Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
atjauside Gatherimgs.

ana ScruDOeQ every ulSnG LII Gue week.
~Put pig in a parlor, and its first
question will be, "Well, where's your
mud ?"
n6 Gun springs are now tempered
by electricity in France. The process
is rapid and satisfactory.
s0- The cotton area of the United
States is greater in extent than the en-
tire area of Holland, Belgium and
Denmark.
s@ In the famous garden of Olives
at Jerusalem there are eight flourish
ing olive trees that are known to be
over 1000 years old.
s@ A young woman in Massachu-
setts has sued a recreant lover for
breach of promise of marriage. She
says he is the twelfth who has Tilted
her, and she is going to make an ex-
ample of him, because Is is an unlucky
number.
s6 Ward Leonard, of Vincennes,
Ind, 60 years old, was drowned in
the Wabash river and the fact is re-
called that all bis family-his father,
his mother, two brothers and sister
met death in the same way, being
drowned in the Ohio river at different
times in the last 80 years.
p6 To provide troops for Cuba,
Spain is making raids on the Canary
isla Is, seizing all the men that can
be tuund. When a steamer appears
in sight now, the inhabitants make for
the hills, and few young men are to
be seen in the towns.
H@ A tube of dry air is said to be the
best possible protector against light
ming. Thus cyclist on his machine
is said to be the best protected against
possible injury by electric fluid, his
chances being computed as about 5O,-
OOO,O to one that he will not be in
ljured in this way.
p@ Polynesia is probably the only
place in the world where the marriage
feast takes place without the presence
of the bridegroom. For some unex-
planned reason, the young man is
''sent into the bush" when negotia-
tions are opened with the family of
his bride, and he remains there during
the subsequent festivities.
s8- You may sing and pray, repeat
psalms and give few dimes to the hea.
then occasionally, but if you don't deal
honestly with your fellowmen, pay
your debts and come right square up
to your obligations, you will 60 to HI
faster than a jay bird can fy.-Sam
Jones.
I6 In countries where oranges
grow in plenty, country gentlemen use
the cheapest kind for blacking their
boots. The orange is cut in two, and
the juice side of one half is rubbed on
the SCOT side of an iron pot, and then
on the boot. Then the boot is rubbed
with soft brush and bright polish
at once appears.
p6r Mr.. Nuwed-I see they've given
you butterine for butter. Mrs. Nu-
wed-Oh, yes-I have just gotten
Strengthened out on that subject.
SCOT what ?" "Why, the grocer tells
me they're just the same, only butter
lis MIXED from the cow, and butter
inc is taken from her after she's butch
cred I"
t@ "Why are you fumbling in my
overcoat pocket ?" he asked, as he
glanced up from his paper. "I'm
looking for a letter." replied his wife.
"Why, my dear, you don't suppose"
"No, I don't" she interrupted, "I'm
not looking for another woman's letter.
I'm looking for the one I gave you to
mail last week.
B6 The first English watches had
weights, and were used as pocket
clocks. They had only one hand, and
required to be wound up twice a day.
The dials were of silver and brass,
while the cases were unglazed, but
opened at the back and front, and
were four or five inches in diameter
about the size Of a common dessert
plate.
p@ "Must be pretty cold out your
way" he observed to the farmer who
had just come into the market with
his whiskers full of frost. eyes, toler-
able" "What did your thermometer
register ?" 81 hain't got none." 81
should think you'd want to know how
cold it was" "No, / don't keer much.
1 kin allus tell by touching my tongue
to the ak whether it's last summer or
this winter"
B9 One popularity of the Hoosac
tunnel, four and a half miles long,
near North Adams, Mass, is that no
telegraphic message can be sent
through it. They all get lost al
though the attempt has been frequent
ly made and with all kinds of wires.
Electricians are puzzled over it, as they
have failed to discover mineral or any
signs of mineral anywhere about
Public Ledger.
Bd" Woodmen on Earl Cowpers's es'
tate, at Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford
shire, England, were cutting up one OF
the large oak trees, which fell during
the storm last Lady day, when they
came across toad imbedded in the
heart of the trunk, about Is feet from
the root. The imprisoned creature
which must have subsisted for some
l,oos, ~ tho .a~ ,,,,e about ho1f 4 h q