Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-13
ajauside Gatherings.

~ If your heart Is wrong, your lie
will be wrong.
s@ Four crops year can be raised
from Cuban soil.
/ s@ An obstinate man does not hold
opinions, but they hold him.
p@ Endeavor to be perfect in the
calling in which you are engaged.
p@ Nothing but love to God can con
uuer the love of the world.
t6T 1t is estimated that the output o.
gold in Alaska last year amounted to
100000.
p6r If you want your life to be q
success, never be found opposing the
truth.
pdT Tables wear casters on their feet,
and men wear castors both on heads
and hands.
p% No common man, however wise
can be received as an infallible guide
for all men.
R9- No man ever believed. that q
crying baby belonged as much to him
as to its mother. ,
~ When we are alone we have our
thoughts to watch in family, our tenn
pers in society, our tongues.
p@ If you want man to think you
are smart you have only to make him
think you think he is smart,
snT The best paid official in the
British service is the lord lieutenant
of Ireland, who receives 100000 9
year.
p@ A salt vein, 300 feet, thick, said
to be the richest in the world, has
been found under the town o. Little
River, Kan.
p~ According to the beliefs of the
Arizona Indians, the cliff fdwellers built
along the bluffs because they feared
another deluge.
p% The cycles in use in the French
army are to be provided with an cleo
trio light, which can be turned on and
off at will.
l@ Ancient coins, many of which
antedate the Christian era, are made in
large quantities in London, and are
sold all over the world.
s@ Strange bed warmers are used by
Chillian women. In cold weather
when in bed, they keep their feet
warm by placing them on dog.
@ He who tells lie is not sensible
how great task he undertakes; for he
must be forced to invent 20 more to
maintain one.
~ A poet asks, "What is warmer
than a woman's love?" We infer that
he never picked up newly coined
horseshoe fresh from the forge.
p@- The Scotch have the heaviest
average brain weight-5Go ounces. The
Eskimos of East Greenland have the
lightest-43.9 ounces.
p6 When a snake sheds his skin the
skin of the eye comes off with the rest
Translucent in most parts, the skin
over the snakes eye is perfectly
transparent.
s@ According to Galton, the patterns
on the finger-tips are not only un'
changeable through life, but the chance
of the finger prints oftwo persons being
alike is less than one in $4,000, 900, ,0OO
p6- "It's hotter than" began the
deacon, when the minister interrupted
him with mS-h.h." But the deacon
wouldn't be blufed. "Its hotter than
yesterday" he added.
S@ 1t is surprising, when we come
to think about it, how many laws
enacted for the public good are Gun
constitutional" while all the bad laws
seem to be without flaw.
s@ Professor (about to start on bis
wedding trip bids his parents farewell
then to his young wife)-Good-by, dear
Good-by, dear. "What! Are you say
ing good-by to me, too?" "Why,
that's so, you are going with mel"
sg II want to buy makeup box, u
said the young married man. "a
makeup box ?" echoed the confection.
er. "We don't keep theatrical sup
plies" mean a box of candy to take
home to my wife; promised to be
home three hours ago."
p@ The jury system of Louisiana is
little different from that of other
States. In civil cases, 9 of the II
jurors are all that is necessary to re-
turn a verdict, instead of the whole
number of 12. An effort is being made
to have the same rule apply to crimi'
nal cases.
s% An Argonaut contributor writes
from Lower California that he has
been down on the gulf coast, where he
went in a Chinese junk commanded
by Dutch captain to examine Mex
lean mine for an English company
and that on the trip his Irish cook
drank up all the Scotch whisky.
s9 Weeds along railroad tracks are
now killed by the "electric weedkil'
ler." 1t consists of car carrying a
dynamo which sends heavy current
into a rake of fine wires dragging
among the weeds on each side of the
track. As the wires touch them, the
weeds are "electrocuted" down to
their smallest rootlets. 1t is proposed
| +o ;ntrodnoo tho same system in farm.