Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-01
atauside Gatherings.


four hundred and forty-seven votes.
p8 The skin is the only part of the
human body that is not hardened BY
age.
r6r Plato says that opinion is me
dunn between knowledge and igno
rance.
p6- There are said to be ten grad
yates of West Point in the Cuban
army.
@ A western paper speaks of 6
duel between two "jackassperated in
dividuals.
p@- It is usually considered that an
adult should drink about three pints
of liquid q day.
r@- A cyclone is like three school
girls walking abreast-it doesn't turn
out for anything.
r6 The Massachusetts, census shows
that the women outnumber the men
by more than 10000.
p@- At last accounts, potatoes were
selling in some of the Alaska mining
regions for 500 sack.
t6r The cherry is one of the few
fruit trees which will flourish in al.
most any kind of soil.
peT It was Prentice who said that
Daniel was the only man ever 1ionized
without growing vain aboutit.
p@ Only six persons out of each Il
900 live to be rs years old, and only
one reaches the century mark.
s0r Cloves on the closet shelves drive
away ants, and sunfower seeds sprink
led there protect against reaches.
D% When the fashionable young la.
dies of Japan desire to make them
selves very attractive, they gild theil
lips. .,
p% The popular vote OF the United
States, at the election in November
it is estimated, will be close to 49,.
100000.
D6 All of Queen Victoria's daugh'
ters were taught to swim when very
Young. The daughters of the Prince
of Wales could swim before they could
read.
B% The Cuban patriots get plenty
of sympathy in the political platforms
but they would probably be glad to
exchange it all for one good schooner
load of cartridges.
b% Ducks are more than usually
noisy on the approach of a storm, and
their loud quacking is considered by
farmers to be an almost unfailing sign
of rainy weather.
I% "What is this mental poise that
women talk so much about nova
days ?" "It is being able to look at
caterpillars without feeling them
crawling all over you."
p@ 1t is all very we'll to be able to
say the right thing at the right time
but it is a good deal better to be able
to refrain from saying the wrong
thing at the wrong time.
s@"Ink suitable for love letters" is
advertised by a Partisan stationer. 1t
is made of a solution of iodide OF
starch, and characters written with it
entirely fade in four weeks.
I% Experiments with plants tend to
show that in clear weather the evapo-
ration by night as compared to that
which takes place in the day appears
to be in the ratio of one to five.
t@ The sound of thunder may be
heard for. twenty or twenty-five miles.
With the ear to the ground much
more. Lightning is reflected for one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles.
s9- "Billy, I don't think I'll stay at
this summer hotel much longer"
"What's up? Rates too high ?" "No,
I don't mind the high rates, but the
clerk is always nagging me for
money"
s@ A Boston girl is alleged by the
Albany Times Union to have ad-
dressed a police officer as follows
"Arrest that man, officer. He just
made an improper remark. He said
done for did,"
s@- A queer pig story is told by the
London Telegraph. A sow that lost
her tail by an accid INT had a litter OF
10 pigs, but seeing that they all had
tails placed them in a row and bit of
their tails one by one.
p@ Burglar-proof glass has been in.
vented by a Dresden manufacturer
1t is made by pouring molten glass
over a network of steel wire. Is is
specially adapted for skylights and
jewellers windows.
~ "You say, then, that this mate
rial is the latest fashion ?" "The very
latest, madam" "But will it fade in
the sun ?" "Why, it has been lying
in the shop for two years, and look
how we'll it has stood"
HB Artificial silk is now being
manufactured on a large scale in
France, and arrangements are being
made to begin its production in Eng
land. 1t is made from wood pulp
prepared in special way.
s6- 1t is stated that a dragon-fy
may be converted into scarecrow fol