Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-19
atjausiae Gatherings.

| it represents somebody's hard work.
~ Teacher-how many months
have % days in them? Tommy-All
of 'em.
s~ Over !, ,25O, 900 acres of the earth's
surface is devoted to the cultivation OF
tobacco.
saE Marrying into. family does not
carry with it the right to criticize its
members.
R@ 1t has been stated that murder
is committed in Italy every two hours
on the average.
s@ Fully one.third of the land in
Great Britain is owned by members OF
the house of lords.
H@ Anthracite coal, from China, is
sold in California, und is crowding out
the Pennsylvania product.
Rd- Wisconsin has 1000 creameries,
and produces one-sixth of the cheese
made in the United States.
| s6T Saturn is 9O6,OOO,OO0 miles from
the sun, and it takes nearly 80 years
to complete it's revolution.
p6F When terrified, the ostrich trav.
els at the rate of 25 miles an hour, and
clears 12 to IA feet at stride.
n6r George Washington's plantation
on the Potomac river, south of Wash
ington city, originally contained 5000
acres.
p6r If thou woulds't find much favor
and peace with God and man, be very
low in thine own eyes. Forgive thy
self little and others much.
p@ A lady in Bath, Maine, carried
$50 in her stocking, deeming that a
safe place. While running for street
car, her garter broke, and she lost the
money.
p6- The Lord made the world and
rested; he made man and rested, and
then he made mista ke-and made q
woman. Since then nobody has had
any rest.
s6- Spain has more sunshine than
any other country in Europe. The
yearly average in Spain is 5000 hours ;
that of Italy, $500; Germany, LOO; ;
England, 1,4O0.
p8- When q 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"
p8r Of the 81 who graduated in
medicine recently, from the University
of Buffalo, three We're women, two of
them being in the honor roll and one
heading the list.
p4- A Negro preacher who has been
carrying on a protracted meeting, was
asked how he got on with the meeting.
"First rate" said he; "I made 70 con.
victs the first night"
p6r Lulu and Flossie Sloppy, of St..
Joseph county, Michigan, are sisters,
aged, respectively, sixteen and four
teen years. Lula weighs 435 pounds,
and her sister 425 pounds.
D@- In Brazil at the funeral of an un-
married woman, the mourning color is
scarlet. The coffin, the hearse, the
trappings of the horses, and the livery
of the driver, are all scarlet.
p@r In York county, Me-, is said to
be tree that grew up through the hole
in the centre of grindstone, and now
bears the stone aloft, hanging, as it
were, about the neck of the tree.
s@- When Morocco's sultan decides
to marry, the whole country becomes
shrouded in gloom, as every subject
must contribute a wedding present.
The sultan is about to take a second
wife, and much discomfort is reported.
p9~ Bigamists in Hungary are COM
PEELED to submit to an odd punishment.
The man who has been silly enough
to marry two wives is legally forced
to live with both of them, in the same
house.
s@" The war with Mexico COM
menced April "a, 1916, and ended
July 4, 1S4S, having continued two
years, two months and ten days. The
number of United States troops en-
gagged was 1920.
p9- The home of Mrs. Mary Lease,
the noted populist politician and lee
turer, will be sold under the sheriff's
hammer, January 6, to satisfy a 81, 100
mortgage. Ifthe money is paid before
that time, the house, of course, will be
released.
sd- Three policemen in Brooklyn
station-house had quarrel about q
sandwich, which one of them stole
from another, and surreptitously ate.
Fists and clubs were freely used. The
police commissioner fined each of them
$50. They want no more sandwiches
at that price.
p6~ An untamed swallow, which had
it's nest in a farm near Chetwind, in
Shropshire, was caught and taken in
cage to London, where it was releas-
ed. 1t returned to its nest in 80 min
utes, having accomplished distance
of 145 miles at the rate Of nearly two
miles minute.
s9~ "Well," remarked the wife of
the man who had changed his mind
about going to congress, "you have a
clear conscience, anyhow" 81 know
that" was the comfortless reply, "but