Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-05
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H@ Few women believe in putting
off until tomorrow the worrying which
can just as we'll be done today.
s% "Johnny," asked the teacher
"what must we do before our sins vii
be forgiven ?" "Sin," replied Johnny
p@ After woman is IS, she ceases
to prevaricate about her age, and be-
gins to tell how young her children
are.
p@ Observation-Disclosures is
the name applied to an antiseptic late
|ly discovered in Germany. 1t speaks
for itself.
p9 Mamma-What did you hit
your little sister for, Robbie? Rob.
bie-Well, mamma, she's so burned
good 1 couldn't help it.
p@ "If 1 thought was going to be-
come gray, I know should die !" ex'
claimed Miss Sprinkle. And when
she turned gray, she did dye, sure
enough.
p9r "I've had so much brain work
to do" said Mr.. Funsmith, "that !
haven't been able to sleep for three
nights-last night, tonight and tomor-
row night"
p@ An Office cat served as stew
was the meal eaten by three election
bet losers at Louisville, KY, last week.
One became sick and his repast ended
with catsup.
D6~ As result of an election bet in
Kansas on Bryan, Farmer Doolittle,
city editor of the Wichita Beacon, will
be compelled to count a bushel of bird
shot, one by one.
sdr Custer county is one of the great
est in it's stock growing interest in all
Montana. 1t has SO cattle, 81 horses
and 80 sheep for every man, woman
and child in it.
s6S Uncle Sam is slow about paying
his debts. Last week, DR.. Samuel
Bell of Beloit, Wis, got a check for
$12 due him for debt occurring in
army service 81 years ago.
s6 The authorities of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, of Baltimore, have
built a cold-storage room in which
dead bodies will be kept for the uss of
medical colleges in winter.
D@ The street cars of Buffalo have
commenced running by electric power
furnished by Niagara Falls, 81 miles
away. The transmission was very
successfully accomplished.
s~ A big Yankee from Maine, on
paying his bill in a London restaurant,
was told that the sum put down didn't
include the waiter. "Wal," he roared,
~ didn't eat any waiter, did II"
r@ "What are you crying for, little
girl ?" because my brother keeps
pinching me-" "And why do you
pinch your sister all the time, little
boy ?" because she keeps crying"
p@ Thirty-fve sovereigns have as
cended the throne since the time Of
William the Conquerer, every month
except May witnessing the coronation
of one or more that month not one.
p~ Queen Victoria has been queen
of Great Britain during the admins
trations of Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler,
Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buch-
anan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
Garfield, Arthur, Harrison and Cleve-
land.
g9 With the assistance of the latest
machines a piece of leather can be
transformed into pair of boots in "a
minutes, in which time it passes
through the hands of 63 people and Is
machines.
pEF The ancient copper mines of
Sinai have just been re-opened. These
were worked by the Egyptians or their
slaves, 1000 years ago, and are be-
lieved to have been abandoned about
5000 years ago.
s9r A young lady of Springfield, at
woman suffrage meeting, remarked {:
"Mr. Foster said there wasn'ta woman
in the hall who hadn't as much right
to be called man as he had and I
think so, too ~
n@ A party of 80 persons can sit
down comfortably in the dining room
of the Cars yacht. There is also a
library, music room and billiard
room, and all the kitchen arrangements
are most elaborate and complete.
H~ Everybody is familiar with the
music of the katydid. 1t is the male
that has the voice. At the base of
each wing cover is thin membraneous
plate. He elevates the wing covers
and rubs the two plates together.
H6 1t is so hard to impress some peo-
pie A citizen who had spent half
hour in contemplation of the two
headed girl, on being asked to tell all
about his experience, had only this to
say "They seem to be very much at
tached to each other"
aaT A bill has been introduced in the
general assembly of Alabama seeking
to make it unlawful for any woman
to wear any article of mems clothing
or any costume that appeals to the
passions of men. The bill specifically
prohibits the wearing of bloomers,
tights, divided skirts, and shirt waists.
s9 Among the things of curious in