Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-17
atausiae Gatherings.

one that you didn't really need to con-
tract.
pdn There are some men who seem to
exert all their bodily powers in violat-
ing the law, and their mental ones in
eluding it.
s@ Every girl believes that most OF
the married women she knows are un-
happy. Yet, for all that, she is willing
to experiment.
HH- A recent realistic novelist speaks
of red-handed jealousy. Jealously
with green eyes, red hands and blue
necktie ought to be something ter,
rible.
H9- "a great war;" a German pro
verb says, "leaves the country with
three armies-an army of cripples, an
army of mourners and an army OF
thieves"
p9- II wonder why the widows al
ways get the best of the race for hus-
bands ?" asked the fool young man.
"They are faster, I guess" replied
Miss Ann Shent.
s@- There are IL counties in Kansas
each of which are nearly as large as
the State of Rhode Island, and the
area of one, Butler county, exceeds
Little Rhody nearly 200 square miles.
p@r Gray hairs at an early age are
hereditary in certain families. 1t is a
result, as rule, of men af dark hair
marrying women with dark hair
through several generations.
sI A little 5-year old, whose mother
had used 10 cents from his savings
fund, last evening stumped his father
with the remark: spa, you owe me 10
cents; your wife took that much from
me-"
H6 Edison calls his newest invention
the 'sfluoroscope," by means of which,
in conjunction with a Crooke's tube,
the whole interior economy of the hu-
man body may be made visible to the
eye.
D@ Europe's population has increased
by 29,92S,O 600 in the last ten years,
nearly half of the increase, II, 900,
being in Russia, while France has re-
mained stationary, her total increase
being only $1,000.
p@- In the Norwegian town of Hau-
gesund, which has a population of
sixty-two hundred, not drop of splr-
ituous liquor has been sold for twenty
nine years. Many of the inhabitants
have never tasted liquor.
p9 About one-third Of the area of the
United States consists of vacant pub
lie land. Most of this vast area lies
within the dry districts of the West,
ia which section two-thirds of the
land is still unoccupied.
pdF "E. S. c." is what a church So
ciety whose object is to secure new
carpet for the church calls itself. Its
pertinence may be gathered when it
is told that these mysterious initials
represent the words, "Every Stitch
Counts"
R@ Camel's flesh is the latest addi-
ton to the Partisan bill of fare, Alge-
rian butchers undertaking to provide
the supply. The meat is said to taste
like beef, though white like veal. The
hump is considered great delicacy by
the Arabs.
sH "They have queer hotels in Ore
gon," said Artemus Ward. IL re-
member one where they gave me bag
of oats for pillow I had night mares,
of course. In the morning the land
lord said: How do you feel, old boss
hay?' l told him left my oats"
sF "How did you happen to join
the Independent Rifes?" "To avoid
jury duty" "They tell me you re-
signed just as soon as there was pros
pect of war;" "That was because l
felt that no good citizen should shirk
the demands of the jury box"
B9 Sawdust is turned into transpor-
table fuel in Germany by very SIM
pie process. 1t is heated under high
steam pressure till the resinous ingre-
dients become sticky, when it is pressed
into bricks. One man with two-horse-
power machine can turn out nine thou
sand bricks day.
s6~ In hotels, restaurants and cafes
men can generally be classified by the
names which they will give to the
menu. Thus: A railroad man calls for
schedule. A theatrical man for a
programme. A drummer for price
list. A gambler unconsciously asks,
whats the layout?" A tailor, for
q joke, says, "Take my measure"
A doctor asks for formula.
Bag A small boy who had heard a
good deal Of conversation on the
progress of civilization went to his
grandfather and said, "Grandpa, tell
me what is the difference between
civilization and barbarism ?" "Bar-
barism, my boy, is killing your enemy
with a hatchet a distance of a step !;
civilization is killing him with bomb
shell ~ miles away"
B9r The young man who had travel
ed began: "And there I stood, the
abyss yawning at my feet" "Was it
yawning before you got there or did it
begin after you arrived ?" asked the
young woman, who has never been
away and then the young man found
that he had just time to catch the last