Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-27
Njaaside Gatherings.

1917 are living.
p@ Diligence is a fair fortune, and
industry a good estate.
p6 The bachelor has to look out for
number one, the married man for num-
ber two.
p6 It would be we'll if some dreams
were realities, and many more reali-
ties dreams.
p6 It is said that every other demon
attacks in front, but Slander, which
assaults from behind.
p@ This year the Prince of Wales
will have been Grand Master of the
English Free Masons for 81 years.
p6r In the days of Queen Elizabeth,
each guest at a dinner party always
brought his own knife and spoon.
p6 If we'll could be dug to the
depth of 46 miles, the air at the bottom
would be as dense as quicksilver.
p6 A dog is counted mad when he
won't stake something to drink" and
man insane when he takes too much.
p@ An optimist is a man who is hap
py when he is miserable, and pessi-
mist is a man who is miserable when
he is happy.
p6 Farmers, diversity your crops
and you will be pleased with the result.
The one crop age has evidently "seen
its best days."
p6 In England the "rules of the
road" require foot passengers to keep
to the right, and horsemen and vehi-
cles to keep to the left.
p@ It takes a boy seven or eight
wears to learn the multiplication table,
but he can learn to ride bicycle in an
hour and half.
ny It is said of an Atchison man
that he is so anxious to get his moneys
worth that he never takes ice except
on a cool day.
p6 Since 1850 the world has expen-
ded 81, 500, ,0OO, 900 in waging war, and
four times that sum in holding stand
ing armies in readiness.
pae Some one has said that the man
who has an itching for success must
constantly keep scratching. Laziness
is the only sure incubation against the
disease.
p@- It is said that q man who won't
buy paper because he can borrow
one, has invented machine by which
he can cook his dinner by the smoke
of his neighbours chimney.
s@ professor" said graduate,
trying to be pathetic at parting, III am
Indebted to you for all know"
"Pray do not mention such trife,"
was the reply.
p@ A mass of eels weighing 300
pounds clogged the waterwheel which
runs the electric plant of Riverhead,
L. l., and the town was in darkness for
several hours.
p6 The late Sir Andrew Clark, the
eminent English physician, said on
one occasion that out of 10 hospital
patients owed their i'll health to the
use of alcohol.
p6 Observation is the beginning of
education. That boy is half educated
who knows how to use his eyes, and
the man is not half educated who does
not know how to use them.
p@ The railroads of Mexico are,
with one exception, of American
make, and the engineers, train and
station officials are nearly all Ameri"
cans. The roads are we'll managed.
p6r The sea is infinitely more pro-
ductive than the land. 1t is estimated
that an acre of good fishing will yield
more food in a week than an acre of
the best land will yield in a year.
p@ "1 have noticed with some sur
PRISE" says Mrs. Bagley, "that a gen.
tleman always takes out his cigar,
bites off the end, lights the match and
takes two puffs before he asks, is
smoking disagreeable to youP'"
p@ The quantity of bananas shipped
from West Indian and adjacent ports
into the United States now amounts to
$4,000, 900 or IA, 900, 900 punches annu-
ally, valued at considerably over $780,
100000.
s@r It is probably true that the life of
President Garfield would have been
saved if the Roentgen rays had been
known in 1881. No difficulty now is
found in locating a bullet distinctly
in the deepest recesses of the body.
b@ A gardener claims that when
five acres have been brought up to the
highest state of cultivation, when the
full extent of its usefulness is reached,
more money can be made from it than
from two hundred acres in cereals as
usually cultivated.
s6r The oldest known medical re-
cipe, atcording to French medical
journal, is one dated 4 900 years before
Christ, for tonic for the hair. 1t was
prepared by an Egyptian queen, and
REQUIRED dogs paws and donkeys'
hoofs to be boilen with dates in oil.
s@ A deacon will pass around the
plate and get more buttons than
dimes, but highwayman can hold
out a gun and collect everything a
man has got. This goes to show that
man will give more to save his body
than to save his soul.
H6r One hundred tons of CATS tails
were recently sold at once for the
purpose of ornamenting ladies' appar-
rel. This means that, assuming an
average cats tail to weigh two ounces,
no fewer than 1,792,0O0 pussies had to
be killed.
n@ A new warehouse in Paris has
been built with q glass floor. The ini-