Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-12
atausiae Gatherings.
R6e 1t is ignorance that delights in

controversy.
sd- 1t is the hasty word repressed
that makes speech golden.
p6T Most troubles will run when we
look them squarely in the face.
b@- Suicides in Paris average IL a
day in December and 1S day in June.
s6 In every occupation there is
but one safe rule, and that is always
to do ones best.
s@- There is nothing the devil makes
much more use of in this world than
a tattling tongue.
p@ biologists say that all known
species of wild animals are gradually
diminishing in size.
p8- If the good work that you have
done is not appreciated, your best
remedy is to do some other good work.
B@- One of the public schools of Ger
many, the Nau-Ruppin gymnasium,
has made it obligatory on all its pupils
to learn to ride the bicycle.
D6- The amount of vegetable growth
that is possible within given area is
80 great that the densest population
would be incapable of using it.
p6r Fast electric railroading is prom
ised on the new electric railway be-
tween Baltimore and Washington.
Sixty miles an hour is the speed aimed
at.
% A North sea codfisher carries a
set of lines 1900 fathoms in length,
and having the amazing number OF
1880 hooks, every one of which must
be baited.
p@ Observe what direction your
thoughts and feelings most readily
take when you are alone, and then
you will form tolerably correct opin-
ion of your real self.
s@- A curious fact about cigarette
smoking is that nearly double as many
cigarettes are smoked during July,
August and September as during any
other three months of the year.
p@ Twenty-four governments, in
cluding the United States, Japan,
China, Persia and nearly all the Euro
pean countries; have given official
notice that they will exhibit in Paris
in 1900.
p6 A glass of milk, to which has
been added raw egg beaten light, a
little sugar and grated nutmeg, will
relieve that condition of physical ex.
haustion 80 often experienced in sum-
mer weather.
p6r Men spend their lives in antici-
pations in determining to be vastly
happy at some period or other, when
they have time. But the present
time has one advantage over every
other, it is our own.
pH- A nurse girl in St. Louis was dis
charged without her wages. She took
the baby with her, and refused to tell
where it was until her wages were
paid, claiming that she had lien on
her former charge.
p4- Lemons are used for soap in
many countries where they grow.
When the men and women of the
West Indies want to wash their hands
they squeeze the juice of lemon over
them briskly in wafer until they are
clean.
p6r A household paper tells how "to
get grease out of white MARBLE" If
anybody wants grease, it would seem
as if an easier way would be to get it
from the dripping pan, after the roast
beef is done, suggests the Somerville
Journal.
p4 The illumination in the light
house at Cape de Heve, three miles
from Havre, is equal in power to %,
0O0,O candles. 1t is the most bril-
liant artificial light in the world, and
in clear weather can be seen at a dis
tance of IA miles.
b0 Swarms of grasshoppers are do
ing great damage to vegetation in
Michigan. The excited farmers say
that the choppers" will even eat the
fences when they can get nothing
else, and that they average so bushels
to the acre in some places.
p@ A school boys essay on the Faith
er Of His Country started out with
"George Washington licked the Brit
ish, was elected president of the United
States, and wore pants that didn't bag
at the knees" That seems to cover
nearly the whole ground.
b@ Father-Aha, so you ran away
from Sunday school to 60 to skating,
and broke through the ice, did you ?
Son-No, I didn't. fell asleep in
church and got locked in {! "But how
did you get so wei? ?" "That's from
the tears l shed when I walked up"
p@ In judging a mans conduct we
usually attribute to him the motives
which consciously or unconsciously
control our own conduct under like
circumstances. We can often find
out our real motives by observing the
motives which we attribute to Others
Bd~ School teacher to little boy
whose father is a liquor seller-Now
Johnny, suppose your father had q
barrel of whisky containing 40 gallons
and one-fourth of it leaks out, how
many gallons does he he lose? John
ny-He don't lose none. He fills il
|up again with water.
pJ Lawyer-And so you really
think, Bobby, of becoming a lawyer
when you grow up? Bobby-Yes
my Uncle James thinks I ought to be
a lawyer. "Does he, indeed. And
why does your Uncle James think so
because you are bright and smart p
"No, sir. Because I ask so many
fool questions"
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