Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-08
Mjausiaf Gatherings.

Ha~ It is claimed that fresh lettuce
eaten at night will cure insomnia.
gGT He that does not produce as
much as he consumes is deadhead to
society.
p6. 1t is bad manners to be more
polite to your neighbor's wife than to
your own.
s9- Oranges and lemons will keep
we'll if hung in a wire net in cool and
airy place.
R9 Spain has authorized the issue of
paper money to the amount of $12,-
600, 900 to continue the Cuban war.
s8 The best time to water plants is
late in the evening after thoroughly
stirring the soil.
s@ A trained mind, a firm will, a
good heart, a sound body-these lead
to broad and certain success.
Bd- 1t costs four times as much to
govern American cities as is spent for
the same purpose in Great Britain.
p@ Gussy-Why do you persistently
wear the hair of some other woman on
your head? Beatrice-For the same
reason that you wear the skin of an
other calf on your feet.
nag It is worth while to know when
preparing for the canning of fruit that if
the old rubber rings are put into weak
amonia water they will regain their
elasticity.
nag A patent granted in the United
States for an invention which was pre-
viously patented in foreign country
will be so limited in time as to expire
with the foreign patent.
B6 Some church people shout them
selves hoarse in a political campaign,
but when a religious campaign opens
they are so very "conscientiously op-
posed to exeitement-it hurts the good
work."
s6 The pavement in front of the
William H. Vanderbilt residence in
New York city cost over $40, 900.
The single stone lying directly in
front is the largest known paving
stone, and cost, transportation and all,
So, 1000.
s@- 1t has been discovered by two
French scientists that most precious
stones, such as the ruby, the sapphire
and the emerald can readily be told
from their limitations by means of the
Roentgen rays.
p4- No machine of travel that man
ever invented can equal the speed of
wild fowls. The canvas back duck
flies two miles minute. The broad
bill goes slightly slower. Teal can fly
at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and
the wild goose about 80.
s9- A critic dropped into studio in
Paris one day, stopped before a por-
trait of lady on the easel, and re-
marked, "But why did you take such
an ugly model ?" cit is my mother"
calmly replied the artist. "Oh, par
don-a thousand times !" said the crit
ic in great confusion; "you are right,
I ought to have perceived it. The re-
semblance is quite striking"
pGe A human skull, with red incan-
descent bulbs in the eye sockets, is the
device with which the police lieuten-
ant Of a Chicago station scares culprits
into making confessions. He darkens
the room when he has prisoner in
the ssweat-box," and turns on the
lights in the skull, producing grew
some effect and confession in nearly all
cases.
r6' James Northrup of Anamosa,
Ia, who has suffered with asthma, got
up one night last week, dressed him
self in clean raiment, combed his hair
and then lay down again. Calling his
wife, he told her he was going to die,
and wanted to be buried just as he
was. He went to sleep and in less
than 80 minutes was a corpse.
ad- The rapid manner in which GER
tain modern churns convert cream into
butter is one of the wonders of the
dairying age. Butter can now be made
while the breakfast table is being laid,
five or six minutes being all the time
needed to churn, while in few minutes
the butter can be made up and brought
to the table.
H9" The latest thing in ancestral
societies in New York is an association
to be known as the Holland Danes.
The other societies are not exclusive
enough for the promoters of the new
organization, who propose to limit their
membership to 100, and no person
whose Dutch ancestor had not landed
in New York prior to 100 is eligible.
Nor is this all. 1t is set forth that the
ancestors must have been PERSONS of
"promiuenee" on Manhattan island at
that date.
H4 A church at Winside, Neb., rent
ed and planted to wheat 60 acres of
land, the crop to be sold for the benefit
of the church, and the example has
been followed by another church at
Wayne, in the same state, the latter
having rented farm near the village
on which wheat, corn and garden
truck will be grown to lift debt of
several hundred dollars on the church
property. Other churches are expect
ed to adopt the same plan.
H6 In Michigan two towns--Decatur
and Marcellus- to be under femi-
nine control. In the former town,
which has population of 1,500, all
the town officers are said to be women.
The leading physician of the town is
woman one of the most popular pas
tors in the town is woman. Two