Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-26
atjausiae Gatherings.

r@r The food an elephant eats in cap
tivity costs about $25 week.
p6r It is the custom in England to
put salt on strawberries when eating
them.
sr Artemus Ward defines war as
hard tack for all soldiers, and hard
taxes for the citizens,
p@ In Colorado there are ruins 500
wears old on which are rude scuip-
lures of horses.
p6r The man who marries a talka.
ative woman to reform her, will find
she will have something to say about
it.
p% "Uncle Bob, what is pedestri-
an ?" "Why, he's the fellow who
makes a row when a bicycle runs over
him."
I@- An aluminium boat for sports
mems use has been made. 1t weighs
but 80 pounds, is IA feet long and will
carry two people.
p% And now comes forward an EN-.
ployee in one of the bicycle works Of
Buffalo, and declares that a hundred
dollar wheel is made for $3.50 cents.
p6 Slight repairs to the stone wall
at the bloody angle, Gettysburg, made
the other day, uncovered over 100
bullets, pieces of shell, parts of gun,
etc.
s@ A North sea cod6sher carries a
set of lines 1900 fathoms in length,
and having the amazing number OF
1880 hooks, every one of which must
be baited.
.D% A Thorndike, Mass, man has a
young kitten which is quite a curiosi.
ty. It has two distinct bodies, eight
legs, no tail and head which looks
strangely human.
S@ A New Haven young lady has a
remarkable throat. She has a whist
ling larynx, and can whistle without
the use of her lips. Few cases of this
kind are ever known.
D6F The county clerk of Fresno,
CAL, is puzzled. A will written in the
classic Chinese of Confucius and
Mencius has been filed for record, and
he is at loss how to transcribe it into
the book kept for that purpose.
S@ Arbor day was celebrated in
Nebraska by the planting of over
], 600, 900 trees between sunrise and
sunset. Premiums for the largest
paintings were offered by societies and
individuals.
s@ Some 80 expeditions have set
out under the control of various ma
tions, to explore the Arctic regions,
dating from the days of Sebastian
Cabot to the present time.
t% Mrs. Westside-Your husband
got in at O'Clock this morning,
and yet you say he is man Of regu-
lar habits. Mrs. Elmore-Certainly.
1t is his regular habit to get home at
8 o'clock.
p& The New York Sun has discov-
cred that the new woman has existed
at least since the Seventeenth century
Further investigation might show
that she has been on deck ever since
the world began.
IeT 1t is proposed to send 10000 un-
married women from Eastern Canada
to British Columbia for the purpose of
supplying the demand for wives. The
same thing was done once by France
for the benefit of the preponderant
bachelors of Eastern Canada, and the
result was entirely satisfactory.
r6 Tom Paine's creed: 81 believe
in one God and no more, and hope
for happiness beyond this life. 1 be.
lieve in the equality of man; and 1
believe that religious duties consist in
doing justice, loving mercy, and en-
deavoring to make our fellow-creatures
happy"
p@ Indianapolis's cooperative laun-
dry is being enlarged. The stockhold-
ers are all women who work in the
laundry. Each person is paid 80
much a week for service, and any sur.
plus above paying such wages and
keeping up current expenses goes into
the surplus fund.
s8 We once read the story of an
Englishman who hanged himself be-
cause they had brought his tea with
out sugar. There are hours in life
when the most trifling cross takes the
form of a calamity. Our tempers are
like an opera-glass which makes the
object small or great, according to the
end you look through.
D@ The mother asked little Dot to 60
into the next room and see if the clock
was running, for she had not heard it
strike all the afternoon. Dot came
running back, put her curly head
into the door and exclaimed: "Why,
no mamma, de clock amt a-runnin'.
1t is des standing still and a-waggin'
its tall"
p8 To read an inscription on sill
yer coin which, by much wear, has
become wholly obliterated, put the
poker in the fire; when red hot, place
the coin upon it, and the inscription
will plainly appear as the coin cools.
This method was formerly practiced