man who has been silly
enough to marry two wives is legally
forced to live with both of them, in
the same house.
B6r On his return from tour which
he had been making with his master
in Switzerland, servant, being asked
what he had seen, replied: "Oh, one
can't see anything. There's nothing
but mountains everywhere"
a6 Women have better perception
of color than men. An eminent au'
thority on color blindness asserts that
under very severe test the color Wis
ion of man in is defective, while ir
women the average is in 80.
b6r Nearly three minutes are re-
quired to bring big steamer, like the
Etruria, to a full stop; and in thai
time she will have advanced almost
half a mile from the place she was
when the first movements were made
to stop her.
a@ I never had any faith in luck al
all, except that I believe good luck will
carry a man over a ditch, if he jump:
we'll, and put bit of bacon into hi:
pot, if he looks after his garden and
keeps pig. Luck generally comes to
those who look after it, and my notior
is it taps once in a lifetime at every
body's door, and if industry does no
open it away it goes.-Spurgeon.
pJ- A Kansas girl, the daughter of
Greenwood county rancher, was sen
east to school this fall. "What do yor
know, my child?" the head teacher
asked her. "Oh, farming" the new
pupil replied. "Well, tell me what il
a farm ?" GA farm is body of lane
surrounded by barb-wire fence" tht
little maid said.
p@~ A man went home the othe>
night and found his house locked up
After infinite trouble, he managed tt
gain and entrance through back win
dow, and then discovered on the table
a note from his very thoughtful wife
reading: 81 have gone out. You ma.
find the key on the side of the step
R9@ Who knows not, and knows no
that he knows not, is fool-shul