Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-16
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ROOQ.
s@- Calcutta is the hottest city in
the world.
s@ A million dollars in silver weighs
56,93l pounds.
aF Russia exports more wheat than
any other country.
n6- Badness is caused by germ de-
stroying the roots of the hair.
s@- There are II, ,592, ,1s6, ,044,515 diff
ferent sounds in the human voice.
s4- Tobolsk, Russia, is the coldes'
inhabited place in the world.
pdr President-elect Mckinley has q
porcelain bath tub inlaid with gold.
I@r There are fourteen hundred and
twenty-five characters in the twenty
four books written by Dickens.
r@- The Welsh have saying that il
a woman were as quick with her feet
as with her tongue, she would catch
lightning enough to kindle the fire in
the morning.
s6r There is time when thou may
est say nothing, and time when thou
mayest say something; but there will
never be a time when thou shouldst
say all things.
p@ Total number of hotels in New
York city, 2,S7S bona fide hotels, 27S
Raines law fake hotels, 2,105. This
is official, right from the lips of the
chief of police.
Id- If you would enjoy your meals
sit down to the table good-natured
An angry, fussy man or woman cannot
tell whether they are eating boiled
cabbage or stewed umbrellas.
s@ In certain parts of China the
young women wear their hair in a lnog
single plait, with which is intertwined
a strand of bright scarlet thread
which denotes them to be marriagable'
e8r The model husband lives in Phil
adelphia. He never allows his wife tc
do more than half the work. She puts
up all the canned fruit in the summer
and he puts it down in the winter.
s9 Learning is not education. Hal
of all the fools in the world are "edu'
Gated" Learning gives the means o.
acquiring that which correctly used
eplightens the mind.
s@ Yaleta, on the Rio Grande river
in Texas, is said to be the oldest town
in America. st. Augustine, in Flori
da, has long laid claims to that dis
tinction.
s6- California has always claimed tc
be a smart state, and as her present
years mustard crop amounts to about
100000 pounds, we are inclined te
believe it.
H8~ An abused wife in Maystick, KY
lately secured divorce from her hus
band on the ground, as stated in the
decree, that he "did not provide hel
with enough provender to keep her or
ganic system from faltering."
s6- Our senses do not fall asleep 81
multaneously. The eyelids are first
affected, and shut out sight; next fol-
lows the sense of taste then smelling
hearing and touch, the last named
being the lightest sleeper, and most
easily aroused.
p@ Tommy (who had just received
severe scolding)-"Am I really sc
bad, mamma ?" Mamma-"Yes, Tom
my, you are very bad boy" Tom
my (reAectively)-"Well, anyway
mamma, think you ought to be rea.
darn glad I amt twins!"
s@- A curious note of explanation
accompanied some poetry received by
a Michigan editor. The note rar
thus: "These lines were written sc
years ago by man who has, for long
time, slept in his grave merely fol
pastime."
pd- An addition to the telephone is
device which shows the photographs
of the persons who are talking. You
can see the picture of the person with
whom you are conversing. This won
derful invention is the work of a mar
in Alameda, Cal.
sdH The bicycle craze, according te
The United States Tobacco Journal
has decreased the consumption o
cigars in this country by about one
million day. The decrease since the
craze set in has actually been sever
hundred millions year.
B@ A chemical expert says that 81
per cent. of the beer brewed in Amer
ica will not come up to the test pre-
scribed by the German government
which is not severe one, only insisting
that pure beer be brewed, and fixing
severe penalties for the production O
any other kird.
p@ A clersyman's daughter, looking
over the MAS. left by her father ir
his study, chanced upon the following
sentence: I love to look upon 6
young man. There is hidden poten
cy concealed within his breast which
charms and pains me-" She sat dowr
and blushingly added: "Them's my
sentiments exactly, papa-all but the
palms."
w" A clerk at the Fort Hall Indiar
agency boasts of moustache nearly
long enough to make lariat. 1r
fact it has a length of nine feet. Ordi
narily he fold the ends away out o
sight under his vest, but sometimes ht
lets it drag on the floor to show it
full length just as woman with
wealth of hair exhibits it in the privacy
of her boudoir to a coterie of admirins
friends.
p9 A Portland sea captain tells o
his sailing in southern seas where fly